Love is not a merger of two separate selves,
but an awakening to the field that holds us both.*

Relational intensives provide a re-learning space for interdependence, which includes re-learning the nature and importance of boundaries.

Entering and maintaining a shared field is an integral part of healing trauma. We get to co-create reality and experience true emergence.

To arrive here, we need to make conscious the ideas, expectations, and ultimately illusions we project onto our partner, as well as inherited storylines we play out but didn’t author.

Relational intensives are suited for couples as well as individuals who would like to work on their own relational patterning or attachment dynamics. They are currently offered on one weekend per month— please scroll down for the dates.

* Joanna Macy

dates:

March 13 — 15

April 24 — 26

May 22 — 24

June 5 — 7

common themes:

• Mixed-neurotype relationships:
  Navigating differences in communication styles and needs for self-regulation between neurodivergent- and neurotypical-leaning partners; finding genuine connection for long-term singles
• Recovery after affair or emotional entanglement:
  Healing the impact of betrayal, understanding and rewiring trust issues or limiting identity core beliefs, practicing accountability and repair
• Big life decisions and changes:
  Premarital counseling and deciding on whether to start a family, re-envisioning life after a career shift or a move, navigating a diagnosis or chronic illness, finding a new identity during the “empty nest” phase of life
• International relationships:
  E.g., multicultural couples, expats, diaspora, third-culture, living abroad
• Emotional labor:
  Rebalancing relationship needs and staying connected post-partum and during the early family years
• Relational shifts:
  E.g., opening up the relationship, compassionate separation, transitioning to peaceful coparenting
• Life-altering, non-ordinary bonds:
  Transliminal experiences in relationship, alternating cycles of deep fulfillment and deep destabilization

details:

• One weekend a month, online
• 3x 90-minute sessions (Friday, Saturday, Sunday), in English or German
• Individualized support : Practice, exercises, homework in between sessions.

Relational intensives are

• trauma-informed
• LGBTQ- and neuro-affirmative
• culturally inclusive
• and support all forms of relationship.

Main orientations and modalities include

• Emotion-focused therapy (EFT)
• Depth psychology and psychodynamic couples therapy
• Family systems therapy
• Gestalt therapy and parts work
• Humanistic-existential and ancestral dimensions