Authentic Relating - Winter Solstice

Hello AR Denver! We invite you for our special edition Authentic Relating - Winter Solstice, where you'll get to slow down, expand your awareness, and welcoming everything, including your assumptions, your experience, and yours and others' truth, all while making new friends and deep connections along the way.

WHEN?
Saturday December 20th - 10:30am - 12:30pm

WHERE?
Denver Public Library Ross-University Hills Branch (4310 E Amherst Ave)

AUTHENTIC RELATING GAMES
Authentic Relating is the practice of being with what is, together. We strive to connect to our inner truth and reveal it to others, while also holding space for other's truth in the process.

Authentic Relating Games are facilitated activities and exercises we participate in together to drop into the space of connection and practice our relating skills. Not only are the games connecting, but they are fun! By the end, you will feel more empowered by relationships, and you may even make a new friend!

What to expect?
We will provide a supportive structure used to create a group context around:

• Slowing down
• Expanding our awareness in our body, mind, emotions
• Welcoming everything
• Checking our assumptions
• Revealing our experiences
• Owning our experiences
• Honoring ourselves and others

The result?
— Expanded relational awareness
— Deeper, more meaningful and intimate connections with self and others
— The potential to begin shifting lifelong relational patterns and blocks

All instructions and prompts will be provided; no experience necessary. This workshop is perfect for those new to AR as well as the well-seasoned.

FORMAT
(approximate)
10:15 - Please arrive early (we will start promptly at 10:30)
10:30 - Welcome
10:35 - Personal and group check-ins and games warm-ups
10:50 - Authentic-relating games
12:15 - Check-outs, Closing
12:30 - Meet a new friend :)

GUIDANCE

• Please bring water and a light jacket.
• This event is for adults and young-adults only.
• If you are needing to bring a service animal, please reach out beforehand.

Cost:
$10 recommended donation. Please consider donating to help cover the costs of running this meetup. You can donate prior or afterwards.
Venmo: @dschreibero (#0110)

CANCELLATIONS
Please keep your RSVP up to date! If your circumstances have changed and you are unable to make an event, we understand and honor your humanness! Please change your RSVP on the event page to "not going" so that a space may open up for someone else.

ABOUT THE HOSTS
​Mauro "Mo" Perez will be our lead-facilitator and is a candidate for Nonviolent Communication training certification. He is passionate about making space for people to understand themselves and each other. He also enjoys, movies, acting, and rock climbing.

Moses Smith is a trained authentic relater through ART International. He is passionate about creating community and is also a seasoned practitioner of Aikido, the only nonviolent martial art.