Description

Emotional Connection may feel out of easy reach for many people. Especially today. Many social factors have contributed to this unfortunate outcome.

Building and maintaining relationships with strong emotional ties requires openness, vulnerability and trust. Importantly, it requires a willingness to open up, share and discuss negative characteristics about one another. Increasingly, today, we are encouraged to remain ‘positive’ and to stay away from whoever or whatever makes us feel uncomfortable. In addition, other social pressures exist that impel us to refrain from broaching difficult subjects with people we are connected to.

While it is crucial that we remain protected from painful behaviours and people, deciding to steer away from all negativity causes us to shut down.

In time, our tolerance for hurt and pain shrinks, which means our capacity for emotional connection diminishes. And so we become detached from ourselves and from each other and like one of millions of Britons, we experience crippling loneliness and intense feelings of isolation.

We can’t really have one without the other though.

Our approach is based on helping individuals to rebuild their immense and beautiful capacity for emotional intimacy while also encouraging & fostering personal and psychological safety.

We use a set of exercises that are canonical in training actors to deepen emotional connection on stage and screen. You will feel empowered to open up and & become vulnerable with others. The exercises are emotionally ‘light’ and yet powerful. You will not be asked or required to share anything personal. We will work with your imagination, your powers of make believe and ‘creatively play’ in order to show you how you embody changes to help you connect truthfully and genuinely.

Overall, the workshop is designed to grow emotional awareness and to provide you with the tools to enable trust, emotional resilience and an expanded capacity for vulnerability which you can use and apply to any relationship whether social, professional or more intimate.

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