The Essential Guide to Deep Connection and Authentic Communication
Relationships – parental, collegial, romantic, sibling – are an inextricable part of life. It’s in our deep connection with others that we find the magic of joy, play, comfort, and kindness in our lives. It’s also where we find most of our wounding, upset, frustration, and sadness.
When on a spiritual path, relationships take on a unique role. They become the very field of opportunity to forward and accelerate our personal growth. In fact, they are an essential aspect of our spiritual awakening.
Join us for an insightful and empowering course with Oakley Ogden and other master teachers. Spend seven sessions discovering how to transform your limits and consciously create the connection you have always desired.
Relationships – How to Human
Online, Feb. 15 – March 29
Wednesdays, 4:00-5:30pm NY time
(recordings available each week)
$297
$267 Awakening Mastery Membership
$108 Grand Design Membership
$0 Sai Maa Consciousness Membership
Oakley Ogden has been a coach, licensed psychotherapist, and mindfulness guide for almost 20 years. She has the honor of running a private practice, teaching around the world, and having her programs and curriculum for sustainable transformation featured in The New York Times, Huff Post, Forbes and more. www.oakleyogden.com.
Oakley’s work is a synthesis of western psychology and eastern philosophies which empowers her clients to increase self-awareness, shift emotional patterning, strengthen mental focus, increase spiritual character, and attain the vision they hold for their lives.
Teachers Joining Oakley
During This Course You Will ~
- Learn how to inspire satisfying communication and deep connection with yourself and others.
- Be able to listen to your body’s intelligence, understand your nervous system, and find ways to stay connected to the moment.
- Uncover the difference between thinking and feeling, and why we need to feel our feelings in order to heal.
- Gain access to reprogramming your beliefs and consciously creating more relaxation and availability in relationship to yourself and others.
- Understand and develop skills to connect with your authentic needs and expectations and communicate them to others.
- Grow your ability to identify, name, and self-regulate your emotions.
- Expand the essential communication tool kit that promotes authenticity and connection in your primary relationships and beyond.
- Learn to say no, ask for what you need, let go of controlling and pleasing others, and be responsible for your interactions.
- Learn to consciously choose your emotional state regardless of external circumstances, and manage your triggers.
- Learn the key elements of apologies and forgiveness and repair your relationships with power and humility.
- Grow your capacity for deep listening, curiosity, and admiration.
- Find the support and bravery to tell yourself the truth about your relationships so you can finally re-create a life of connection and joy.
- Feel empowered to bring your authenticity and vulnerability to your relationships.
MODULE 1 – Relationships
From Fantasy to Experience
Yet there is often friction and even suffering in our relationships, especially the ones that are closest and most important to us.
In this first module, you will discover the myths and fantasies about relationships that most of us are born into and how they limit the connection, joy, and satisfaction otherwise available to you. You will begin to step out of these myths and be present to what is actually going on in your relationships so you can move toward having the relationships you desire.
Yet there is often friction and even suffering in our relationships, especially the ones that are closest and most important to us.
In this first module, you will discover the myths and fantasies about relationships that most of us are born into and how they limit the connection, joy, and satisfaction otherwise available to you. You will begin to step out of these myths and be present to what is actually going on in your relationships so you can move toward having the relationships you desire.
- Become aware of the cultural fantasies we are all inside of regarding romantic relationships, parental relationships, sibling relationships, friend groups and more.
- See what these myths and fantasies are keeping us from feeling and experiencing; identify what’s underneath the grasping and clinging.
- Begin to free yourself from these beliefs and elevate your ability to have the relationships you desire.
- Get in touch with the experience of relationships in your life as they are, without fantasy or story.
- Uncover where you are satisfied in your relationships and where you are not.
- Gain insight into the unseen beliefs that are at the root of your dissatisfaction and suffering in your relationships.
MODULE 2: Body Intelligence 101
From Thinking to Feeling
- Learn about the nervous system, where trauma is stored, and the difference between fight, flight, freeze, and fawn.
- Understand how we avoid feeling – through numbing, addiction, control, deflection, blame, rage, shut-down, stone-walling, and more…
- Experience the difference between expansion and contraction and how to listen and trust your body.
- Learn how to feel it to heal it!
- Be able to allow feelings to pass through without holding on or getting lost.
MODULE 3 – Emotional Intelligence 101
Increasing Awareness and Responsibility
In this module, you will increase your capacity to notice these “triggered” reactions, as well as learn to be responsible for them with a new level of maturity and awareness. From here, you can be truly present in your relationships.
