2026-07-09 –, The Seedbed
How do we tap into collective intelligence without relying solely on words? Participants bring real questions they are holding from their projects, their communities, or their practice and the group will respond with improvised intuitive movement to make the implicit explicit and surface unspoken truths and shared patterns.
This participatory session offers something rare in technology-focused spaces: a liberatory invitation to step out of the head and into the body. Using the "Co:Oracle" methodology, this session treats collective, improvisational movement as a site of revelation and sensemaking.
This session offers a space to investigate the possibility that our bodies hold meaningful contributions to understanding and guiding our work in the world. It will be presented in three parts:
Thinking With Our Bodies: An introduction to the Co-Oracle methodology and a short physical warm-up to prepare the group for collective movement (no prior movement experience required!).
Co:Oracle Rounds: One to three rounds of participant-prompted group improvisational movements- investigating new insights to the tensions, questions, and patterns of our work in the world.
Sensemaking & Integration: A closing group conversation to harvest and integrate what emerged from the space into new insights. Takeaways will be recorded through sketch-noting.
Robin works at the intersection of ecological stewardship and community governance. He has worked internationally in agriculture and ecosystem restoration projects over the last 15 years; most extensively with rural communities in Morocco, Spain, and Northern California. He currently resides in Los Angeles where he has been investigating artistic group practices as ways of tending to commons.
Himerria Wortham
Dancer, Choreographer
Himerria Wortham is an interdisciplinary artist who was born and raised in Berlin, Germany, and later moved to Detroit before settling in Los Angeles. Her curiosity for art and culture, along with her passion for storytelling, led her to explore dance, choreography, and experimental documentary filmmaking.
Himerria began her career as a professional commercial dancer, performing nationally and internationally with artists such as Aretha Franklin and Carly Rae Jepsen, and appearing in TV shows like HBO’s Euphoria, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and the Academy Awards. She has appeared in music videos and live TV performances with legendary artists including Beyoncé, Toni Braxton, and Shakira, to name a few. As a choreographer, Himerria has most recently worked as the department head of choreography on the hit Disney Channel TV show "Saturdays".
Her 20-year career as a teaching artist, both locally in LA and internationally, has offered her the unique opportunity to connect with people from all walks of life, across various dance experiences and age groups. Her foundational influences include hip-hop, jazz, ballet, West African dance, and street styles such as waacking and house dance, as well as contemporary improv and site-specific dance theater.
Previously serving as the Associate Artistic Director of the site-specific dance company Heidi Duckler Dance (HDD), she engaged with diverse communities native to Los Angeles through place-based performances, filmmaking, and teaching experiences with the HDD company.
Today, Himerria is completing her Master’s Degree in Visual Anthropology, Media and Documentary Practices, focusing her thesis on improv dance as a knowledge producing method in ethnographic research and experimental filmmaking.
As the co-founder of the Cantilever Collective, a Los Angeles-based performing arts group, Himerria partners with intergenerational groups to co-create movement for sensory exploration, knowledge production and community building.
Jenni [Yenni] is a Visual Scribe, Systems Thinker, and designer of the D:FOOD/WEB Track's ongoing Creative Sensemaking Space. Jenni focuses on creating playful, intuitive visual canvases that allow for mapping pathways for answering complex questions. Her aspiration is to invite and make space for joy in times of crisis.
For this year her focus is learning more about community-led governance.
She grew up outside of Berlin just an hour away from Alte Hölle but has always felt the call to the West Coast of North America. Since 2022 she has been living in the Cascadia Region and feels fully rooted on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada, where she is a community organizer.
To be a fully happy human Jenni loves to spend her time with dance, nature connection, massage exchanges, and meaningful conversations.
She is part of the CGO Group (Community Governed Organizations) and the SEED Neighborhood Cooperative
Please check out her portfolio here:
www.OTTILIE.cc