FOUNDATIONS OF THRIVING

An advanced experiential | Essential Skills in connection & growth

Relationality for singles and couples

A Month-long Experiential Journey | 7 Parts | Begins June 9th

Full schedule below

Common issues for many couples include:

  • Communication and negotiation

  • Personal and relational boundaries

  • Differentiation and individuation

  • Unmet needs

  • Wanting to build a strong foundation

  • Feeling neglected or smothered by a partner

  • Wounded power dynamics of one-upping and one-downing.

  • Needing a shared language + skillsets

  • Navigating the underlying dynamics of walled-off or boundaryless interactions

  • Trauma + wounding

  • Sexual connection

  • Triggered by a partner's behavior that doesn't seem to change

  • Feeling disconnected or emotionally numb to the relationship.

  • Cyclical conflicts

  • Power struggles

  • Worldview

What this journey will bring into your relationship and life:

  • The clarity to be able to see beneath the surface, identify and tangibly discover your core patterns together (Transformative!)

  • More feelings of being deeply seen and understood.

  • The self-clarity that opens relating with deeper curiosity, accessibility, and responsiveness.

  • The safety + stability of compassionately understanding the deepest emotions within you + your partner’s system

  • The disarming power of speaking vulnerably from and to each other’s core wound with skillfulness and care.

  • Titrating conflict in conversations.

  • Navigating boundaries in a deeper way

  • Specific ways of relating and skillsets that are tailored for you and your partner.

  • Greater awareness

  • Deep healing

  • Accessing your true nature and responding from that place in our core

Skillsets you will practice + embody:

  • Compassionately working with + clarifying each of your deepest patterns and learning to communicate from them and to your partner’s.

  • Practicing with onesself and communicating with vulnerability, accessibility, openness, and responsiveness with your deepest emotions/triggers.

  • How to acknowledge and contact your partner’s experience and emotions as well as your own, even in challenging times.

  • Curiosity over defense.

  • Keys for navigating conflicts in transformative ways. Sustaining presence during difficult emotions and energies

  • Self-regulation and co-regulation

  • Transforming the causal memories underlying emotions for yourself and your partner.

  • Becoming a team in conscious exploration and communication of what’s happening right now inside us.

  • Apologies, requests, bringing things up, loving boundaries, agreements, making repair, stitching and integration.

  • Tracking stages and phases of growth, telling the story wisely of your journey together, the skillset of accurately tracking, praising + celebrating at key moments.

Deepening Initmacy|

Harmonising Connection & Power

A Group Experiential: Peeling back the Layers of the Sacred Relationship Learning Grounds A Group Experiential: Intimate Foundations to Permanently Move from Surviving to Thriving

Singles and Couples are welcome regardless of race, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, or religion. We will meet with couples and individuals for an initial 30-min intake call to meet and explore more and see if these retreats are a good fit.

If you are already a client, then we won’t need to do the intake call,

  • Issues may range from a good relationship looking to become even richer and more vital or a relationship stuck in negative cycles.

  • Due to the nature of this retreat, we are not working with couples in crisis (and we can help you define this.)

Facing the waves of life, the relationship is one of our deepest learning grounds. It is a sacred reflection of where we are. It is a catalyst for self-awareness.

In these experiential retreats, we will create a safe, confidential container to support you as a couple and as individuals. We will begin with foundational somatic practices paired with Kessler’s 5 personality patterns.

In a loving container, we will facilitate you to get to know yourself and your partner in your deepest relational wounds and gifts, and de-shame the patterns that we all face. With ample guidance and support,

You will practice and embody the ability to navigate deep triggers, and open compassionate resources within.

The result will be that you’re more open + responsive, accessible and vulnerable. You will also receive key practices to take home and explore with.

Our approach is informed by cumulative years of experience offering therapy and draws on an array of approaches:

  • Hakomi Therapy, Kessler's Survival Strategies, A.H Almaas + The Diamond Approach, The Gottmans + Terrence Real’s work, Attachment theory, Internal Family Systems, and Gestalt Therapy.

As the time unfolds both in and in between retreats, transformation is deepened with the loving support of your peers and the energetic container. You will gain clarity and work with your dances of connection and disconnection, and realise your resources as a couple or as individuals, strengthen your communication skills, and heal any relationship hurts.

Through experientials, group sharings, and voluntary demo sessions, our intimate cohort will transform together.

By the end of the our time together, you will have a completely re-orchestrated understanding (of self and other and how to respond in conflict. You’ll have a well practiced skillset that lays the foundation for a higher level of flow, connection, wisdom, and ease amidst the challenges of life.

It’s the foundations of emotionally-adept skills of relating, one that our society has yet to avail us of.

