Radical Receiving

Radical Receiving

Would you like access to your direct route of pleasure and stop giving away your power?

Are you yearning for a deeper connection and intimacy with yourself and the people who are important to you?

Could it be you are stuck in patterns of behaviours that don’t help you but you don’t know how to break out of them?

Do you wish for a simple and powerful way to transform stress, avoid burnout, calm your nervous system and create more oxytocin - the feel-good hormone? 

All this is available through touch and the activation of your hands.

You will discover:

How to notice what you want, what you don't want and how to communicate it in a way for your answer to be respected

PROGRAM DETAILS:

Radical Receiving is a 5 week program

Tuesday 16th November 6.30pm to 9.00pm

through each Tuesday until 

Tuesday 14th December 6.30pm to 9.00pm

This program will offer you an opportunity to experience the 

• awakening of your hands, 
• activating of your skin, 
• enhancement of the quality of your touch, 
• exploration of consent and agreement making for personal and professional relationships
• deeper layers of receiving when we separate doing from giving
  all from an an embodied perspective.
  

YOUR HANDS….

We use them all the time but rarely stop to give them much thought. 

Knuckled and nailed, lined and smooth, our hands are complex precision instruments.  Yet, through a lifetime of repetitive practical use, they have become so fine-tuned and efficient that their intelligence often goes unnoticed.

We use our hands to hold things, to eat, to communicate, to create. And yet, most importantly, the hand can heal and bring harmony to your life.

Hold up your hands - what do you see?

Can you see your hands as your greatest gift to receiving, blessed with their own intelligence and familiarity with the subtleties of the body; or are they just the things with which you do all your doing?

The densest area of feeling receptors in your whole body is in your fingers (2,500 per square cm). Once the hands are activated, a whole new world of relating, connecting, intimacy, sensitivity and receiving opens up.

“The hand becomes an eye that fuses all five senses and sees things whole.”~ Lee U-fan, Contemporary Korean Artist

THE FORMAT

This training is 5 live online meetings a week apart.  2.5 hours each evening. 

You will be part of a group journey with experiences, experiments and questions and answers.

There will be practices that can be used in your personal or professional life.

No prior experience is necessary

You start where you are as a beginner or a professional and you will always find new levels of awareness.

WHAT WE WILL EXPLORE:

• the difference between giving and receiving as it relates to the action.
• how to awaken the hands to gain deeper inflow of sensation and information 
• how to access your own physical pleasure/joy/bliss with the ability to receive in different ways
• a radical receiving of self sovereignty, self ownership and self responsibility 
• how to notice, value, trust and ask for what you want.
  

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

• the power of vulnerability
• how you spend time in the shadow when relating to others & how to get out of it
• how you may over give or see over taking in the world and your pathway to stopping burnout
• conscious communication and relational agreement structures
• how radical receiving and consent can be a spiritual path
• interpersonal neurophysiology and co-regulation
• how to expand your capacity to receive, expand your nervous system capacity and participate in the world in a way that is natural to you.
  

THE JOURNEY

• a solid embodied introduction in the dynamics of giving and receiving 
• a depending of your experience of intimacy, connection and embodiment through feeling, self awareness and attunement with yourself and others
• the capacity to move your relationship from survival to trust as you explore self love and connection 
• safely reconnect to your innocence, your vulnerability in a space of permission and agreements
• the reclamation of your body and skin as an intelligent and wise resource 
• a deeper connection with your internal GPS
• capacity to take radical responsibility for your feelings, thoughts, emotions, wants, desires, communications and pleasure 
• claim your sovereignty as an act of rebellion embodying your part in the evolution of this planet.
• build the deepest foundation of self love and self care
• explore present moment awareness and communicate your unique self expression in your own space whilst being connected to others

Deep spiritual qualities will unfold as you learn new dynamics related to giving and receiving.

"In recent years, a wave of studies has documented some incredible emotional and physical health benefits that come from touch. This research is suggesting that touch is truly fundamental to human communication, bonding, and health."~ Greater Good Science Centre at Berkeley

My promise to you: YOU WILL

Pick up the tools that will allow you to calm your nervous system.

Begin the fabulous journey of knowing, valuing, trusting and communicating what you want in all areas of your life.

Discover new ways to communicate with the people you love and expand your capacity for pleasure.

Begin to create a life in which your capacity to receive will continually expand. 

Learn embodied consent skills to powerfully ask for what you want, to know your limits and set them.

Experience greater clarity when expressing yourself.

Have a more profound capacity to understand others.

And enjoy more authentic connections with greater ease.

Join us and reignite your capacity for RADICAL RECEIVING!

PROGRAM DETAILS

Radical Receiving is a 5 week program

Tuesday 16th November 6.30pm to 9.00pm

through each Tuesday until 

Tuesday 14th December 6.30pm to 9.00pm

FAQ

Is this program about sex, sensuality or erotic in nature?

Although touch can be an aspect of those parts of lives, they are not a part of this program. However, the exercises and home play provided can be explored with your partner in ways that you both choose.

Who is this program for?
This program is for anyone who is interested in learning more about themselves and improving the quality of their communication in their personal or professional relationships with lovers, friends, parents, children or colleagues. No prior experience is necessary.

Anyone stuck in patterns of behaviour that are not working for them leading to burnout, being a martyr, people-pleasing, and people think it is better to give than receive.

If you wish to create a relationship based on sovereignty, integrity, respect, choice and trust, this program is for you

This program is for you is you are interested in giving up the over giving and/or over taking

This program is not for you IF?

