Exploring Presence, Meta-Dialogue & the Space Between Us – a 90-minute experiential workshop
What happens when we stop talking about our experiences and begin speaking from within them, as they unfold?
Most of our conversations revolve around what has happened, what might happen, or what we think about something. Rarely do we pause to notice what is actually happening in the present moment, within ourselves, in another person, and in the relational space we are creating together.
We-Space is an experiential practice of relational mindfulness that invites us to explore precisely this dimension of human connection. At its heart is Noticing, the simple yet surprisingly powerful practice of slowing down, bringing awareness to our sensations, emotions, thoughts, and impulses, and learning to express them as they arise.
Through guided relational exercises, participants will be introduced to meta-dialogue, a way of communicating in which we become aware of, and begin speaking about, the experience of relating itself. Rather than remaining caught in the content of a conversation, we learn to recognize our interpretations, observe our habitual reactions, and become curious about what is emerging between us.
As our attention shifts from the individual to the relational field, something interesting can happen: we begin to experience connection not only as an idea or an emotion, but as something tangible, embodied, and co-created.
This workshop is not primarily about acquiring another communication technique or understanding a theoretical concept. It is an invitation to directly experience a different quality of presence, one that can open new possibilities for authentic connection, mutual understanding, and collective awareness.
Some experiences are difficult to explain in words because their meaning lies in the experience itself. We-Space is one of them.
For over a decade, Nora has worked with companies and organizations in the fields of personal development, leadership, and relational intelligence, while also supporting individuals on their journeys of self-discovery and personal growth through counseling.
With a Master’s degree in Sociology and Critical Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London, her work is grounded in a deep understanding of human relationships, social dynamics, and the cultural structures that shape our experiences. She also holds a Diploma in Transpersonal Bioenergetic Counseling (ITI) and a Master’s in Coaching from the Institute for Aliveness, and is currently pursuing further training in Clinical Psychology in Italy.
Her multidisciplinary approach bridges sociological, psychological, and somatic perspectives, integrating Astrology and Human Design as complementary tools for self-exploration, deeper awareness, and more authentic connections.
What to Bring
No specific “items” are required for this workshop. Simply bring a relaxed self!
Signing Up
Spaces are limited – Register now to reserve your spot!
As you will see in the registration form, there are two options for registering. However, thanks to the generosity of Neal Grossman, we are able to offer reduced (or even free) registrations to ensure that money never stands in the way of people expanding their horizons. If you are like Neal and are motivated to contribute a little more to help others, please selected the Supporting Angel ticket to make another free ticket available for future participants.
If you would like to receive a free or discounted registration, please just get in touch!
Note: We use a service called Zeffy to handle registrations because it eliminates credit card fees. However, the system defaults to including a donation to Zeffy at the same time. That fee is not required and can be easily eliminated or adjusted by simply selecting ‘Other’ in that section.
You will also have the option to include an additional donation on top of the ticket price. Despite what it says on the form (which, alas, cannot be changed), any additional donations are divided equally between the Pari Center and ICRL.
Have you ever been so caught up in a problem that you just can’t see a way out? When words fall short and logical thinking isn’t enough, there’s another kind of intelligence we can turn to one we reach through our hands, not our heads.
In this one-hour session, we’ll explore Draw Your Answer: a simple, powerful practice for gaining insight into whatever situation you’re grappling with. Drawing or painting a problem lets you take it out of your head and see it from a different perspective. By shifting from thinking to visualizing, fresh insights and new options can appear often ones you couldn’t have reasoned your way to.
This isn’t about artistic skill or making something beautiful. It’s about using art as a way to explore, reflect, and understand to engage with your emotions, intuition, and subconscious, all of which have real guidance to offer.
No experience needed. Just bring a dilemma you’d like to work on: something recent, something unresolved from the past, or even a current project you’d like more clarity on. It can be big or small. Bring some paper and whatever you like to draw with pens, pencils, pastels, crayons and an open mind.
