Relatefulness
Relatefulness is an evolving set of practices, methods, and collective ways of experiencing and exploring reality with others in the present moment that often points us toward more truth and love. In relateful sessions, we practice relational mindfulness and “the art of being with” – being with ourselves, with each other, and with what arises in the relational space between us. We gather and explore what it’s like to be us in the emerging now.
If you want more love and honesty in your relationships and to learn to bring presence and authentic expression into connection, this is for you. Being relateful can highlight our relational blind spots, help us become more aware of our patterns, triggers, shadows, wounds, and adaptive habits, and can have profound impact on our sense of belonging and bring about healing experiences of feeling seen, understood, loved, and whole.
Relatefulness isn’t group therapy or a healing modality. Still, subtle and powerful transformation, growth, and wakefulness often happen in practicing relatefulness, as we have the opportunity to slow down enough to be with the heart of the moment and shine the light of awareness on what arises.
I am a Professional Relateful Facilitator. I lead sessions weekly at relateful.com with participants and facilitators worldwide. I also offer online and in-person Relatefulness sessions independently and together with my partner Miriam through Heart of Presence.
Session Types
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These sessions include Fundamentals, Focus, and Flow. Paired and group practices help participants connect more authentically with themselves and each other, tapping into the essential nature of relating.
We’ll explore the fundamentals of being with and sharing sensations, emotions, thoughts, and awareness. Practicing attunement, authorship, mirroring, following curiosity, checking assumptions and projections, sharing our truths, and being with impact.
We’ll touch on group Focus and Flow, two essential relatefulness practices.
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In your Focus Session I bring presence, attention and embodied attunement to you for an hour in an exploration of relational awareness. As we practice the art of being with, we’ll explore the subtleties of your personal reality, getting intimate with your beingness in the present moment.
Focus Sessions often result in an increased awareness of relational needs and desires, adaptive patterns and strategies, triggers, shadows, parts of Self, as well as experiences of feeling profoundly “seen” and “held”. Healing and integration experiences frequently occur, though these sessions are not coaching or therapy.
*1:1 Focus Sessions are offered online via Zoom, or in person at my home studio in Basel, Switzerland.
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Flow sessions are a more advanced practice of Relatefulness. We gather in a group, consciously exploring the interconnectedness of me, you, and us. We practice embodied attunement, sovereign surrender, discernment, focused and diffuse awareness, authorship, listening from stillness, trusting in and moving from the deep impulse of Life. The entire range of humanness and more-than-humanness may be explored. We’ll be with what arises with awareness, weaving our unique threads of being, belonging, and becoming together as we discover the emergent intelligence of the group field.
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I facilitate a 2-hour Relateful Session in English with your group of 5-25 people on Zoom. This offering includes a 20-minute consultation with me to determine the right Relateful practices for your group.
Participant Reflections
“I experience Adam as bringing the fullness of his being to his facilitation of Relatefulness and circling, with the multitude of complexities that encompasses! His own vivid and grounded embodiment and commitment to his own integration of mind, body, and spirit seem to support the bringing alive of a curiosity of the wonder of existence and the quality of connection we have to ourselves, others and with the wider whole.
In sessions Adam's elegant attunement and facilitation has welcomed and supported me into a safe and even playful exploration of the great unknown, and relational meditation. His wide, open and warm "hold" reflects a deep compassion and respect for himself and others and the connection never fails to deepen my own experience of the moment.”
— Aicha
Psychotherapist
Melbourne, Australia.
“Adam’s heartfelt presence penetrates into the shadows with such firm curiosity that much of what is in the moment finds clearer form. And at the same time the mystic gaze he holds for the moment allows for what wants to emerge also in its mysterious, unknown shape. His circles feel safely held, excitingly wide and deeply true. No one seems to remain unnoticed in his presence, and being invited in by him feels like an invitation to be more of me. When he shares his bodily experiences magic happens - lungs or intestines become creatures of their own and deeper embodiment is invited in, also in myself as a witness of his experience. His seeing-feeling stillness and alive, creative expression in Relatefulness enriches each circle.”
— Miriam Kislak
Craniosacral Therapist
Basel, Switzerland