Relational Mastery Labs: 10-Weeks of Deep Practice
Break Through Relational Hangups. Relate With Confidence, Depth, & Authenticity—Anywhere, Anytime.
A 10-week immersive relational training that rewires how you connect—personally and professionally.
What if the way you show up in relationships is keeping you stuck—without you even realizing it?
Dates & Logistics:
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- Begin: Tuesday, June 24 (group closes on July 1)
- End: 10 weekly sessions ending August 26 (make-up day is set to Thursday, August 28, to be confirmed)
- Timing: 6-9 PM
- Format: In-person
- Location: Durham, announced to registrants
- Next Cohort: We offer four 10-week cohorts per year. Next start date is September 30.
What to Expect:
This isn’t a class—it’s a training ground for deep connection. You won’t just learn—you’ll feel yourself shifting in real-time. Conversations will land differently. You’ll catch yourself holding back, breaking rapport, or missing cues—and then, in the moment, you’ll learn to change it.
We’ve refined these Authentic Relating methods over 10 years and hundreds of sessions. If you’ve ever thought, “I wish I knew how to connect deeper, speak my truth, or break old patterns in relationships,” this is your space to practice—not just think about it.
No prior experience needed—just a willingness to engage. Whether you’re new to this or are already deep into Authentic Relating, you’ll grow in ways you didn’t expect.
Each Week, You’ll Experience:
Check-in & Grounding – Arrive fully. Drop into presence. Feel your nervous system settle.
One Essential Relational Insight (15 min) – Each week, we’ll break down one powerful, actionable insight from relationship theory—giving you a clear, immediately applicable tool to make connection easier, deeper, and more natural.
Integrated Learning Discussion (30 min) – Each week, we’ll engage in a guided group discussion to explore key takeaways from your readings and real-world applications—unpacking insights, troubleshooting challenges, and refining your ability to apply these tools in everyday interactions.
T-Group & Relational Flow™ (120 min) – This is where theory meets reality. You’ll get real-time, unscripted feedback on how you show up—so you can stop repeating patterns that don’t serve you and start creating genuine connection with ease.
P.S. – Feeling anxious? That’s normal at first. If you’ve avoided spaces like this before, here’s your chance to break that cycle and finally feel at ease in connection.
Between Sessions, You’ll Stay Engaged With:
Curated Readings & Videos – Designed to reinforce what you’re integrating
Group Chat & Buddy System (Optional) – Keep momentum between sessions. Get reflections, accountability, and extra practice with others who are also committed to growth.
Tuition: Secure Your Spot for 10 Weeks of Growth
Early Bird Tuition: $299 for the full 3-month immersion ($349 after June 1)
Registration is easy – Pay via credit card to secure your spot. Register here.
Save $50 when you register before June 1. Why wait? Lock in your spot now.
Satisfaction guaranteed for full completion of the course.
Our No-Risk Commitment:
Give this your full effort for 10 weeks. Show up, engage, and apply what you learn. If by the end, you don’t feel significantly more aware, connected, and confident in your relationships, let us know—we’ll work with you to make it right.
Spots are limited—apply now.
Rewire How You Connect & Express Yourself
This isn’t just another group—it’s an immersive training ground where you’ll rewire how you connect. Each week, you’ll practice in real time, not just learn concepts.
Ever caught yourself holding back, saying too much, or disconnecting at the worst moment? Here, you’ll see it as it happens—and shift it on the spot.
Your nervous system will adjust. Instead of reacting on autopilot, you’ll start noticing yourself staying open, even in tension.
You’ll break old patterns. The ones that have kept you stuck in surface-level conversations or repeating the same conflicts.
You’ll trust yourself more, set boundaries with ease, and express what’s real—without overthinking or holding back.
By the end, this won’t be something you “try to do”—it will be who you are.
If you’re ready to leave outdated patterns behind and create real connection—join us.
