Wonder: Charlotte Relateful Retreat, January 2026
Schedule
Fri, 16 Jan, 2026 at 06:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
5801 Simpson Rd Charlotte NC 28216 | Charlotte, NC
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🔹Wonder: Charlotte Relateful Retreat, January 16-18, 2026🔹Time and Location:
1/16/26: 6pm-9pm
1/17/26: 10am-6pm
1/18/26: 10am-6pm
Sacred Roots Cabin, 5801 Simpson Rd Charlotte NC 28216
Registration: https://www.relateful.com/offers/UCLA42Ng/checkout
🔸 EXPERIENCE WONDER IN CONNECTION 🔸
How often do you experience wonder and ease in your relationships?
A quiet reverence, where you let yourself bask in the beauty that is radiating out from life. Relaxed, letting things go better by trying less.
This retreat is an invitation into that kind of presence.
Over three days together, we’ll explore Relatefulness — a living practice of awareness and connection that invites truth, love, and presence into our relationships. It’s not about performing or fixing. It’s about noticing what’s already happening between us and letting that change us.
🔸 WHY COME 🔸
You might be someone who:
▪️Longs for more authentic, nourishing connection, even in relationships that already feel “good.”
▪️Practices mindfulness or personal growth, but wants to live those insights in relationship.
▪️Wants to feel more embodied, and yearns to integrate awareness with alive expression
▪️Craves a space where growth and comfort can coexist, where transformation happens through gentleness, not striving.
This retreat is a chance to turn those longings into lived experience — to rest into wonder, be seen in truth, and feel your natural impact on others.
🔸 WHAT WE'LL EXPLORE 🔸
Across large-group sessions, small groups, and pairs, we’ll play in the field of connection:
▪️Bringing language to what’s happening right now — in body, heart, mind, and awareness
▪️Sinking into our experience in connection, letting ourselves feel the aliveness that is already here
▪️Trying on others’ experiences and updating our assumptions
▪️Relaxing control and cultivating trust in what unfolds naturally
▪️Practicing love and truth in real time
You’ll be invited to stay close to your own experience — no one is asked to perform, share beyond their truth, or “break through.”
Transformation arises not from effort, but from being with what’s already alive.
🔸 WHAT YOU MIGHT EXPERIENCE 🔸
While each person’s journey is unique, past participants often leave with:
▪️ More access to inner states of awe and wonder in connection
▪️ A sense of being much more fully arrived in themselves
▪️ A sense of feeling deeply seen
▪️ More access to embodied, alive expression that carries into everyday life
▪️ More courage to shine and love without apology
As James says, “You’ll definitely get love — I can’t guarantee you’ll receive it. But it will be here.”
🔸 WHAT NOT TO EXPECT 🔸
This is not a therapy session or group healing experience, although healing can occur.
It’s a group exploration of truth, love, and awareness, created by the people who are present.
Here’s what not to expect:
▪️ No “safe space” guarantees.
We aim for brave space — where safety grows from honesty and genuine care, not from rules that protect us from feeling. As Michael says, “If there is care here, it will be because we bring it.”
▪️ No enforced hierarchy of emotions.
Beauty, awkwardness, boredom, joy — all are welcome. Each experience has worth, and none automatically justify themselves as more important.
▪️ No promise of comfort, but plenty of nourishment.
We oscillate between challenge and ease — both are nutrients in this living practice.
🔸 YOUR FACILITATORS 🔸
Michael Blas is a senior facilitator at the Relateful Company known for his tender depth, expressive confidence, and willingness to start loving first. He has led innumerable Relateful sessions all around the world, and has been integrally involved in the training, coaching, and certifying of hundreds of facilitators. He also has a Masters Degree in Psychology with a concentration in Industrial/Organizational Psychology.
James Dial is the steward of Relateful Charlotte, devoted to building local spaces of real connection where presence and growth intertwine. He is known for his warm, earnest, heartfelt presence. He is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Talent and Organizational Development.
For seven years, Michael has been a mentor and friend to James — their co-leadership is born of genuine friendship, mutual learning, and shared devotion to living love and truth in everyday life.
Together, they invite you into intimacy with the unfolding we-space that is already happening, even as you read this right now.
If you’re curious to see how they relate, watch our Youtube Videos at https://bit.ly/CLTPlaylist
🔸 RETREAT DETAILS 🔸
Dates: January 16–18, 2026
Times:
Friday 6:00–9:00pm
Saturday & Sunday 10:00am–6:00pm
đź“Ť Location: Sacred Roots Cabin, 5801 Simpson Rd, Charlotte, NC, 28216
🍔 Food: We will break for a 90 min lunch around 1pm. You’re welcome to bring food or visit a restaurant in the area.
đź’› Cost: $340 Early Bird Before Jan 1st 2026, $400 Investment After Jan 1st
đź“© Questions: [email protected]
🔸 A FINAL INVITATION 🔸
You don’t need to prepare.
You don’t need to know how to be more present, loving, or truthful.
Just come as you are — and let the practice meet you there.
This is the simple courageous choice we lean into again and again, which has blessed us with more aliveness, intimacy, and nourishment in our lives and connections.
We hope to see you there.
By participating in this event you agree to the Sacred Roots Event Waiver: https://www.sacredrootsnc.com/event-waiver
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5801 Simpson Rd Charlotte NC 28216, 5801 Simpson Rd, Charlotte, NC 28216-5879, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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