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What is
Authentic  Relating

The five practices of AR:

 

 

WelcomE EverythinG 
Assume nothing
Reveal your experience
Own your experience
Honor self & other

This is our backbone, the skills we keep honing.

Image by Chang Duong

In a gathering: 


We're online in my zoom-room.
There's a small group of max fifteen people.

I offer small invitations, prompts, games or exercises (sometimes in pairs, sometimes with the whole group) that help us slow down and notice what is happening here, now, between us. 


We use simple structures like taking turns sharing, asking each other curious questions, or reflecting what we heard. They sound simple, but they create a lot of openness and connection.
 

People often arrive a little nervous.
And leave feeling more connected, more settled, more themselves.

This is not group therapy.
You will never be forced to share anything.
 

Think of it more as a playground for presence, honesty, and human connection. A place where you can experiment with showing up exactly as you are... and discover that this is often more than enough.

Image by Hester Qiang
Image by Timon Studler

benefits you might experience:

 

 

* It may help your nervous system relax in connection:
you don’t have to perform, you get to be you.

* It’s a way to actually feel with people, not just around people.
 

* It improves how you talk to partners, friends, colleagues, especially when things are tense or emotional.

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* We name anxiety instead of hiding it, and somehow that makes it softer.


Awkward is welcome. We treat it as something to get curious about, not something to fix.

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* It’s one of the few places where your feelings aren’t ‘too much’ or ‘not enough’, they’re just data we get curious about together.

You don’t have to be ‘good at talking’ to join. We actually welcome the awkwardness and silence.

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