The way you relate shapes everything—your friendships, your leadership, your love life. The patterns you’ve carried? They don’t have to run the show anymore. Imagine walking into any conversation with ease, clarity, and trust in yourself.
This is your moment to shift.
Join the 10-week journey that transforms how you connect—for life.
Want to Take This Further? Train in Relational Leadership
This 10-week program is just the beginning—if you’re ready to go all in, master these skills, and earn certification, here’s how:
The 250-Hour Relational Leadership Certification
Get full credit for this program toward your certification Exclusive Perks: Free access to this training + discounts on retreats & micro-courses Two Options:
- Pay in advance and lock in your full pathway
- Join HeartFire Membership and start training monthly
Get Certified – Join our signature 250-Hour EQ/RQ training today
Spots are limited—lock in your pathway now.
FAQ & More Details
Each year we have 4 cohorts (January, April, July, October), and plan a separate at-home study for each. For the upcoming April, 2025 module, we have something special planned for you:
NLP Book Study & At-Home Integration:
Your training includes a book study on NLP: The Essential Guide—a practical manual for rewiring communication patterns & deepening connection. Find it here.
We will have NLP exercises to try between sessions, in addition to other types of custom-tailored microexperiences designed to help you apply insights from our 10 Relational Mastery Lab sessions in your everyday lives.
A Toolkit for Relational Mastery:
Some of the most impactful relational shifts happen below the surface—in the subtle cues we miss, the emotions we transmit without words, and the unconscious patterns that shape our interactions.
That’s where NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) comes in. Developed by studying the most effective communicators and changemakers of the past century, NLP offers practical tools for noticing, adjusting, and refining how we connect.
In this training, NLP isn’t something extra—it’s the people skills toolkit you didn’t know you were missing:
Tune into hidden relational cues & understand what’s really being communicated
Shift emotional states in real-time—yours and others’—to foster deeper trust
Practice language patterns that enhance clarity, connection, and transformation
Rather than theory, you’ll experience NLP inside our Authentic Relating practices—not as a separate system, but as an amplifier of presence, impact, and attunement.
By the end, NLP won’t just be something you’ve read about—it will be something you feel and apply instinctively.
Most trainings are intimate (5-10 participants), creating a strong sense of community.
This is not just about skill-building. Don’t expect it to feel technical or “corporate.” For example, many participants join because they are seeking deep, meaningful connection after years of feeling isolated. Others join because they are in the middle of major life transitions, and are seeking to surround themselves with people who can meet them in a deep place. Thus, our groups often have a deep, warm-hearted flavor. You will practice relational skills in real-time, in a deeply supportive yet challenging container.
Many describe this as the deepest sense of belonging they’ve felt in years.
Again, do not expect this to feel like a corporate training. Expect a casual, high trust setting where you can try new ways of relating. Where you can let go.
Yes. In several ways.
Is it tested?
Yes. We have run hundreds of workshops using T-Group and Relational Flow, refining the methodology with similar practices over a decade of hands-on experience. Since 2014, our community has been actively testing and evolving these practices. Our founders have trained in Authentic Relating and similar disciplines since 2012, consistently witnessing profound transformation in themselves and participants. The results speak for themselves.
Is it evidence-based?
Our program is too new to have been manualized (written in a specific manual and tested in a psychometrics laboratory for formal results). That is the challenge with cutting edge programs: they are based on research, but it takes 30+ years to validate them and call them “evidence-based.”
Our work is based directly on approaches and tools that are both research-based and evidence-based. Here is a summary of the underlying research supporting our claim that our program can speed up vertical development by approximately one stage in 250 hours with us, as opposed to a usual time frame of 6-10 years:
Our EQ/RQ Certification Relational Mastery program, with its intensive 250-hour experiential learning format, small-group immersion, and structured study of developmental frameworks (e.g., Wilber’s Integral Theory), is designed to accelerate vertical growth beyond what is typical in self-guided development.
