Create Understanding.
We honor diversity & support all couples regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identity & expression.
Exceptional Relationships.
As two people join together, their shared life can become truly exceptional when there is also a marriage of security and adventure, intimacy and autonomy, harmony and conflict, the cozy and the erotic, the powerful and the most vulnerable. Long term commitment to a life partner is for many the greatest undertaking they will ever encounter.
Commitment to a partner can be incredibly challenging. If you struggle with stress around money, kids or work responsibilities, your sexual expression or emotional intimacy, you may be feeling uncertain of your commitment, wondering if you are falling out of love.
Your relationship is not defective or dysfunctional you simply haven’t developed the skills that commitment requires. Most of us never learned how to express ourselves in ways that encourage connection and real intimacy.
Couples thrive when…
Partners feel safe in each other’s presence
Partners can share their inner selves with one another
There is a high degree of trust
There is laughter & lightness
There is conflict, but quick repair & learning
Partners can take self responsibility
There is a willingness to learn from mistakes
There is a desire to see each other flourish
Partners can admit to human realities like jealousy, competitiveness, & insecurity
Going All The Way.
Starting November 2. 2020 For couples who want more from their relationship
Over the course of 8 group sessions, in a supportive environment with other couples, you will discover a powerful and transformative new way to be with your partner. You will learn how to:
Move through layers of emotions from the most defended to the most vulnerable;
Engage in conflict as a gateway to empathy;
Access the wisdom of your heart;
Separate the unspoken demands you have of your partner from authentic need;
Identify and work with your “triggers” or your strong reactions to your partner; and
Express your erotic self and deepen your emotional and sexual connection with your partner.
Program cost is $1850. Included are 8 process groups ($100/group) plus 3 private couples sessions with Doug & Karin ($350/session) which support the practicing of content explored in group.
“I didn’t know what partnership meant until my wife & I risked bringing forth our withholds. Our relationship breathes a lot easier now that we released our resentments”.
— LARS E.
“Learning about our triggers & what causes them was key for us to go from reactivity to communication. Now we can step back & process our feelings instead of killing each other”.
— SABINE H.
Into me see.
Happiness and pleasure become accessible when we learn how to navigate triggers and release the control patterns that prevent us from being intimate with another. Many people confuse intimacy with sex.
Intimacy is the revealing of oneself. It is letting down one’s guard. The less defended we are, the more capable of being vulnerable and therefore intimate we become. This undefended state of being is necessary to feel save and accepted for who we are. When we risk being seen in our weaknesses and flaws, in the desires we barely dare to acknowledge to ourselves, we can reclaim the parts of ourselves we denied because at some point in our life we were shamed, and concluded that those must be bad or wrong.
The more intimate we become the safer we become. This freedom allows us to explore sexually in ways we may never have thought possible. Sex becomes more playful, lustful, and heart-full. We can take risks that we could only fantasize about in the past.
Let us support you in increasing your capacity to love sexually.
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