A Live Relational Workshop

STAY
IN THE
ROOM

You already know the feeling. The moment someone goes quiet, or you do. The shutdown. The distance that opens up in seconds.

This is where you learn what to do in that moment.

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Date
MAY 23
Saturday 2026
Time
10AM–2PM
PST  ·  1–5PM EST
Format
LIVE
Virtual on Zoom
Experience
NONE
Required. Just show up.
The Real Problem

IT HAPPENS
FAST

YOU CAN'T PRACTICE THIS ALONE.

Someone says something. Or doesn't say something. And in seconds you're gone — checked out, shut down, over-explaining, or already planning your exit.

You don't decide to do it. It just happens.

Afterward, in the quiet, replaying it, you know exactly what you wish you'd done differently. You had the words. You just couldn't get to them in time.

That gap between who you are when you're calm and who you become when you're activated? That's not a character flaw. It's a skill gap. And skills can be practiced.

Who This Is For

YOU KNOW
THIS FEELING

This workshop is for anyone who has ever felt themselves disappear in a hard moment and wanted to know how to stay. You don't need therapy language or a framework. You just need to recognize yourself somewhere below.

01
The One Who Goes Quiet
You shut down when things get charged. You feel it happening and you can't stop it. Later you wish you had spoken.
02
The One Who Over-Explains
You talk to manage the tension. You can't tell if you're connecting or performing. You leave conversations exhausted.
03
The One Who Pulls Away
When someone gets too close or conflict appears, you create distance. It feels like self-protection. It costs you connection.
04
The One Who Wants to Be Better at This
You're in a relationship or want to be, and you know how you show up in hard moments matters. You want to practice before the stakes are high.
05
The One Already Doing the Work
You've read the books, done the therapy, understand your patterns in theory. You're ready to feel them in practice and do something different.
06
The One Who Just Knows Something Isn't Working
You don't need a framework. You just know you keep losing something — connection, yourself, the moment — and you want it to be different.
07
The One Who Is Curious, Not in Crisis
You're self-aware, not in a relationship right now, and not looking to fix anything. You just want to know yourself more deeply in contact with others — and to be ready when the right connection comes.
08
The Couple Who Wants to Go Deeper
You're not in crisis — you're committed, and you want to keep growing together. This is a place to build real capacity for the hard moments, side by side, before they arrive. No prior experience with this kind of work is needed. Showing up together is enough.
What Happens Inside

A PRACTICE
ROUND

This is not a lecture. You won't be sitting back taking notes about communication theory.

You'll be in structured partner exercises — guided interactions designed to create just enough tension to make your patterns visible, without the stakes of a real conflict with someone you love.

Low stakes. Real activation. Real learning.

The Work
FEEL IT AS IT HAPPENS
Each exercise creates a moment of genuine aliveness — the kind of internal response you can't manufacture alone. You'll notice what arises in your body in real time: the pull toward connection, the impulse to retreat, the place where you hold back. That noticing is the practice.
The Container
SAFE ENOUGH TO BE REAL
The exercises are structured so the stakes are low but the activation is real. You'll have room to experiment, to stumble, to try something different. No one will tell you what you're doing wrong. You'll receive clean, honest reflection from others committed to the same level of growth.
The Point
BUILD A REFERENCE POINT
When you know what activation feels like in a safe space — when you've felt yourself want to pull back and chosen to stay — you have something to reach for the next time it happens with someone who matters.
What Makes This Different

THIS IS NOT
A WORKSHOP
ABOUT
RELATIONSHIPS.

In real time. In connection with other people. Seeing your patterns not as ideas to understand but as experiences to move through.

Most of us have spent years learning about ourselves. This is four hours of actually being with yourself, while someone else is in the room.

What You Leave With

NOT INSIGHT.
EXPERIENCE.

The difference between knowing something and having lived it in your body is the difference between reading about swimming and getting in the water.

01
A felt sense of your own patternsNot just knowing you shut down — having felt it happen, and having stayed anyway.
02
A reference point for the real thingThe next time activation hits in a relationship that matters, you'll have been here first.
03
The experience of being seen and staying presentWhat it actually feels like to be witnessed, and to witness someone else, without fixing or performing.
04
More choice in the momentNot a guarantee. Not a formula. But a real, practiced capacity to pause before the reaction takes over.
Your Facilitators

THE PEOPLE
IN THE ROOM

Lara Woolfson
LARA WOOLFSON
Shamanic Arts Practitioner & Relational Facilitator

Lara tends the relational field where truth becomes embodied. She is a shamanic arts practitioner, ritual and ceremonial facilitator, and relational experimenter devoted to the practice of staying present when things get real.

Her work lives at the intersection of art, sound, nervous system awareness, and perceptual seeing. Rooted in Andean cosmology and years inside embodied relational containers, Lara is trained in energetic tracking and polarity-based practice.

She studies how the nervous system protects, how projection forms, and what becomes possible when we choose presence over pattern. Her path has been shaped by Julie Hannon, Suzanne Campbell of the Q'ero Lineage and Four Winds School, and Amir Khalighi's Embodied Masculine work.

Arivind Abraham
ARIVIND ABRAHAM
Guide & Ceremonial Facilitator

Arivind serves as a ferryman for those navigating the passages between death and rebirth. His work is rooted in Tibetan Buddhist practice, his maternal lineage's relationship with Kali Amman, and decades spent learning what it means to die and be reborn, again and again.

He guides others through the liminal spaces where the old self falls away and something truer begins to emerge. His guides include Amir Khalighi of Embodied Masculine and Kai Karrel and Jade Osborne of the Umbandaime Church of the Celestial Heart.

Join the Room

READY TO
SHOW UP?

Single Ticket
$125
One seat. Full four-hour workshop on Zoom with a 30-minute break. No prior experience needed.
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Couples
$200
Two seats for partners or anyone doing this work together. Save $50 when you join as a pair.
Email to Register

Reach out first and we'll send you a discount code to use when purchasing two tickets.

THE ROOM
IS OPEN.

You don't have to be good at this. You don't have to have any prior experience. You just have to be willing to show up and be with what arises.