Facing Collapse. Together.
A Creative Laboratory with David Cates

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A Professional Training
May 10 - 19, 2024
Berlin, Germany

More info: ​​https://youtu.be/HWPuf6IY-UI

REGISTER NOW: https://buytickets.at/embodiedintimacy/1151349

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“Global collapse is undermining your work and eating away at the people you care about.

It’s time to upgrade your skills and expand your capacity to lead us through this darkness. Get the tools and the collaborative support you need to keep on making a difference.” ~David Cates

What can we do as the world spins out of control?

Maybe collapse is arriving in your life as economic stress and uncertainty, or social polarisation, or ruptures in your family. Maybe you’re noticing huge shifts in the weather, or wildfires and floods, or beloved species dying off. Maybe the threat of war is at your doorstep, or refugees are arriving in your neighbourhood. Maybe friends are losing jobs, or spiralling into addictions, or killing themselves too young.

There are a thousand ways we’re being traumatised now, every day.

You may be feeling the undercurrents of this darkness. Guaranteed they’re impacting the people who look up to you for guidance.

Despite what you may fear, there are healthy and empowering ways to deal with these traumas.

The first step is realising that we can’t go through them alone. Disconnection can’t be cured by isolating; disconnection can only be healed through connection.

In the spirit of connection, you’re cordially invited to join a weeklong community experiment in a beautiful lakeside retreat near Berlin. (Oh, the irony! Let’s do this while we still can.)

Bring your fears, grief, obsessions, hopes, desires, fierce love and playful creativity.

I’m bringing solid practices for love, connection, co-regulation, authentic sharing and inspiring soul-deep co-creation.

I’m curious what will emerge when we come together to face this global splintering.

That is the intention of this gathering.

But this is not just a personal healing journey, or coming to passively listen to lectures and walking away with a handbook of pre-scripted exercises to use with your clients.

You will be expected to actively create your own new material to take back home, and to join with other participants in mutual support, collaboration and inspiration. We’re going to learn from each other. We’re going to play together, with familiar and unfamiliar media, expanding our professional skill set. We’re going to show each other how to coax maximum engagement from the multiple communities we serve.

Much of what we’ve been doing isn’t strong enough, deep enough, shocking enough, or honest enough to cut through the fog of despair in our world today. We need new inspiration for participatory exercises, practices, games, music, rituals, memes, confessions, videos, podcasts, and other ACTIONS to break us out of our trances.

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Join us for SoulPlay's 9th edition!
www.soulplay.co

SoulPlay is an immersive experience filled with transformational workshops, celebration, dancing, connection, and play. It is an experience designed to facilitate learning and growth, while having a lot of fun and making great connections in the process. Whether this is your first time stepping into an experience like this or you’ve been walking the embodiment path for a while, SoulPlay meets you where you are.

SoulPlay is an alcohol and substance free event. The premier sober gathering in the US! It's an opportunity to practice being present, while connecting in community.

SoulPlay strives to create a container through which we can all be our fully expressed selves. The depth, joy and playfulness we dream of is only realized if we are all included, welcomed and celebrated. We are continually working as an organization and as a community to support this vision.

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We are thrilled to announce the biggest evolution in SoulPlay history thus far!! SoulPlay 2024 will span two incredible weekends, along with the option to immerse yourself in smaller group deep dives in between weekends!

Attend the entire experience, or mix and match to create the experience you most desire.

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The 3 Parts of SoulPlay 2024:

Weekend 1: June 6 - June 9, 2024
4 days of expansive workshops, heartwarming connections, and legendary music and pool parties! It is an experience designed to facilitate learning and growth, while having a lot of fun and making great connections in the process.

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Immersions: June 10 - June 13, 2024
Alongside a small committed group, you’ll embark on a facilitated retreat closely aligned with one of SoulPlay's core themes, such as movement, play, relationship, vulnerability, or social justice. It's a special opportunity to dive deeper into yourself in an intimate, structured, and supported setting. You will be prompted to choose which of the Immersions you'd like to join in the checkout questions.

