Authentic Relating Games in Jack's Peak Park

Curious Little Sea Bird: “Hey! Where’d everybody go?!”
Wise Big Pelican: “I hear they’re up on Jacks Peak in Monterey playing something called Authentic Relating Games.”
Curious Little Sea Bird: “Hmmm. Sounds kinda fishy to me.”
Wise Big Pelican: “Well, ARG are like the ocean, but in a different way. I would describe them as … real. deep. fun.”

Now, perhaps more than ever, we need to discover more of ourselves and each other as we play and laugh together, remembering what fun being-together and simply being-engaged can be.

“Whenever people meet the normal human interactions of their daily lives with deepened understanding, energy, and awareness, ordinary interactions are transformed into extraordinary practice.”
~ Gregory Kramerr

Imagine this ~ ~ ~ ~ …

• What might it be like to be with a group of people – some you may know, some you never met – and leave a couple hours later feeling more seen, understood and connected than when you walked-in?

• What would happen if we brought the qualities of mindfulness – presence, acceptance, curiosity and kindness – into our interactions with others?

• What if we could cultivate awakening to ourselves and each other through relating … leaning into, discovering, and celebrating the connection that is always, already here?

Mindful Relating Games are facilitated engagements that provide a safe container for going beneath surface-level small talk to connect with others who are also interested in discovering what it’s like to be together with authenticity and consciousness – waking-up to what it’s like being here together, right now. 

For those of us who live near-enough to Monterey, let’s get together.

For those who are geographically too far to come-over, just send your name and where-you-are to Marianne (marianne@montereybaymeditation.com), and we’ll have a place for you in the circle.

“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother
to endow it with the most useful gift,
that gift should be curiosity.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Facilitator: Marianne Rowe
Sunday, May 25
1:00 - 3:00 PM Pacific
Jack's Peak Park (East picnic area)
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Registration closes 3 hours before the event begins, or when the class is full.

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As a humane being, co-founding teacher of Monterey Bay Meditation Studio, and licensed marriage and family therapist, Marianne is dedicated to cultivating eco-systemic consciousness and living in-cahoots with Earth, Cosmos, and Life in all forms. Marianne’s insatiable love of learning has led her into certifications as a nature & forest therapy guide, eco-therapist, California naturalist, and Authentic Relating facilitator, along with certifications in eco-psychology, climate stewardship and climate psychology. She has been practicing meditation since the last century and teaching mindfulness meditation to children and adults since 2006.
Her sense of belonging and aliveness is sourced and deepened through walks, sits, and gazing with the Pacific Ocean, forest, night skies, along with evolutionary, envisioning conversations with beloved friends and colleagues. Read more.

This course is part of the Outdoors and Relationships Currents.

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