While research suggests that a full developmental stage shift can take five years or more [1], studies indicate that focused, well-designed interventions can significantly shorten this timeline [2][3][4]. For example, one study found that participants in a structured developmental program advanced at least one stage within two years [3], and other research on intensive vertical learning programs suggests that leaders can shift one to two stages within 1-2 years [1][4].
This acceleration is likely due to several factors inherent in our approach, including:
The creation of a highly supportive learning context [3][5]
Deep experiential engagement—learning by doing, not just by thinking [5][6]
Conscious attention to personal and relational development [7]
That said, growth is not automatic. Development is a deeply personal journey that requires commitment, practice, and integration beyond structured training [5]. Timelines vary, and true transformation is sustained through ongoing engagement with the practices and community.
This program provides a powerful catalyst—but like any transformational path, its impact depends on your level of participation, openness, and willingness to do the work.
Additional Research on Acceleration Through Meditation & Microexperiences
Here are a few points with sources supporting the claim that meditation and microexperiences also support faster vertical development in the context of our program:
• Meditation facilitates postconventional development and higher states of consciousness.
Research suggests that the daily practice of Transcendental Meditation (TM) is a facilitator of postconventional development. In a longitudinal study, a significant percentage of TM practitioners scored at or beyond Loevinger’s Autonomous level. Furthermore, regular experiences resulting from practices like TM should enhance growth through the stages of ego development, and individuals reporting sustained postrepresentational experiences should at least be at the highest stages of the third tier of ego development [2]. Even if transcendental consciousness can be experienced relatively quickly regardless of initial developmental level, consistent practice appears to support sustained development [2].
Other forms of meditation, including Buddhist meditation, Transcendental Meditation, Chi Gung, Tai Chi, Jewish meditation, Sufi tradition meditation, and Christian centering prayer, are practiced by leaders who develop higher levels of awareness and intent [8]. Meditation can cultivate attentiveness that Co-Creator-level leaders bring into their daily lives [8]. Our programs involve extended relational meditations, which produce experiences of the same states of awareness as TM and other modalities that are research-based.
• Meditation cultivates necessary levels of awareness and intent for vertical growth.
Leaders at postheroic stages are much more likely to engage in some form of attentional practice, such as meditation, on a regular basis, intentionally bringing it into their leadership activities [9]. Successively more refined attentional practices allow people to cultivate the levels of awareness and intent needed to grow into and stabilize increasingly advanced stages of postconventional development [8].
Meditation is also key to satisfying the human desire for altered states of consciousness in healthy ways [9]. It can provide access to inner processes and support focus, awareness, and emotional regulation [10].
• Microexperiences accelerate skill development through on-the-job application and reflection.
Our programs involve relational microexperiences during our sessions and as part of at-home exercises. Microexperiences are small chunks of experiential learning embedded in daily work, such as intentionally practicing active listening. They enable leaders to blend learning and working, addressing the learning transfer problem. This approach allows for more frequent “reps” of developmental activity [11].
Powerful growth can occur through action and reflection within these experiences, raising awareness and stimulating responsibility. While complex skills take time, a series of related microexperiences can substantially accelerate skill development by emphasizing different aspects and increasing difficulty [11]. The weekly cycle of task completion and reflection inherent in microexperience programs strengthens self-development muscles, independent of the specific content [6].
Partial Bibliography of Recent Research Supporting Our Program:
1. Integral Review Editorial Board. (2020). Journal of Integral Review, 16(1).
2. Pfaffenberger, A., Marko, P., Combs, A., & Cook-Greuter, S. (2011). The postconventional personality: Assessing, researching, and theorizing higher development. State University of New York Press.
3. Esbjörn-Hargens, S., ed. (2010). Journal of Integral Theory and Practice, 5(2).
4. Integral Review Editorial Board. (2009). Journal of Integral Review, 5(2).
5. Cherniss, C., & Goleman, D. (2001). The emotionally intelligent workplace: How to select for, measure, and improve emotional intelligence in individuals and groups. Jossey-Bass.
