Do you want deeper and more meaningful relationships with the people in your life?

Do you want to know yourself in new ways and be a catalyst for others to know themselves as well?

Do you want to have the ability to lead any relationship toward greater understanding, deeper intimacy, and trust?

Welcome To The ART Of Being Human: L1 & L2

LEVEL 1 COURSE

The L1 course is designed to make the learning of authentic relating as accessible, adoptable, practical, and engaging as possible, so that graduates can apply their new skills to their lives right away with immediate results.

We’ve designed this course to give you the tools to cultivate connection, intimacy, trust, and aliveness in your relationships – all within just two days (or six weeks for our online course). The tools and skills we teach work across all social contexts, from the workplace to the living room, from strangers to partners and everyone in between.

Our experienced Course Leaders expertly guide you through a curriculum that strongly emphasizes embodied and experiential learning. This is not a lecture or seminar – it is a deep dive full-immersion training that will leave you enlivened, heart and mind-opened, and deeply connected to yourself and others.

We’ve delivered the same Level 1 Course to spiritual seekers in Bali, jail inmates in Colorado, executives in New York City, and men and women from all across the social, cultural, economic, and political spectrum, of all ages and nationalities, in almost 50 locations on four continents. Universally, participants report profound and lasting transformation in all aspects of their lives. The course speaks in the shared language of human connection, and is designed specifically to include everyone in the practice of Authentic Relating, no matter what path they’ve traveled in life.

We believe that we all have the capacity to be bridges – between parts of ourselves, ourselves with others, and together with the world. The course’s mission is to build bridges, and use our bridges to heal, connect, and co-create a more enlivened, awakened world – together.

WHAT TO EXPECT AS GRADUATE OF ART L1:

• The ability to engage in deep, meaningful, soulful conversations with anyone, anytime, anywhere

• A powerful language and skill-set to accurately and transparently express your authentic experience in real time, and to invite others to do the same

• The awareness to identify your true, core desires, and the ability to articulate them to others

• A profound understanding of the dignity of speaking your authentic voice, and the humility of using your eyes and ears to pay attention to – and learn from – the people and world around you

• The ability to see and reflect the essential being in others, and to gently guide them into a space in which they can be fully, wholly themselves – one of the greatest gifts we can offer each other

• A complete set of powerful tools to de-escalate conflict and to use conflict as a vehicle leading to deeper connection, understanding, and empathy

• A restored connection to childlike genuine curiosity, and a perspective that regards the world with awe and wonder

• The ability to set powerful context at both the personal and collective levels, and a clear understanding of how influential context is in informing our experience of life

• An experience of profoundly vulnerable, intimate, beautiful connections with other participants that will leave you inspired, delighted, and heart-opened

LEVEL 2 COURSE

Building on the foundational practices of Authentic Relating that we established in Level 1, the Level 2 Advanced training will support you to deeply understand your relational patterns, claim your wholeness, and create thriving connections with others.

To be an integrated, relational human being means knowing and welcoming yourself fully, including the parts of yourself that you turn away from, suppress, and disown. In Level 2 we make space for all the parts of us, including our shadow patterns that limit us from experiencing the nourishing connections we desire. We learn to own these parts, to bring them into connection, and to expand our capacity to be with the inevitable triggers, tensions and breakdowns that come with our relationships. The principles and practices you will learn in Level 2 will teach you to relate to what lies underneath relational tensions and to repair with others from a vulnerable, embodied, response-able place within yourself.

WHAT TO EXPECT AS GRADUATE OF ART L2:

• Nervous system training – how to be with intensity and charge and increase your capacity to stay empowered and composed

• How to listen for and attune to what is under the surface of your conscious awareness – reading body language and sensing the values one holds at the core of their being

• Somatic tools for tracking embodied states, resourcing yourself and co-regulating with others

• Skills for accessing the vulnerability underneath activation that decreases conflict and increases connection

• How to hold multiple perspectives – within yourself, between you and others, and in society at large – and use them as a bridge for healing and connection

• Advanced skills for owning your experience and why this matters so deeply for thriving relationships

• Welcoming and reclaiming your shadows in relationship — the parts of you that you hide, suppress, deny or project onto others — as a pathway to wholeness

• Working with and giving space to your diverse “parts” to inform and guide you in greater integration and understanding of your experience

• Making the implicit explicit in culture and society

• Relational hygiene practices and how to tend to relational tensions before they escalate

• How to creatively empower your relationships and design unique relational contexts that support you and those in your life to thrive 

ITINERARY

All days begin at 9am and end roughly at 7pm, with a 90 minute lunch break in the early afternoon, and include breaks throughout the day.

• Thursday, Aug 29 (Arrival)

  • Check-in between: 2-5 pm

  • Welcome Dinner: 6 pm

• Friday, Aug 30 (DAY 1 – L1) 9am-7pm

  • Breakfast: 7:45-8:45 am

  • Session 1: 9am-1 pm

  • Lunch: 1-2:30 pm

  • Session 2: 2:30-7 pm

  • Dinner: 7 pm

• Saturday, Aug 31 (DAY 2 – L1) 9am – 7pm

  • Breakfast: 7:45-8:45 am

  • Session 1: 9am-1 pm

  • Lunch: 1-2:30 pm

  • Session 2: 2:30-7 pm

  • Dinner: 7 pm

• Sunday, Sep 1 (Break Day) — OR DEPARTURE/ARRIVAL FOR THOSE IN ONLY L1 OR L2

  • Rest, relax and integrate

  • Possible Hot Springs or Adventure will be organized (additional cost)

• Monday, Sep 2 (Day 1 – L2)

  • Breakfast: 7:45-8:45 am

  • Session 1: 9am-1 pm

  • Lunch: 1-2:30 pm

  • Session 2: 2:30-7 pm

  • Dinner: 7 pm

• Tuesday, Sep 3 (Day 2 – L2)

  • Breakfast: 7:45-8:45 am

  • Session 1: 9am-1 pm

  • Lunch: 1-2:30 pm

  • Session 2: 2:30-7 pm

  • Dinner: 7 pm

• Wednesday, Sep 4 (Departure)

  • Breakfast 8 am

  • Checkout 10 am