The ART of Being Human
LEVEL 1
Do you want deeper, more meaningful, more conscious relationships with the people in your life?
Do you want to know yourself in profoundly new ways, and be a catalyst for others to know themselves as well?
Do you want to have the power to lead any relationship toward greater understanding, deeper connection and intimacy, and sustainable trust and regard?
Welcome to The ART of Being Human - Level 1
Authentic Relating Training
Level 1 Course Description
Our flagship authentic relating course has introduced the foundational tools and skills of this life changing practice to thousands of people around the world. The course is designed to make the learning of authentic relating as accessible, adoptable, practical, and engaging as possible, so that graduates can apply their new skills to their lives right away with immediate results.
We’ve designed this course to give you the experience of profound connection, intimacy, trust, and aliveness with anyone you want, anytime, anywhere – all within just two days. The tools and skills we teach work across all social contexts, from the workplace to the living room, from strangers to partners and everyone in between.
Our experienced Course Leaders expertly guide you through a curriculum that strongly emphasizes embodied and experiential learning. This is not a lecture or seminar – it is a deep dive full-immersion training that will leave you enlivened, heart and mind-opened, and deeply connected to yourself and others.
We’ve delivered the same Level 1 Course to spiritual seekers in Bali, jail inmates in Colorado, executives in New York City, and men and women from all across the social, cultural, economic, and political spectrum, of all ages and nationalities, on four continents. Universally, participants report profound and lasting transformation in all aspects of their lives. The course speaks in the shared language of human connection, and is designed specifically to include everyone in the practice of Authentic Relating, no matter what path they’ve traveled in life.
We believe that we all have the capacity to be bridges – between parts of ourselves, ourselves with others, and together with the world. The course’s mission is to build bridges, and use our bridges to heal, connect, and co-create a more enlivened, awakened world – together.
As a graduate of the ART Level 1 course, you will leave with:
- The ability to engage in deep, meaningful, soulful conversations with anyone, anytime, anywhere
- A powerful language and skill-set to accurately and transparently express your authentic experience in real time, and to invite others to do the same
- The awareness to identify your true, core desires, and the ability to articulate them to others
- A profound understanding of the dignity of speaking your authentic voice, and the humility of using your eyes and ears to pay attention to – and learn from – the world around you
- The ability to see and reflect the essential being in others, and to gently guide them into a space in which they can be fully, wholly themselves – one of the greatest gifts we can offer each other
- A complete set of powerful tools to de-escalate conflict and to use conflict as a vehicle leading to deeper connection, understanding, and empathy
- A restored connection to childlike genuine curiosity, and a perspective that regards the world with awe and wonder
- The ability to set powerful context at both the personal and collective levels, and a clear understanding of how influential context is in informing our experience of life
- An experience of profoundly vulnerable, intimate, beautiful connections with other participants that will leave you inspired, delighted, and heart-opened
Level 1 Online Course
Using Zoom as our online workshop platform, highly trained and experienced course facilitators guide you through a thoroughly tested and proven sequence of exercises designed to teach you the most powerful tools to create and deepen connection, with facilitated group conversation after each exercise to ensure maximum learning. We’ve constructed the exercises to ensure that the foundational skills of Authentic Relating are most efficiently and effectively absorbed by participants, no matter their level of prior experience or training. The Level 1 Online course includes:
- Six 3-hour sessions offered once per week on a weekday evening, for six weeks in a row
- Access to ART’s authentic relating and relationship Resource Library
Multiple time zones to accommodate all geographic locations
ART Level 1 Online Dates
START DATE: August 26, 2021 (6 weeks/6 sessions)
- Course Schedule: Thursdays, 9am-12pm Pacific Daylight Time // 6pm-9pm Central European Summer Time
- Session Dates: August 26, September 2, September 9, September 16, September 23, September 30
- Course Duration: 6 weeks/6 sessions
- Led by Course Leader Sydney McGary
- Assisting Course Leader: TBD
- Cost: $345 USD
You can find more information about our facilitators here.
ART reserves up to two discounted seats at all our Level 1 and Level 2 courses for those with financial constraints. Please follow this link to access the application!
REGISTER FOR ONLINE LEVEL 1 NOW!
Please note that we ask all participants to join each session via audio and video, so please ensure that you have the necessary internet bandwidth to participate fully. We kindly ask that you sort out any technical issues in advance, as to limit disruption to the group experience. We also ask that you check your time zone in advance to make sure that you have the correct days and times for the course calls. As our courses have limited spots available, we will not be able to offer any refunds or course transfers due to technical/internet connectivity issues or incorrect time zone calculations.
