The Art of Re:Connective Loving

Part II

Empowering Love

Explorations into Liberating Love, Conscious Relating and Ethical (Non-)Monogamies

An intensive 7 day seminar and experiential space

Circles and Re:Connective Spaces – Dialogue and Presentations – Conscious and Authentic Relating – Self and Collective Relational Explorations – Reflection and Awareness Practices – Constellation Work – Self-Inquiry – Shadow and Inner Parts Work – Embodiment, Somatics and Bodywork – Movement, Dance and Contact Improvisation – Conscious and Sensual Touch – Meditation – Yoga – Breathwork – Consent and Conscious Communication – Ritual – (Primal) Play and Performance – Co-Creation

Upcoming Seminars

We are taking a break with seminars and circles in 2026 and will be back with even more refined, attuned and “effective” offerings in 2027.

The Invitation

  • Do you want to grow, heal and diver deeper into different ideas, practices, experiences and shapes of love and loving?
  • Do you want to deepen the connection to yourself, authentically and transparently connect with other beings, and co-create a community of trust and care?
  • Do you want to explore different ways, shapes and possibilities of freely and ethically connecting to yourself and others beyond the norms of exclusive/monogamous/romantic love?
  • Do you want to learn how to navigate, shape and live conscious loving relationships in daily life and get to know different techniques, tools and methods to sustain them?
  • Do you want to learn more about the shadow side of the norms of “love” within society and yourself and face and work through your own internalized limiting beliefs and patterns, shadows, pain, fears and insecurities?
  • Do you want to further develop your awareness, empathy, sensibility, as well as communication, boundary awareness, consent forming, social and intimate skills?
  • Do you want to play, enjoy and celebrate the gifts of life and love?
  • Do you want co-create a more loving, connected, communitarian, peaceful and regenerative world and practice how to love and be loved in daily life in the transition to a new culture of love?

The Seminar

The Empowering Love seminar is for you if you have come to a point in your life where you feel you are stuck in your (love) relationships, you struggle with loving yourself and others, you are feeling lonely and disconnected from the world around you, you are feeling that the norms of culture and society limit your capacity to love, you experienced a “(spiritual) awakening” or you have realized that there is often something strange, limiting, self-serving or even pathological, abusive and violent in today’s (so-called) love relationships.

This seminar is for you if you are ready to deeply challenge yourself, grow and explore what it means to live in loving connection – consciously, freely and authentically without the usual hiding, manipulation, coercion, limiting, dominating, cheating, passive aggression and lying so common in today’s “love” relationships. To live love freely requires a deep shift in our minds, our consciousness, our value system, our ingrained patterns of behaviour, our emotional world as well as in our communication and in the ways we navigate life and relationships. It also requires us to grow spiritually, heal our wounds and traumas, re-connect with our inner child and to face our own shadows and insecurities. In short, living love freely requires nothing less than a new awareness of love, a new culture and politics of love, a new art of loving, a reconnection with the love of our soul.

Empowering Love is for you if you have chosen to live love beyond the ordinary and wish to explore different approaches to living love, learn about the political, spiritual and ethical implications of non-conventional love (i.e. ethical non-monogamies, conscious monogamy, polyamory, open relationships, tantric relationships, relationship anarchism), learn techniques for how to navigate complex love relationships in your daily life, learn how to communicate compassionately and be in touch with yourself and your emotions and feelings, while also reconnecting with your heart’s longing, your soul’s wisdom, your body’s life force as well as your needs, desires, wishes, dreams and boundaries.

We will create reconnective spaces of trust and care that engage your body, mind, heart and soul and encourage you to deeply reconnect with yourself and from that space then to consciously connect with others in transparency and vulnerability, experiencing and practising what it means to be in loving community, to be ethically connected in truth and authenticity in a world of disconnection, alienation, exploitation, trauma and suffering.

It’s important that you come with an open mind and a readiness to challenge yourself – within a space that is created to carry and nurture you throughout this process. A challenge holds great potential for growth, expansion, understanding, awakening, realization – if experienced and integrated consciously and held in a caring and compassionate space.

