RAGEher: immersive movement experience for women to express our anger
Get ready to unleash your rage and connect with other powerhouse women at this substance-free girls night out reimagined.
Date and time
Location
Hairpin Arts Center
2810 North Milwaukee Avenue Chicago, IL 60618Refund Policy
Agenda
7:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Tempest Tavern (the bar): arrive, drink (mocktails), reflect
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Fury Floor (the club): ground, move, release
8:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Livid Lounge (the diner): connect, decompress, integrate
About this event
- 2 hours
Hi. Are you angry?
How could you not be
As a woman in this world
Tying yourself in knots trying to please others
Expected to do so much, only to never feel that you’re enough
Dealing with systems that aren’t designed for you
And then to make it all worse,
You’re told that your anger is unwelcome, unacceptable, unladylike
It’s enough to make a girl implode…
So let’s let it out together
Let’s take our in-rage and turn it into out-rage.
Talk it out. Punch it out. Primal scream it out. DANCE it out…
So we can use it—and the relief and power we feel in accessing and expressing it—as fuel for all the things we want to breathe into existence in our lives
RAGEher: A Girls Night Out, Reimagined
This is exactly and nothing like the girls night outs at the club you’ve experienced:
- We’ll start with mocktails, connection, and reflection
- Then we’ll hit the Fury Floor, where you’ll be guided through a multi-sensory experience to access and release anger and embody your power in community with other women
- We’ll end the evening with sharing and snacks in a group decompresh sesh we call the Livid Lounge
Our Dance Doulas, dressed in twinkle lights, will be with you throughout the experience to support you through any questions, thoughts, or feelings you may be having.
It’s time for women to turn our in-rage to out-rage. To use our wrath towards purpose. To change this motherlovin' world.
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RAGEher’s Club Rules:
- Women only, 18 and up. We welcome you on this journey if you’re cis, trans, or fluid and currently embodying your woman self.
- Your journey is your own, and you own your journey, but you do not journey alone. In other words, you are responsible for how deep you go and what you get out of this experience.
- Please be open and curious about stepping into discomfort.
- And please take care of yourself first and foremost, knowing that your fellow Ragelings and the Dance Doulas are here to witness and support you.
- Honor other participants’ boundaries, space, and stories. What is said and witnessed at RAGEher stays at RAGEher.
- Share from your own experiences only; no advice or coaching.
- Absolutely NO physical harm to yourself or others.
- Come sober. No mind-altering substances of any kind, including alcohol, drugs, etc.
- Many of us have experiences with trauma, and anger can be triggering. If you’re seeing a psychiatrist, psychologist, therapist, or other mental health professional, please consult with them before attending.
- If at any time during this experience your anger turns inwards, we invite you to stop.
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What past Ragelings have said about RAGEher:
“Rage and anger are real emotions like joy, love and fear. But from an early age we are thought to suppress them. Being in a safe environment where those emotions can come out made feel more complete.”
“It was such a great release to be able to yell, hit stuff, and say things I had been keeping to myself!”
“What I got out of the experience is the feeling of the freedom and permission to tap into my anger and rage and to express it openly in a supportive way. I was able to do that along with others who were also with their own anger and rage, which made it both an individual and collective experience. I was able to tap into some buried anger and allowed to really feel it without being judged or told by others not to exhibit such behavior. It was a freeing experience, letting things out.”
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At RAGEher, we believe:
Our feelings are a gift. This includes ANGER!
- Feelings give us data about ourselves, but we often ignore that data because we’ve been taught to.
- When we feel angry about something, we are noticing an area where we yearn to make change, shift patterns and dynamics, and get satisfied.
- The full-body expression of anger as catharsis and release is a practice we can cultivate.
- It can be really uncomfortable to express our anger at first, BUT
- Our anger is inspiration and fuel when we let it course through our bodies in a safe, mindful process, by which reactive anger (which we tend to swallow…or express in ways that don’t serve us) becomes assertive anger that we can use.
- We can change the world with our rage.
About the organizers
We are two women who have been on a multi-year journey of self-discovery, social and emotional intelligence development, and embodiment. This event was created through our own experiences getting in touch with our anger and the extraordinary benefits we have experienced.
We both have master's degrees in Transformational Leadership and Coaching, a two and a quarter year program where we not only studied psychology, human potential, neuroscience, emotional intelligence, and other related research, but also applied what we were learning to transform our own lives. We are both practicing coaches and facilitators who work with people to emerge into the next versions of themselves.
Our dance doulas who support creating a safe environment for attendees are also graduates of this program or other master's programs in social work, dance therapy, or have been practicing coaches for many years.
RAGEher was built from a foundation of psychology, neoroscience, and emotional intelligence.
Frequently asked questions
Righteous Anger Grounded & Expressed
Dress to move. Dress to dance. Dress as your inner wild woman. Dress in gold and glimmer. Dress to impress yourself and yourself alone, whatever that means to you.
Bring any/all of the following if you have them (we will have some on site if you don't): a yoga mat, a yoga bolster or dense pillow, noise-cancelling headphones.
You will be in a room with people expressing their emotions physically and vocally. Expect loud noises and lots of movement.
There will be a designated area, watched by an Anger Attendant, with comfy places to rest, soft things to grab onto, earplugs, and a sensory kit. Please feel free to BYO noise-cancelling headphones.
Dance Doulas are vetted coaches, counselors, or therapists who are present to hold space for you during this experience and ensure well-being and safety. If you are triggered, feeling overwhelmed, or simply would like some extra support at any time during RAGEher, please find one of them.
Our space will have: elevator access and accessible bathrooms, printed/visual copies of the facilitation material for those who want them, earplugs in the designated area, sensory kit in the designated area
Absolutely. We’ve been taught that it’s not okay for us, as women, to feel our anger—and many of us have suppressed and squashed it as a result. Whether or not you feel your rage, it’s probably there on some level. There’s righteous wrath behind our hard-earned coping mechanisms.