SCHEDULED EVENTS:

*** ALL EVENTS POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE ***
NB: We have just (March 2020) postponed ALL events due to CoronaVirus concerns. Checking this link at Eventbrite is a quick way to see if events are back on. Or join the Mailing List (see above) as we will certainly send out an email to everyone when events recommence.

​Spiral Events have been running quality workshops since 2006 in Melbourne (several years before the workshop boom that hit about 2011), and occasionally Sydney and even in Mullumbimby.

* The quickest and easiest way to see a simple list of currently scheduled events is under our EventBrite account. (Click on the heading of any you are interested in to be taken to more details of what that event is about, and the ticket options.)

* Or you can sign up for the Mailing List to be notified directly of the events that are on their way. This is an official 'easy-unsub' Mailchimp Mailing List, and we never have and never will pass on your details to anyone else.

* If FB is a good medium for you for learning about events, and you want to read even more about each workshop please check in on Facebook for the current scheduled events.

​​Spiral Events: Experiential 'Authentic Relating/Expression' and 'Contemporary Tantra' workshops - for the Pleasure of Self-Discovery (facilitating magic in Melbourne since 2006)

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We offer:
  • ​​Practical, fun and experiential ​self-discovery through transformational and interactive Authentic Relating and Contemporary Tantra (and related) events;​
  • Facilitated, non-pressured, opportunities for expansion through direct experience (rather than by over-complex techniques);
  • Simple (yet remarkably rich) conscious practices, to explore sensing and engaging more fully with others, open our natural skills in expressing and relating easily and organically. (This is a neglected 'secret' that a lot of teachers don't mention). 
'Authentic Expression' is the chance to engage with others in fun, real, satisfying and interesting connections for self-development, and relationship skills. (Not some obscure intellectual hard-work.)
  • Everything we offer actually falls under this broad heading. Whether it's the fun 'Improv Games' night, the fascinating self-discovery of 'Masks & Mirrors', or one of our specific Tantra events.
  • Something very magical and transformational occurs when we are just present with each other.
  • More than two decades of immersive studies in various branches of how to be more real and open allows us to offer some unique perspectives.
​​​'Tantra' is often perceived and presented as having a somewhat 'inaccessible mystique'. Yet Contemporary Tantra doesn't need to be mysterious or complicated:
  • Authentic connections & reflections are naturally powerful forces of personal transformation. 
  • 'Presence' isn't a vague concept, but something practical that can be easily learned; and
  • 'Subtle Energy' isn't a 'woo woo' Eastern abstraction, but our natural sensory capacity to engage in tangible and beautiful ways.​

Osho once said: "If you are too technique-oriented you will miss the mystery of Tantra. It is pseudo-Tantra ... because if techniques are there, ego will be there, controlling."

Our take on that is two-fold:
  • Any techniques & practices need to be a pathway to the truth, not the truth themselves.
  • Overly complex techniques are not necessary in order to journey deeply into the authenticity and beauty of relating and into who you truly are. (In fact, they can sometimes get in the way.)

Behind the Scenes

  • ​Arven's background (the pragmatic North of England) gives him a solidly practical approach to all he has studied and everything he presents. (You won't find the 'Tantra guru' style here.) He is a qualified Transpersonal Counselor, former Victorian co-ordinator & assistant with ISTA (International School of Temple Arts), 'Urban Tantra' graduate, and former Foundations teacher with 'Meisner Melbourne'. He has been teaching & coaching Authentic Relating, Contemporary Tantra, and Acting/Improv in Melbourne since 2006. He was also co-founder and key-designer of the Evolving Man (transpersonal menswork) evening series, day events and weekends from 2009-2014.
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  • Experiential small-group workshops, and participants/crew engage in circle style rather than 'classroom' format. (Paradoxically, as a natural facilitator, Arven is more introvert than extrovert, and values deep-core development far above flashy performance.)
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  • Deep and fascinating (but non-pressured) practices. Engage with others on your resilient edge of expansion. Encounter and integrate your own unique abilities, and resources.
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  • The transformational magic of rich and real human relating is often neglected by common media portrayal of life. The over-focus on performance and conditioned expectation rather than on genuine quality disconnects us from our depths.
 
