Authentic Relating – relatingarts.com

Daphne van Run

I am a long-time practitioner of Authentic Relating, Circling and Surrendered Leadership and based in the South-West of England. I truly believe we are wired for a different-than-usual level of relating that is ever-interesting, ever-evolving, nourishing and healing.

I am particularly interested in the moment when self-leadership evolves into co-leadership and emergent co-creation with others, and how this way of relating – to ourselves, to one another and to the systems we are part of – shapes the future we are able to create.

The history of Authentic Relating and Circling by Jason Digges

The History of Authentic Relating and Circling Practice

This is the evolution and history of the practices of Authentic Relating and Circling that facilitators should know.

Jason Digges

I am one of the pioneers of the Authentic Relating and Circling movement. I co-founded ART International, started the first podcast for the global AR community, and brought The Art of Being Human course to Bali, Europe, and over 20 cities worldwide. I have trained hundreds of facilitators and taught over a thousand participants the relating arts since 2012.

Daphné Sarpyener

I am a feelings navigation coach : we feel all the time, as much as we think, but we’ve never been tought how to handle it. I guide you in order to recconnect to your feelings and find the wisdom behind. How can you use that power to create the life you desire ? I work mainly online for this. Parallel to that I also hold space for groups, facilitating authentic relating and radical relating. Mainly in Brussels, but also in communities all over Europe.

Benjamin Vandewalle

I’m a contemporary dancer, choreographer, and relational practice facilitator based in Brussels. Rooted in meditation and trained in Transformational Connection, I weave movement and circling into spaces that deepen embodied awareness, honest dialogue, and authentic connection.

Daniel Brooks

I’m a Stockholm-based facilitator working in trainings, group dynamics, and conflict management. I’ve been facilitating Authentic Relating games and circling for 15 years and trained at the Integral Center in Boulder, Colorado. I’m also a Zen practitioner, bringing contemplative practice into how I work with groups.

Natasha Figueroa

I am a facilitator of Authentic Relating, as well as a coach, mentor, and space-holder, developing my practice for over 20 years by integrating honesty practices, dance, tantra, shamanism, improvisation, and more. My main passions are intimacy, communication, vulnerability, gender balancing, and love. As a person of mixed heritage and raised in multiple cultures, I am focused on representation, accessibility and inclusivity in the self-development world. Based in beautiful Copenhagen.

Kirien Eyma

I am a third-culture kid; bridge builder between cultures, continents, genders, and lifeforms. I dream of a quieter and slower human society where “mindfulness” is a part of how we do everything and interact with everyone. I am extending the practices of mindful relating to include relationships with the more-than-human world.

Ernest Holm Svendsen

I’m a Danish facilitator, writer, and founder of The Art of Being Human. My work guides people from self-improvement to self-discovery — uncovering the innocence, beauty, and love that appear when we stop fixing ourselves and start meeting what’s here.

Andrew Venezia

Amsterdam/US based writer, teacher, coach and (psychedelic) Guide. My core obsession is the intersection of meditation and Relational Practices — ‘Awakened Interbeing’ — and bringing its joy, aliveness, and clarity into one’s daily life, and the world, inviting the blossoming of our best and truest selves in service of the Good.

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