Personality & Presence: a Radically Attuned Relational Experience

## Personality, Presence, & the Power to Choose: A 6-Week RARE Pod Dedicated to Understanding Ourselves & Others Through Personality Theory

### See how you’ve adapted — and how to be connected to the most natural parts of you.

Join a 6-week online journey, imbued with the core practices of RARE, alongside the powerful psychological framework of Personality Adaptations — a model developed by Vann Joines and Ian Stewart and grounded in Transactional Analysis. K.L. Thigpen is a long-time student of Vann Joines and a Certified Instructor in Personality Focused Treatment through Vann's Southeast Institute for Group and Family Therapy in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

We will compare the 6 personality adaptations with the 5 NARM core survival styles.

The NARM Core Survival Styles

• Connection Survival Style. People with this survival style usually feel disconnected from themselves, their bodies, and other people. ...
• Attunement Survival Style. ...
• Trust Survival Style. ...
• Autonomy Survival Style. ...
• Love-Sexuality Survival Style.

In the Personality Pod, you’ll learn how your adaptive strategies — the ones that help you survive and perform — may also be limiting your capacity for presence, connection, and choice. You’ll be gently guided toward something deeper: the truth of who you are beneath the adaptation.

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### 💡 What We’ll Do Together

• Take a Personality Adaptation questionnaire to identify your core style of adapting to relational wounding.
• Explore how these adaptations show up in your relationships, your defenses, and your sense of self.
• Study essential pieces of Transactional Analysis to understand the internal “scripts” driving your patterns.
• Engage in daily and weekly States of Awareness Training and Transformational Connection.
• Practice Authentic Relating Games that bring insight, intimacy, and aliveness to every session.
• Learn the language of attuned boundaries, embodied truth, and relational repair.

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### 🔮 What You’ll Walk Away With

• Insight into your core relational survival strategies.
• Tools to shift from reactivity to presence.
• A deeper ability to feel, express, and connect authentically.
• Relational skills that support safety and intimacy.
• New choices. New awareness. A new way of being with others — and yourself.

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### 🌀 Program Details:

🗓 Dates: May 6th - June 10th, 2025.
⏰ Time: 7:15pm - 9:15pm Raleigh Tuesday nights; 9:15am - 11:15am Melbourne Wednesday mornings.
📍 Location: Zoom.
👥 Group Size: Limited to 8 participants for intimacy and depth.
💸 Cost:

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### 🧠 Who This Is For:

This group is for people who are ready to go deeper — into themselves, their patterns, and their power to transform through connection. Therapists, seekers, feelers, and humans of all kinds are welcome.
No prior experience with RARE, Transactional Analysis, or Personality Adaptations is needed — just a willingness to explore, reveal, and relate.

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