Or a bio-fluid biodanza-expansive facilitator?
None of the above? Bio-non-conforming?
Are you coming out as bioqueer?
Questioning your bioidentity?
Perhaps transitioning?
More on the identity of biodanza and of the facilitator here.
Abio
Abio can refer to 1) a complete or partial lack of attraction or lack of interest in biodanza-politics, e.g. in the organisational structure(s) behind the biodanza system(s) and the impact these have on facilitators and on the collective field of biodanza; and/or to 2) a complete or partial lack of attraction or interest in theoretical (and/or methodogical) aspects of biodanza. Abio facilitators tend to "do their thing" and "stay out of it". Abio exists on a spectrum.
Bibio
A facilitator who can love and be attracted to two contrasting systems (and/or accrediting bodies, associations, etc.) though not necessarily simultaneously, in the same way or to the same degree.
Bibiophobia
The fear and hatred of, or discomfort with, facilitators who love and are attracted to two contrasting systems (and/or accrediting bodies, associations, etc.). For example, discomfort with facilitators who feel connected with both SRT/IBFed and Original/BRT after the dissolution of the IBF in 2017.
Cisbio
A term used to describe a facilitator whose biodanza identity aligns with the system and accrediting body assigned at enrolment, i.e. assigned to them at the time of enrolment in a teacher-training school.
Coming Out
The process in which a biodanza facilitator first acknowledges, accepts and appreciates their biodanza orientation or biodanza identity and begins to share that with others.
Biogay
A biodanza facilitator who is attracted to and only loves those who practice the same system and belong to the same associations.
Biodanza identity
The biodanza facilitator's innermost concept of self, for example, as SRT/IBFed, Original/BRT, SJS, etc/etc., a blend of these or neither of them – how individual biodanza professionals perceive themselves and what they call themselves. It can be the same or different from the one assigned to them by a school when they started their biodanza training.
Bio-non-conforming
A broad term referring to facilitators who do not behave in a way that conforms to the traditional expectations, or whose expression does not fit neatly into a category.
Bioqueer
Bioqueer facilitators typically reject notions of static categories of biodanza and embrace a fluidity of biodanza identity and often, though not always, biodanza orientation. Facilitators who identify as "bioqueer" may see themselves as being, for example, both SRT and Original, neither SRT nor Original or as falling completely outside these or other systems and their corresponding associations.
Biogayphobia
The fear and hatred of or discomfort with facilitators who only love and are attracted to those who follow the same system and belong to the same associations.
Biobinary
A binary view that puts biodanza into two strict categories, as X or Y. The facilitator’s identity is expected to align with the system assigned at the time of joining a training school and the facilitators expressions and roles fit traditional expectations.
Biodanza dysphoria
Significant distress caused when individual facilitators realise that they do not identify with elements or the totality of their assigned system and/or of its associated organisation, e.g. its structure, regulations, procedures, perceived lack of transparency, integrity, professionalism and accountability, etc.
Biodanza-expansive
A facilitator with a wider, more flexible range of biodanza identity and/or expression than typically associated with the biodanza binary system. Often used as an umbrella term when referring to facilitators who are exploring the possibilities of their biodanza expression and/or identity.
Bioexpression
External appearance of one's biodanza identity, usually expressed through words and actions, and which may or may not conform to behaviours and characteristics typically associated with being either SRT or Original (or SJS or vital development or whatever else…)
Biofluid
A facilitator who does not identify with a single fixed biodanza system or association or has a fluid or unfixed biodanza identity.
Bioqueer
A term facilitators might use to express a spectrum of identities and orientations that are counter to the biodanza mainstream.
Non-biobinary
An adjective describing a facilitator who does not identify exclusively as following biodanza system X or Y. Non-biobinary facilitators may identify as being, for example, both SRT and Original, somewhere in between, or as falling completely outside these categories. Non-biobinary can also be used as an umbrella term encompassing identities such as abio, bibio, bioqueer or biofluid.
Outing
Exposing a facilitators biodanza identity to others without their permission. Outing someone can have serious repercussions, e.g. on employment, economic stability, family situations, etc.
Panbio
Describes facilitators who have the potential for attraction to facilitators of any bioexpression though not necessarily simultaneously, in the same way or to the same degree.
Questioning
A term used to describe facilitators who are in the process of exploring their biodanza orientation or identity.
Same-bio loving
A term some prefer to use instead of gaybio to express attraction to and love of facilitators of the same system/associations
System assigned at enrolment (in a particular school)
The system to which school directors assign their students when they enrol in their schools. In most cases the system is connected to a corresponding association.
Transbio
An umbrella term for facilitators whose biodanza identity and/or expression is different from cultural expectations based on the system they were assigned at the moment of joining a school. Being transbio does not imply any specific bio-orientation. Therefore, transbio facilitators may identify as cisbio, gaybio, bibio, etc.
Transitioning
A series of processes that some transbio facilitators may undergo in order to live more fully as their true biodanza identity. This typically includes social transition, such as changing systems, acronyms, associations, which may include therapy and legal transition, which in turn may include changing or creating new trademarks and the like. Transbio facilitators may choose to undergo some, all or none of these processes.
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