What does it look like?

“What do you notice in your body right now?”, is one of the questions you might hear quite a few times in Radical Honesty workshops.

This most likely happens when sitting in a circle of others and sharing something personal and maybe vulnerable about yourself. The idea is that noticing our physical sensations in the moment can help us to become more aware of our experience.
In the workshops all emotions are welcome and they are labeled as ”good” or ”bad”. This might mean someone expressing sadness and crying, another person laughing out loud and someone expressing their anger by yelling.

We talk about topics often considered taboo — attraction, anger, money, sex, resentment, attraction — nothing is off-limits. In the workshop space people are invited to listen without fixing, allowing others to express themselves without interruption or advice.

Workshops and retreats are experiential and experimental. They include teaching, sharing in the group, facilitated conversations, paired and small group exercises, hot-seat work, grounding practices and meditation.

The core practice is honest sharing: noticing what is alive, sharing it and staying present with yourself and others. People are encouraged to allow sensations, thoughts and emotions to come and go.

The goal is practise distinguishing between thinking and noticing what is actually happening. The goal is to notice what happened (which we might be upset about) and all the stories we make about what happened and own our stories and interpretations as our creations rather than facts.

[Written by: Tuulia Syvänen]