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Sunday, April 19, 2015

come to the "Acceptance Party!" at Samsara House 2023 -- Thursday, 04-23-2015

                                                                   
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 19:47:11 -0400
Subject: Come to the "Acceptance Party!" at Samsara House 2023, Thursday, April 23rd, 7:00 - 9:30PM
From: wakeup@samsarahouse.org

You are invited to attend:

 

The Relationship Circle "Acceptance Party!" at Samsara House 2023, Thursday, April 23rd, 7:00 - 9:30PM

  
  
The Relationship Circle


Acceptance Party!

Thursday 4/23/15 - 7:00 - 9:30pm
(starts promptly) 


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at Samsara House 2023

(Please help us keep our sanity by everyone 
registering and paying online instead of bringing cash)
  


Tonight's Theme: Acceptance Party
What the heck is an Acceptance Party?
Well, to be honest, I'm not sure...yet. But what I am sure of is that the games we play when meeting each other, trying to anticipate what people want from us, judging others from afar, being so concerned about managing the impression we make can be exhausting and not a very good determinant of how we will get along or how valuable we will be in each other's lives. 
What if we practiced acceptance first? Of ourselves, of others? What if we stopped asking what each other does for a living and became curious about who we really are and having the experience of being with another person without the pressures of figuring out what they're candidates for in our lives? What if we stopped assessing each other and let each other be exactly who we are and are not, without needing to think so much about how much of a match that is for us. Then think about not having to be concerned about being accepted, about impressing, and knowing that the person next to you is willing for you to be exactly who you are.
Acceptance doesn't mean that we endorse or encourage everything in each other. It just means that we understand this is who the person is, without feeling the need to overprotect ourselves with judgment. It's still OK to have personal boundaries, tastes and beliefs, but we'll all agree to practice accepting each other as our #1 intention for being here.
Being honest about what makes it hard for us to accept each other is powerful as well, a very vulnerable act that can actually bring us much closer as long as we are not using it as an excuse to run from or injure each other, when we are willing to own our discomfort. 
This party will be a facilitated social experience. We'll do some exercises together, we'll give out suggestions on how we can drop the typical conversation and be together in ways that can be powerful and radical and honest. Ultimately, by the end of the evening, I hope we'll all see some new possibilities and maybe make some new friends.

Minimum suggested contribution: $10 or more

Space limited to 20 people, RSVP required

About this event: 
The Relationship Circle is about creating a community of mindful practice in the area of interpersonal relationships.  We endeavor to use our relationships themselves meditatively, as an avenue for personal transformation as well as creating more love, happiness, success and well-being in our lives.  We use self-inquiry to discover how we are the root of our experience and through an empathetic and powerful process, identify patterns and create new pathways for communication, action and relating to ourselves.  This can be a tremendously healing and empowering process.  For over three years, The Relationship Circle has supported people through finding new romantic relationships, creating success in their work and discovering a sense of wholeness that they experience in their everyday lives.
 
The group is led by Gregg DeMammos, an ontological life coach in private practice since 2006.  You can learn more at www.meetup.com/The-Relationship-Circle.comwww.relationshipcircle.com or find Gregg or the Relationship Circle on Facebook.
 
The Relationship Circle is a group with two main intentions.
1. Supporting each other in creating the greatest relationships of our lives.
2. Transforming our lives from the inside out by using our relationships as a resource for learning about ourselves. 
They go hand in hand.
Tonight, we'll do some super-power training together on the orientation that can add so much to both aspects.  Looking at how our relationships are going as a cue for what we can learn about ourselves.  What gifts are available to us in how our relationships go? 
This is no simple skill.  Many of us have resistance (me included!) and rightly so.  We've encountered people and circumstances that gave us a mentality that they were the problem.  This training in no way makes a judgment on who is the problem.  It's just a skill that can help you see things in a very productive way, to examine, love and perhaps drop the ways we are being that may not be contributing to the lives we want to live.  We learned many habits for the sake of safety, but those habits are rarely what it takes to thrive. 
The best word I can use to describe this is humbling.  It's humbling work.  It's the kind of humbling that we can be extraordinarily grateful for, because it releases us from results we never wanted in the first place, it empowers us in our own lives and it brings more love, acceptance and success on our terms.
I'm excited to share this conversation with you.

(Please help us keep our sanity by everyone 
registering and paying online instead of bringing cash)

 
 

Location
Hosted by Samsara House 2023
36 R Street NW
Washington DC 20001
Contact: 202-505-0735
  
Parking: 2hr Street parking on R Street NW, Best to park on Quincy or S Street NW.  Taking Metro is advised.
Metro: NoMa New York Ave Red line stop or Shaw green line for a short walk, or get off at Chinatown and take the P6 to Randolph Rd Stop or the 80 to Lincoln and R Street NE Stop (both stops 1 block from R Street NW).

Website: www.samsarahouse.org
Twitter: @samsarahouse
Facebook: facebook.com/samsarahouse
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