Name: Authentic Relating Games Night - Get Past Small Talk w/ Conscious Connection
Start: 2024-09-13T18:15:00-04:00
End: 2024-09-13T21:00:00-04:00
Location: The Movement Studio and Groups at Radical ️ Healing

**FREE EarlyBird for HeartFire Members / $35 EarlyBird Drop-In before 09/1**

**In a hurry? Here's the basics:**

Come join us for a unique and exciting evening of Authentic Relating Games at **Radical Healing in Durham**, Friday, September 13 from 6:30-9pm. Doors open at 6:15pm.

Note: These are not board games! See below for details.

**Register ("Join") below on Meetup. Drop-in payment is due at the time of RSVP, via this link:** [NavigateChange.as.me/games-night](https://NavigateChange.as.me/games-night) (scroll to May on the calendar to pay)

Want invites? **Join our mailing list:**
[Mailchimp](https://mailchi.mp/navigatechange.org/authentic_relating)

**Full Details:**
Welcome to AuthenticNC, Raleigh-Durham's Authentic Relating community. We are a vibrant community of healers, professionals, and brave consciousness explorers. Many of us arrive seeking:

Real Connection
Deeper Relationships
Get Beyond Small-Talk
Expanded Awareness
Intimacy

**What You'll Experience at This Games Night:**

Together, we will craft an evening of conscious connection, with a focus on the **Theme:** **Appreciating Introversion & Extroversion**

It's okay to arrive anxious. We'll help you relax into satisfying connection through conscious connection exercises, authentic sharing, and improv games, curated to help you tune in to what is true for you in your relationships.

You'll have a chance to explore...
\~How to let down walls
\~How to find connection (in spite of being single or in a relationship, whatever your case may be!)
\~How to express yourself authentically - beyond holding back or lacking a filter.

Our Authentic Relating Game Nights tend to be **deep and intense**, with a mixture of fascination, laughter, and occasional tears of release. It's the full mixture of emotions you would experience in any group, as you **explore how to get real** and to be more open with those around you.

Come alone or bring a friend. People sometimes **bring a date** to these events, both for a unique evening out and to get to know each other more deeply. Please be aware that these games are more intense and deep than fun... but it is definitely a bonding experience, where you will get to see much deeper into each other's worlds!

Your host: Benji Whitehurst, M.A., [Relationship Coach](https://www.navigatechange.org/) & host of 120+ Authentic Relating events and workshops in Raleigh-Durham since 2016. Benji studied Transpersonal Counseling Psychology at Naropa University, and certified in Integral Circling through the Boulder Integral Center.

**Payment:**
Games Nights are **INCLUDED FOR FREE** for all community members holding our **Heartfire** **Monthly Membership who RSVP prior to 9/1**. $10 after 9/1. Your monthly memberships help us build a vibrant, stable community! Join here: [Membership Registration](https://navigatechange.org/tgroup)

Discounted 10-passes & memberships are here:
[https://navigatechange.org/tgroup](https://navigatechange.org/tgroup)

Register in advance: space is limited! EarlyBird discount ends on 9/1.

**What is Authentic Relating?**

Authentic Relating is the practice of harnessing connection as a lens for self-discovery, and vulnerability as a tool for mind-blowing, heart-opening connection in service of living more turned-on, whole lives.

A collection of values and agreements create a spacious, welcoming, transformative container for each practice: Honor Self, Honor Other, Confidentiality, Hide Nothing, Everything is OK, Play Full Out, and Own Your Experience.

**When do I arrive?**

The event will begin promptly at 6:30pm—please plan to arrive 10-15 minutes early for extra connection and in service of us starting on time. We will end at 9:00pm. There is sometimes a group who will go out afterwards for snacks and extra fun.

**Our Policies:**

To help us experience as much joy and as little drama as possible, we've created a [Disclosure & Waiver](https://navigatechange.org/tgroup) detailing these expectations of self-responsibility & kindness to others, including the known risks of authentic relating practice and guidelines for conflict resolution. Your registration for this event means you have read and agree to the terms of this waiver, including the agreement to fully resolve any disputes related to this event using community conflict mediation. You can find our [invitation toward diversity & sameness](https://www.navigatechange.org/tgroup/) on the same page.

We invite you to join a 10-year-old community and experience not just the depth possible in an evening of authentic relating, but the sense of soul-enlivening community available for all who play, relate with us over the long term.

You are also welcome to join our weekly practice series, T-Group (see our [Meetup page](https://www.meetup.com/ancevents/)!)

Benji

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