We see this course as opening new doors of what’s possible for each couple and person who attends.

We’re excited and committed to make these steps together with you all and after a month, find each couple with new rewarding foundations.

An Aim Towards Relational Experience

Many courses teach to the neck up, leaving you with insights and frameworks to apply. They say ‘Knowledge is Power’ but it actually isn’t power until it’s applied. We want to support you to explore + experience embodying the key new skillsets, new interactions, and new ways of being. Every day will be pivotally oriented around the experientials: explorations, practices, and inquiries into the body, emotions, and relational interactions within the couple and in the group.

What makes this highly experiential immersive unique?

  • Presence meets Depth Psychology Maps | Liberating From these Same Old Streets

    As we gain awareness in life over time, there can be, at some deep semi-conscious level, a feeling of frustration, resignation, or exhaustion (or eagerness to see more clearly) with our familiar patterns deep down in ourselves and in the relationship - the same patterned streets and neighborhood.

    It’s helpful, at this stage, to begin to discover a map of the street. We can begin to know our own and eachother’s sensate experience with all its paved roads, perennial pains, fears and actual needs and how to meet them. We find ourselves re-invigorated with the successes that come from this, in heart and soul. Our long-held wounds from familial and ancestral exiles are given a new lease, long-held desires become accessible, and there is an ever-growing curiously enrapturing light at the end of those streets.

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    The Power of Depth Psychology Maps | A Life-alterring Shift in Self-Awareness
By identifying our stances (core patterns) and dances (of disconnection + connection) with the support of Kessler’s map’s of developmental survival strategies, we will support you in so many different ways. This shared insight ultimately leads to new ways of communicating during the most difficult experiences and emotions, and a deep hand-in-glove knowing of eachother’s inner terrain during daily life.
These choldhood patterns + defenses form the deep subconscious of the body, sense of connection, sexuality, and emotional life - which are all connected. 
As light is cast in the shadow, patterns begin to heal and we will explore new ways of connecting, unlocking experiences which deep parts of you have longed for. 
These core insights are a gift you can’t unsee.




  • Compassionate Communication Skills + Self-tracking Skills to Navigate, Support + Contact ourselves and our Partner in the Hardest Moments:

    We will consistently practice together the somatic presencing of emotions + sensations + memories real-time, and the dynamic learning process that happens. This practice supports with the unblending and the present-moment clarity that is the foundation of communicating safely real-time. Having the maps of your own and your partner’s deepest patterns (mentioned in the previous section) supports the real-time reassurance that you know the general terrain. This forms the basis of deeper communication.

    We will practice with the specific needs of our own and our partner’s core pattern, how to honor and meet those needs, and guidelines for connection based on their deepest survival strategies. The healing of this clarity + understanding mixed with compassionate feeling is profound. Compassion, self-love, and love are all practices that meet emotional pain and expand + deepen the heart.

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    * Becoming More Open + Responsive | Deepening into Accessibility + Vulnerability
We will consistently practice new ways of being together, communicating, and listening. This isn’t just listening to listen. It’s using the lenses of understanding our partner’s core experience (their patterns formed in childhood). It’s a deeper way of listening and its very intimate and connective. In this way, couples can slow down, learn to identify and have space to really learn what’s deep down: emotions + sensations + memories real-time. There is a curiosity and openness. This is a disarming peace offering and awareness during conflicts and a sense of knowing eachother’s deepest terrain, trust and intimacy available in daily life.
Our many embodied practices will increase accessibility, vulnerability, openness, de-shaming, decreasing reactivity, and increasing intimate emotional responsiveness. 
We will also practice with communicating specific needs of your own and your partner’s core pattern, and learn how to truly honour those needs in relationship to the highest truths of wholeness and Love. You will have an opportunity to practice working together in creating supportive impromptu containers for intimate sharing and healing.

The Energetic Support of the Group Relational Field

When many couples come together, they bring their unique individual and shared fields of consciousness and these many fields will generate a bigger singular dynamic relational field - all of us together.

As we set intentions as a group and harmonize in the first sessions, this is the beginning of a holding field of deep energetic support, a felt presence. It supports energetic catalyst and transformation, a pulsating field of nourishment and connection with different gifts in it, and it brings resilience and shared care. There is also a hive intelligence or group genius that emerges in different ways.

As guides, we will cultivate this, work with it in different ways, and it’s a part of the power and gift of being together.

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We set intentions as a group and harmonize in the first session, this is the beginning of a confidential holding field of deep energetic support, a felt presence. It supports energetic catalyst and transformation, hive intelligence, and a pulsating field carrying nourishment, resilience, and gifts.

As guides, we will cultivate this, work with it in different ways, and it’s a part of the power and gift of being together.

