Do you want deeper, more meaningful, more conscious 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

Level 1: Authentic Relating Training

This 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 1 COURSE LIVE

Expert ART Course Leaders bring their years of experience and training to guide participants through a sequence of teachings, exercises, and group shares to support a deep embodiment of the tools and skills. The course blends a rigorous training with space to connect and lean into the edge of authentic expression, received and witnessed by others. We’ve constructed the exercises to ensure that the skills and tools can be learned and applied by anyone, no matter their prior experience or life path. There is no fancy language or hard to grasp concepts – the curriculum is simple to follow yet powerful in its application.

Both 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.

ITINERARY

• FRIDAY, Aug 11

  • Check-in Between 2-5 pm

  • Welcome Dinner 6 pm

• Saturday, August 12 (DAY 1) 9am – 7pm

  • What is Authentic Relating?

  • The Five Practices of Authentic Relating

  • The Three Levels of Conversation

  • The Foundation of Connection

  • Empathy and Authentic Listening

  • The Power of Setting Context

  • Dignity and Humility, Posture and Collapse

  • Be the Guru

• Sunday, August 13 (DAY 2) 9am – 7pm

  • The Role of the Witness

  • Undamning the World

  • Genuine Curiosity

  • Transforming Conflict

  • Discomfort as a Spiritual Practice

  • Relational Aikido

  • Relational Alchemy

  • Nourishment and Integration

• Monday, August 14

  • Breakfast 8 am

  • Checkout 10 am

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