Step into an embodied space of heightened presence that supports profound intimacy and connection with yourself and others. We meet here in vulnerability and wonder at the creative edge of our self understanding, where alchemy awaits. Uncover more of your essence and aliveness obscured beneath habitual patterns and assumptions. Build and practice relational skills of attunement, curiosity, and humility. Bring your self-leadership to co-create a fertile common ground of compassion, growth, and transformation.

In this workshop, carefully designed exercises and structures provide containment and a clear context for our exploration. Warmups activate specific qualities of attention that deepen the field and build group coherence. Then two different kinds of practice circles take center stage as the core formats of the weekend.

In a Focus Circle, we gather a small group with a facilitator to center attention on one person, exploring and reflecting their world in real-time. A Flow Circle, in contrast, is more of an open space of possibility for the whole group to explore their individual and collective emergence. Within the bounds of each context, we enjoy a freedom to be self-directed, run experiments, courageously approach our edge, and assert boundaries.

This container supports a more direct participation with the dynamic unfolding of experience beyond our familiar stories and habitual assumptions. By turns, this can be both liberating and confronting, as is typical for most growth experiences. We make deeper contact with our life force, innate wholeness, and playfulness, yet also perhaps with our fear, grief, anger, projections, and self-imposed limitations.

This kind of work isn't for everyone, and can at times be uncomfortable or intense for some people. We emphasize self-regulation, mutual attunement, taking care of yourself, and setting boundaries when necessary. As in any developmental space where people are taking risks and being more real with each other, you should be prepared for the possibility of experiencing discomfort and nervous system activation.

At the same time, many people also experience delicious flow states, radiant heart connection, profound synchronicity, and feeling incredibly seen by others. We discover time and again in this work that human connection rooted in deep presence and attunement reliably taps into nature's vast reservoir of life-affirming vitality and boundless creative potential. These are under-explored frontiers of human experience in contemporary culture which cannot be replaced by technology, and are essential we believe to remembering our shared sense of sacredness and interdependence.

We will focus on trust as a theme this weekend, with an emphasis on building self-trust. Trust is a primary relational principle well worth deepening. How honest and trustworthy are you with yourself? If you don't trust yourself deeply, what basis do you have for trusting others? With presence and slowing down, notice the subtle ways you discount your natural wisdom, step over your own boundaries, swallow your truth, and hold yourself back. Learn to be more aware and loving with yourself in these moments. Develop greater fluency with your life force as a source of wisdom you can trust to guide you into more nuanced layers of freedom and surrender. Build confidence in your ability to know what is best for you.