Tracing the Wound: Body, Memory, and Myth Workshop @ IKSK Berlin

Wednesday 23rd April 19:30 - 22:30

Sliding scale 20€ - 40€

Limited Capacity, register via email to theplayhouseberlin@gmail.com

Drop in also available

Workshopping the body as a site of memory, transformation, scar tracing and personal mythology. We will explore the feeling of belonging, sensuality, and fluidity. We shift to painting and drawing on each other’s bodies, where participants trace and map their physical forms, honouring scars, tension points, and the unspoken stories carried under the skin. This workshop offers a space to touch without expectation, to be seen without judgment, and to find playfulness in loosening the knots that we hold within us.

Tracing the Wound: Body, Memory, and Myth by The Playhouse Collective is for the first time at IKSK, exploring, through body mark-making, scar tracing, and tactile rituals, the process of tracing the body’s stories—its transformations, wounds, and resilience. Celebrating the fluidity of identity and the expansion of a post-human conceptualisation, this workshop invites participants to explore their own personal mythology—using touch, movement, and artistic rituals to dissolve barriers and embrace their fullest, most authentic selves.

By weaving elements of gender fluidity, trauma work, sensuality, and self-exploration, we create a 'playhouse' space — where bodies are perceived as landscapes of experience, where fantasy and authenticity merge, and where the pain of love can begin to be seen in its most expansive and unbounded form.

[the workshop will be done in a mix of English and German and inclusive of all genders, ages, races]

Workshop Plan

Arrival & Grounding

  • Brief introduction to themes and mindfulness

Body Awareness & Sensory Warm-Up

  • Movement exercises, and guided prompts to notice tension, scars, or memories in the body.

Partnered Body Mapping

Touch & Connection Exercises

Creative Body Mark-Making

  • Use artistic materials to decorate, highlight, or symbolically alter the markings on the body.

  • Express personal mythology through drawn symbols or patterns.

Movement & Ritual Exploration

  • Engage in guided movement based on traced marks and body sensations.

  • Participate in a collective movement ritual

Closing Ritual

This structure ensures a practical, hands-on experience blending movement, drawing, touch, and storytelling in a safe and inclusive space.