In this module, you will increase your capacity to notice these “triggered” reactions, as well as learn to be responsible for them with a new level of maturity and awareness. From here, you can be truly present in your relationships.
- Increase your capacity to be authentic about what is happening with you when you are reacting.
- Develop your ability to be responsible for your reactions without blaming anyone, including yourself.
- Learn tools for accepting yourself, coming out of reaction, and being more available in your relationships.
- Receive new words for different emotions, increasing your vocabulary and ability to name and share what is happening for you.
- Breath practices and unique tools designed specifically for self-regulation of emotions.
- Learn to identify the parts of yourself that are triggered and communicate with them compassionately and effectively in order to come back to the present moment.
- Register for the Journey of Profound Healing (even if you have done it before).
MODULE 4 – Generating Your State
From Reaction to Conscious Creation
- Learn to consciously choose your emotional state regardless of external circumstances.
- Reprogram your brain and nervous system through specific practices and visualizations that will become part of your at-home practice.
- Create a vision of your future self and learn to live into it!
- Identify your North Star for each relationship domain in your life – self, romantic, family, friends, colleagues, and others – empowering you to navigate your relationships and communicate with more clarity and ease.
MODULE 5 – Needs and Expectations
Part 1 – Creating Room for Yourself
Often our needs and expectations in relationships are not clear, even to ourselves. In this module, you will uncover the needs and expectations that, when communicated, will provide a foundation for freedom and satisfaction in your relationships.
Often our needs and expectations in relationships are not clear, even to ourselves. In this module, you will uncover the needs and expectations that, when communicated, will provide a foundation for freedom and satisfaction in your relationships.
- Increase your capacity for authenticity by learning about and naming your needs, values, and expectations in relationships.
- Discern between your authentic needs and what you think you need, based on limiting beliefs.
- Learn where these limiting beliefs came from and bust the myths that you don’t deserve deep connection.
- Come out of trying to please and control others to manage what you do or don’t want to feel, and get what you think you need in relationship.
- Practice telling yourself the truth about what you need and expect in your relationships.
- Uncover the needs, expectations, and desires that you have in relationships.
MODULE 6 Needs and Expectations
Part 2 – Learning to Communicate the Hard Stuff
- Learn powerful and graceful ways to say “No.”
- Draw upon the needs you identified and learn to create boundaries with love and clarity.
- Review attachment styles and learn why we fall back into creating the boundaries we do today.
- Cover the foundation of Non-Violent Communication skills, enabling you to successfully have difficult conversations.
- Learn how to ask for what you need and want.
MODULE 7 Deep Connection with Others
Essential Communication Tools for Vulnerability
In this module, you will learn how to relate to others so that you both feel seen, heard, and cared for.
In this module, you will learn how to relate to others so that you both feel seen, heard, and cared for.
- Develop your ability to bring curiosity, questions, and humility to your relationships while letting go of fixing or changing others.
- Expand your ability for deep listening and witness the openings created as a result.
- Learn about apologies and forgiveness as essential tools in repairing disruption or distance in a relationship, even energetically.
- Try on the qualities of admiration and acknowledgement to increase vulnerability and connection with another.
- Connecting to another as access to our spiritual path and awakening selves.
Meet Her Holiness Sai Maa
This course is based in the teachings of Her Holiness Sai Maa. An exceptional energy healer and spiritual luminary, Sai Maa has led programs for tens-of-thousands of students world-wide. For the past 20 years, Sai Maa has developed powerful spiritual practices, tools and transformative in-person programs.
Sai Maa is the first female to be awarded the prestigious title Jagadguru in India’s 2,700 years of the Vishnuswami lineage. The term Jagadguru is one of the highest designations in the Hindu tradition. Jagadgurus are recognized as embodying the power and influence to transform the entire planet.
The Power of Healthy Relationships Bonus Collection
In addition to this transformative 7-module course, when you register you’ll receive these special bonuses with world-renowned healer and spiritual luminary, Her Holiness Sai Maa.
Bonus #2
In 2006, Her Holiness Sai Maa recorded an extraordinary discourse on love – The Soul of Relationships: Exploring the Divinity of Love. Listen as Sai Maa shares the wisdom of creating strong, lasting, divine relationships.
Relationships – How to Human
Online, Feb. 15 – March 29
Wednesdays, 4:00-5:30pm NY time
(recordings available each week)
$297
$267 Awakening Mastery Membership
$108 Grand Design Membership
Free Sai Maa Consciousness Membership