Dr. Birgit Trauer

How important are your every-day relationships as you travel through life?

How prepared are you for the challenges in your relational ecosystem?

How fit are you to create and sustain rewarding relationships?

 

 Join a new movement and build your relational capacity . 

Develop Your Relational CORE Fitness

Elevate your awareness of your life's relational ecosystem and dynamics and your relationship aspirations.

Regenerate your excitement and capacity to contribute to a sense of love, care, and mutuality.

Get to know yourself anew as an individual and as part of life’s old and new relationships.

Get in touch with your thoughts, emotions, and unconscious and unquestioned behaviour patterns.

Develop your relationship skills to be a champion and successful leader in all your relational spheres.

Generate a butterfly effect for individual, relational, and collective wellbeing and a culture of peace..

Relational CORE FitnessFoundations

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RELATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Contextual Capacity Unearthed

Relational CORE Fitness -Foundational Courses
Highlights
  • Wellbeing through a relational mindfulness lens.
    A shift from individualistic thinking to relationship thinking — where mutuality and connection are at the heart of wellness and wellbeing.

    Mapping the diversity of relationships – from family and romantic bonds to friendships, teams, and communities.
    Discover how each one contributes to the quality of our lives.

  • Expand your definition of love and intimacy.
    Move beyond romantic ideals and explore the many ways love is expressed and experienced across different life contexts – in intimate partnerships, family, friendships, community, and the everyday moments that connect us.

    Reframe intimacy as “into-me-see.”
    View intimacy as a window into authentic connection — where curiosity, courage, and vulnerability meet. Explore the diverse kinds of intimacy and how each one enriches your relationships and emotional fitness.


  • Recognize the subtle relational dynamics at play Learn to spot the signs of healthy — and unhealthy — connection. Explore relational challenges and behaviour patterns. Expand your comfort zone in support of relational empowerment.
    Discover the power of transparency and boundaries as a grounding in your relational wisdom.

  • Remember boundaries as bridges not walls.
    Value boundaries that help you connect with care and protect what matters most. Nurture a healthy relational biosphere grounded in love and kindness where respect and empathy can thrive.

    Strengthen your relational core.
    Integrate proven core strategies that build emotional strength and foster authentic, mutually nourishing relationships. Keep your heart open, your mind flexible, and your boundaries to connect as well as protect.

EMOTIONAL EMPOWERMENT
Inner Capacity Re-Ignited

Relational CORE Fitness -Foundational Courses
Highlights
  • Develop emotional empowerment foundational know-how . Elevate your emotional insight and skills and feel alive and confident in all your relationships.

    Expand your emotional vocabulary. Strengthen your emotional capacity to connect with greater mindfulness and intention.

  • Explore the emotional experience cycle. Discover how reflection, presence, and projection shape your emotional energy and relational fitness.

    Align emotions, need, and values in daily life. Create your emotional blueprint that powers relational understanding, empathy, and connection.

  • Exercise your emotional empowerment for daily reality. Raise your awareness of your triggers and glimmers to stay grounded in love and care.

    Tap into your empathy power. Shape your natural capacity to nurture meaningful connections and relational empowerment.

  • Grow your emotional empowerment through courage. Discover how to adapt and face life’s challenges and joy with compassion and optimism.

    Reframe setbacks as opportunities. Practice critical mindfulness and gratitude to strengthen your capacity to bounce back with confidence and emotional power.

CONSCIOUS COMMUNICATION
Expressive Capacity in Action

Relational CORE Fitness -Foundational Courses
Highlights
  • Conscious Communication helps you grow. Develop a language that matters, strengthen your expressive capacity, and become a relational champion in a world of disconnect.

    Heart-centred listening, mindful speaking. Build your verbal and non-verbal conscious communication and cultivate compassionate and emotionally strong relationships.

  • Learn to differentiate communication styles Recognise assertive-positive and passive-aggressive verbal and non-verbal communication, and signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships.

    Build a new language of human experience. Welcome and express feelings, needs and wants, your own and those of others, with compassion and confidence.

  • Learn to mindfully notice and track communication tone Acknowledge tension and triggers in conversations and draw on soothing yet assertive communication strategies.

    Shape your verbal and nonverbal communications style Draw on more compassionate and meaningful expressions to connect and reconnect with yourself and others, heart to heart.

  • Reframe conflict from a problem to an opportunity View boundaries to protect and connect. Embrace repair as part of strong healthy relationships and mutual wellbeing.

    Develop your personal communication fitness Maximise winning strategies to build bridges not walls for inner and outer peace.

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