Hard truths move us forward. Hard truths carve out space for the change, the freedom, the alignment, and the deep connection we crave . Hard truths create strong families, groups, communities, cities, and spaces. But what is the hard truth, the hidden truth, the raw truth keeping our spaces (and us) from moving forward? If you don’t know the answer it is only because the answer is hidden. It is hidden in our bodies and it is hidden in our spaces. In our work, we work to uncover the hidden hard truths, energy designs, invisible dangers, and default toxicities (oh, yes, it is a lot that is hidden keeping spaces from moving forward!). Together, we work to excavate the space, designing spaces where deep connection can be possible. And we do that by designing spaces to uncover hard truths, hidden energies, invisible dangers, and default toxicities. Once the truth is excavated, new spaces can be built.
Wait, but who am i and why am i obsessed with excavating and exposing truth in spaces? Well, my name is Justina, and I’ve always been the person who people trust to say the hard truth. And because of my divine gifts wrapped up with my intersection of identities, I’ve always been a person who sees way beyond the surface: into the invisible dangers, the default toxicities (more on this later when we chat), the hard truths that most people appear to ignore, and the energy that is beyond many. My brain naturally sees the elements of spaces and how those elements fuel conflict, harm, suffering and disconnection.
At Raw Movement, we move spaces forward by uncovering hard truths & hidden energies. Truths that participants and leaders often don’t want to face. Dangers folks don’t want to name. Toxicities folks can’t quite verbalize. Energy designs most cannot see. In my work, the disruption I uncover (because I do not create disruption, I uncover the disruption already there) has resulted in unexpected outcomes: the dissolution of companies, the firing of employees, complete and utter disorientation of leaders, “new” conflict amongst employees.
But I did not create it.
I come in to uncover it. And not to fix it. But to guide you as you face the truth. As your body shakes through the process of processing that which you cannot face alone. Once that which is dying can die, something new will want to come forth. Maybe something deeply connected – to all of us. Maybe something real will emerge after something so superficial was allowed to exist for so long. Maybe something realer, rawer in you will emerge after something so superficial in you was allowed to exist for so long.
Uncovering hard truths & hidden energies move us forward. But what is the hard truth, the hidden truth, the raw truth keeping our spaces (and us) from moving forward? If you don’t know the answer it is only because the answer is hidden. It is hidden in our bodies and it is hidden in our spaces. Most of all, if we are not seeing the answer, there is a way that energy is designed to move in your space – that will not allow people to connect, to move on, or move forward. Do you know how to redesign that energy? Do you know how to design your space so that hard truths surface and hidden energies are moved? Do you know how to excavate your space?
So let’s excavate your space. Let’s uncover these hard truths & hidden energy design that are difficult to face alone.
space excavation services
Via organizational change and development and internal organizational relationship consultation, we support spaces and space builders who are in conflict, stagnant, exhausted, stressed, or in need of support. We move spaces forward by addressing hard truths.
Hard Truth Deep Dive for Teams & Organizations
The Hard Truth Deep Dive For Teams, Businesses & Organizations: Create an immune system for your business, organization, school, university, affinity space, residence, public space, homes, residential building, public space, performance venue, arts space, museum, or government. Discover the invisible dangers, default toxicities, hard truths, and hidden energy designs keeping the space from moving forward. In other words, discover what is beyond the surface keeping your space from moving forward. Can consist of participant observation, 1:1 processing with leaders & participants, grievance forums, and collaboratively created truth forums, truth rituals, or truth ceremonies to uncover hidden hard truths. This process will inherently be disruptive; the disruption is for the sake of collaboratively/experimentally creating a space of true deep connection. Trauma-informed practice & emotional safety practices are foundations to ensure that participants have full agency and choice throughout the process. Contact: team@rawmovement.org for more information or fill out an interest form below and we will reach out to you.
Space Excavation for Residential & Public Spaces
Space Excavation for Residential & Public Spaces. Discover invisible dangers, default toxicities, hard truths, and hidden energy designs keeping your space from moving forward. In other words, discover what is beyond the surface keeping your space from moving forward. For homes, residential buildings, public spaces, performance venues, arts spaces, museums, science museums, government. Can consist of: observation, 1:1 processing with leaders & participants, grievance forums, and custom truth forums, rituals, or ceremonies to uncover hidden hard truths. This process will inherently be disruptive; the disruption is for the sake of collaboratively/experimentally creating a space of true deep connection. Trauma-informed practice & emotional safety practices are foundations to ensure that participants have full agency and choice throughout the process. Contact: team@rawmovement.org for more information or fill out an interest form below and we will reach out to you.
