Over dit evenement
Expanding our relational capacity in a series of 6 sessions, once a month. This series started in June and was sold out, now due to sickness one spot has become available for the last 4 sessions.
In this series we invite you to deepen several tools you can use to be in immediacy; to be true to what is alive in you in each moment, every moment again.
When we practice immediacy, we practice intimacy: the more we can be present with our own experience the more we meet and become close to ourselves. It is only from this place of intimacy with ourselves that we can be intimate with another, or even intimate with life itself. The level of intimacy with and connection to ourselves determines the depth with which we can meet the other. And the more experienced and skilled we become the more we realise it’s about the simplicity of the practice and about the level of presence we bring into it.
We long to create a community of already skilled people who come together with the desire to truly connect. Where we practice dropping the pretense and socially acceptable behavior, to become soft and welcoming to every part of us, to become naked and bare in our own experience, and to show up with all of that realness in connection to others. An evening where we allow both ourselves and others the multitude of what that could look and feel like. Where we support each other in being ourselves.
Our series of 6 sessions are designed to hone our skills and build our capacity as a community. The first 5 will be an exploration to see how much depth we can bring to some core practices, like practicing our boundaries and inquiry. The 6th will be what we call the “RR evening” and where we will bring it all together; aiming to explore with fewer frames and be open to what will emerge in the moment. These RR evenings will be recurring.
DATES: Fridays
3. August 14th
4. September 11th
5. October 9th
6. October 30th
TIME: 19:00-22:00
18:45 arrival
19:00 practice
22:00 closing
22:30 latest leaving
LOCATION & GROUP SIZE
We an intimate group of 8, meeting in a spacious private space 5 min walk from Amsterdam Central Station. Precise address shared when ticket confirmed.
TOPICS
No & Boundaries, Yes & Desires, Inquiry & Immediacy, the opportunity of friction, Shadowwork & Fragmented Self, ‘Revolutionary Relating Evening’ (Intertwining of: primal play, authentic relating, authentic movement, Circling/Surrendered Leadership, Pink Tantra).
NOTES
We specifically invite advanced practitioners. If you are unsure about whether your level is enough to join our evenings, please reach out to one of us.
We encourage participants to join all sessions; if you can only join one or a few, contact one of us.
This is an intimacy positive event, we welcome for eros to flow. As a guideline we wish to focus more on emotional and energetic nakedness than physical nakedness, and we wish to focus more on the depth of intimacy we can reach together than on sexual intimacy.
REVOLUTIONARY RELATING
RR is a collaboration of Susanna and Ana. Meeting on the dancefloor of ecstatic dance we became relational partners, later on our connection transformed into friendship and now into business partners. In moving through our relationship and with our commitment to staying in connection we’ve learned to be true to what really wants to unfold between us. We adapt with it over time, as it constantly changes form. We share a passion for immediacy and are devoted to truth. We wish to build a bigger community around the practice we already do together, with people who share the same passion and devotion, to practice and grow together. Because we see ourselves as lifelong students, and believe we are never done in this work.
SUSANNA STEVENS by the words of Ana:
This woman is a realness baddie. Medical doctor turned tantric wisdom keeper. She sharply cuts through bullshit; inviting for more truth in my expression. She also is one of my greatest teachers through how she leads by example in deeply feeling life. Patiently and with a huge open heart she holds space with the ultimate capacity to welcome everything, making it safe for me to be with and feel what is true for me in the moment. There seems to be no other way for her to live other than actually feel things through. She’s a sucker for depth.
Relational patterns are like mathematical equations to Suus. There is no hiding with this woman; she easily exposes the core dynamics in relational interaction and human behavior. My disclaimer to this wisdom: sometimes, she is so fast to tell me what she sees that her words like knives have already cut me before they’ve passed through her otherwise unfailing kindness filter.
Her gifts come so naturally that she sometimes unjustly questions her understanding of the physical and energetic blueprint of trauma to it’s core: through her scientific background she understands trauma from the outside in, and through her hard lived experience of transforming her own pain into wisdom and reclaiming her sense of self she understands it from the inside out.
Her spiritual journey of 22 years (of which 7 in traditional and later neo-tantra) has her devoted to deeper embodiment and inner freedom. She lives for helping others gain more of it too. Next to her work in occupational health, she gives 1 on 1 sessions focussing on trauma and shadowwork, and assists &facilitates in Chris van der Weide’s retreats.
ANA MILBO by the words of Susanna:
Ana is a master of the unknown. She listens to and works with the field, bringing immediacy and attunement in a way that cannot be prepped nor taught through a book. It is ‘simply’ her highly developed skill over all the years of her facilitation experience, her growing up in the world of experiential learning and her degree in relational leadership and experience design. Community building is her second nature as a third-generation community builder (both her Danish and Brazilian side of the family); put her in front of any group of people and she will find a way to have them connect.
Her capacity to hold joy and pleasure is something I only dream of and gladly immerse myself in to let my system see and get accustomed to the possibility of another way of being.
And yes, she is also human and of course has blind spots. From her desire and trust based life she can sometimes find it hard to empathise with and see the perspective from people (like me) coming from a more fear based life. In those moments, where I then ask her to come sit in the actual experience with me to really feel the smallness and powerlessness, she is being challenged in her compassion and we are being tested in our capacity to hold friction.
Her passion for and fascination with death and rebirth makes her even more capable of holding the unknown. Her strong conviction to let die and let go of what wants to move or change will always win from trying to grasp, cling or manipulate. It makes her highly transformational, reflective and open to learning and surrendering her assumptions. She gives herself and others space to endlessly re-imagine themselves by bringing curiosity and compassion. She is always looking to challenge and
develop advanced spaces further, which is why she co-birthed Facilitate The Shift 5 years ago and is part of her drive to bring RR to life. Also, she gives tailored 1 on 1 sessions.
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