Celebrating our 4 year anniversary
Hi Friends, Chelsea here.
Today I want to share with you a story about the Radical Honesty community here in Linz (where I live) ❤️
About four years ago, these wonderful people and I came together at the first ever Radical Honesty weekend workshop in Linz:
Before the event, Bernie (Reingruber, Radical Honesty Trainer and the workshop leader) and I had talked about our dream of creating a Radical Honesty community in Linz.
After that workshop, our dream became a reality.
The weekend workshop was full of…
honest, raw vulnerability
heart-pounding, sweaty excitement
face to face contact
sharing everything, openly
compassionately staying present
safely expressing anger
voicing attraction out loud
letting ourselves be seen in our tears of sadness
feeling nervous, excited, horny, ashamed
laughing and crying together and
feeling our bodies and emotions while
falling in love with these strangers-turned-friends
I talk more about what that workshop and others are like in this video about what Radical Honesty is to me:
We all wanted to stay in touch and continue the experience of aliveness that we created together at that workshop.
So I set up a WhatsApp group.
And from then on, we started meeting on a monthly, sometimes weekly basis.
We continued for the next four years; April 2023 will mark the 4 year anniversary of the Radical Honesty community in Linz.
In that time, we’ve experienced a lot together as a community:
Some of us became great friends; others shared honestly when we didn’t want to be friends.
Some of us flirted, fell a little bit in love and became lovers - and honestly embraced the coming and going from each other's lives as intimate partners.
We went through a pandemic together, and kept each other sane when there was hardly anyone else to meet with.
We danced together - in living rooms, in nature, at free and ecstatic dance festivals.
We cooked food for each other and ate together.
We asked for what we wanted and sometimes gave it to each other - whether that be a massage or help moving.
We supported each other during big life events, like moving houses, breaking up and starting new relationships, job changes, etc.
We witnessed and held space for each other when we were going through hard times, like depression, confusion, doubt or burn out.
We witnessed and held space for each other in our most joyous moments.
We grew apart in some cases - and then grew back together in a new way (sometimes).
We traveled to Greece and took a holiday together.
We got angry at each other - over and over again - and didn’t run away; on the contrary, in many cases, it only strengthened our relationship.
We made each other laugh and cry with our funny and heartbreaking stories.
We grew to love each other, even when we didn’t alway like each other.
We came to find friends, and some type of life-partners, in people who we otherwise might have never even talked to.
We went on hikes together.
We celebrated Christmas together.
We met for coffee and brunch and so many pancakes.
We got involved in each other's interests and shared our hobbies and passions with each other.
We stayed together through relationship partners changing, while some of us got engaged, had babies and created families.
We set intentions together for the new years and actively worked to create our lives together.
They say in Radical Honesty that the idea is to 1) Complete the Past, 2) Live in the Present and 3) Build a Future.
So here’s a little poem I wrote about that…
We share to let go of past hangups;
unfinished business.
We express all that there is to express -
until we are empty.
Free to live in the moment that is today;
to dream of all the future can be
and make it our reality.
In the best case,
with the help of some friends who,
like us, know how to create their lives too!
Next month, I was supposed to be leading a Radical Honesty Weekend Workshop in Linz with Christoph Fink. I would have invited you to it in this newsletter.
But since that won’t be happening, I want to take this chance to encourage you to attend a Radical Honesty Weekend Workshop near you.
You never know what kind of magic might come out of it.
In my experience, you’ll make friends for life.
Or at least, some friends for the night.
What else you do is up to you!
Wishing you the courage to create the life you want, today and always.
Love,
Chelsea
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Chelsea Workman is a writer, poet and Radical Honesty Trainer Candidate who lives in Linz, Austria. She leads the bi-weekly Radical Honesty Days in Linz meet-up group.
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