6. Parker, S. (2020). Creating scalable leadership development at a large company. Harvard Business Review.
7. McGuire, J. B., & Rhodes, G. (2009). Transforming your leadership culture. Center for Creative Leadership.
8. Joiner, B., & Josephs, S. (2006). Leadership Agility: Five Levels of Mastery for Anticipating and Initiating Change. Jossey-Bass.
9. Esbjörn-Hargens, S., ed. (2011). Journal of Integral Theory and Practice, 6(4).
10. Integral Review Editorial Board. (2015). Journal of Integral Review, 11(2).
11. Parker, J. (2024). Using Microexperiences to Develop More Leaders Faster: 10X Impact at 1/10th the Cost. Web-published white paper, available online at: Vertical.Dev.
Recommended Reading on the Philosophical Underpinnings of Our Work:
Ken Wilber, Integral Psychology and Integral Spirituality.
Robert Kegan, In Over Our Heads and Immunity to Change
Frederic Laloux, Reinventing Organizations
Mariana Caplan, Eyes Wide Open: Cultivating Discernment on the Spiritual Path
✅ Deepen Your Relational Presence. Expand Your Impact. Avoid Burnout.
This training isn’t just about learning new techniques—it’s about refining who you are in relationship to others.
Therapists, coaches, and facilitators who join this cohort gain:
✔ Embodied Relational Presence – Move beyond clinical detachment into a deeper, more attuned way of being with clients.
✔ Live, Real-Time Feedback – Unlike traditional training, you’ll receive direct reflections on how your relational patterns show up in the moment.
✔ Greater Nervous System Awareness – Learn to regulate your own emotional states while staying present with others.
✔ Stronger Boundaries & Energetic Clarity – Avoid burnout by balancing deep empathy with unhooking from energetic pulls.
✔ Mastery of Group Dynamics – Gain skills to track, shift, and optimize the flow of interaction in groups.
✔ A Space for Your Own Growth – Therapists hold space for everyone else—but who challenges and supports you? This is a space where you can be in your own process, rather than always leading others through theirs.
This is not a traditional CEU course. It’s an immersive relational dojo where you’ll practice in real-time, refine your presence, and expand your impact.
Who This Is For:
✔ Therapists & Coaches seeking deeper attunement and nervous system fluency
✔ Group Facilitators looking to run high-trust, transformational spaces
✔ Helping Professionals wanting to avoid burnout & stay relationally energized
Want to know if this is right for you? Schedule a free call here.
✅ Yes, although many corporate employees may not be a good fit. Here is what they need to be open to experiencing:
This 10-week Relational Mastery training is an immersive, experiential deep dive—not a passive corporate workshop. If your company is sending an employee, they should be:
✔ Willing to engage in real-time feedback & relational practices
✔ Open to personal and professional growth through direct experience
✔ Comfortable exploring self-awareness & interpersonal dynamics in a mixed-group setting
We design our training environment to feel more human and less corporate—meeting in a home-like setting, offering the option to sit on the floor, and fostering genuine, engaged presence.
However, this is not personal or intimate communication, nor is it corporate small talk. The idea that transparency and depth belong only in personal relationships is exactly the kind of thinking that limits what’s possible in organizations.
Most people are trained to compartmentalize communication—to keep professionalism at a distance and intimacy confined to personal life. But the highest-performing teams operate differently. They step beyond corporate scripts without losing professionalism. They bring real-time awareness, truth-telling, and presence into their work—not as something extra, but as a fundamental skill set.
This training isn’t about “oversharing” or forced vulnerability. It’s about learning to track, name, and shift what’s happening in the relational field with clarity and skill. It’s about showing up fully, without pretense, in service of something bigger.
Participants always have agency over their level of engagement, but they will be challenged to move beyond the usual boxes of workplace communication—to engage at the level where real trust, flow, and transformation happen.
For companies looking to train an entire team in relational intelligence, see the next FAQ tab for details on custom workplace trainings tailored to your company’s culture.
✅ Yes—this is where the deepest workplace impact happens.
