What is T-Group 2.0?

If meditation is a mindfulness practice that you do with yourself, T-Group is a mindfulness practice that you do in relationship with other people. It's an opportunity to step outside the norms of polite conversation and drop into something much more deep and real. It's a laboratory where you can make discoveries about your habitual ways of showing up in connection with others and experiment with new ways of being and relating. It's a living mirror that can offer real-time feedback and reflection about the impact you have on the world.

This practice will deepen your self-awareness, because it's only when you see yourself more clearly that you can begin to make new choices and generate new experiences. It will invite you into greater levels of transparency than most of us are accustomed to, revealing the connective and healing powers of authenticity, vulnerability, and intimacy. And it will teach you new ways to work with the obstacles to connection, equipping you to navigate differences, conflict, and your own triggers with both heart and skill.

Finally, this practice also teaches us how to transform a collection of separate individuals into a truly cohesive, synergistic group that is greater than the sum of its parts. It is a place where we come together to learn how to re-weave the fabric of our human community in a way that honors and includes all our differences and diversity. And in so doing, we wind up co-creating the experience of belonging to something larger than ourselves, which is something we need now more than ever.

T-Group allows you to…

• Learn to establish new connections with confidence and ease, using the power of Authenticity and Vulnerability

• Unravel patterns of insecurity, shame, and self-aggression

• Experience the emotional nourishment of deeper Connection and a sense of Belonging

• Overcome the social anxiety or awkwardness that results in loneliness and isolation

• Discover more effective ways to negotiate through differences and navigate conflict in relationships

• Receive real-time feedback about how others experience you, and the kinds of responses you elicit from them

• Learn to give feedback in ways that can actually be heard

• Gain insight into the nature of human systems and group dynamics, so that you can learn to influence them with your presence and participation alone

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Donations to the T-Group Scholarship Fund allow individuals who cannot afford the financial contribution to attend our weekly gatherings, closed groups, and intensives.

The Vision Statement of the Bay Area T-Group Community

"We are here to create a Practice Community based on deep connection and authenticity, built on foundations of respect and goodwill, where all parts of us are welcome and our differences are appreciated as resources. We are also here to gain self-awareness around our habitual patterns and roles, limiting beliefs and strategies, and repetitive experiences in groups. But ultimately, we are here to re-weave the web of the human community, to remember that we are not separate and that we belong to and with one another."

I organize these gatherings because I love T-Group with my whole heart. I was part of the T-Group community in Boulder, Colorado for over two years, and I am a living testament to the power of this practice. I bring a lot of prior education, training, and practice to leading this community, but I want to keep these gatherings as accessible as possible - because it was free for me and it changed my life perhaps more than anything else ever has.

“We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.” ~ Archilochus

“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead to an understanding of ourselves.” ~ Carl Jung

"Enlightenment is being able to simultaneously experience unity and individuality without experiencing any conflict." ~Adyashanti

“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, ‘What else could this mean?’” ~Shannon L. Alder

"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself." ~Wayne Dyer

“When people do not want to see something, they get mad at the one who shows them.” ~ Julia Cameron

“Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don't want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.” ~ Byron Katie

“You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.” ~ Ajahn Chah

"When you're tempted to judge someone, make an effort to see their goodness. Your willingness to look for the best in people will subconsciously bring it forth." ~ Marianne Williamson

If you are willing to look at another person's behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person, then you will, over a period of time cease to react at all. ~ Yogi Bhajan

"For one human being to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

"Go and love someone exactly as they are. And then watch how quickly they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves. When one feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered." ~ Wes Angelozzi

"Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes." ~ Jack Kornfield

“It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.” ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."
~ Maya Angelou

“The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes. ” ~ Pema Chödrön

“Each of us lacks awareness of certain aspects of our own behavior or feelings which others can clearly see, which is another reason why human interaction is the most challenging and rewarding adventure that we can experience” ~Joseph Luft

“The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.” ~Nisargadatta Maharaj

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. ~Marcus Aurelius

"We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others." ~Thomas Merton

“Most people take the limits of their vision to be the limits of the world. A few do not. Join them” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

“The person that challenges you and holds you accountable loves you more than the person that watches you stay the same.” ~ Unknown

“The ancestor of every action is a thought.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” ~Carl Jung

"Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself, but also of dissolving the collective human ego. But you can only be in a state of non-reaction if you can recognize someone’s behavior as coming from the ego, as being an expression of the collective human dysfunction. When you realize it’s not personal, there’s no longer a compulsion to react as if it were. By not reacting to the ego, you will often be able to bring out the sanity in others... At times, you may have to take practical steps to protect yourself from deeply unconscious people. This you can do without making them into enemies. Your greatest protection however is being conscious. Somebody becomes an enemy if you personalize the unconsciousness that is the ego." ~ Eckhart Tolle