ART Online Level 1
$345.00
Activate and expand your relational capacities to radically transform all your relationships and experience connection, intimacy, trust, and aliveness with anyone, anytime, anywhere.
IMPORTANT NOTE: All payments are processed in USD. Local currencies are listed for reference, based on exchange rates at the time the course was posted.
Additional information
| Location & Date | Start Date: August 26 – Thursdays – 9am PDT // 6pm CEST ($345 USD) |
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Level 1 Live Course
Both days begin at 10am and end roughly at 8pm, with a 90 minute lunch break in the early afternoon. Highly trained and experienced course facilitators guide you through a thoroughly tested and proven sequence of exercises designed to teach you the most powerful tools to create and deepen connection, with facilitated group conversation after each exercise to ensure maximum learning. We’ve constructed the exercises to ensure that the foundational skills of Authentic Relating are most efficiently and effectively absorbed by participants, no matter their level of prior experience or training.
Day 1
- What is Authentic Relating?
- The Five Authentic Relating Practices
- The Three Levels of Conversation
- The Foundation of Connection
- Empathy and Authentic Listening
- The Power of Setting Context
- Dignity and Humility, Posture and Collapse
- Be the Guru
Day 2
- The Role of the Witness
- Undamning the World
- Genuine Curiosity
- Transforming Conflict
- Discomfort as a Spiritual Practice
- Relational Aikido
- The Withhold Process
- Integration
ART Level 1 Upcoming Dates
You can read ART International’s full COVID-19 policy here
- Auckland, New Zealand – July 17-18
- Course Leaders: Naomi Prema Devi and Laurie King
- Location: Kawai PuraPura Retreat Centre
- 14 Mills Lane, Albany Heights, Auckland 0632
- Copenhagen, Denmark – June 19-20
- Course Leaders: Daniel Brooks & Natasha Figueroa
- Location: https://www.relationalspaces.dk
- Amsterdam, Netherlands – July 3-4
- Course Leader: Daniel Brooks
- Location: Dorpsstraat Holysloot 33B. 1028BC, Amsterdam
- Boulder, Colorado – June 19-20
- Course Leader: Dayna Seraye
- Assistant Course Leader: Keith McGuinnes
- Location: Wesley Community Center, 1290 Folsom Street
- Course Leader: Dayna Seraye
- Crestone, Colorado – July 29 – Aug 1
- Course Leader: Keith McGunnes
- Assistant Course Leader: TBD
- Course Leader: Keith McGunnes
- Location: Crestone Mountain Zen Center, location linked here
- Times: Thursday Arrival by 5pm, Fri/Sat 8:30am – 8pm, Sun Departure at 12pm
- Accomodation and meals: Please note that this is a residential Level 1, and additional accommodation and meal plans must be purchased here in addition to the course fee. (Please read carefully before registering)
- 15% Early Bird Discount on Accommodation when paid through Venmo by June 30th
- Contact Keith at kmcguinnes@gmail.com or Text/Whatsapp +1 303-335-0147 for any questions about accommodation and meals.
CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA
- Coming soon!
You can find more information about our facilitators here.
If the venue is not linked in the list above, it may be hosted at a private home in the city. Address and venue details will be emailed to participants before the course. Should you need this information now, contact us and we’ll help you out!
REGISTER FOR THE LEVEL 1 LIVE COURSE NOW!
ART Level 1
$250.00 – $345.00
Activate and expand your relational capacities to radically transform all your relationships and experience connection, intimacy, trust, and aliveness with anyone, anytime, anywhere.
IMPORTANT NOTE: All payments are processed in USD. Local currencies are listed for reference, based on exchange rates at the time the course was posted.
Additional information
| Location & Date | Boulder, Colorado: June 19 & 20 ($345), Copenhagen: June 19 & 20th ($345 USD), Amsterdam: July 2 & 3 ($345 USD), Auckland, New Zealand: July 17-18 ($250 USD/$345 NZD — First 3 people, use code ARTNZ for $50 USD off)($345 USD), Crestone, Colorado: July 29 – August 1 ($345 USD) |
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Questions? Schedule a Call with an ART Facilitator
Scheduling a call with one of our Course Leaders is a great way to get your questions answered firsthand by the amazing humans who facilitate our Level 1 courses.
We are here to help you feel comfortable with what to expect, share in more detail about the benefits of our Authentic Relating program, and to be a sounding board as you decide if ART Level 1 is a good fit for you.
If you have a quick question that can be better answered via email, feel free to email us at info@
Five percent of all ART International profits are donated to Realness Project (RP), ART International’s sister organization and 501(c)3 nonprofit, bringing authentic relating training to jails, prisons and schools.
