Weekend Workshop led by Certified Trainer, Michael Alan Kolb.
Learn how to have honest conversations & create meaningful connections. Explore different ways to be honest, with healthy loving boundaries.
Dates: Saturday, 20 April 2024 10:00 - Sunday, 21 April 2024 17:00 GMT
*Note that this workshop is only Saturday - Sunday and will have no Friday evening session.
Location: Heal Oxford Wellbeing
If you're still new to Radical Honesty, a Weekend Workshop is the perfect place to explore a more honest YOU (with the help of some new honest friends)!
Learn how to:
Create better and more authentic connections
Deal with past hurts and have difficult conversations
Deepen and improve your relationships with family & friends
Show up as ‘the real you’ in all areas of your life
Ask for what you want, and stand a better chance of getting it!
What is Radical Honesty?
Radical Honesty is a method for authentic self-expression, communication, and connection.
Primarily, Radical Honesty allows us to cut through the bullshit stories we sell ourselves and others. Instead of performing our typical sales pitch, we tell the truth instead.
We express what is present for us in the here and now – be it fear, anger, appreciation, or whatever else shows up in the moment.
Telling the truth takes guts. It isn’t for the faint of heart.
And in our experience, it’s worth it.
What you can expect
At its core, Radical Honesty is a noticing and reporting practice. We contend that despite what you’ve been sold, noticing is far more important and far more valuable, than thinking.
The ability to distinguish between thinking and noticing – being able to tell the difference between your mind’s interpretations of “reality,” and your own grounded, observable, experience in the moment – is the key to freedom, connection, and love.
We will lead you through a series of lectures, directed conversations, paired exercises, small group exercises, hot seat work, and meditation, all of which are aimed at helping you practice grounding in noticing rather than stories and interpretation.
Once you’re grounded in noticing your own experience, you’ll begin sharing your noticings out loud with others. This is the basis for intimacy. Reporting out loud, moment to moment, what’s true for you, and being present to others who are revealing their present moment experience as well, is all it takes.
It doesn’t sound like much does it?
The truth is it isn’t. It ain’t much. And, it ain’t easy.
The problem is most of us have been brainwashed into believing that our mind’s interpretation of reality is reality. We’ve also been sold the idea that pretending to be nice, sweet, and loving, even when we feel pissed off, is the way to get love and give love. It turns out the opposite is true.
When you’re grounded in noticing instead of thinking, and you’re revealing what’s actually true for you moment to moment, love, connection, freedom, creativity, and a bunch of other things most of us tend to enjoy show up.
And the even better news is that they show up all on their own, without any forcing or pretending on our part.
This workshop includes:
🙌 Paired/group exercises for experiential learning
🗣 Discussions on various honesty-related topics
🧘🏾 Grounding exercises for self-awareness
🎁 Leave with tools for honest conversations post-workshop
Is this workshop right for me?
This workshop is for anyone who is interested in honesty and personal growth.
If you have been diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder (or similar) or suffer from severe PTSD, please contact mak@radicalhonesty.com to see if this workshop is right for you. It is possible that you may benefit from 1-on-1 work before participating in a workshop.
In this workshop, we will learn and put into practice the foundational Radical Honesty distinctions, including Noticing vs. Imagining, the Awareness Continuum, and expressing Resentments & Appreciations. We work with whatever arises in the moment, whatever you bring to the group.
If you’re struggling in a relationship, trapped in your mind, needing encouragement or support, wanting real-world practice with real-world examples, or seeking to build community with other honest folk like yourself, this is workshop is for you!
Ground Rules
To participate in the workshop, you must agree to the following Ground Rules:
1. I agree to use consensual touch only.
2. I agree to keep confidentiality.
3. I agree to come to the sessions on time and ready.
4. I agree to silence and put away all electronic devices during the sessions.
5. I agree to not harass anyone (view No Harassment Policy)
We will discuss these Ground Rules in detail at the beginning of the workshop. If you have any questions or concerns, you may email mak@radicalhonesty.com.
VENUE:
Heal Oxford Wellbeing
Little Baldon Estate Little Baldon OX44 9PU United Kingdom
PRICE:
£345
SCHEDULE:
Saturday, April 20: 10am – 7pm (with 90 mins lunch break about 1pm)
Sunday, April 21: 10am – 5pm (with 90 mins lunch break about 1pm)
Price includes:
Yummy Meals Included (2 lunches + 1 dinner)
Snacks and Beverages
Accommodation Suggestions:
The Chequers, Burcot (5 minutes by car) Click Here
The George, Dorchester (8 minutes by car) Click Here
Clifton Hampden B&B (5 minutes by car) Click Here
Accessibility:
Venue is on the ground floor, accessible via a gravel walkway. Please email mak@radicalhonesty.com for accessibility details.
Group size:
8 - 14 participants
Refund Policy:
No refunds.
If cancelation notice is given at least 30 days before the workshop, your registration is transferrable to a friend or to a future Radical Honesty event with Mak. Transfer credits expire 1 year from the start date of the workshop you register for.
ABOUT THE TRAINER:
Michael Alan Kolb
Michael Alan Kolb (aka Mak) has a B.A. in Psychology, is a Senior Radical Honesty Trainer and is the Director of the Radical Honesty Institute. He is committed to helping people develop the skills needed to live life out loud, to mend and build (and sometimes end) meaningful relationships, and to ground themselves in experiential reality. He is particularly interested in the problems of existentialism, couples work and non-traditional relationships, and dealing creatively with anger and conflict. He lives and works in Costa Rica where he is co-founder of Cascada Elysiana Eco-Lodge & Retreat Center.
“It is difficult to transition into adulthood in a world full of adolescents. This practice of Radical Honesty has been the most important work I've done in my personal journey of growing up and I'm hungry to surround myself with others who want to embark on this journey with me. There's a whole lot of road left for us to travel.” -Mak