Authentic Relating Games Night: Be Real, Feel Fully, Share Deeply

FREE for HeartFire Members / $35 Drop-In Paid in Advance / $40 cash at the door.

In a hurry? Here's the basics:

Come join us for an evening of Authentic Relating Games at a Private Home in Durham on Friday, November 15 from 6:30-9:15pm. Doors open at 6:15pm. Address sent upon registration.

You are welcome to socialize afterwards until ~10:00.

Newcomers are welcome!

Note: These are not board games! See below for details.

Register ("Join") below on Meetup. Pay here for $5 discount in advance: NavigateChange.as.me/games-night

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Full Details:
Welcome to AuthenticNC, Raleigh-Durham's Authentic Relating community. We are a vibrant community of healers, professionals, and brave consciousness explorers. Many of us arrive seeking:

Real Connection
Deeper Relationships
Get Beyond Small-Talk
Expanded Awareness
Intimacy

What You'll Experience at This Games Night:

Together, we will craft an evening of conscious connection, with a focus on the Theme: The 5 Senses in Connection

It's okay to arrive with feelings. We'll help you relax into satisfying connection through conscious relating exercises, authentic sharing, and improv games, curated to help you open up and get real with others in the group.

You'll have a chance to explore...
~How to let down walls
~How to build meaningful 2-way relationships
~How to express yourself authentically - beyond holding back or lacking a filter.

Our Authentic Relating Game Nights tend to be deep and intense, with a mixture of fascination, laughter, and occasional tears of release. It's the full mixture of emotions you would experience in any group, as you explore how to get real and to be more open with those around you.

Come alone or bring a friend. People sometimes bring a date to these events, both for a unique evening out and to get to know each other more deeply. Please be aware that these games can be more intense and deep than fun in a conventional sense... but it is definitely a bonding experience, where you will get to see much deeper into each other's worlds!

Your host: Benji Whitehurst, MA, Relationship Coach & host of 120+ Authentic Relating events and workshops in Raleigh-Durham since 2016. Benji studied Transpersonal Counseling Psychology at Naropa University, and certified in Integral Circling through the Integral Center in Boulder.

Payment:
Games Nights are INCLUDED FOR FREE for all community members holding our Heartfire Monthly Membership who RSVP prior to July 25. $10 after 7/25. Your monthly memberships help us build a vibrant, stable community! Join here: Membership Registration

Discounted 10-passes & memberships are here:
https://navigatechange.org/tgroup

Register in advance: space is limited!

What is Authentic Relating?

Authentic Relating is the practice of harnessing connection as a lens for self-discovery, and vulnerability as a tool for mind-blowing, heart-opening connection in service of living more turned-on, whole lives.

A collection of values and agreements create a spacious, welcoming, transformative container for each practice: Honor Self, Honor Other, Confidentiality, Hide Nothing, Everything is OK, Play Full Out, and Own Your Experience.

When do I arrive?

The event will begin promptly at 6:30pm—please plan to arrive 10-15 minutes early for extra connection and in service of us starting on time. We will end at 9:00pm. There is sometimes a group who will go out afterwards for snacks and extra fun.

Our Policies:

To help us experience as much joy and as little drama as possible, we've created a Disclosure & Waiver detailing these expectations of self-responsibility & kindness to others, including the known risks of authentic relating practice and guidelines for conflict resolution. Your registration for this event means you have read and agree to the terms of this waiver, including the agreement to fully resolve any disputes related to this event using community conflict mediation. You can find our invitation toward diversity & sameness on the same page.

We invite you to join a 10-year-old community and experience not just the depth possible in an evening of authentic relating, but the sense of soul-enlivening community available for all who play, relate with us over the long term.

You are also welcome to join our weekly practice series, T-Group (see our Meetup page!)