For organizations looking to upgrade team communication, leadership presence, and psychological bravery, we offer custom-designed relational intelligence training. Unlike the 10-week cohort (which is ideal for individual employees), these trainings are:
✔ Tailored to your company’s needs, values, and challenges
✔ Designed for leadership teams, startups, or high-impact teams
✔ Focused on optimizing real workplace interactions, not just theory
Our custom trainings include:
Leadership Labs – Embodied, real-time training in relational intelligence for executives & managers
Team Flow Interventions – Live workshops to dissolve tension & increase collaboration
Culture Optimization – Creating high-trust, high-performance workplace dynamics
Want to explore a custom training for your team? Set up a free consultation with us here.
We aim to have cohorts each year that begin in January, April, June, and September. With 2-3 weeks between end and start dates, to allow for make-up days and a break for participants engaged in the 250-hour EQ/RQ Certification process. Overall, this provides 40 weeks (120 hours) of Relational Mastery and Authentic Relating per year.
In 2025, we estimate to begin our next cohorts around June 24 and September 30, plus or minus one week. We usually open registration after the previous cohort’s registration period has ended.
We’ll give a short answer, and then a long-form answer you might find fascinating!
Short:
Spirituality in this training isn’t about belief—it’s about experience.
A common misunderstanding is that personal growth, healthy relationships, and spiritual development are separate—but they are deeply intertwined. Even in work relationships and team dynamics, spirituality shows up in how we make meaning, navigate differences, and expand self-awareness. That’s why it’s essential to address it openly and respectfully, creating space for diverse perspectives without avoidance or pretending like we are talking about something else.
We approach spirituality as direct perception—how we see, how we relate, and how we grow. You don’t have to believe anything specific to step into our workshops, experience the practices, and notice what shifts.
We do present some theory around spiritual intelligence using Ken Wilber’s work as a framework, but ultimately this isn’t abstract. Spiritual intelligence shows up in how we meet life, how we navigate complexity, and how we deepen connection.
If you’re open to trying, testing, and seeing what unfolds, you’ll fit right in. If you’ve had bad experiences with religion or spirituality in the past, you’ll probably be okay here.
But if you’re the type who avoids looking within, or who endlessly debates anything spiritual to hide behind a closed mind or a wall of skepticism, you will not enjoy this.
Definitions
There are dozens of definitions of the word spiritual. In this training, spirituality is not about belief—it is about direct experience, perception, and transformation.
We see spiritual awakening not as a mystical end-goal, but as an unfolding—a progressive deepening of perception that reveals layers of Reality that were once invisible. These shifts are not abstract; they show up in how we relate, in the quality of our presence, and in the ways we navigate complexity.
All adults possess some degree of spiritual intelligence—the capacity to make meaning, to perceive beyond the material, and to orient toward deeper realities. Religion is simply the outer form that this intelligence takes. Many have had difficult experiences with religion, and yet, all humans engage in rituals, in meaning-making, in practices that connect them to something beyond themselves.
Our approach is eclectic yet structured, relational yet precise. The founder, Benji, has training in Tantric Buddhism, Theosophy, Brazilian Spiritism, and Neotantra and is influenced by thinkers such as Ken Wilber, Allan Kardec, Alice Bailey, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and Adyashanti. These influences shape our teaching, not as dogma, but as a living synthesis of practices that can fit within many worldviews.
Rather than requiring a specific belief system, what we ask is openness—the willingness to test new perspectives, to engage in direct experience, and to allow your understanding of spirituality to evolve.
At the same time, we recognize that every space has implicit assumptions. Ours differ from the norms of Western materialism. Here is what you can expect:
The Role of Belief & Inquiry in This Space
We welcome diverse perspectives, but we teach from our own. You are invited to integrate what resonates, to explore, to digest new insights in your own way.
We do not flatten all views to be equal. We do not pretend that all perspectives are equally deep, integrated, or complete.
