This training includes skills and practices in these areas:

• Awareness of your relational blindspots that create disconnection and mistrust

• Transforming conflict into opportunity for connection, growth, and creativity

• Sharing feedback and projections with others

• Bringing and holding dissonance with others

• Setting boundaries and making bold requests

• Noticing and managing power dynamics

• People will feel safer to speak truthfully and be their authentic selves with you

• Managing defensiveness, blocks, walls, and mistrust (in self and other)

• Capacity for vulnerability and candor

• Revealing withholds with skill and compassion

• Congruence between internal experience and external expression (AKA authenticity or integrity)

• Speaking from your own experience

• Empathetic listening skills

• Emotional literacy and somatic awareness

• Deepening intimacy in all relationships

• Self and social awareness

• Trusting your intuition

This training is for you if:

• You are already on a path of personal growth in vulnerability, conscious communication, and self awareness.

• You are passionate about disrupting the workforce with extraordinary levels of human connection, emotional intelligence, and psychological safety.

• You value depth and playfulness in your personal and work relationships.

This training is designed for:

• Leaders who want to build relationships and teams with extraordinary levels of candor, emotional intelligence, human connection, and conscious communication.

• Coaches, consultants, and facilitators who want the skills to have deeply present, powerful and transformative conversations with clients.

What is the course structure and outline?

General structure:

• Cohort of 6 students, 1 instructor, and 1 assistant

• Five Zoom sessions (2hrs each) will include teachings, breakout room exercises, and T-Group practice

• Includes a 1:1 coaching & counselling session with the lead instructor to integrate what comes up for you in the course

Week 1 - Emotional literacy, somatic awareness, and relational presence

• Expand your vocabulary of emotions and sensations to give a more emotionally intelligent response to “how are you?”

• So much of therapy and coaching comes down to supporting clients to quiet their mind and be present with their body’s emotions and sensations. Learn to embody this powerful presence in your everyday relationships.

Week 2 - Art of sharing projections and assumptions

• In relationships, we are constantly making assumptions about each other that goes unspoken. Learning to share these assumptions and check them for accuracy can lead to powerful moments of connection, trust, and personal growth.

Week 3 -Art of revealing withholds and making bold requests

• Withholds are anything you choose not to share with someone that impacts your quality of connection and trust with them.

• Dig up the things unsaid in your personal and work relationships that are holding you back.

• Learn to skillfully reveal withholds in a way that is direct, compassionate, and takes responsibility for your experience.

Week 4 - Art of empathetic listening

• Learn to give others the powerful gift of feeling deeply seen, known, and heard by you.

• In times of conflict, have the tools to regulate someone to a state where they’re emotionally ready to hear what you have to say.

Week 5 - Your unique trigger signature

• Finally understand the reason your nervous system is the way it is and how that impacts the way you behave when in conflict.

• Everyone has 1-2 core unique trigger signatures that if understood, can radically shift all of your relationships to more opportunities for trust and connection.

What is T-Group?

The “T” stands for training. Put simply, T-Group is a facilitated experiential learning practice in which participants share their present moment thoughts and feelings in connection with each other, with no agenda. People share first impressions, perceptions, and assumptions about each other that are normally withheld. We practice sharing how we are impacted by each other in a way that takes self responsibility. This is an advanced communication tool for uncovering relational blindspots, improving emotional intelligence, and expanding capacity for human connection.

The Standford MBA program uses this practice in their Interpersonal Dynamics course, which has been voted the most popular elective for 45 years running.

Two modified styles of T-Group we will explore are:

• Focused Inquiry - The group’s attention is focused on one person for 30-60 minutes to explore their inner world while receiving present moment relational feedback from the group.

• Organic Inquiry - There is no focus person; the attention moves around organically

What are the cohort dates for the 5-week training?

Spring 2024 Cohort: May 2nd - 30th, 2024

• Every Thursday, 12-2PM EST (2-hours per week)

Fall 2024 Cohort: Oct 3rd-31st, 2024

• Every Thursday, 12-2PM EST (2-hours per week)

Winter 2025 Cohort: Jan 16 - Feb 13th, 2025

• Every Thursday, 12-2PM EST (2-hours per week)

How many people will be part of the training?

There will be six participants per cohort because the nature of it is highly experiential and requires active facilitation.

What is the investment?

Early bird - $490 + tax (available until April 15th)

Regular price - $590 + tax (after April 15th)

If I can’t pay in full, can I pay in instalments? 

For special circumstances we offer payment plans with associated fees for split payments.

What is your refund or cancellation policy?

Please give us as much notice as possible if you registered and can no longer maker it. By default, we don’t give refunds. We are more likely to give you a credit for a future training.