You are not interested in being responsible for your desires, wants and limits.

You are not interested in being fully present for yourself.

You are not interested in being present in your primary relationships - personal and professional.

TESTIMONIALS

“Karen's workshops on consent and presence have been really valuable to myself and my partner in creating more clarity and honesty in our dialogue. I'd thoroughly recommend Karen and her offerings as a rich support on anyone's journey.”

“Receiving has sometimes been a tricky thing for me to fully embrace, so a workshop on this sounded great, plus Karen felt it would be a good fit too.”

“The topic of radical and conscious receiving sounded very interesting and enriching. I had never thought of touch as a gateway to presence, the new concepts sounded very exciting.”

“Working with Karen has had a profound impact on me.  I was burnt out, exhausted, lacking in confidence, feeling stressed and anxious and feeling it was not safe to be my authentic self.  Really understanding what it means to give freely and receive radically has been life changing.  Karen has helped me grow, feel seen, heard, understood and engergised.”

“Anyone wanting to learn more about: communication, interpersonal skills, inclusive ways of working, obtaining consent, working with integrity would greatly benefit from participating in this program.”

“You had me at receiving.  A workshop about receiving………just that one word.  I agreed to do this workshop with Karen as I had done two other face to face workshops with her and totally trusted that she could guide me and the group through any challenges.”

“I didn’t know what I wanted or if I did have an idea, I didn’t know how to go about getting it. I wasn’t giving myself any personal ‘me time’ at all and I was feeling resentful.  After doing this program I now have an inner knowing where I feel solid in my body and my body feels more connected to my mind. It feels as though they are in balance.”

“I am feeling much stronger in myself and my resolve to know how to receive and accept help and love.  I have resources to go back to when I am feeling like I don’t remember or understand.”

“I have learnt that having limits/boundaries is ok.  This in itself has helped me personally and in my work situation where I was very likely to say ‘yes’ when I should have been saying ‘no’.   Anyone, both make and female who work in the caring industries would benefit from this program. People who have been caring for others for so long they have lost sight of themselves.  Young people who are obsessed with FACEBOOK and have judgements on what they think they should be for others. Young girls particularly.”

“If you desire to learn tools, gain knowledge and develop practices that assist in creating a Self-sovereign life based on healthy authentic relating this is the program I had unhealthy boundaries in relating that resulted in the adoption of over responsibility in all areas of life, and zero recognition of the rights of mySelf and my right/capacity to say ‘No’.  Participating in this program has enabled me to begin to define my personal rights, and responsibility parameters and thus the opportunity to develop more authentic healthy boundaries.”

“If you desire the opportunity to access simple practical effective tools to live an authentic life under grace this is the program for you”

“Karen embodies integrity, is empathic, knowledgable and trustworthy.  She creates a safe space to learn and grow. You are in ‘safe hands’ with Karen.”

“My favourite part was the yes/no exercises and what both my partner and I took away from that. Getting clearer on the ecstasy of a yes and the sinking feeling of a no was great.   It quickly impacted us positively at home and continues to. Also, Karen's relaxed delivery - it was so unrigid when she said that napping under the table was still participating. That felt very freeing and supportive.”

“The yes no exercises were sometimes uncomfortable but that's my stuff and using those lessons has been really useful.”

“I'm more present to the delight I can find in textures - a velvet cushion or smooth ceramic tile for example. Also Daniel and I are both clearer on saying an honest yes or no to requests, offers or invitations.  We justify less and accept each other's answers better.”

“I find Karen's teaching style very warm, practical and easy to receive, and these ideas are very simple but rich and so grounding. I'd love to see this work get out there and can't wait for the next instalment.”

“I’ve gained a piercing insight into the complexities of relationships and agreements!”

“I have taken this and applied it to my life – as a result I’ve seen my work and personal relationships change and become clearer. I feel freer and more powerful and more ‘optioned’ because of this work.”

“Exploring has been a joyful, freeing and creative process. I now feel I have a better sense of what I want, how to communicate that, and how to create more harmonious relationships.”

ABOUT KAREN

Karen Austen is an international speaker, best selling author, facilitator, coach and mentor with a deep interest in human potential and a love of all things communication, especially the nervous system. 

An abrupt end to a 25 year career in criminal justice changed her life drastically.  Forced into medical retirement with severe PTSD and extreme burnout, she was told she had a 1 in 5 chance of ever working again.

Through studying with masters in the field of Mind Body Medicine, she found the keys to vitality, vibrancy, wellbeing and the capacity to receive all of the abundance and opportunities that are available.

Karen brings an authentic , passionate and inspiring style to personal transformation by utilising wisdom gained from living life to the full, a diverse career in the Criminal Justice System and extensive training and accreditations.

Karen has decades of experience facilitating ‘mainstream’ and embodiment training.  She is also highly skilled in personal growth, body awareness, mentoring, coaching and facilitating. 

Her approach to serving her clients revolves around her deep understanding of the scientific and spiritual principles underpinning who we are as human beings.  By using a creative orientation rather than a problem solving orientation you really can have a life of joy, freedom, authenticity and truth.

Her mission and her work is to show the past does not have to equal the future and that thriving is possible.

Karen is a professional and accredited Trauma Release Provider, HeartMath Provider, Life Coach, Magnetic Mind Coach, Reiki Master, Wheel of Consent Facilitator, Interplay Leader, Performer and StoryTeller