Right Relationship in Present Time

Right Relationship in Present Time: Co-Creating Intercultural Coherence in Relational Fields

As awareness of human diversity expands, therapists, facilitators, and practitioners are increasingly asked to hold complex relational spaces where culture, identity, power, and history are present in felt, immediate ways. These dynamics can evoke uncertainty, tenderness, fatigue, and deep care. How do we stay resourced and present while meeting conflict, oppression, and difference with clarity—without hardening, collapsing, or flattening what is alive?

Right Relationship in Present Time is a 7-class experiential series supporting practitioners who work at the intersection of relational depth and social complexity. The course explores how intercultural dynamics—identity, power, historical trauma, systemic oppression, and conflict—emerge as living processes within therapeutic, somatic, facilitation, and collective contexts.

Through integrated somatic, reflective, and cognitive inquiry, participants develop greater sensitivity to layered dynamics across individual, interpersonal, group, and collective levels. We learn to recognize patterns such as over- or under-coupling, freezing, looping, and polarization, while cultivating practical ways to orient toward greater coherence, responsiveness, and ethical presence in real time.

The course creates space for practitioners to reflect on how their own histories, identities, positionalities, and embodied responses shape the relational fields they hold. Rather than asking for certainty or performance, the emphasis is on curiosity, humility, and relational honesty. The ethics of plurality come to the forefront as oppressive or homogenizing dynamics are examined without centering guilt, shame, or dominant identity narratives.

Open to practitioners of all backgrounds, this course supports the development of shared language, perceptual clarity, and renewed relational capacity. Drawing on both ancient and emerging ways of knowing, Right Relationship in Present Time invites participants into a practice of intercultural coherence that is sustainable, humane, and oriented toward liberatory possibilities—remembering that caring for the field also includes caring for those who hold it.

1. Introductions and Principles

     Student and Assistant Introductions 

     Introductory Information and Preparation for Future Classes

     PPN Principles in Inter-Cultural Fields

2. Clarifying Our Relational Territory

     Mapping Layers of Experience in Relational Fields

     Objective-Subjective Experience

     Power and Communication

3. Owning Bias and Uncoupling Layers

     Identity, Rank and Role

     Mapping Power Dynamics

     Preference, Prejudice, Unconscious Bias and Blindspot

     Edges and Edge Figures

4. Lacunas, Phases and Collective Momentum      

Bias and Defensive Accommodation

      Collective Blindspots, Lacunas and Ghosts

Unravelling Curses

      Phases of Inter Relational Process

      Myths and Stereotypes

5. Models for Inter-Relational Repair

     Repairing Relational Ruptures

     The Authentic Dialog Model

     The Wheel of Consent

     Meeting the "Other"

6. Concentric Circles of Larger Group Processes

      Mapping Concentric Circles of Relational Process

      Breathing Between Personal and Group Process

      Worldwork and Deep Democracy

7. Guest Panel (topic to be determined)

This course can be taken as a stand-alone or works well as an adjunct to Alchemical Alignment courses.

Classes are recorded, participants will receive limited time access to recordings.