Skillful Relating

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Honing our relational skills You’ve practiced embodiment and circling, maybe you’ve meditated, and you have some life experience. In many ways you have grown and you have the basics in place. You can feel your body. You can be vulnerable and show yourself in your humanness. You know how to own your experience. And you also sometimes end up in trouble. You feel disconnected. Or people get triggered when you are just revealing your truth to them. Or you lose contact with yourself when your friends are “in their heads”. In this retreat we will work with honing some of the core skills that are important when we are in connection with others. We will deepen and develop our abilities to skillfully stay with ourselves, skillfully reveal ourselves in ways that can be received as well as skillfully listen more deeply both to what is said and what is not said. There will also be space for exploring your individual challenges and dilemmas. In other words: This retreat is about how to live everyday life more skillfully. Each day will contain meditation, embodiment, meaning-making, Surrendered Leadership and Q&A. Each theme will be presented and explored in a dialogue between the perspectives we bring: the more artful Tai Chi (taiji) perspective of Peter, and the more detail-oriented Buddhist perspective of Einar, both with a strong influence of more modern relational practices. Skillful Listening On the first day of the retreat we will be working with the ways in which we can listen more deeply to ourselves and others. We will practice how to get more in touch with our embodied experience and with witnessing the states we move through as we encounter the world around us. We will also be working with how we can attune to the experience of others and bring what we hear into connection in a skillfull way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbDtH_TDRbk Skillful vulnerability The second day will be focused on bringing truth into connection, when the stakes are high. We will work with how to bring forth what is really important for us and how to bring impact in a way that makes it possible for the other to hear the message. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu_3-FNtQyY Skillful embodiment When we meet on the third day we will explore what it is like to really move with our truth and take a look at the ways in which we stop ourselves from moving out of fear. We will work with boundaries and the possibility to move with attuned vulnerability in a way where we are simultaneously welcoming ourselves and in touch with the reality around us. Skillful integration The last day of the retreat will be co-created based on the needs in the group. We will start the day by harvesting the themes and challenges that are alive in the group and design the programme based on these. Programme The programme for the different days will be based on a mix of guided embodiment and presencing practices and Surrendered Leadership with a bit of meditation and movement practices sprinkled on top. Each day will start with a context setting about the theme and and with a Q&A session based on our collective exploration. The schedule below is a loose guide for what you can expect a day to look like. 08.30: Breakfast 09.30: Context setting about the theme of the day. 10.00: Guided meditation on the theme of the day. 10.30: Meditation debrief. 11.00: Guided practice. 11.45: Surrendered Leadership. 13.00: Lunch 14.30: Movement practice. 15.00: Guided practice. 16.00: Surrendered Leadership. 17.30: Q&A about the theme of the day. 18.30: Dinner Time and place The retreat takes place September 24th to 27th at Tögel Art Center outside of Stockholm. We start at 12.00 on Thursday 24th. There is no breakfast served that first day. If you want to, you can arrive the evening before and get breakfast and accommodation at 100€ extra. We end with dinner at 18.00 on Sunday 27th. Tögel Art Center Kilvägen 5 76391 Hallstavik Sweden Payment options We have six pricing tiers with 4 tickets in each. Tickets are sold at a first-come-first-served basis, but we ask that you choose the pricing tier that fits your economy. Tier 1: €350 Tier 2: €450 Tier 3: €550 Tier 4: €650 Tier 5: €750 Tier 6: €850 We hold an intention of wanting everyone to be able to participate, regardless of income situation. If you find that the price is too high for you, please contact us and we will see if we can work something out. Food and accomodation The price covers accomodation in a shared room and a vegan/vegetarian mealplan. If you have special needs for food and accomodation, please let us know. We will cook ourselves for this retreat and all participants will participate in the creation of at least one meal (lunch or dinner). Skillful presence is independent of circumstances, and cooking is a time-tested opportunity for practice. You won't be asked to do anything complicated, just help out and enjoy it as a relational meditation.