Skepticism is welcome—but true skepticism is self-reflective. It’s healthy to question the existence of experiences you have not had yet. We value discernment. Questioning whether you have chakras? Great. Explore the practices and your own sensations… explore how your doubts might block the experience. And apply the same level of scrutiny to materialism and reductionism.
No worldview is required—but openness to transformation is. You do not need to believe everything, but you must be willing to engage.
Mentorship is valid and necessary for growth. Development accelerates when we learn from those ahead of us.
This is a developmental space. If you are here, we assume you want to grow and will challenge you to do so. In this way, there is a yang bias to the space, a bias toward change.
The Nature of Relational & Transformational Practice
Relational practice is a direct path to transformation. Growth doesn’t happen in isolation—it happens by authentic interactions with others.
Tension is not a problem to solve—it is a doorway. Sitting with discomfort moves us forward. Clearing connections moves us forward. Avoiding these keeps us stuck. In this way, we hold a yang bias toward staying in discomfort and clearing tensions in our connections with others in service of growth.
Leaving is always an option, but so is breaking through. We balance self-care with challenge, recognizing that the moments when you most want to run may be the very ones where deep transformation begins. Our job is to challenge you, your job is to do what is best for your soul. Our agreement of “Honor Self” means that you help us balance this.
Relational meditation practices are not just tools—they are the path itself. This is not just a set of techniques to use when convenient; it is a way of being.
Boundaried spaces create freedom. Structure enables depth, not limitation.
Connection is preferable to disconnection. Autonomy is valued, but a tangible state of group Relational Flow is the goal in most of our sessions. (A state of Relational Flow is that sense of “Wow, that was an amazing session! I feel so connected to everyone.” This is why openness, connection and curiosity are held as important values in our space.
The Nature of Reality & Spirituality
When we teach and present the practices, we operate within the following assumptions, which come from our early studies as a community on the work of Ken Wilber, which we generally use as a guiding framework. This helps us have common terminology and a map to unite behind, even when we disagree.
Spirituality is not just a concept or theory or dogma—it is how we meet reality, how we expand perception, how we refine the way we see.
Consciousness is not just a byproduct of the brain. It is fundamental to reality.
Spiritual development is real and measurable. It unfolds in stages, just like cognitive and emotional development.
Energy is objectively and demonstrably real (and the science behind it is fascinating). The subtle body, energetic fields, and expanded states of consciousness are lived experiences, not just metaphors.
We assume authenticity in those describing spiritual experiences. While projection exists, we engage with curiosity rather than dismissal.
Truth evolves. No single worldview has the final answer, but some perspectives are more complete than others.
The Invitation
If you’re reading this far, something in you already knows this is your work.
Maybe you’ve spent years seeking deeper connection, trying to find a space where you can bring all of yourself—your emotions, your intensity, your longing for something more.
Maybe you’ve grown beyond the frameworks you were given—professionally, relationally, spiritually—and you’re looking for a path that meets you where you actually are.
Maybe you’re tired of talking about personal growth and want to experience transformation in real time.
This is not a passive space.
We don’t flatten depth for comfort, and we don’t pretend all perspectives lead to the same place. We don’t pretend you can do deep relational work without talking about spirituality.
This is a dojo, a temple, a lab for relational and spiritual awakening. It will challenge you. It will stretch you. It will show you things about yourself that you can’t see alone.
You don’t have to believe what we believe. You don’t have to accept every framework. But we ask you to be open to the experiment—to stepping in, trying it on, and seeing what happens.
If that excites you, you’re exactly where you need to be.
Welcome.
Guiding Vision
We are here to transform the way humans relate—to themselves, each other, and the world.
We believe Relational Meditation is one of the most powerful, life-changing practices available—yet it remains rare. Our vision is to make these practices mainstream, accessible, and deeply integrated into personal, professional, and spiritual growth.
We believe that relational transparency, vulnerability, and depth are key drivers of success in modern teams and startups. Our vision is to help teams break free from rigid, outdated communication norms and create a culture where real conversations fuel innovation, trust, and collaboration.
