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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.

Relateful Improv Workshop

Improvising means dealing with whatever arises in the moment, without preparation, being ok with making mistakes. It’s about creativity, co-creation, spontaneity, and it can be funny, although it doesn’t have to be.

This is not a standard improv comedy workshop. It will build on the same principles, like ‘Yes, And’. And we will slow down more, trust our bodies, see what happens when we lean less on the words. We will make it Relateful.

The funny is in the truth. And the truth is right here, right now. You don’t have to make anything up. Don’t be original, be real!

We will do lots of different exercises in dyads/triads and the whole group. Some verbal, some non-verbal, some comedic and others more poetic/theatrical. We will make as much use of our bodies as Zoom allows. You can always opt-out or do things the way they feel good to you, no one will be put on the spot unless you want to ;)

Relateful as we are, we will also include time to be with and share impact.

Come join this workshop whether you’ve done improv before or not. Expect aliveness, connection and joy.

Facilitator

Anja-Sophie Boorsma onboarded as an online facilitator for The Relateful Company in 2023 and co-led the Amsterdam Relateful Immersion in 2024. She is currently leading monthly in person Relateful sessions in Amsterdam.

With an MA in Theatre Studies of the University of Amsterdam, she started teaching improv 22 years ago, performed and taught in 6 different countries, and was artistic director of the international improv theatre festival IMPRO Amsterdam. During Covid she happily discovered it was entirely possible to have improv magic happen over Zoom.

Specs

Max. 12 participants

Sunday March 16th 11 am - 2 pm CT (17:00-20:00 CET).

With a 15 min break

Please note: On Tuesday 4 March, Will Jefferson is hosting a Relateful Storytelling 4 week group! This is another great opportunity to explore Relateful Creativity. If you buy both offerings together, you get a $30 discount! (If you buy one, you will receive an offer code in your email receipt that you can use to get a discount on the other one).