Embodied Resilience Presents
Relational Resilience and Repair
From Pattern to Possibility
A FOUR-Part In-Person experiential workshop Series
A four-part experiential workshop series for understanding relational patterns, expanding choice, and practicing new possibilities for connection and repair.
January 9, January 23, February 6 & February 20, 2027
Every other Saturday | 10 AM–2 PM
Earthaven Ecovillage, Black Mountain, NC
From understanding our patterns to practicing new possibilities
Most of us have familiar ways of responding when we encounter tension, difference, or conflict. We may become defensive, withdraw, accommodate, pursue connection, or try to regain control—even when those responses don’t lead to the outcomes we want.
These patterns often have understandable origins. Yet understanding why we respond as we do doesn’t necessarily mean we can respond differently in the moments that matter.
How can we create more choice when our familiar relational patterns take over?
This four-part experiential series offers a practical, embodied approach to exploring that question.
Together, we’ll develop greater awareness of the patterns that shape our relationships, explore what those patterns are trying to accomplish, and practice creating more room for discernment, intentional choice, accountability, and meaningful repair.
What we’ll explore
Through accessible teaching, guided reflection, and an experiential practice, we’ll explore:
1. Our relational frames
How learned beliefs, assumptions, expectations, and cultural influences shape what we perceive, how we interpret others, and which responses seem available.
2. Our inner experience
How nervous system responses, bodily cues, thoughts, emotions, needs, desires, and boundaries influence how we navigate relational challenges.
3. Our strategies
How we adapt to protect ourselves and meet important needs, how our strategies affect others, and how we might discover additional ways to respond.
4. New possibilities for change and repair
How awareness, interruption, experimentation, accountability, and changed behavior can help us navigate rupture and cultivate the conditions for meaningful repair.
You’ll be introduced to a practical map for understanding relational patterns and have an opportunity to apply it to a manageable situation from your own life.–practice become familiar and practiced at…
A Map for Understanding Relational Patterns
Our frames, inner experiences, and strategies continually influence one another, shaping the patterns that unfold in our relationships.
What to expect
Each four-hour workshop combines:
- Accessible teaching and practical frameworks.
- Embodied awareness and guided reflection.
- Demonstrations and small-group experiential exercises.
- Opportunities to explore everyday relational situations.
- Integration and practical applications for life outside the workshop.
There will also be opportunities for optional buddy practice and integration between sessions.
We’ll have a short lunch break within each four-hour workshop. Bring your own lunch and enjoy time for connection, reflection, or quiet integration.
What you may gain
Through participation, you’ll have opportunities to develop:
- A new perspective: A more expansive understanding of conflict and the patterns that shape our relationships.
- A practical map: A framework for recognizing how relational frames, inner experiences, strategies, and impact interact.
- Greater self-awareness: More familiarity with your own responses, underlying needs, protective strategies, and relational tendencies.
- More choice: Practice noticing and interrupting familiar patterns and experimenting with alternative responses.
- A foundation for repair: Greater understanding of relational impact, responsibility, boundaries, and the importance of changed behavior.
- An expanded sense of possibility: More capacity to respond with discernment, creativity, care, and accountability.
The intention is not to master a set of techniques or eliminate familiar responses, but to develop the awareness, capacity, and practice that make meaningful change more possible over time.
About the learning community
This series is rooted in Earthaven Ecovillage of Western North Carolina, and many participants will have existing connections and ongoing relationships within the community. People from the wider community are also warmly welcome.
We’ll give particular attention to consent, confidentiality, and creating a learning environment that honors both existing relationships and new perspectives.
Who is this for?
This series is for people who want to deepen their understanding of themselves and their relational patterns, and develop more capacity to navigate differences, tension, and conflict.
It may be particularly meaningful for those who:
- Notice recurring patterns in their relationships and want to understand them more deeply.
- Want to develop greater awareness of their nervous system responses, needs, and boundaries.
- Are interested in approaching conflict with more curiosity, clarity, and accountability.
- Want to strengthen their capacity for navigating rupture and making meaningful repair.
- Value experiential learning and are willing to engage in reflection and practice.
No prior experience with somatic practices or conflict resolution frameworks is required.
What this series is—and isn’t
This is a practice-based educational experience, not group therapy, mediation, or a forum for resolving ongoing conflicts between participants.
We’ll explore relational experiences with curiosity, care, and respect for individual capacity and choice. Participants are invited to work with manageable examples, and sharing personal experiences is always optional.
The intention is not to become endlessly accommodating, abandon boundaries, or take responsibility for what belongs to others. Understanding a response does not mean excusing its impact, and meaningful repair does not necessarily require reconciliation.
Attendance and participation
This four-part series is designed as a cumulative learning experience, with each session building on the previous ones. Participants are strongly encouraged to attend all four sessions.
If you anticipate missing one session, you’re still welcome to register. Because of the cumulative nature of the curriculum and limited enrollment, the series is not intended for those who know they’ll miss two or more sessions.
Sessions will not be recorded, and shared materials cannot replace the in-person learning and practice.
Participation in exercises and personal sharing is always invitational.
Dates and practical details
Four Saturdays: January 9, January 23, February 6, February 20, 2027
Time: 10 AM–2 PM
Location: Earthaven Ecovillage, Black Mountain, NC
Format: Four in-person, experiential workshops (16 hours total)
Participation in all four workshops is encouraged to support continuity, shared learning, and integration.
Community support and contributions
This pilot series is made possible in part through a generous grant from Earthaven’s Innovation Fund, which has supported the development of the curriculum and 18 fully funded places for community members.
Additional participants are invited to contribute according to their capacity.
Suggested contributions:
- Accessible: $125–$250 — For those with limited financial flexibility.
- Standard: $400 — Reflecting the full program tuition.
- Solidarity: Above $400 — For those who wish to offer additional support.
Your participation matters more to me than your financial contribution.
These are suggested amounts, not requirements. You are welcome to contribute whatever amount makes participation possible for you, including attending without a financial contribution.
I’m deeply grateful for the community’s support in bringing this work into being.
Curious about the approach?
Relational Resilience and Repair: An Introduction
An Experiential Online Introduction
Saturday, December 5, 2026
1–3 PM EST | Online
Sliding-scale donation: $10–$70.
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Join us for a two-hour experiential introduction to the framework and an opportunity to explore whether the four-part series is right for you.
The introductory presentation is open to everyone, whether or not you’re considering the full series.
About the facilitator
Julia Taylor is a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and relational wellness facilitator. Her work integrates embodied awareness, relational understanding, and practical approaches to navigating conflict, cultivating resilience, and supporting meaningful change in relationships.
Through Embodied Resilience, Julia supports individuals and groups in developing greater self-awareness, capacity, choice, and relational connection.
Embodied Resilience | www.juliaanntaylor.com