Deep Connection & Hard Truth Mastermind for Space Builders
For arts councils, small business councils, artist support organizations, black artist & founder groups serving artists, designers, scientists, scholars, futurists, founders, and leaders of spaces of deep connection who are exhausted, in transition, in need of support, or in need of community. We’ll collaboratively create space to replenish, reset, and face hard truths keeping our spaces from moving forward. Gather in monthly ritual with fellow leaders of spaces of deep connection, as we create rituals to face and express hard truths, invisible dangers, default toxicities, and hidden energy designs within our spaces (and likely us). Meet & deeply connect with other space builders committed to building spaces of deep connection and supporting one another on our journeys. This process will inherently be disruptive; the disruption is for the sake of collaboratively/experimentally creating a space of true deep connection. Trauma-informed practice & emotional safety practices are foundations to ensure that participants have full agency and choice throughout the process. This is a cohort-based experience designed to build authentic connection over time between participants. Contact: team@rawmovement.org for more information or fill out an interest form below and we will reach out to you.
Video/Event Marketing Centering Deep Connection via Hard Truth
At Raw Movement, we are collectively building a house of space design, a homebase/gathering space/experimental ground for artists, scholars, futurists, designers, scientists, medicine workers; arts, education, and science groups; and families, groups, and communities who are dreaming of or currently creating spaces of deep connection, home, family, emotional safety. Raw Movement is a house of space design, bringing people together to experiment with co-creating spaces of deep connection, home, family, emotional safety through collective (movement) practice.
By collective (movement) practice, we mean the collective practice of moving physical energy in a space, using movement, art, and design to create the energetic conditions necessary for deep connection to be possible.At Raw Movement, we experiment with individual and collective (movement) practices that give access to deep connection to our rawest selves, collective history, ancestry, our bodies’ needs, each other, communities, nature, universe, and collective future – our whole physical world. At Raw Movement, we study and practice medicine. Read more about the Raw Movement Framework here.
Through our Collective+agency for Space Design, School for Space Design and Public Gatherings, we bring together people and groups to experiment with co-creating spaces of deep connection, home, family, emotional safety. We apply what we are learning about space design to building a new physical space of deep connection. We invite you to come be a part of building our new house of space design.
from the founder’s desk
Justina Kamiel Grayman, PhD is
Realizing art and movement are communication tools to build power, connect, and mobilize, her original artworks are efforts to mobilize people. Justina’s dance films Woman Versus (2016) and Black Man in America (2018), both of which were recognized by American Dance Festival’s Movies by Movers, explored the mobilization of women and Black men, respectively. For the premiere of Black Man in America, she and her collaborator Vance “Johnny Hobbes” Brown led a celebration of Black men, a magical event where families and friends honored the Black men in their lives through public acknowledgment, dance performances, and conversation. Black Man in America received tremendous community support, raising over $21K for the project from over 400 supporters. While making her own art, Justina started coaching artists and arts professionals in how to design deeply connecting and liberating experiences. Justina is currently developing Raw Movement, which brings people together to experiment with co-creating spaces of deep connection, home, family, emotional safety through collective (movement) practice.
Overall, Justina’s work is at the intersection of education, art, psychology, community organizing, and “spirituality”. Her ultimate mission is to collaboratively create / transform entire communities’ institutions with deep, divine connection – particularly using movement, art, and design (and especially in the darkness). Justina’s creative and organizing practice can be summarized by The Raw Movement Framework, an approach to inquiring about how we co-create spaces of deep connection, home, family, emotional safety. All of Justina’s work is about creating or uncovering deep connection in times of grief, suffering, conflict, and transition.
In Justina’s work, she invites us to make meaning of our grief, suffering, loss, conflict, and transition. She considers our experiences of loss, death, grief, suffering, and conflict as portals to deep connection. In her work, she artistically presences us to our deep connection to all that is, all that was, and all that will be. Her work creates a mothering, spirit-feeding, uplifting artistic experience, presencing us to our deep connection to this whole physical world.
Justina began dancing in college and her professional dance experience includes being a company member in STREB Extreme Action Company (2014-16), dancing with Kristin Sudeikis Dance (2015-2022), and most recently with SLMDances (2021-2022). Justina has taught Human Development, Adolescent Development, Introduction to Psychology, Racial and Ethnic Identities, Intergroup Conflict and Resolution, and Global Psychology at New York University, Walden University, and Manhattan School of Music. Justina is a certified Resilience Toolkit (somatic coaching) Facilitator.
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