Step into an embodied space of heightened presence that supports profound intimacy and connection with yourself and others. We meet here in vulnerability and wonder at the creative edge of our self understanding, where alchemy awaits. Uncover more of your essence and aliveness obscured beneath habitual patterns and assumptions. Build and practice relational skills of attunement, curiosity, and humility. Bring your self-leadership to co-create a fertile common ground of compassion, growth, and transformation.
What to Expect
In this 2 day workshop, carefully designed exercises and structures provide containment and a clear context for our exploration. Warmups activate specific qualities of attention that deepen the field and build group coherence. Then two different kinds of practice circles take center stage as the core formats of the weekend.
In a Focus Circle, we gather a small group with a facilitator to center attention on one person, exploring and reflecting their world in real-time. A Flow Circle, in contrast, is more of an open space of possibility for the whole group to explore their individual and collective emergence. Within the bounds of each context, we enjoy a freedom to be self-directed, run experiments, courageously approach our edge, and assert boundaries.
This container supports a more direct participation with the dynamic unfolding of experience beyond our familiar stories and habitual assumptions. By turns, this can be both liberating and confronting, as is typical for most growth experiences. We make deeper contact with our life force, innate wholeness, and playfulness, yet also perhaps with our fear, grief, anger, projections, and self-imposed limitations.
This kind of work isn't for everyone, and can at times be uncomfortable or intense for some people. We emphasize self-regulation, mutual attunement, taking care of yourself, and setting boundaries when necessary. As in any developmental space where people are taking risks and being more real with each other, you should be prepared for the possibility of experiencing discomfort and nervous system activation.
At the same time, many people also experience delicious flow states, radiant heart connection, profound synchronicity, and feeling incredibly seen by others. We discover time and again in this work that human connection rooted in deep presence and attunement reliably taps into nature's vast reservoir of life-affirming vitality and boundless creative potential. These are under-explored frontiers of human experience in contemporary culture which cannot be replaced by technology, and are essential we believe to remembering our shared sense of sacredness and interdependence.
Fees and Registration
Tickets are available on a sliding scale:
$375 - Financially Abundant: For those who are able to help subsidize our reduced price tickets.
$325 - Financially Stable: Standard ticket price.
$275 - Financially Strained: Reduced price ticket for those who stress to meet basic needs.
Facilitators:
David Chottis a practical mystic and student of mystery. He has been facilitating presence-centered group work for 9 years, with a keen interest in emergent collective intelligence. He works to build culture that values our intuitive felt sense and the indispensable wisdom it provides for navigating our individual and collective challenges. He has led a weekly Mystery Playground incubator for 3 years, and is excited to be running public events now too. David became a certified circling facilitator with Circling Europe in 2017. He completed his coaching certification with them in 2021. He trained extensively in Surrendered Leadership in the Avalon field, and has explored many varieties of men's work for 15 years. He's a current student of John Churchill in Planetary Dharma, and studies with Lynda Caesara in her remarkable Energy Class.
Thomas Radtkehas studied relational technologies for a decade, and has come to recognize presence, emotional intelligence, surrender, and non-duality as profound keys for consciousness expansion. His learning began in Boulder with Non-Violent Communication and ‘T’ group practice. He then took up formal study with Circling Europe (now called Transformational Connection) to become a certified facilitator. He went on to train in and get certified in Authentic Relating and numerous coaching modalities, and is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais instructor. He has studied meditation under Dan Brown in the ’Pointing out way’ lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Thomas created and continues to lead a variety of connection courses and accelerator groups as well as the practice of Somatic Presencing, and also works with people one-on-one.