Sound Weaver - Facilitator
About RebeccaLike an antenna, Rebecca KellyG receives what's in the field and transmits it back through her voice.
Rebecca KellyG is a Sound Weaver and facilitator whose work lives at the intersection of sound, awareness, and culture. She creates and holds sound ceremonies and facilitated experiences that build the internal capacity and interpersonal awareness that collective change actually requires.
For years, Rebecca ran two parallel practices- channeling vocal sound in performance spaces, and facilitating equity and organizational change work with institutions and communities. Over time, what became clear was that: sound doesn't just accompany the work, it increases the internal capacity to integrate information, sit with complexity, and move from insight into action.
Now her practice is fully integrated. She holds sound ceremonies as complete experiences in their own right, immersive, participatory, rooted in the belief that how we relate to ourselves shapes how we show up for everything else. She also holds sessions in two movements: facilitated dialogue about organizational or community change, followed by sound to deepen and integrate what emerged. In both forms, sound and facilitation are one practice.
As a facilitator, Rebecca has led long-term equity and culture change engagements with institutions including HERE Arts Center, Yale Art Gallery, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her sound work has grounded gatherings at Disney Theatrical Group, the United State of Women, and Theatre Communications Group.
Before founding her practice, she worked as a civil rights attorney at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law focused on dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline and seeding restorative justice practices. She has taught at American University Washington College of Law and Wagner College, where her course Race, the Arts, and Activism received the Adjunct Professor Award for Diversity and Inclusion.
Rebecca is also the founder of Attune, an independent print-forward magazine and the umbrella world for her live events, sound releases, and collaborative work with artists, writers, and facilitators.
“You cannot teach what you do not know,And people struggle to be what they cannot see,so if you want to make change in society,Let it start within.”
-Rebecca KellyG
Honors:2022 Graduates of the Last Decade Award, UConn School of Law Alumni Association
Adjunct Professor Award for Diversity and Inclusion from Wagner College
George N. Lindsay Civil Rights Legal Fellow with The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Catalyst for Change Award from American University Washington College of Law
The Public Interest Law Fellowship from UConn School of Law
Trauma Sensitive Practice & Certification: HeartMath Institute
Foundations in Somatic Abolitionism: Resmaa Menakem
Introduction to Mindfulness: Presented by Rev. angel Kyodo williams and David Perrin | MNDFL
Embodied Activism: Nkem Ndefo, Rae Johnson, and Farzana Khan
Centered Accountability: Accountability Mapping
Embodiment Basics: Prentis Hemphill, Embodiment Institute
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Rebecca is a professional speaker and performer providing workshops, immersive sound experiences, consulting, and retreats focused on deepening anti-oppression work through sounds and embodiment.
Pictured: Infinite Possibilities Art Festival, Closing Cycles Performance, Ossining NY, July 2021