Train Your Relational Nervous System
A practice-based lab for experienced practitioners ready to meet the edge, stay in the body, and not abandon themselves when intensity arises.
For Advanced Relational Practitioners
This lab is for people with prior experience in Authentic Relating, Nonviolent Communication, Circling, or somatic relational work
who want deeper clarity, honesty, and nervous system resilience in contact.
This is not a beginner space — an edge-practice space. Participants should already have grounding in relational awareness, emotional self-ownership, and presence-based communication.
Where Other Related Techniques Explore & Where This Lab Trains
Circling
Explores what is arising
Authentic Relating
Develops awareness and presence
NVC
supports emotional clarity and responsibility
Somatic Relating
This relational lab builds on those foundations — and trains staying embodied and honest when things intensify.
What This Lab Trains
staying in sensation rather than story
honesty under relational intensity
self-ownership instead of managing others
speaking what you usually suppress
protecting embodied contact
This is Nervous System Training — Not Processing
We practice the exact moments where people usually collapse, avoid, or perform — and train staying connected to self and contact.
After Labs, Participants Notice
increased ability to stay present when things intensify
less impulse to manage, perform, or collapse
greater honesty with themselves and others
clearer awareness of withholding and avoidance patterns
stronger connection to sensation while speaking
deeper self-trust at the edge of vulnerability
Structure Inside Labs
Capacity Orientation — clear focus + intention
Whole-Group Embodied Framing — contacting the edge together
Truth-Telling in Exposure — individual shares to the room
Sensation-Based Speaking — staying in the body while expressing
Paired + Small-Group Reps — repetition builds integration
Return to Group with Support — facilitator-guided depth + refinement
This is Nervous System Training — Not Processing
A FAQ:
How is this different from circling?
It’s related to circling, but it isn’t circling. Circling usually explores what’s arising in the group through curiosity and shared presence. This space is a little different — it’s a practice-based relational training lab.
Instead of staying in one open circle, we move through guided practices, small-group reps, and sometimes 1-on-1 work where we intentionally train capacity at the edge — staying in the body, noticing the impulse to withhold, and practicing honest expression without going into story or managing the other.
It is less about exploring whatever emerges, and more about strengthening the somatic “muscle” of embodied honesty in the moments where people would normally leave themselves.