We are committed to creating the most effective, engaging, and transformational experiences on the planet—where deep insight, embodied learning, and real human connection come alive.
Guiding Values
We hold ourselves and our community to these core principles:
Love – Rooted in care, connection, and mutual upliftment.
Alignment – Living in coherence with the highest Truths.
Integrity – Walking the talk, aligning actions with values.
Evolution – Committed to continuous personal and collective growth.
Embodiment – Being fully here in this world, in this body.
Freedom – Honoring sovereignty, agency, and self-responsibility.
Wisdom – Seeking depth, discernment, and clarity in all things. Kindness – Choosing compassion as a fundamental way of relating.
Presence – Being fully here, now, with what is. Connection – We awaken in relationship, not in isolation. Aliveness – Commitment to bring ourselves to life no matter the circumstances.
Openness – Willing to be changed by what we encounter.
Curiosity – Engaging the unknown with wonder instead of fear.
Bravery – Facing what is difficult while overcoming obstacles.
Mission
We create immersive learning environments where relational meditations and advanced coaching techniques support individuals in: Rapidly expanding awareness. Refining their ability to navigate complexity with presence and skill. Embodying deeper, more connected, and more impactful ways of being in the world.
Through experiential practice, deep community, and high-integrity mentorship, we accelerate human development—bringing transformative relational skills into the mainstream and creating a world where awareness, connection, and growth are the norm, not the exception.
Being an empath is a gift—a way of sensing what others cannot, of feeling deeply into the subtle layers of human experience. It allows you to pick up on what’s unspoken, to understand what even others may not yet recognize in themselves.
Many of us in this community—including most of the facilitators—are empaths. The founder, Benji, has studied metaphysical teachings on these topics, including training as a Spiritist medium, and in-depth study of Alice Bailey’s writings on transmuting emotions and Swami Rudrananda’s work on digesting energy. As part of this program, we will help you develop the practices and capacities needed to manage your gifts, so that your sensitivity becomes a source of strength rather than exhaustion.
Here’s what you need to know as an empath in this training:
✔ You will feel a lot. This work doesn’t numb or dull sensitivity—it refines it. You’ll learn to process emotions more cleanly so they don’t weigh you down.
✔ Overwhelm is part of the path—but not the destination. Many empaths describe a paradox: to stop feeling so much, we must first allow ourselves to feel more. There is a natural “hump” in the process—where it may seem like sensitivity is increasing before it stabilizes into clarity and presence.
✔ You will learn how to radiate instead of absorb. Instead of being a sponge for external emotions, you will develop the ability to digest what you take in and radiate energy outward. This shift changes everything.
For most empaths who commit to this work, these practices become life-giving and nourishing—a deep relief from the weight of carrying too much, a welcome reprieve from a world that does not understand you.
If this resonates, you are in the right place.
Authentic Relating also can involve giving people the space to act authentically – which might involve choosing to hug, tap toes, push, or otherwise engage in creative ways. There is often a playful vibe in our workshops. Some Authentic Relating techniques involve suggesting connecting hands or similar techniques.
Our expectation is that you “Honor Self” – setting boundaries, speaking up, establishing consent, or otherwise modifying any touch to suit your needs.
We understand how sensitive touch is for many people, especially where there is a trauma history. Please reach out to us with specific questions. Ultimately, the expectation in our community is: “Honor Self.” This means we expect you to be 100% self-responsible for your own well-being. We also expect people to “Honor Other” where possible – to act consensually and with care for each other’s well-being.
There is related information on this on our main FAQ, at the bottom of the page here.
That depends—who do you want to be a year from now?
Option 1: Close this tab, keep doing what you’ve always done, and wonder in six months if you should have said yes.
Option 2: Trust that feeling in your gut—the one that’s saying, “This is the work I need.” Hit the button. Step in. Your future self is already waiting.
Still overthinking it? That’s a pattern too. Break it—register now.
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