The Art of Conscious Intimacy

Niela Miller

Jun 4-6, 2010

Intimacy: A close, familiar, and usually affectionate or loving personal relationship with another person or group.

This workshop is designed to help you become more conscious and have greater awareness of your sensations, thoughts, surroundings, choices, etc.—your capacity for intimacy in any valued relationship. It is also intended to assist you in overcoming self-imposed limitations or unconscious behaviors which might prevent you from having the kind of satisfying, heartfelt and productive connections for which all of us yearn. As a participant, you will engage in a series of exercises that will lead to discoveries allowing each of you to leave with valuable tools for enhancing your capacity for intimacy with yourself, others, community groups, and potential friends, including those you will meet in this workshop.

Throughout the weekend we will make use many creative approaches from the arts, Gestalt, and Jungian psychology to enrich each person’s experience. This workshop is open to singles, couples, and persons of any sex or gender orientation.
We all yearn for a feeling of connection and wholeness within ourselves and with others. By expanding our ways of being with others, we can have exciting, interesting, and revealing encounters. Some will last a few minutes, others an hour or a weekend, and some for a lifetime. With our hearts leading the way we can reclaim our innate wisdom and courage. We can learn tools to enhance our connections with friends, family, or partners. We can challenge the obstacles that prevent us from becoming lovers in a world that cries out for love.

“Niela Miller is one of the most creative,
innovative facilitators anyone can imagine!”
—Amy and Arny Mindell

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Niela Miller has been working in the field of human potential for 40 years. She combines an extensive background and training in humanistic psychology (especially Gestalt and Jungian processes) , organizational development, education, and many arts to help individuals, groups and organizations with a wide array of process skills designed to support the personal, professional and community growth and development of people and their creations. She has been teaching at Rowe since 1982 and we are delighted at her return.