Self-esteem and Relationship-esteem: Tracking Growth Journeys in Self and Relationship

Deepening the art of tracking, taking note of, and appreciating growth steps, eachother’s gifts, blind spots, and ways to learn together. This is a process of learning to track, praise, and encourage your own grown, the growth of your partner, and your shared growth - and hold curiosity, humility, courage, and commitment to the process of growing for self, other, and the relationship together.

We will encourage the powerful lifestyle act of journaling throughout this whole process. In this course, you will make discoveries and celebrate them and celebrate eachother.

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We can enhance the well-deserved esteem and confidence of ourselves and the couple as a whole. In this, we practice to track the phases, steps, challenges, successes, and stages of the relationship. It’s tracking and telling your story accurately and wisely.

Our intentions and commitment to growth will bolster + honor the fortitude it takes as a couples and as humans to grow together.

In this course, you will access deep life-changing awarenesses,  track the mini-changes, acknowledge and celebrate the actual shifts, watering the greater journey you’re on together.

The Symbolic Power of Psychomagic + Ritual

The unconscious understands very deeply prayer, incantation, and ritual. Just as the unconscious accepts placebos, it accepts metaphorical acts. The principle relies on the belief that the unconscious mind takes a symbolic act as a fact. This adds to the depth of each couple’s transformation by working on with the deep symbolic language of life and objects that relate deeply to your soul and shared soul.

To transform the unconscious behavior into an ally to support wholeness (rather than fragmentation), it is powerful to seduce the unconscious by means of acts of a theatrical or poetic nature, hence ritual.

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The unconscious and mammalian part of the brain understands very deeply, prayer, incantation, and ritual.

Just as the unconscious accepts placebos, it accepts metaphorical acts.

 In fact, it takes a symbolic act as a fact. This adds to the depth of each couple’s transformation by working with the deep symbolic language of life and objects that relate deeply to your soul and shared soul.

An Aim Towards Relational Experience

Many courses teach to the neck up, leaving you with insights and frameworks to apply. They say ‘Knowledge is Power’ but it actually isn’t power until it’s applied. We want to support you to explore + experience embodying the key new skillsets, new interactions, and new ways of being. Every day will be pivotally oriented around the experientials: explorations, practices, and inquiries into the body, emotions, and relational interactions within the couple and in the group.

Retreat Schedule + Details

Details of daily exercises + thematics may evolve from what’s listed.

“Relationship is a mirror. Every moment the other can be a window that reveals you, exposes you. The closer the relationship, the clearer is the mirror.”

Your Guides Antonia + Roger

As a fellow couple committed to growth, we are passionate about relationships and relationship as a vehicle of growth. We are honored and excited to guide and share the space with you, diving into the deeply rewarding journey of this retreat, the explorations and discoveries, and the real-time intimacy and tracking. We are here to support each couple in their unique experience. We look forward to growing alongside you as the group genius of this living container brings forth healing, empowerment, and gems for us all,

We both have our own private practice and work with couples one-on-one as well as couples therapy. When a couple wants to dive in deeply, we offer an immersive opportunity where we both work them for 1-5 days in a transformative couples retreat.

“Learning from a master is such an incredible privilege, and Antonia is a true master. She has such an impressive breadth of knowledge and wisdom. Every lecture, every question answered and every live session was vibrant and yielded so much learning on my part.

I am beyond grateful to have had access to her both a teacher and a healer.

— Jeni Wishmeyer

“Roger is a master tracker - among the finest of minds. Yet he’s soft. There’s a patient heart to this man that naturally opens the paths of insight within me. Bountiful kudos are owed to him for facilitating a process that is as disarming and gentle as it is incisive, deep, and clear.”

— Award-winning Film Director Emmett Brennan ('Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective', 'Reflection: A Walk with Water')

Join us on this Month-long Journey:

  • An Assemblage Shift.

    Experience more harmony and understanding with important people in your life, more X-Ray vision into the relational world.

  • Meeting our Parts Skillfully.

    Have less painful, shorter conflicts and more awareness in the moment. The skill to vulnerably express our deepest experience and compassionately meet our partner in this.

  • Real-time and Responsive

    Connecting in the moment, have more awareness of you and your partner’s experience, emotions and their causes, gifts, challenges, and past.

  • Polarize + Harmonize.

    Couragously increase and embody natural polarity whilst increasing safety and congruence between your words, feelings, values, gifts, and actions

  • Embodying our center.

    Translate judgments into dialogues & requests. Stay more centered, open, and effective in conflicts.

  • Deep resources.

    Unlocking experiences deep parts of us have longed for. Fills life with new wonders, intimacy, and adventures of possibility.

FAQ’s

$1300

2 payments of 650

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

$1200

Full Payment

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

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