Colorado Ave, Boulder, CO, United States

About This Event

What is Radical Honesty?A Radical Honesty workshop is an opportunity to explore authentic self-expression, communication, and connection.Primarily, the workshop provides a framework for stepping out of your typical sales pitch and discovering parts of self that you normally keep hidden by sharing authentically with others. It's an opportunity to get to know yourself better and an invitation to take some risks and step into a more vulnerable and intimate style of relating.What you can expectGround rules:* Silence and put away distractions during session (devices, food, etc.)* Keep confidentiality (no sharing identifiable characteristics of other participants w/out consent)* No non-consensual touch* No harassment (name-calling, verbal abuse, unwanted advances, aggressive pressure, not respecting "no," etc.)Noticing & reporting:One of the foundational skills we'll work on is a simple practice called "noticing and reporting." This is a type of "interpersonal meditation" that involves slowing down, paying attention to what's going on in and around you, and stating (reporting) simply what it is that you are seeing, hearing, thinking, and feeling (noticing).Noticing vs. interpreting: Our culture is one that tends to overvalue thinking, analyzing, and interpreting to the loss of being attentive to what actually "is." In order to train our "noticing what is" muscles, we'll do various exercises to ground ourselves in the present moment, and work on the distinction between what we notice, and what we think about what we notice. Theoretical models:* The Emotional Wave (Wilhelm Reich): How to avoid getting stuck by becoming a skilled surfer of emotional waves.* The Change Triangle (Hilary Jacobs Hendel): A map for dealing with emotional activation.* The Awareness Continuum (Gestalt therapy): Distinct categories of awareness to help train our "noticing muscle."* The Paradoxical Theory of Change (Arnold Beisser): What you resist persists.* Noticing vs. Imagining (Fritz