You can join one of my Relating Lab sessions via the Evolve Relating membership platform. Membership costs $25 USD per week - cancel anytime - it is fine to join for just a week, or stay to join future sessions.
While in the ER membership, you’ll also receive access to other weekly live sessions, & a library of high quality courses & workshops all designed to develop skills for thriving relationships.
Feel free to reach out to me with any questions, or you can go ahead & join via this link.
Embodied Listening:
In this week’s session, we will revisit the foundation of relating ...Embodied Listening.
The practice of Embodied Listening is undoubtably one of our great loves in the area of communication and relating. It’s the base, the platform, that we all rest upon. It is a deep and beautiful ocean underlying us, nourishing us and our relationships.
High quality listening is a learnable skill which allows connection, safety, and a space of possibility to arise our relationships. It underpins all aspects of healthy relating. It provides the rare (and literally healing) experience of feeling seen and held.
Sometimes the practice of listening can be described as something we offer primarily in service of the other. It’s true - real and deep listening is a profound gift to another and to a relationship, and its impact is great.
And, listening also nourishes ourselves. Our ability to become truly present and to hold spaciousness for another is to come into contact with our own human aliveness and our great capacity to be with the world, to be open to its wonder.
In its essence, Embodied Listening is deeply easeful. It imbues a sense of spaciousness within ourselves. It is our natural state as humans. As we practice Listening, it becomes a grounding field in ourselves and our relationships and makes it possible to be touched by and changed by the world and one another.
In this class we will explore practices of Embodied Listening - within ourselves, with another, and as a group - and cultivate the nourishing aspects of this foundational skill.
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Relating Lab is a fully-facilitated session where we will dive into practices from the Evolve Relating Library together.
The benefits of joining these ongoing sessions are many-fold.
Simply doing these practices together can be healing in and of themselves – either by the slow, repeated process of repatterning our nervous systems in relationship, or sometimes by experiencing those profound ‘aha’ moments of insight.
Secondly, we strengthen and develop our relational muscles, just like at the gym, to take into the wider world and start embodying in our most important relationships.
And finally - healing and growth are processes that thrive in community, and these sessions provide a dedicated space for the magic that comes with community support.
With the opportunity to experiment and explore together, to witness one another and be witnessed - we shine a light on our strengths and growth edges and pave ways into ongoing change and transformation.
Let’s harness the power of practice to facilitate steady growth.
The only requirement for these classes is to simply show up as you are, ready to be guided into practice, open to the process of learning and growing together.
*These classes will include breakout rooms and an invitation to practice directly with other members.