The Deep End: Exploring Authentic Human Connection

TICKETS & INFO:

https://www.letsbeauthentic.com/connectionworkshop

EVENT DETAILS:

Some workshops teach you about connection. This one asks you to step into it - fully, messily, and with your whole self.

The Deep End is a monthly experiential workshop for people who are ready to go beyond the surface. Drawing on practices from authentic relating, somatic awareness, Gestalt, and conscious touch, this experience weaves together verbal, movement-based, and body-to-body practices to help you meet yourself and others with vulnerability, depth and presence.

This is not a lecture or a training. It's a living laboratory where real things happen between real people.
What to Expect
Each workshop is unique, but you can expect a curated arc of practices that may include:

Verbal connection practices: relational games and exercises that invite honesty, presence, and curiosity. You'll practice speaking from what's actually alive in you, and receiving others with full attention.

Movement-based practices: guided somatic and improvisational movement that helps you arrive in your body, shake off the social armor, and relate from a more grounded, embodied place.

Conscious touch practices: simple, clearly boundaried touch-based exercises (such as hand-to-hand contact, back-to-back sitting, or gentle partner work) designed to build relational attunement and nervous system co-regulation. All touch is consensual, discussed in advance, and fully optional.

The session moves at a pace that honors both depth and safety. You'll be gently stretched, not pushed. There will be moments of laughter, stillness, discomfort, and warmth. That's the work.
Who This Is For
This workshop is designed for people who have a genuine hunger for depth and a willingness to be vulnerable.

Ideally, participants have some experience with relational or personal growth practices, whether that's authentic relating, conscious dance, somatic work, therapy, circling, improv, tantra, Contact Improvisation, Non-Violent Communication, or simply a life lived with deep intentionality.You don't need a résumé: just openness, curiosity, and a readiness to be surprised by what's possible between people.

Most of us were never taught how to truly connect. We learned to be polite, agreeable, or interesting, but not necessarily present, honest, or met.

Each month's session will be an intentional, guided practice in the art of human connection. Rather than talking about connection, you practice it in real time, with real people, using structured activities that create conditions for genuine contact.

Authentic Relating is one well-known branch of this field, a set of principles and practices that help people drop defensiveness, speak truthfully, and receive others without judgment. What we do in The Deep End goes further, drawing on body-based modalities and Gestalt principles to engage not just the mind and words, but sensation, movement, and touch as pathways into real contact.

If any part of you has longed to be truly seen, to stop performing, or to feel genuinely close to another human being, you're in the right place.

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WHERE:

Cocoon Philly (Free Parking Lot)

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INVESTMENT: $40 ($45 at the door)

Space is limited. Reserve your spot today!

TICKETS & INFO: https://www.letsbeauthentic.com/connectionworkshop

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PARTICIPANT FEEDBACK:

“I enjoyed enlightening conversations with new people in a safe place.”

“Being there was amazing! Hearing other people's stories and finally realizing I'm not alone, gave me that sense of connection I was seeking. I had never done anything like that and I was afraid I was gonna be too scared to share, but your guidance made everything smooth.”

“It pushes you out of your comfort zone, keeps you sharp and teaches you how to be present to yourself and others.”

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EVENT HOST:

Rachel Whitworth of Let's Be Authentic

https://www.letsbeauthentic.com/about-us

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QUESTIONS?

Please reach out: [email protected]

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