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Weekend 2: June 14 - June 16, 2024
3 days of incredible workshops and performances, expansive connection, and heart-integrated community with an added benefit of being open to families and kids of all ages. Blast yourself into the summer of your dreams fully grounded and aligned with your heart.

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It's a sober, connected and playful environment. More than a party, SoulPlay is an opportunity to experience community in its aspirational form, where everyone is celebrated and supported as the unique beings that they are. It's an experimental, low pressure "laboratory" where you can try out different ways of being, both with self and others, and decide at the end which you'd like to adopt and which to discard.

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Join us for SoulPlay's 9th edition! www.soulplay.co

USE MY DISCOUNT CODE FOR REDUCED TICKET PRICE

Join us for our immersion happening in between the two festival weekends.

Find out more about: Immersion

Immersion Details

Taking a deep breath is the first thing we do when we enter this world, and it's the last we will do before we leave. Every single breath we take carries with it the potential to change, shape and mold our realities. 

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BREATHE is an invitation to come into greater communion with the breath and all the potential it carries to alter not only your state today, but the trajectory of your life and the world you live in from here onwards. 

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Our breath invites us into cycles of expansion and contraction, energizing and relaxing, activating and integrating. Through the breath, we access our raw human aliveness. With practice and cultivation, we can channel our vitality to step into our authentic selves. 

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We will access the breath for our own self-development and spiritual insight through solo breathwork and meditation but also relationally in dyads and our tribal group field. The intimacy we are inviting is as close and deep as our next breath. 

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What to expect:

Each day will include breathwork journeys, guided solo meditations, partnered Belly2Belly practices, and integration through community circle sharing. As we alternate between solo and interpersonal experiences, we will spiral deeper into an unconditional field of love for healing, growth, and awakening. The result is a simple felt presence, real time intimacy and heartfelt shared truth.

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Who this is for:

You value depth in knowing yourself and through relationships

You are on a path of embodiment and personal development

You are curious to explore transpersonal realms and expanded states of consciousness

You have some or light experience with using the breath for accessing deeper states of self-awareness and or relational connection and intimacy 

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Note:

The breathwork practices employed in this retreat are contra-indicated for women who are pregnant and people with severe unresolved trauma, history of seizures, high blood pressure, or heart disease, or psychiatric conditions including bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The scope of this work may include accessing non-egoic states which may be disorienting, untethering, or psychologically challenging. 

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Breathe is facilitated by Rachel Rickards and Matt Sturm, two veterans of the SoulPlay community. The practices in this retreat will be held in a trauma-aware container, focusing on regulating the nervous system, and following the wisdom of the body. We both draw on years of practice and facilitation experience to offer a safe container for transformation.

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Join us for our immersion happening in between the two festival weekends.

Find out more about: Immersion

Join us for SoulPlay's 9th edition!
www.soulplay.co

SoulPlay is an immersive experience filled with transformational workshops, celebration, dancing, connection, and play. It is an experience designed to facilitate learning and growth, while having a lot of fun and making great connections in the process. Whether this is your first time stepping into an experience like this or you’ve been walking the embodiment path for a while, SoulPlay meets you where you are.

SoulPlay is an alcohol and substance free event. The premier sober gathering in the US! It's an opportunity to practice being present, while connecting in community.

SoulPlay strives to create a container through which we can all be our fully expressed selves. The depth, joy and playfulness we dream of is only realized if we are all included, welcomed and celebrated. We are continually working as an organization and as a community to support this vision.

~~~

We are thrilled to announce the biggest evolution in SoulPlay history thus far!! SoulPlay 2024 will span two incredible weekends, along with the option to immerse yourself in smaller group deep dives in between weekends!

Attend the entire experience, or mix and match to create the experience you most desire.

