Part 2: EROTIC COOPERATION
Becoming a Conscious Erotic Team
- Do you argue about when and how to have sex?
- Are you afraid of speaking your truth?
- Does it seem like you get caught in endless loops of attack and counter-attack when you try to discuss your erotic life?
- Or have you learned it’s better to avoid “going there” because you end up feeling even more disconnected?
As our relationships develop, we face ongoing challenges to intimacy and desire. These challenges can lead to conflict and disengagement or can be a portal to creativity, connection, and growth.
In Part Two of the Passion and Presence® retreats for couples, you will discover how an undefended way of loving opens the door to awakened intimacy.
Erotic Cooperation involves appreciating your different rhythms, levels of desire, and arousal pathways, and consciously working with your reactive states. Doing so requires befriending yourself with curiosity and compassion and sharing your discoveries. While many of us hide our pains to protect against hurt, this disconnects us further from our partner, eros, and ourselves.
Just as growth is evident when the first shoots surface from beneath the soil, our erotic connection grows whenever we disclose the hurts and fears that underly our self-protective strategies.
Time and again, we have seen couples transform what felt like challenging impasses into catalysts for connection by merely sharing the deeper—often hidden—vulnerabilities at the core of their conflicts.
Part 2: EROTIC COOPERATION
DAY 1
MORNING SESSION
10 am – 1 pm
- Welcome back!
- Mindfulness Practice
- Help! We’re at an Impasse.
- It’s all About Your State
- Protectors Ignite Protectors
- PEP Barrier: Fear of Vulnerability
- Experiential Activity #1
Free Time:
1:00 pm – 3:30 pm
AFTERNOON SESSION
3:30 pm – 6:30 pm
- How Parts Dance
- Demo: Diagramming Your Loop (The RIL)
- Experiential Activity #3
- Making Friends With all of Your Parts
- Experiential Activity #3
DAY 2
MORNING SESSION
10 am – 1 pm
- Mindfulness Practice
- Tribe Time
- The “High Road” and the “Low Road”
- Your Emergency Roadside Assistance: PREP
- Experiential activity #1
Free Time:
1:00 pm – 3:30 pm
AFTERNOON SESSION
3:30 pm – 6:30 pm
- Using Cupid’s Wings to Rise and Wrap
- Calming Yourself
- Experiential Activity #2
- Befriending Yourself
- Demo
- Experiential Activity #3
DAY 3
MORNING SESSION
9:30 am – 12:30 pm
- Mindfulness Practice
- Tribe Time
- The “Care Cycle”
- Underneath the Armor: Radical Nakedness
- The Gentle Art of Compassionate Contact
- Experiential activity #1
Lunch
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
AFTERNOON SESSION
1:30 pm – 4:00 pm
- Holding Hands through the Hard Stuff
- Repairing Ruptures
- Creating a Container to Last the Journey
- Closing Circle (Please plan to stay through the closing circle. We want to complete as a whole group.)
Join Us for Our Upcoming Retreat!
Part 2: EROTIC COOPERATION
INCLUDED:
- participation in the retreat
- individualized coaching throughout the weekend
- 30-minute session with the leaders ($125 value)
- Support for Homeplay After the Retreat
- Discount on The first post-retreat coaching session with Julia Corley
*Tuition does not include travel, accommodations or meals.
January 2021
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (3 days)
January 19, 20, & 21, 2021
Tuition deposits will transfer automatically to August if we cancel the January retreats due to COVID. If you purchase tickets, make sure you add travel insurance or can reschedule your flight for August. We will only accept tuition transfers to the August program for this reason.
August, 2021, Portland, Oregon, dates and venue TBA.
Explore the full series of Passion & Presence® Retreats
Enhancing Intimacy and Desire with Mindfulness
Becoming a Conscious
Erotic Team
Experiencing the Joy of
Whole-Person Multimodal Sex
Dancing with Eros
from the Inside Out