Topics

  • The Art of Re:Connective Loving
  • Loving Qualities of the Self – Consciousness, Awareness, Understanding, Presence and Loving Kindness in Self and Relationships
  • Ways and Forms of Relating I – The Relationship Escalator, the Exclusive Monogamous Couple and its Shadow
  • Ways and Forms of Relating II – Ethical Non-Monogamy and Polyamory
  • Ways and Forms of Relating III – Non-Normative Relating and Relationship Anarchy
  • Tools for the Art of Re:Connective Loving I – (Self-)Awareness, Non-Judgement, Shadow and Trauma Work
  • Tools for the Art of Re:Connective Loving II – Reconnecting with the Self – Boundaries, Needs, Desires
  • Tools for the Art of Re:Connective Loving III – Conscious Compassionate Communication
  • Tools for the Art of Re:Connective Loving IV – Authenticity, Transparency and Consent
  • Re-birthing Love – (Non-)Attachment, Freedom and Commitment
  • The Art of Healing Love

Approaches, Practices, Methods & Techniques

Approaches, Practices, Methods & Techniques that give shape to the Empowering Love seminar include:

  • Presencing
  • Compassionate Inquiry
  • Constellation Work
  • Somatics and Nervous System Regulation
  • Embodiment
  • Bodywork
  • Circles
  • Shadow and Inner Parts Work
  • Conscious and Authentic Relating
  • Exploration and Experiment
  • Reflective, Relational and Awareness Practices
  • Improvisation (Contact Dance and Performance)
  • Process Work
  • Conscious and Sensual Touch
  • Free Dance and Movement
  • Conscious Communication
  • The Wheel of Consent
  • Co-Creation
  • Ritual
  • Yoga
  • Breathwork
  • Meditation
  • Samu
  • Play

Sample Schedule

depending on flow, intuition and collective needs

Time Seminar Event
8-9
Morning Presencing

(e.g. Meditation, Yoga, Breathwork, Autogenic Training, Embodiment, Somatic & Movement Practices, Nervous System Regulation, Dance…)
9-9.30
Break
9.30-10
Clan Sharing Circles
10-11.30
1st Re:Connective Space

(e.g. Circles, Presentations, Dialogue, Constellation Work, Reflection, Somatics, Embodiment, Relational and Awareness Practices, Shadow and Inner Parts Work, Process Work, Conscious Touch and Relating – all centered around specific questions and topics related to love)
11.30-12.30
Breakfast/Brunch/Lunch/Munch
12.30-13.15
Break
13.15-13.30
(Free) Dance, Movement and Improvisation Space
13.30-15.30
2nd Re:Connective Space
15.30-16
Break
16-17.30
3rd Re:Connective Space
17.30-18.30
Break
18.30-20
Dinner / Break
20-22ish
Evening Re:Connective Space

(e.g. Sweat Lodge, Bodywork, Massage, (Free/Ecstatic) Dance, Open Spaces, Conscious and Sensual Touch, Co-Creations, Play, Performance, Contact Improvisation…)

Literature and Link List

Here are some suggested readings and links which you may want to look at before the seminar. (To be completed.)

Links

Books

  • Amy Gahran: Stepping Off the Relationship Escalator: Uncommon Love and Life. 2017.
  • Franklin Veaux, Janet Hardy: More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory. Thorntree Press. 2014.
  • Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha: Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships. Harper Perennial. 2011.
  • Betty Martin, Robyn Dalzen: The Art of Receiving and Giving: The Wheel of Consent. Luminare Press. 2021.
  • Jessica Fern: Polywise: A Deeper Dive into Navigating Open Relationships. Scribe. 2023.

Facilitators

The seminar will be facilitated by Dr. Lars Weckbecker, founder of Ayama, and Yvonne Iwa Naumann. Both are extremely passionate about their work and will guide you through the seminar and your processes with loving presence and kindness, competence, compassion and non-judgement.

To learn more about their work, click on their names or images.

Application

Before applying, you should have participated in our Embodying Love seminar or have basic awareness and knowledge of most topics and issues addressed in it and ideally have some experience with conscious relating spaces.

Please first read our Ethical Guidelines for Seminars. Then hit the “Apply” button below and fill in and send the form provided. We will get back to you within a few days to confirm your participation.

Got Questions?

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