~~~

The 3 Parts of SoulPlay 2024:

Weekend 1: June 6 - June 9, 2024
4 days of expansive workshops, heartwarming connections, and legendary music and pool parties! It is an experience designed to facilitate learning and growth, while having a lot of fun and making great connections in the process.

~~~

Immersions: June 10 - June 13, 2024
Alongside a small committed group, you’ll embark on a facilitated retreat closely aligned with one of SoulPlay's core themes, such as movement, play, relationship, vulnerability, or social justice. It's a special opportunity to dive deeper into yourself in an intimate, structured, and supported setting. You will be prompted to choose which of the Immersions you'd like to join in the checkout questions.

~~~

Weekend 2: June 14 - June 16, 2024
3 days of incredible workshops and performances, expansive connection, and heart-integrated community with an added benefit of being open to families and kids of all ages. Blast yourself into the summer of your dreams fully grounded and aligned with your heart.

~~~

It's a sober, connected and playful environment. More than a party, SoulPlay is an opportunity to experience community in its aspirational form, where everyone is celebrated and supported as the unique beings that they are. It's an experimental, low pressure "laboratory" where you can try out different ways of being, both with self and others, and decide at the end which you'd like to adopt and which to discard.

~~~

Join us for SoulPlay's 9th edition! www.soulplay.co

USE MY TICKET CODE FOR REDUCED TICKET PRICE

A relational playground dedicated to the exploration of Intimacy, Embodiment, and Community!

What would be possible if you had 2 weeks to fully experience yourself as a loving, relational being — surrounded by a supportive group of fellow intimacy adventurers?

️ How many blocks to love could you remove?
How dramatically could you strengthen your relationship to boundaries?
How much could you open yourself to the kind of love you truly long for and deserve?
How drastically could you learn to accept and befriend the discomfort of being fully seen in your vulnerability?
How many lives could you impact with your gifts of listening, witnessing and honoring another's self-expression?
How fully could you receive being showered with love and affection?
How much fun could you have?!?

"Embodied Intimacy Summer Camp" was founded in 2018, we've spent the last five years cultivating a field of love and togetherness. Each year, we come together for this annual pilgrimage with a shared intention: to explore and discover new ways to enhance our ability to give and receive love.

And for 2024, we have had a re-birth and we have a new name…
Intimacy Summer Camp

The Field Facilitator Training is a comprehensive, experiential training in the art of embodied group facilitation.

This training runs from January - December 2024 and is comprised of 5 week-long in-person modules (250 hours).

In between the 5 modules, we are offering a unique education online (100 hours) that will support further integration on how to recognize and work with trauma. You will leave the program with invaluable skills and practice for bringing every one of your participants totally into the group field.

Completing this program will allow you to confidently bring your gifts out to the world as a trauma-informed somatic group facilitator.

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Module 3:
“Collaboration, Co-creation & Leadership: Facilitating Emergent Group Spaces”

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For more information on next year’s training and to apply, click here: https://www.the-field.com/

The Field Facilitator Training is a comprehensive, experiential training in the art of embodied group facilitation.

This training runs from January - December 2024 and is comprised of 5 week-long in-person modules (250 hours).

In between the 5 modules, we are offering a unique education online (100 hours) that will support further integration on how to recognize and work with trauma. You will leave the program with invaluable skills and practice for bringing every one of your participants totally into the group field.

Completing this program will allow you to confidently bring your gifts out to the world as a trauma-informed somatic group facilitator.

✦✦✦

Module 4:
“Standing in Power & Leading with Integrity”

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For more information on next year’s training and to apply, click here: https://www.the-field.com/

The Field Facilitator Training is a comprehensive, experiential training in the art of embodied group facilitation.

This training runs from January - December 2024 and is comprised of 5 week-long in-person modules (250 hours).

In between the 5 modules, we are offering a unique education online (100 hours) that will support further integration on how to recognize and work with trauma. You will leave the program with invaluable skills and practice for bringing every one of your participants totally into the group field.

Completing this program will allow you to confidently bring your gifts out to the world as a trauma-informed somatic group facilitator.

✦✦✦

Module 5:
“Embodied Emergence, Group Intelligence, Authentic Business & Marketing”

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For more information on next year’s training and to apply, click here: https://www.the-field.com/