Experience Connection beyond surface level - Authentic Relating Event Berlin
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### Experience Connection beyond surface level - Authentic Relating Event Berlin
đź•“ Date & Time: Saturdays, 16:00-18:00
đź“Ť Location: near Tierpark or Betriebsbahnhof Rummelsburg
🎟 Cost: Donation based
👤 Participants: 4-12
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### Event Description:
Surface-level-conversation, anonymity and the feeling of being separated.
We live in the age of digital connection, but surveys show that people feel more lonely than ever.
I think what we need is a regular practice that doesn't need us to be on the same side, to feel connected. A practice where we can be ourselves and experience the healing effects of co-regulation and belonging, through true presence and vulnerability.
A practice like Authentic Relating.
Every Saturday (with some exceptions) I host Authentic Relating and Connection Circles in our space for people to experience this practice.
It involves:
- Listening with presence (instead of fixing or judging)
- Speaking from your truth (without over-explaining or apologizing)
- Feeling seen — and allowing that to be enough
You'll be guided through a smooth entry meditation, gentle relational games and reflection exercises which encourage you drop the armor as much as you feel safe with, slow down, and connect on a deeper level — with yourself and others.
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### ✨ The Agreements:
- Honor and respect yourself - that means stay true to what you want and need and care for yourself. Only go as deep as you want and feel safe with. you don’t have to open up to everyone. You might be unified consciousness infinitely connected to everything, but that doesn’t mean you’re not a self too.
- Lean into the edge - Don’t go all in. But don’t cotton-coat either. Growth in connection happens at the edge. And that can be a little uncomfortable sometimes. Try to explore what fits for you.
- Honor and respect others as much as yourself - accept and respect boundaries, practice giving a loving no and commit to connection.
- Check your assumptions - We all naturally build categories and throw our experiences into these. Be aware of that and don't let prejudice influence the chance of connection.
- Confidentiality by request - Nothing can be taken for granted, unless you ask for it. You want things to stay confidential? Ask for it.
- Keep it slow and be present - You don’t need to rush and push through. It's never to slow, so better breathe one more time, than one too less. Stay with how you feel in the moment and keep it safe and slow.
- Stay curious - You’ve ever seen a child curiously exploring it’s environment? Children have this innate sense of awe and curiosity, because they don’t have categories. Try to tap into the "not-knowing" curiosity and watch your relational practice transform.
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Disclaimer:
- This is no place to perform. You don't need to be someone to deserve connection.
- This is not a place for dating or making friends. The connection, intimacy and trust you'll experience, might seem more real than everything you know and you are invited to connect afterwards. But this space is for the experience of deep connection. So no hard feelings if someone just wants that.
- This isn't therapy and it doesn't substitute it either. If you have serious mental health issues you are welcome, and this experienc might also be helpful and feel healing, but it can't substitute the safe and professional environment of therapy. Although the host is trained in holding spaces and dealing with difficult states and stories, the participants aren't. Just keep that in mind.
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### ✨ About the host
I'm Morten, coach, facilitator and founder of The Circle, a private community for self-employed conscious creators, coaches and therapists growing through vulnerability and connection and building their soul business.