Do you want deeper and more meaningful relationships with the people in your life?

Do you want to know yourself in new ways and be a catalyst for others to know themselves as well?

Do you want to have the ability to lead any relationship toward greater understanding, deeper intimacy, and trust?

Welcome to The ART of Being Human: L1 & L2

Level 1 Course

The L1 course is designed to make the learning of authentic relating as accessible, adoptable, practical, and engaging as possible, so that graduates can apply their new skills to their lives right away with immediate results.

We’ve designed this course to give you the tools to cultivate connection, intimacy, trust, and aliveness in your relationships – all within just two days (or six weeks for our online course). The tools and skills we teach work across all social contexts, from the workplace to the living room, from strangers to partners and everyone in between.

Our experienced Course Leaders expertly guide you through a curriculum that strongly emphasizes embodied and experiential learning. This is not a lecture or seminar – it is a deep dive full-immersion training that will leave you enlivened, heart and mind-opened, and deeply connected to yourself and others.

We’ve delivered the same Level 1 Course to spiritual seekers in Bali, jail inmates in Colorado, executives in New York City, and men and women from all across the social, cultural, economic, and political spectrum, of all ages and nationalities, in almost 50 locations on four continents. Universally, participants report profound and lasting transformation in all aspects of their lives. The course speaks in the shared language of human connection, and is designed specifically to include everyone in the practice of Authentic Relating, no matter what path they’ve traveled in life.

We believe that we all have the capacity to be bridges – between parts of ourselves, ourselves with others, and together with the world. The course’s mission is to build bridges, and use our bridges to heal, connect, and co-create a more enlivened, awakened world – together.

What to Expect as graduate of ART L1:

The ability to engage in deep, meaningful, soulful conversations with anyone, anytime, anywhere
A powerful language and skill-set to accurately and transparently express your authentic experience in real time, and to invite others to do the same
The awareness to identify your true, core desires, and the ability to articulate them to others
A profound understanding of the dignity of speaking your authentic voice, and the humility of using your eyes and ears to pay attention to – and learn from – the people and world around you
The ability to see and reflect the essential being in others, and to gently guide them into a space in which they can be fully, wholly themselves – one of the greatest gifts we can offer each other
A complete set of powerful tools to de-escalate conflict and to use conflict as a vehicle leading to deeper connection, understanding, and empathy
A restored connection to childlike genuine curiosity, and a perspective that regards the world with awe and wonder
The ability to set powerful context at both the personal and collective levels, and a clear understanding of how influential context is in informing our experience of life
An experience of profoundly vulnerable, intimate, beautiful connections with other participants that will leave you inspired, delighted, and heart-opened

Level 2 Course

Building on the foundational practices of Authentic Relating that we established in Level 1, the Level 2 Advanced training will support you to deeply understand your relational patterns, claim your wholeness, and create thriving connections with others.

To be an integrated, relational human being means knowing and welcoming yourself fully, including the parts of yourself that you turn away from, suppress, and disown. In Level 2 we make space for all the parts of us, including our shadow patterns that limit us from experiencing the nourishing connections we desire. We learn to own these parts, to bring them into connection, and to expand our capacity to be with the inevitable triggers, tensions and breakdowns that come with our relationships. The principles and practices you will learn in Level 2 will teach you to relate to what lies underneath relational tensions and to repair with others from a vulnerable, embodied, response-able place within yourself.

What to Expect as graduate of ART L2:

Nervous system training – how to be with intensity and charge and increase your capacity to stay empowered and composed
How to listen for and attune to what is under the surface of your conscious awareness – reading body language and sensing the values one holds at the core of their being
Somatic tools for tracking embodied states, resourcing yourself and co-regulating with others
Skills for accessing the vulnerability underneath activation that decreases conflict and increases connection
How to hold multiple perspectives – within yourself, between you and others, and in society at large – and use them as a bridge for healing and connection
Advanced skills for owning your experience and why this matters so deeply for thriving relationships
Welcoming and reclaiming your shadows in relationship — the parts of you that you hide, suppress, deny or project onto others — as a pathway to wholeness
Working with and giving space to your diverse “parts” to inform and guide you in greater integration and understanding of your experience
Making the implicit explicit in culture and society
Relational hygiene practices and how to tend to relational tensions before they escalate
How to creatively empower your relationships and design unique relational contexts that support you and those in your life to thrive

ITINERARY

All days begin at 9am and end roughly at 7pm, with a 90 minute lunch break in the early afternoon, and include breaks throughout the day.

