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Workshops

Dawn & Barry

with Dawn Nelson & Barry Barankin

Relax, Release, Renew !

This one-day workshop is for any two people in an ongoing, committed relationship, and will support you in

  • Heart

    relating to your partner without blame or criticalness

  • experiencing more joy and spontaneity in your relationship

  • deepening contact and intimacy with your partner

  • heart

    clarifying your life and relationship goals

Participants partner with their mates throughout the day in a variety of verbal and non-verbal exercises and creative activities. Tea and snacks, art materials and take-home handouts included.

Dawn has been teaching various kinds of classes and workshop since the late 1960s, as well as leading and helping facilitate three-day and longer residential meditation retreats since 1981. She is also an experienced couple’s communications counselor. Barry is a practiced group facilitator, workshop leader, and educator who received national recognition twice as one of America’s outstanding teachers. He is now retired from the Head Royce School in Oakland, CA after over forty years of teaching.

Barry and Dawn met in 1972 when they were working towards their PhD and MFA degrees respectively in the Theater Department at the University of California. While evolving their relationship as both parenting and life partners they have raised three children together and now enjoy four grandchildren

Participants Responses:

This workshop was one of the best things we’ve ever done for our relationship.

– We learned new things about each other and had fun in the process!

– I highly recommend this day which is full of insightful exercises and creative, playful  “aha” experiences!