Come and discover what your own inner wisdom already knows.
Marina Kurikhina is a creative intelligence practitioner and educator whose work has been featured in The New York Times, CNN, and other national media. She previously served on the faculty at the Esalen Institute and currently mentors at Relational Awakening.
Marina developed the Creative Subconscious Method and has taught it to thousands of people worldwide. She now trains therapists, coaches, and facilitators to integrate the approach into their group work and client practice—particularly during transitions when conventional approaches fall short.
She offers talks on creative thinking, problem-solving, and resilience, along with experiential workshops and group sessions.
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What to Bring
Participants will be writing and/or drawing during the session, so be sure to have paper and a writing implement or two on hand.
Signing Up
Spaces are limited – Register now to reserve your spot!
As you will see in the registration form, there are two options for registering. However, thanks to the generosity of Neal Grossman, we are able to offer reduced (or even free) registrations to ensure that money never stands in the way of people expanding their horizons. If you are like Neal and are motivated to contribute a little more to help others, please selected the Supporting Angel ticket to make another free ticket available for future participants.
If you would like to receive a free or discounted registration, please just get in touch!
Note: We use a service called Zeffy to handle registrations because it eliminates credit card fees. However, the system defaults to including a donation to Zeffy at the same time. That fee is not required and can be easily eliminated or adjusted by simply selecting ‘Other’ in that section.
You will also have the option to include an additional donation on top of the ticket price. Despite what it says on the form (which, alas, cannot be changed), any additional donations are divided equally between the Pari Center and ICRL.
Many people overlook the deeply metaphorical nature of our language, thought, and action. Metaphor can help us access deeper levels of consciousness, connecting to more universal and creative aspects of what it means to be human and revealing the interrelationships with each other and the world around us.
This creative workshop will guide participants through a series of Clean Language* questions to facilitate an imaginative process that will allow each person to create (by drawing, annotating and speaking in response to the questions) a personal metaphor, grounded in their own physical, cultural and creative experience.
The starting point will be to imagine a vessel, as an invitation to connect to individual and shared meaning and experience of what it means to be in participatory and reciprocal relationship with other humans and the more-than-human world.
*Clean Language is a method of questioning that removes all assumptions and biases from the questioner. Through a set of 12 simple questions, it draws on the power of metaphor to allow people to develop meaning and clarity that can support them to bring about personal or group change.
Jessica is an experienced facilitator with over a decade of expertise in Bohm Dialogue. The principles of a dialogue practice provide a grounding in all aspects of her facilitation work. As founder of Creating Meaning, she works with purpose-led organisations, supporting them to navigate complexity and change and strengthen the human skills that make transformation possible. Alongside her facilitation work she is researching a PhD in ecolinguistics and regenerative language. Enriched by her background in art and design, Jessica weaves theory and practice to create meaningful and creative dialogues and workshops that aim to transform how people communicate and relate to themselves, each other and the world around them.
What to Bring
During this session you will be drawing an image of your personal metaphor. Come prepared with drawing materials of your choice – pens, pencils, and paper. We will work on one sheet of paper so if you are able to have a largish sheet of paper (A3 or flipchart size, although A4 will also work) that will give you more space for your drawing to evolve throughout the process. The workshop will be a combination of individual drawing and small group discussion so please be prepared to participate in breakout sessions. Please ensure your microphone is working ahead of time, and we encourage you to have your cameras on during the breakouts to help the small groups connect and share together.
Casting is currently open for this session. If you would like to read for any of the plays, please fill out this survey:
Paths to Knowing Consciousness and Reality
From the Indigenous to the Academic
A unique conference to explore how experiential and intellectual learning can be united into a fully holistic science.
ICRL’s president, Jeff Dunne, is proud to be chairing this special event at the Pari Center in Tuscany, Italy from May 20-27, 2026. Bringing together some of the greatest minds and hearts of our time from both Western and Indigenous cultures, we will hear presentations, engage in practices and ceremonies, and discover the power of collaborative, community exploration of ourselves and our realities.
