$200.00 USD

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Welcome & Terms of Service

Our practices involve looking at and being intimate with the structures of one’s personal reality, including how we make sense of experience, individually and collectively. Carrying over assumptions from other practices can lead to misunderstandings. Read over the following statements to determine whether or not our practice will be a good fit for you.

Self-Responsibility
We see you as a free agent capable of honest self-assessment and responsible choice. This is an invitation to take responsibility for yourself and your experience, including a willingness to set and maintain appropriate boundaries. By attending our events you take responsibility for your own safety and comfort, choosing to leave the practice or participate in any given moment. 

Not Psychotherapy
We do not follow a therapeutic model of diagnosis and treatment. Our method is educational. Our emphasis is relating. Our facilitators and coaches are guides. Our practices are practices of connection and meditation whose aim is to reveal more presence. We do not prescribe choices or actions. We are not psychotherapists; we do not see you as being in a therapeutic relationship with our facilitators. Participants are welcome to speak and explore developmental intentions such as “getting somewhere,” growing, and evolving, but we do not presume these are the drivers of experience. We work in the present moment, assuming wholeness moving to greater wholeness. 

The Expectations of Leadership
Our facilitators act in service of better relating through bringing more presence to what’s happening in the here and now. This may not follow typical expectations of a “group leader,” such as telling people the “right way” to act or making sure everyone gets along. We include the internal experiences of the leaders as part of the process. We invite you to listen to your own inner direction for leadership, and consider others’ responses as feedback to you in the context of the moment.

Is this Right for You?
Our workshops can be intense. We explore the unknown, the volatile, the ambiguous, as well as welcome emotions many deem as “negative” or “inappropriate” such as feelings of inadequacy, anger, sexuality, and joy. We often explore multiple sides of seeming opposites at once, and believe this can reveal an underlying unity of the immediacy of experience. We see bringing awareness to intense feelings as distinct from acting upon these feelings—we may ask you to pause or leave if we determine certain expressions risk leaving the practice of relational presence.

If the above description of our workshops sounds potentially overwhelming or destabilizing for you, if you have mental illness or significant emotional challenges that you feel may be exacerbated by this type of transformational environment, or if you are not sure that you can be self-directed in taking care of your needs during the event, then we advise you not to enroll. Finally, you must be at least 18 years old to attend.

By participating you acknowledge that you have read and agree to abide by these Terms of Service.



Introducing Relatefulness: A six week online group

As we move into the winter months, you are warmly invited to join this six-week exploration of Relatefulness. 

Relatefulness is an exciting and evolving practice, centred on bringing awareness and creativity into how we relate with ourselves and with other people. You can think of it as ‘bringing mindfulness into relationships’, remembering that just as mindfulness can be calm, peaceful and grounded, it can also be embodied, playful and passionate. 

This exploration will be a warmly held group experience, offering: 

  • An opportunity to learn skills and perspectives that you can use to find more peace and possibility in all of your relationships (including friendships, romantic relationships, family relationships, and work relationships)
  • The chance to form meaningful connections with other participants as we meet and practise together over six weeks
  • An orientation, and preparation, for the different kinds of sessions and trainings offered by the Relateful Company

The group is ideally suited to people new to the practice, or for people within their first few months of exploring the practice (more experienced practitioners seeking a refresher and / or a meaningful group experience are also welcome to join).

The group will run online, for 6 x 2 hour sessions, taking place on Sundays

  • It will start on Sunday 10 November and run weekly through to Sunday 15 December
  • The sessions will take place at 12-2pm US Central Time (6-8pm UK time, 7-9pm Central European Time)
  • Group size is capped at 8. 
  • There will be suggestions for activities to try out between sessions to deepen the learning experience. 

Lead by: Will Jefferson

Price: The investment for the course is $200.

What people are saying about Relatefulness

  • “It is a paradigm that has shifted my entire life and the way I communicate and move through the world. It is a practice that I wish everyone would have” - Lisa
  • “It is a way of being my truest self, a way of deeply connecting to people, to life, to love.” - Naren
  • “These experiences cause my universe to expand and be richer. I know more of myself when I see another who sees me and offers me a mirror to see myself” - Barbara

The learning in this exploration will be experiential. After short explanations and demonstrations, the majority of the group time will be given to pair and whole-group practice exercises. 

As the weeks progress, there will be opportunities to experience both “Focus Sessions” (in which we all have our attention on one person, and get to experience what it is like to be ourselves as we also know them as they are) and “Flow Sessions” (in which we interact as a group in an open-ended way, discovering what arises in us and between us). 

The topics covered will depend on participant interests, and will include:

 

  • Present-moment awareness: How do we know ourselves as we are in each moment? How can we cultivate curiosity and compassion for what we encounter in ourselves?
  • Knowing others as they are: How can we move beyond our stories of who someone is to know them as they are from moment to moment? 

 

    • Authenticity: What is it like for me as I am with others? Do I feel like I am being myself, or are there ways in which I change myself to “fit in” somehow? 

 

  • Self-leadership: When I am with others, what am I wanting and needing? How can I find the clarity and confidence to express my values in ways that respect the choice of others? 

 

About the facilitator

Will Jefferson is a facilitator with The Relateful Company and has been leading mindfulness-based workshops since 2013. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Oxford, and wrote his dissertation on the moral significance of empathy. In addition to his training in Relatefulness, he has extensive experience in Nonviolent Communication, Improvised Theatre, Poetry, Meditation and Pilgrimage. 

What people are saying about Will’s sessions:

  • Humble, brilliant, and wildly creative, Will invites us to sit together in the unknowing, and to wonder together. The spaces between his sentences are as imbued with presence and transmission as his words.”   - Valerie
  • “I love being in the spaces that Will creates and inhabits, where it feels like anything is possible. I have a deep and growing trust in Will’s loving intention as a human and a facilitator. I remember coming out of Will’s sessions feeling amazing, alive and transformed!”  - Christine  

If you have any question email us at [email protected]