Authentic Connection Lab

✨ Connection Lab

Where inner inquiry meets embodied practice

🕯️ First Gathering: Monday, November 4 | 6:00 – 7:30 PM PST
📍 Online via Zoom (link provided upon registration)

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🌿 The Essence of This Space

Connection Lab is a guided relational practice space designed to help cultivate depth, alignment, and aliveness in how we relate — with ourselves, each other, and life itself.

Connection Lab weaves together two intertwined threads:

💫 Exploratory & Revelatory Work – Slowing down to feel what’s beneath the surface. Through mindfulness and embodied awareness, we meet sensations, emotions, and patterns with curiosity and compassion. Insight and self-understanding emerge through presence and loving witnessing.

🧭 Skill-Building & Applied Practice – Practical tools for clear communication, deep listening, and repair that you can apply immediately in daily life. We train our capacity to connect to and express truth — becoming active creators in our relationships.

These two aspects — inquiry and practice — work together to support greater wholeness and relational freedom. Participants often leave each session feeling more grounded, open-hearted, and connected, equipped with tangible tools they can bring into everyday life.

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🌺 What Makes This Unique

Many Authentic Relating spaces focus on interactive games or group dialogue.
Connection Lab takes a different approach — blending embodiment, guided inquiry, and relational skill practice into a grounded, coaching-style environment for insight and growth.

This lab is intentional. Each session is carefully and lovingly designed using individual and dyad-based exercises to help you:

• 🌬️ Slow down and feel your real-time experience
• 💡 Discover what’s true beneath thoughts or reactions
• 💖 Practice expressing yourself with honesty and care
• 🌈 Build the inner and outer skills that create connection that feels alive, congruent, and nourishing

Connection Lab offers the structure of coaching, the intimacy of relational practice, and the wisdom of embodiment — all in one living, evolving space.

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🪞 What to Expect

• ⏳ 90 minute live sessions (every other week for 12 weeks)
• 🧘 Short teachings + embodied practice experiments
• 🤝 Partner and small-group exercises
• ✍️ Reflection prompts and community shares

Skills you’ll develop include attunement, emotional literacy, revealing without blame, listening for what’s unspoken, naming needs and boundaries, and co-creating repair.

All are grounded in the Authentic Relating Training's 5 Practices: Welcome Everything, Assume Nothing, Reveal Your Experience, Own Your Experience, and Honor Self & Other.

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💓 Who It’s For

This space is for people who want to relate with more truth, depth, and creativity — beginning from within.

It’s for those who:

• 💫 Feel the desire to move beyond surface-level connection and experience relationships that feel nourishing, real, and alive.
• 🌿 Sense there’s more possible in love, friendship, or community — and want to uncover what gets in the way.
• 🔥 Are ready to practice honesty, emotional presence, and listening that includes the body, not just the mind.
• 🌻 Are longing to feel more authentic in their self-expression and more confident in navigating intimacy, boundaries, and repair.

This is a space for curious humans who see relationships as a path to awakening — and who want to build the inner capacity to meet life and love with greater presence and openness.

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🚫 Who It’s Not For

Connection Lab is not a therapy group or a space for unprocessed trauma work.
It is a brave practice container for self-responsible adults willing to meet their edges with curiosity and care.

Depth of feeling is welcome and held through embodied inquiry and clear facilitation.

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🌟 Join the Lab

Are you ready to build the inner capacity required to create the relationships of your dreams?

Connection Lab begins Monday, November 4th at 6:00 PM PST.
Together we’ll explore, practice, and grow the skills that allow authenticity, intimacy, and love to thrive — from the inside out.

Whether you attend one session or the full season, you’ll leave each gathering with new awareness, embodied tools, and a deeper connection to yourself and others.

Reserve your spot today and step into the practice of authentic, embodied connection.
👉 Register through Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link and updates.

🌿 About the Facilitator

Riley Dow — Transformational Coach, Facilitator, and Creator of Embody Your Truth

Riley guides individuals and communities through embodied transformation. His work helps people reconnect with the truth of who they are by integrating the wisdom of the body, the intelligence of emotion, and the power of authentic connection.

Through modalities such as Authentic Relating, Heart IQ circling, and somatic embodiment, Riley supports people to release patterns of self-protection and step into deeper presence, creativity, and love. His teaching is a transmission of aliveness — an invitation into wholeness and the freedom to be fully expressed.