Do not wait to register, as space is limited to 30 participants and will fill up very quickly. Click below to learn more and reserve your place!
In this session you will do remote viewing. You might have read about it, but as is the point of the Exploring Consciousness series, there’s no substitute for first-hand experience. If you’re curious to explore this natural ability that everyone has, this is a great opportunity to learn by doing in an informal group workshop.
The session is for beginners, including people who don’t think they are psychic! All you need is some plain paper, a pen and an open mind. Come along and give it a go — you might well be surprised to discover just what your mind is capable of.
David is a remote viewer, trainer, mentor, mystic and magickian. He hosts The Psychic Guys podcast, is a founder of the Second House RV Group (who regularly predict the future), and moderates the largest online community of remote viewers. He’s particularly interested in the overlap between remote viewing and esoteric spiritual traditions and how remote viewing can serve as an adjunct to spiritual practice. He has a background in archaeology, software engineering and life sciences. David lives in North Yorkshire, UK. Learn more about David at Intuitive Ops.
No background or prior experience with remote viewing is required to participate, only an interest in trying your mind at a new way of perceiving the universe.
What to Bring
During this session you will be drawing… a lot! Come prepared with a pencil and many pages of loose-leaf paper (printer paper works great).
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Vasileios Basios is a physicist, conducting interdisciplinary research on the foundations of complexity science and nonlinear systems, self-organization and complex matter. During his formative years, he was tutored by Ilya Prigogine, at ULB where he received his PhD, and by Emilios Bouratinos on meditation and philosophy. He is currently interested in the complex interface between action and information. Other interests include the history of ideas in science and their role in the transformation of science beyond the prevailing naïve, materialistic, mechanistic-reductionist world-view. With others from PEAR, he initiated the Mind-Matter-Mapping Project and has since published several essays for ICRL. He is also a member of the Board of the Scientific and Medical Network and the Steering Team of the Galileo Commission. Vasileios is inspired by the prospect of introducing self-reflection into the practice and understanding of science, and the emergence of a Self-Reflexive Science of Consciousness.
Bob (Brahmatirtha) was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1949, completed his B.S. in Chemistry at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1971, and received his M.S. in Geology from Rutgers University in 1975. After a twenty-year career serving as a geologist and vice-president of a large regional environmental company, he currently works as an environmental consultant to state governments. He has been a member of the Bhaktivedanta Institute since the inception in 1976, giving a presentation at their First International Conference on Life Comes from Life in 1977, and working on a multitude of projects with R.L. Thompson (Sadaputa) from 1995 through 2008. He is also a certified court mediator. He now serves as the Director of the Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies.
Ian Cook is a Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, where he directs the UCLA Depression Research and Clinic Program at the Semel Institute and was the inaugural holder of the Joanne and George Miller and Family Endowed Chair in Depression Research at the Brain Research Institute. He has been a part of the PEAR/ICRL family since 1980, when he was among the first undergraduate students to conduct research at the PEAR lab. He graduated from the Yale School of Medicine and pursued his residency training and research fellowship at UCLA. His research has focused on understanding the relationships among the mind, the brain, and the body, and in translating developments in technology into more effective treatments for disorders of mood and cognition.
degree from Hollis University and has accumulated a diverse work experience, spanning multiple disciplines: education, technology, business and law, predominately in support and administrative roles. She currently works for the College of New Jersey in its Office of Disability Support Services. Lynn Ann has been an administrative assistant to ICRL’s President since 2011, and has extensive familiarity with the organization’s structure and activities, along with a deep commitment to its mission.
The largest dataset collected at PEAR used Random Event Generators, or REGs. These devices were essentially electronic coin flippers that produced a series of 1’s and 0’s; operators were instructed to influence the machines to produce more 1’s than 0’s or vice versa.