  • Down-to-earth, fun and fascinating exercises that reconnect us to the subtle and the unfamiliar, and ground this new awareness as learning in the body. New windows to know and show the real you behind your masks. Plus learn how to more deeply feel and 'get' others.
 
  • These events evolved from the synthesis of a range of inter-related disciplines. Primarily Neo-Tantra, Shamanic Tantra, and Transpersonal Psychology. Plus influences from the 'Slow Sex' (Yin Intimacy) approach to Tantra, Transformational Therapy, Psychodrama, Expressive Arts Therapy, David Deida, and the Meisner (authenticity-based) acting technique.
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We are committed to making this work available. If finances are ever literally the only reason you wouldn't come along and try out one of our events, please contact us (SpiralEvents00@gmail.com) and we will do our best to work something out.
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WELCOME TO THIS CUTTING-EDGE RELATIONAL TRAINING:
ART International's Authentic Relating Weekend Course ~ The ART of Being Human: Level 1
***Back for another visit to Melbourne, Australia!***

Spiral Events are delighted to be an official supporter and co-host of this organisation's Melbourne weekend!!
* Imagine getting to know yourself in profoundly new ways through the eyes of others.
* Imagine being yourself and speaking your truth at any moment in your life.
* Imagine being an agent for more meaningful and conscious relationships.
* Imagine being comfortable and having grace under fire in times of discomfort, conflict, or stress.
* Imagine having the power to lead any relationship towards a greater understanding of one another, deeper connection and more intimacy.
* Imagine creating relationships that are resilient and designed to last.

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The ART of Being Human: Level 1
Dates: Nov 9-10, 2019

Schedule:
Saturday ~ 9:30am - 7:30pm
Sunday ~ 9:30am - 7.30pm

Location:
Ceres Environment Park, Brunswick
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Investment: $295 USD
(Earlybird discount available! Go to FB event for details!!)
Register here: https://www.authenticrelatingtraining.com/level-1/

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR:
Our expert facilitators are highly qualified in this art and bring years of experience teaching authentic relating. Our curriculum designers have found and created the most innovative and effective relational practices available to deliver a life-changing experience that deepens with practice.

Rick Smith
COURSE LEADER
www.thetenderedge.com
www.consciousteaching.com

Rick has worked with over 100,000 people on five continents in areas of teaching skills, presence, facilitation, and Authentic Relating. His best-selling book “Conscious Classroom Management” has now sold over a quarter million copies, and continues to touch the lives of teachers and their students.
Rick now brings his experience in communication and facilitation to the Authentic Relating Training, offering practical ways for participants to know and love themselves, and remember their own innocence, wholeness, and “enough-ness,” especially in all the tight corners of their inner and outer worlds.

More details and the Earlybird code here on Facebook

Participant Feedback:


  • ​“Very experiential, very playful and very accepting of where everyone is in that particular moment. I always come away feeling more comfortable dwelling within my own body and more confident in relating authentically with other people. I'm looking forward to more.”  CM (Contracts Analyst)
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  • “A beautiful afternoon , the softness, the warmth , the safe space enabled me to stay in my raw feelings without running away from them.”  GR (Intimacy Coach)
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  • "Well facilitated, ethical, and fun. ...A nice, natural flow of activities and enough attention paid to safety and boundaries, which meant that the work could go quite deep. Exercises were fun, but also kept me on my learning edge, in a good balance.”  RB (Management Services)
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  • "The facilitators are very authentic, sincere & courageous. I think that enables me to be brave…. to be who I always imagined I’d be. The content can be confronting but it enables me to fully embrace who I am. Probably the best payoff is that I feel fulfilled & carry with me those moments that I shared in your workshops.”  CW (Sales Executive)
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  • "A juicy and high caliber workshop where I could explore my boundaries authentically while daring to extend my edges. A seamless fusion of partnered and group processes, with flavours spanning playful, heartfelt and deep, that allowed me to experience profound insight and connection. Simply beautiful!"  KM (Yoga Teacher)
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  • “What a wonderful afternoon... thank you for facilitating the workshop. What a lovely collection of people too! I look forward to the next one.”  MJ (Musician)

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