About this Event
We are living through a moment of profound change. As technology reshapes work, creativity, and productivity, many people are quietly grappling with a deeper question beneath the headlines: If my role, job, or expertise changes—or disappears—who am I then?
This lecture-based, reflective workshop explores the psychological and emotional impact of role loss in the age of AI—not just job loss, but the loss of identity, structure, purpose, and meaning that so often accompanies it. Rather than focusing on fear or prediction, we’ll look at what role loss actually asks of us as human beings, and how meaning can be reconstructed beyond productivity or performance.
Drawing from psychology, trauma-informed perspectives, and identity theory, this workshop offers language and frameworks for understanding why these changes can feel destabilizing—and how to navigate them with more clarity, compassion, and steadiness.
Gentle reflective and imaginal exercises will be woven in to help participants connect the material to their own lived experience.
✨ This workshop may be especially relevant if you:
- Feel unsettled or anxious about the future of work or AI
- Have experienced job loss, role change, or identity disruption
- Tie a strong sense of self-worth or meaning to productivity or expertise
- Feel “unmoored” or uncertain about who you are becoming
- Sense grief or disorientation you can’t quite name
✨ Participants will leave with:
- A clearer understanding of role loss as a psychological and emotional process
- Language to name grief, disorientation, and identity shifts
- A reframed relationship to meaning beyond work or output
- A sense of grounding and perspective during cultural uncertainty
This workshop is not about resisting technology or finding quick answers. It is an invitation to meet this moment with curiosity, humanity, and a deeper understanding of how we make meaning when familiar structures change.
✨ Event Details
Tuesday, June 23 · 5:30 - 7pm
$27
Limited to 20 people.
Additional Details:
Registration required. Registration closes 24 hours prior to the event.
The registration fee is non-refundable unless the event is canceled by the facilitator.
Parking Information
Shakti in the Mountains Website
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✨ Facilitated by Janna Browning
Janna Browning, MA, PRDT is a seasoned trauma-informed drama therapist, expressive arts practitioner, director, and Co-Founder of Integrative StoryWorks (ISW). She facilitates individual and group embodiment and expressive arts work at Shakti in the Mountains.
She received her BFA in Acting from Emerson College in Boston and her MA in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.
In California, she worked with Armand Volkas in Healing the Wounds of History, which uses expressive arts therapy to bring together groups who share a legacy of historical trauma. Her work with HWH includes projects uniting Armenians and Turks to address the shared legacy of the Armenian Genocide, as well as facilitating dialogue around historical trauma in Palestine/Israel, Northern Ireland, and racial trauma in the United States.
Janna has also worked with Community Performance International, specializing in community building across lines of difference through large-scale theatre performance. She helped develop Community Story Performances in towns across the South and co-founded the StoryTown Program in Jonesborough, TN in 2011.
As a grief practitioner, Janna brings her trauma-informed drama therapy training into community grief-tending—facilitating rituals, keening circles, and embodied expressive arts processes to support individuals and communities in honoring loss and making space for renewal. Her grief work draws from expressive arts, trauma-informed practice, and ancestral Celtic traditions.
She is co-founder of Integrative StoryWorks, a company that uses personal stories to support individual and collective healing, and StoryWander Travel, which offers story-based small group travel experiences.
Website: www.jannabrowning.com
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Shakti in the Mountains, 409 East Unaka Avenue, Johnson City, United States
USD 27.00