Thursday, Aug 29 (Arrival)
- Check-in between: 2-5 pm
- Welcome Dinner: 6 pm
Friday, Aug 30 (DAY 1 - L1) 9am-7pm
- Breakfast: 7:45-8:45 am
- Session 1: 9am-1 pm
- Lunch: 1-2:30 pm
- Session 2: 2:30-7 pm
- Dinner: 7 pm
Saturday, Aug 31 (DAY 2 - L1) 9am - 7pm
- Breakfast: 7:45-8:45 am
- Session 1: 9am-1 pm
- Lunch: 1-2:30 pm
- Session 2: 2:30-7 pm
- Dinner: 7 pm
Sunday, Sep 1 (Break Day) — OR DEPARTURE/ARRIVAL FOR THOSE IN ONLY L1 OR L2
- Rest, relax and integrate
- Possible Hot Springs or Adventure will be organized (additional cost)
Monday, Sep 2 (Day 1 - L2)
- Breakfast: 7:45-8:45 am
- Session 1: 9am-1 pm
- Lunch: 1-2:30 pm
- Session 2: 2:30-7 pm
- Dinner: 7 pm
Tuesday, Sep 3 (Day 2 - L2)
- Breakfast: 7:45-8:45 am
- Session 1: 9am-1 pm
- Lunch: 1-2:30 pm
- Session 2: 2:30-7 pm
- Dinner: 7 pm
Wednesday, Sep 4 (Departure)
- Breakfast 8 am
- Checkout 10 am

MEET YOUR GUIDE

DAYNA SERAYE
DIRECTOR OF LEADERSHIP AND FACILITATOR TRAINING / SENIOR COURSE LEADER

Dayna facilitates transformational experiences for groups and individuals through embodiment practices, therapeutic coaching, authentic relating and integrative healing arts. She has guided retreats, trainings and immersions for nearly two decades and has taught at renown festivals and conferences throughout the world. Her passion lies in supporting people to experience embodied connection – where healing occurs and wholeness is remembered, and is honored to serve ART as a course leader. Dayna is the Co-Founder and Director of Hanuman Academy, which offers soul-based yoga education. She is also the Creative Director for Hanuman Festival, and you can find her classes online through gaia.com and hanumanacademy.com.

BRAVE EARTH

Brave Earth, Center for Applied Cultural Transition, is a living laboratory rooted in principles of regeneration, resiliency and reciprocity. We provide immersive experiences in Nature that share alternative ways of living and being that are suitable for modernity and contextually relevant for the rapidly changing world we live in.

Immerse yourself in the majesty and mystery of the rainforest. Brave Earth is located between San Ramon and La Fortuna, nestled in between Arenal Volcano and the Children’s Eternal Rainforest, the largest reserve of protected wildlife in Costa Rica.

As a living lab, we have experimented with different building modalities using AirCrete and materials sourced on the land including bamboo and adobe. We have implemented biophilic design, closed-loop systems and permaculture design principles. Ornamental, food, and medicinal gardens surround the center as well as hiking trials to a nearby river, and a natural swimming pond.

CONTRIBUTION: COURSE ONLY

For course registration, please select the link below. The exchange is $700 for L1 & L2 Bundle. For L1 OR L2 only, the cost is $395 each. Sign up is directly with ART International. Please note Room and Food requires separate sign up.

COURSE only REGISTRATION

FOOD & LODGING OPTIONS

(OPTION 1 - L1 & L2 Immersion) CONTRIBUTION FOOD & LODGING: Aug 29 - Sep 4

Brave Earth is offering Room and Food during the L1+L2 Immersion bundle. Arrival is on Thursday August 29th and Departure is on Wednesday September 4th. There is a rest day on Sep 1 where we will be planning an activity.

Prices include 6 nights stay and 3 meals per day. This does NOT include course.

There are different Lodging options available. Please see link below for more information:

Level 1+2 Immersion Bundle

(OPTION 2 - Level 1 Only) CONTRIBUTION FOOD AND LODGING: AUG 29 - SEP 1

Brave Earth is offering Room and Food during the Level 1 course. Arrival is on Thursday August 29th and Departure is on Sunday September 1st.

Prices include 3 nights stay and 3 meals per day. This does NOT include course.

There are different accommodation options available. Please see link below for more information:

Level 1 ONLY

(OPTION 3 - Level 2 Only) CONTRIBUTION FOOD AND LODGING: Sep 1 - Sep 4

Brave Earth is offering Room and Food during the Level 2 course. Arrival is on Sunday September 1st and Departure is on Wednesday September 4th.