Conscious Relating Arts - Presence, Connection, Aliveness

There are forces moving through your life that are older and deeper than personality.
The Lover.
The Warrior.
The Mystic.
The Rebel.
The Sovereign.
The Good Child.
The Martyr.

These energies shape how you love, how you speak, what you long for, what you avoid, and what you become. Most of us are already living them — but unconsciously. We are inhabited by patterns, symbols, and inner roles we’ve never learned to meet directly.

Awaken to Your Avatar is a weekend workshop for discovering the deeper archetypal energies that compose your life and learning to consciously embody them.

This is not just a workshop about understanding archetypes intellectually. It is a space to feel them, meet them, and enter into relationship with them in your body.

Through solo explorations, partnered processes, guided practices, somatic movement, and symbolic work, we’ll explore the energies that have shaped your life so far and the ones that are now asking to emerge.

You’ll work with constrictions, wounds, and habitual contractions, not simply to “heal” them, but to uncover the deeper vitality, range, and aliveness that may be bound up inside them.

This weekend is an invitation to step beyond your habitual identity and into a more conscious relationship with the forces that want to live through you.

## What you'll actually do

Over the weekend, you will:

• explore what an Avatar is and what archetypal energy is
• begin mapping your own inner archetypal landscape
• work with symbol, energy, and imagination as lived practice
• explore constrictions, wounds, and contractions as places where life may be asking to move
• practice embodying different energies and qualities
• experiment with stepping into states your nervous system may habitually avoid
• begin developing a living relationship with the archetypes that shape your life

You’ll also begin forming your Avataric Mandala: a living map of your own inner energies, potentials, and pathways of emergence.

## This work supports people who are:

• feeling stuck in familiar identities or life-patterns
• longing for more aliveness, power, or expressive range
• aware that something in them wants to emerge, but not yet sure how to meet it
• seeking an embodied spiritual practice, rather than something only conceptual
• wanting to relate more consciously to inner forces that already shape their lives
• ready to work with the hidden, disowned, avoided, or unlived parts of themselves

At its heart, this workshop helps you move:
from unconscious patterning to conscious embodiment
from inner fragmentation to relationship
from suppression to aliveness
from being run by archetypes to practicing with them deliberately

## What you’ll leave with

By the end of the weekend, you’ll leave with:

• a living map of your own archetypal energies
• a felt experience of what it is like to embody them
• more range in your nervous system and body
• greater intimacy with the energies you habitually keep at a distance
• practices for consciously stepping into and out of different energies in daily life
• a deeper sense of the self that wants to unfold through you

Not just as an insight. As a lived experience in your body.

## Who this is for

This workshop may be for you if:

• you sense there is more in you than you are currently living
• you are drawn to archetypes, myth, symbol, or imaginal practice
• you want to expand your range of expression and embodiment
• you are curious about tantric, somatic, or relational work
• you want a form of inner work that is experiential, meaningful, and transformative
• you are in a threshold, transition, or becoming

This work will likely resonate especially with people who already have some experience with practice, whether through meditation, yoga, Circling, therapy, coaching, embodiment work, or other contemplative paths.

## Who this may not be for

This workshop may not be a fit if you are looking for something purely intellectual, purely therapeutic, or highly structured in a conventional educational sense.
This is experiential work. It asks for openness, curiosity, and a willingness to enter lived practice.
If this would be your very first experience in any kind of personal or spiritual development, it may still be possible — but it would be good to reach out first to check whether the space is right for you.

## Is this safe?

This is potent work.
Archetypal and symbolic practice can open powerful territory. Part of the intention of the weekend is to offer grounded orientations and practical ways of working so that participants can enter this terrain consciously and with care.
The aim is not overwhelm, but relationship: learning how to meet these energies in a way that is embodied, respectful, and integrated.

## About the facilitators

### Andrew Venezia

Andrew is a dreamer, poet, storyteller, and coach who has spent decades in relationship with the mysteries opened by symbol and archetype. His work is rooted in a conviction that we can live in conscious relationship with the energies that shape our lives, rather than being unconsciously governed by them. The Avatar practice grows from this devotion: helping people come alive not as an idea of themselves, but as the fuller being already moving within them.

### Ellen Waenink

Ellen is a mother, a mystical artist, transformational coach and initiator facilitator devoted to helping people discover and embody the deeper forces shaping their lives so they can live from who they actually are, not just who they’ve learned to be. Her path includes tantric practices such as deity yoga, subtle energy work, and years of facilitating spaces of connection, surrender, expression, and experimentation with different energies. She brings a grounded, respectful, and reverent approach to this work.

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## Practical details

Date: April 11–12
Location: Amsterdam
Times:
Saturday: 10:00–18:00
Sunday: 10:00–17:30
Lunch break: 13:00–14:30
Price: €300 early bird for the first five tickets.
If the price is unattainable for you but you feel called to come, please reach out.

## Join us

If you feel the pull of this work, you are welcome.

Dear Authentic human,

I'd like to invite you to the next opportunity to online Circling.

This course starting May 1th, is a journey into the heart of what it means to connect, to lead, and to be. Whether you're seeking a deeper connection with yourself and others or looking to deepen your leadership abilities, this course offers powerful practices and tools that will help you navigate your inner world and show up more authentically with others.

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The art of Transformational Connection

We often seek connection outside of ourselves, in relationships or experiences. But true connection doesn’t come from external sources, it begins within.

Connection isn’t a goal, but rather a state of being. By embracing the present moment and showing up as we are, we invite more depth into our lives and relationships. Every moment becomes an opportunity to connect, to ourselves, to others, and to the world around us.

#### Our Journey Together

This course does not simply teach you a method, but we'll be exploring and discovering the art of connection. In this group, we will:

• Explore how we connect with one another and how to deepen those connections until they become transformative.
• Practice engaging with one another, truly being together in the present moment, embracing what emerges in a shared space.
• Learn to lead with surrender. Through Surrendered Leadership Circles, you'll learn to embrace uncertainty, lead with presence, and guide yourself and others into deeper connection.

This training is an invitation to experience what it means to be real, with yourself, with others, and in the world around you.

##### Join if you are ready to:

• Discover what it takes to be truly real and explore your relationship to authenticity.
• Bring awareness to where you are, and be with others who are doing the same.
• Open to vulnerability and embrace each precious moment as it is.
• Deepen your connection with others through shared awareness and relational inquiry.
• Make space for the emergent and surrender to what unfolds.

##### Practicals:

This course takes place online. Over six weeks, you’ll be guided by Ellen Waenink and team in exploring these practices and deepening your connection to yourself and others. You’ll receive structured support to help you apply these principles in your life and relationships.