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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.




Welcoming Wholeness, A Relateful Immersion, September 2026


Facilitated by James Dial & Annabeth Novitzki

We all have aspects of our experience we don’t include in connection.

Sometimes it’s conscious, and sometimes it’s so habitual we don’t even notice we are quietly setting a part of ourselves aside before connection even begins.

I don’t bring my anger because I worry others will reject me. I don’t welcome my erotic energy because I don’t trust myself to be with desire skillfully. I don’t include my brilliance because I worry others will be intimidated. As you are reading this, you may even notice aspects of your experience you are leaving out.

We often exclude these experiences because we care, want to be appropriate, and want to attune. We don't want to make anyone uncomfortable.

But I've noticed that the parts of me I exclude don't actually disappear. Instead, they show up indirectly. In tension, distance, projection, and in the subtle ways I relate when I'm trying not to acknowledge something that's already here.

This Immersion is an invitation for a new possibility.

We won’t ask you to bypass the wisdom of what you are excluding. Instead, we will bring awareness to what is here through the practice of Relatefulness.

Relatefulness is often described as mindfulness brought to life. This non-goal-oriented practice invites us to bring awareness to what it’s like to be together. We bring curiosity to our feelings, sensations, desires, and discernment, trusting that welcoming what is already here is as powerful as it is simple.

At a previous Charlotte Immersion with Annabeth, we created space for people to explore how they relate with touch. Some people touched their fingers, some cuddled, and some stayed solo. Everyone was welcomed to follow their own interests and boundaries. The invitation was simply to slow down and listen for what they actually wanted, rather than defaulting to assumed expectations.

What struck me was the range. Some people felt nourished, some were uncomfortable, and all of that was totally ok. What almost everyone shared was that bringing more awareness to something they usually just managed (or avoided) felt like more of themselves got to be in the room.

Let’s spend this immersion welcoming more of ourselves here.


Annabeth's Superpower

One of the things I most appreciate about Annabeth is the permission people often feel around her. She has a rare ability to meet people exactly where they are while quietly inviting what might be possible next. Not through pressure or convincing anyone they need to change, but through genuine appreciation for what's already present.

She often describes Relatefulness as rich soil. In this practice, growth isn’t something to strive toward, it’s something that occurs naturally when we’re present with ourselves and each other. Just like how healthy tomato plants keep popping up in a compost pile!

That orientation has led Annabeth into a body of work she calls Erotic Wholeness, built around a simple observation: most of us have only ever been given two options for relating to erotic energy. Suppress it or act on it. This false binary blinds us to other possibilities, including one Annabeth discovered - welcoming turn-on into awareness without being controlled by it. Feeling attraction without clinging to a result is wildly liberating. Feeling aliveness without abandoning discernment or care for others can become a direct path to healthy intimacy.

This weekend is not a tantric workshop, but Annabeth’s leadership style is always inclusive of sexuality. It's one of the places many of us have learned to split ourselves, out of love and care for the violence that has been done to many people. But we accidentally become violent toward ourselves when we suppress what’s true and natural. Attraction touches so many parts of being human: longing, shame, appreciation, confidence, and the courage to be seen. Through conscious exploration we can re-integrate these disowned parts with discernment, love, and respect.


What We'll Practice

At this Relatefulness immersion, the format includes whole group time, small groups, and pair practices. We’ll be slowing down, feeling what's here, naming it, and staying present with the impact of our words on each other. We're explicitly welcoming what usually gets left at the door. 

We'll practice welcoming desire, fear, uncertainty, and power without the need to either suppress or perform. We’ll explore what it feels like to shine, to behold, to want something and stay present with it without grabbing. And when we feel grabby, we can name that too, instead of unconsciously using strategies to get what we want.

Some moments will be playful, some tender, some surprising. Like any Relateful immersion, the weekend will emerge from the people who are present, truly co-created. Together we will curate conditions where awareness and connection can do their awe-inspiring thing. The headings of our compass are Truth and Love, and we tend to know we’re headed in the intended direction when we encounter awe, emotional intimacy, and the unexpected.


What This Is Not

This is not a sex or tantra workshop. It's a Relatefulness immersion exploring wholeness, awareness, and human connection.

There will be no nudity, kissing, touching of sexual body parts, or explicit sexual acts during any part of the immersion. No one will be asked to move faster than what feels right. We all will be encouraged and supported in holding healthy boundaries, privacy, and discernment.

This is also not a therapy session or group healing experience, although healing often occurs naturally. It's a group exploration of truth, love, and awareness, created by the people who are present.

We don't promise comfort, breakthroughs, resolution, or specific outcomes. Instead, we create conditions where awareness, curiosity, honesty, and care can emerge in relationship.

You will never be required to share beyond your boundaries or participate in any exercise.

And lastly, we value honest expression, and we also stay attentive to the impact of our honesty on others. This is a space for mindful connection, not expression at any cost. Facilitators may pause or redirect moments that move away from relational presence.


Who This Is For

You've done some kind of inner work and you're still bumping into the same edges. You notice yourself navigating desire, power, shame, visibility, or belonging and want more room to move in that territory with others. You've been to a weekly Relateful Gathering and felt something in the room that nobody named. You're curious what it would be like to bring more of yourself.

If a conversation would help you discover whether this Immersion is the right fit for you, book a 30 minute discovery call with James here: https://scheduler.zoom.us/james-dial/30-minute-session


Details

🕰 Date & Times: September 11-13, 2026, Friday 6-9PM, Sat & Sun 10AM-6PM

🗺️ Location: Exact Location TBD | Charlotte, NC

🥑 Food: We will break for a 90 min lunch around 1pm.

🙏 Price: $365 Early Bird until August 31. $445 Full Price after August 31.

If cost is a barrier, reach out to [email protected] to discuss possible solutions.

🏨 Lodging: If you are wanting support in finding lodging, James can help connect you with other community members who may be open to you staying with them. Otherwise, there are many hotels and AirBnBs near the venues we're deciding between.

📩 Questions: [email protected]

James Dial is the steward of Relateful Charlotte, devoted to building local spaces of real connection where presence and growth intertwine. He is known for his warm, earnest, heartfelt presence. He is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Talent and Organizational Development.

Annabeth Novitzki “is a midwife for voice.” She has a Master’s degree in Vocal Performance, and has been teaching private voice, speech, and music lessons for over 20 years. Since 2015, she has been incorporating Relatefulness skills into how she works with the voice, and guiding people to fully, genuinely express themselves. What she’s most trained and experienced in is listening in exquisite detail, feeling myriad subtle sensations in her body, and communicating deep things that can’t be seen.

If you are curious to hear Annabeth and James speak about welcoming wholeness, watch here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nAwHbH5nE8


Welcoming Wholeness

You don't need to feel integrated already. You don't need to know what parts of yourself you might encounter. Just come as you are, and let the practice meet you there. What once seemed too awkward, too charged, or too complicated to bring into awareness often becomes more workable when it's welcomed and looked at together.

Our hope for this weekend is that together we discover a little more room to be fully human. If that kind of connection is something you're longing for, we hope to see you there.