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Authentic Relating Games Night #2: Impact
AuthenticRelating is a set of principles and practices designed to cultivate trustable, empowering and nourishing connections with everyone in your life. At its core, AR is making the implicit explicit, the hidden revealed, and the unconscious conscious. It is an embodied practice, a way of being, not of thinking.
The 5 Practices of AR:
Welcome Everything
When we welcome ourselves and our experience we can learn to welcome others as
they are, without fixing them, changing them, judging them, pushing themaway or
guarding against them.
Assume Nothing
It’s almost impossible not to assume. We do it as a way to create predictable
environments, because it is easier to assume than to take the time and energy to
make contact with reality as it is. Some assumptions are right, but many are wrong,
and they get us into trouble.
Reveal Your Experience
Revealing ourselves is a way of being seen and known for who we are and of inviting
others into our world. It is a willingness to come out of hiding, to take the mask off,
to let the guard down, and be vulnerable and available for human connection.
Own Your Experience
When we make other people and circumstances the source of our experience, we
give our power away. Owning your experience, finding the source of it inside of
yourself, gives you power back. It is an invitation to knowing yourself as deeply and
fully as possible.
Honor Self and Other
To build and to keep nourishing relationships often have to do with the dignity of
acting in a way that supports your needs, and with the humility of acting in a way
that supports the needs of others.
In this AR Games Night we explore the topic of impact.
Whenever we are in connection with other people, we are being impacted by each other, and it is impossible not to be unless we are completely
shut down. Sharing impact gives voice to how we move each other, touch each other, and affect each other.
How often do we make a bad situation worse by meeting anger with anger, or charge with charge? Sharing impact is especially valuable when we’re faced with conflict as a way to soften up again and invite the other into our vulnerable or hurt inner landscape. But it sure is not limited to that. It is available in any conversation as a way to bring the focus to what’s most alive, and to reveal our present moment experience.
As both listening and reflecting back what we heard the other person say are important precursors to sharing impact, the exercises of this Games Night are all designed around those tools for relational magic. We’ll dive in deep by slowing down and by letting unfold what’s already there, yet often unexpressed, hidden or lost in translation.
Again, there is no previous knowledge of this modality needed to attend, only your curiosity to explore the possible depth of human connection in a fun and profound way.
ART Game nights:
May 12
May 26
Book both sessions together and enjoy a discount
About the facilitator:
Sarah Bulang is a dedicated life-time student of the subtle realms and a catalyst forInner Knowing with a deep passion for everything that touches the intimate, blissful, essential thatness of the human experience. She joined her first one-year meditation program aged 15, holds a master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology, studied and practiced Yoga and Traditional Tantra for many years and became a Facilitator of BBTRS (Biodynamic Breath work Trauma Release System) and Authentic Relating.
Sarah wishes to see a world of humans who are rooted in (the) presence, ecstatically alive and deeply connected to themselves and to others. For this to happen she creates 1on1 sessions, courses, workshops and retreats for individuals, couples and groups in which paradoxes are normal and inner polarities are embraced and celebrated. Having faced crisis a few times in her life and discovering its tremendous gift for transformation, Sarah reminds people of their inherent sense for balance, grace and radiance.