- Date: Please note – this Graduate Workshop will be rescheduled.
- Time: 10 am – 5 pm
- Place: Pendle Hill Conference Center
- Cost: $170.00 ($150 if 2024 Dues Paid)
- Snacks included, bring your own lunch.
- Please bring your Journal.
- Questions or Concerns: Email Eric Hoffman
About Graduate Workshops: We will create a space of safety and support within which we can challenge ourselves to be real, to stretch and to connect. With old and new experiential exercises, opportunities for feedback, Arc time and support for setting new intentions, this graduate workshop will remind us of the value of EE and the graduate community.
About the this One Day: In the EE workshop, we work hard to move beyond our inclination to pretend with each other, to be “nice”, to be accepted and approved of by wearing a mask that conceals who we really are. These are powerful forces, outside us and within us, that urge us to remain safe behind our masks. Why create conflict? Why risk being rejected or punished? What’s the benefit of being real?
As workshop grads, we have some experience to draw on in responding to this question. The relationships we create in the workshop give us a glimpse of the kinds of relationships we can create in our lives, relationships in which we see each other and in which we feel seen, essence-to-essence relationships, relationships that nurture us and are the deepest source of a happy and fulfilling life. Of course, we need to sustain our work, keep taking the risks, or relationships can fall back into their comfortable place of “pretend”. On the other hand, that doesn’t mean we have to be making ourselves and other uncomfortable all the time, pushing every edge and being brutal in our “honesty”. There’s a balance to be pursued. When, and under what circumstances, and how, might we, for instance, deliver an important “withhold”? The answer is not simply, “whenever I feel like it.” What else do we need to attend to besides our feelings?
This is the tip of the iceberg in exploring what it means to “keep it real” in our relationships. Come join us and help explore below the surface. See you there.