
What we’re about
We gather to practice being more real with each other—through Authentic Relating Training courses, facilitated practices, and connection exercises with ART International. No scripts. No pretending you have it all figured out. Just space to show up as you actually are.
Most of us have been taught that being "good" at relationships means never being awkward, never getting defensive, always knowing the right thing to say.
But that pressure to be perfect? It's exactly what keeps us from the kind of connection that brings us alive.
Whether you're navigating relationship challenges, feeling disconnected, or simply want more genuine connection in your life—you're welcome here.
What to expect:
• Authentic Relating Training courses and workshops
• Facilitated practices and exercises
• A community that values realness over perfection
No prerequisites. Just bring your human self.
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Level 1: Foundations
Greater Community Sanctuary, 1025 Rosewood Ave, Suite 102, Boulder, CO, USWELCOME
Our flagship Authentic Relating course has introduced the foundational tools and skills of this life changing practice to hundreds of people in Boulder, Colorado and thousands of people around the world. The course is designed to make the learning of Authentic Relating as accessible, adoptable, practical, and engaging as possible, so you can apply your new skills to your life right away with immediate results.
We’ve designed this course to give you the experience of profound connection, intimacy, trust, and aliveness with anyone you want, anytime, anywhere – all within just two days. The tools and skills we teach work across all social contexts, from the workplace to the living room, from strangers to partners and everyone in between.
Our experienced Course Leader, Dayna Seraye, expertly guides you through a curriculum that strongly emphasizes embodied and experiential learning. This is not a lecture or seminar – it is a deep dive full-immersion training that will leave you enlivened, heart and mind-opened, and deeply connected to yourself and others.
We’ve delivered the same Level 1 Course to spiritual seekers in Bali, jail inmates in Colorado, executives in New York City, and men and women from all across the social, cultural, economic, and political spectrum, of all ages and nationalities, in almost 50 locations on four continents.
Universally, participants report profound and lasting transformation in all aspects of their lives. The course speaks in the shared language of human connection, and is designed specifically to include everyone in the practice of Authentic Relating, no matter what path they’ve traveled in life.
We believe that we all have the capacity to be bridges – between parts of ourselves, ourselves with others, and together with the world. The course’s mission is to build bridges, and use our bridges to heal, connect, and co-create a more enlivened, awakened world – together.
➔ REGISTER FOR THE COURSE 1 MONTH IN ADVANCE & SAVE $100
THE LEVEL 1 COURSE INCLUDES SKILLS AND PRACTICES IN THESE AREAS:
- The ability to engage in deep, meaningful, soulful conversations with anyone, anytime, anywhere
- A powerful language and skill-set to accurately and transparently express your authentic experience in real time, and to invite others to do the same
- The awareness to identify your true, core desires, and the ability to articulate them to others
- A deep understanding of the dignity of speaking your authentic voice, and the humility of using your eyes and ears to pay attention to – and learn from – the people and world around you
- The ability to see and reflect the essential being in others, and to gently guide them into a space in which they can be fully, wholly themselves – one of the greatest gifts we can offer each other
- A complete set of powerful tools to de-escalate conflict and to use it as a vehicle leading to deeper connection, understanding, and empathy
- A restored connection to childlike genuine curiosity, and a perspective that sees the world with awe and wonder
- The ability to set powerful context at both the personal and collective levels, and a clear understanding of how influential context is in informing our experience of life
- An experience of vulnerable, intimate, beautiful connections with other participants that will leave you inspired, delighted, and heart-opened
➔ LEARN MORE ABOUT LEVEL 1: FOUNDATIONS
"Authentic Relating is such a simple, effective, yet totally radical practice of how to be human together. The practice feels supportive of what I want most in life, to be deeply connected with other people. And it really challenges my relational survival strategies, and brings me right to my edge of what I’m willing to be with, to feel, to reveal."
— Chris, Level 1
WHEN YOU ATTEND
- Create deep and lasting connections with like-minded people who live near you
- Experience interactive practices firsthand, from eye-contact to dance and play
- Experience the rush of energy and aliveness that comes from immersing yourself in deep connection in a shared physical space
- Enjoy your new social connections during lunch, at course breaks, and beyond
- Cultivate a strong sense of camaraderie with your fellow participants, having spent two full days in person and deep in this practice together
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Level 2: Advanced
Greater Community Sanctuary, 1025 Rosewood Ave, Suite 102, Boulder, CO, USWELCOME
Building on the foundational practices of Authentic Relating that we established in Level 1, the Level 2 Advanced training will support you to deeply understand your relational patterns, claim your wholeness, and create thriving connections with others.
To be an integrated, relational human being means knowing and welcoming yourself fully, including the parts of yourself that you turn away from, suppress, and disown. In Level 2 we make space for all the parts of us, including our shadow patterns that limit us from experiencing the nourishing connections we desire. We learn to own these parts, to bring them into connection, and to expand our capacity to be with the inevitable triggers, tensions and breakdowns that come with our relationships. The principles and practices you will learn in Level 2 will teach you to relate to what lies underneath relational tensions and to repair with others from a vulnerable, embodied, response-able place within yourself.
The ART Level 2 training will guide you to explore your own shadows and those of others in a tightly held conscious, relational space. You will be witnessed and welcomed in your journey, and have access to vast new realms of authentic connection in the intimate and vulnerable territory we explore together.
Do you want to explore and clear what’s blocking you from the fulfilling connections you crave?
➔ JOIN US EARLY FOR LEVEL 2 AND SAVE $100
"This is a course for anyone who desires to be free as their true selves and to have fulfilling authentic relationships in the most organic and effortless way."
— Nicole, Level 2
THE LEVEL 2 COURSE INCLUDES SKILLS AND PRACTICES IN THESE AREAS:
- Nervous system training – how to be with intensity and charge and increase your capacity to stay empowered and composed
- How to listen for and attune to what is under the surface of your conscious awareness – reading body language and sensing the values one holds at the core of their being
- Somatic tools for tracking embodied states, resourcing yourself and co-regulating with others
- Skills for accessing the vulnerability underneath activation that decreases conflict and increases connection
- How to hold multiple perspectives – within yourself, between you and others, and in society at large – and use them as a bridge for healing and connection
- Advanced skills for owning your experience and why this matters so deeply for thriving relationships
- Welcoming and reclaiming your shadows in relationship — the parts of you that you hide, suppress, deny or project onto others — as a pathway to wholeness
- Working with and giving space to your diverse “parts” to inform and guide you in greater integration and understanding of your experience
- Making the implicit explicit in culture and society
- Relational hygiene practices and how to tend to relational tensions before they escalate
- How to creatively empower your relationships and design unique relational contexts that support you and those in your life to thrive
➔ LEARN MORE ABOUT LEVEL 2 COURSES
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WHEN YOU ATTEND IN PERSON
- Create deep and lasting connections with like-minded people who live near you
- Experience interactive practices firsthand, from eye-contact to dance and play
- Experience the rush of energy and aliveness that comes from immersing yourself in deep connection in a shared physical space
- Enjoy your new social connections during lunch, at course breaks, and beyond
- Cultivate a strong sense of camaraderie with your fellow participants, having spent two full days in person and deep in this practice together
1 attendee