Dr. Birgit Trauer

How prepared are you to succeed in the world of relationships?

How skilful are you in navigating relationship challenges?

How fit are you to enjoy heart to heart connections? 

Come and join me and strengthen your

Relational Capacity

 

Develop Your Relational CORE Fitness

Elevate your awareness and understanding of your relationship aspirations and dynamics.

Re-ignite your excitement and capacity to contribute to a shared sense of love and care.

Get to know yourself anew as an individual and as partof 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..

Foundational Courses

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RELATIONAL INTELLIGENCE FITNESS
Insight matters – for clarity, meaningful love, and nourishing relational living.

Foundational Courses
Course highlights
  • Explore mindfulness from a broader perspective with a focus on mutuality-from individualistic thinking to relationship thinking.

    Map the diversity of your relationships and discover their place and importance in your daily life, from family and intimate relationships to friendships and teams.

  • Expand your definition of love beyond romantic ideals and understand the diverse expressions and meanings of love across life contexts.

    Reframe the concept of intimacy as a lens for into-me-see, and explore the different kinds of intimacy and their relevance in your relationships.

  • Flex your wise mind to recognise relational dynamics and the signs of healthy and unhealthy connection.

    Explore your self-esteem and unconscious behaviour patterns and discover how they shape your romantic and platonic relationships.

  • Remember love and kindness and value boundaries as a bridge to connect and protect, and foster healthy relational biospheres.

    Strengthen your relational core by integrating proven strategies that fuel authentic and mutually nourishing relationships.

EMOTIONAL EMPOWERMENT FITNESS
Feelings matter – in all our relationships, in our private and public spheres.

Foundational Courses
Course highlights
  • Understand the power of emotions to be emotionally agile and relationally confident in all your relationships.

    Expand your emotional vocabulary and train your emotional core to connect with greater mindfulness and more intention.

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

    Uncover the relationships between emotions, needs, and values — the emotional blueprint that powers understanding, empathy, and connection.

  • Train your emotional fitness by becoming aware of your triggers and glimmers to stay grounded in connection and love.

    Tap into your natural capacity for empathy and nurture meaningful connections and relationship dynamics.

  • Reflect with courage and discover how to adapt and grow through life’s challenges with self-compassion and optimism.

    Learn to reframe setbacks as opportunities, practice gratitude, and celebrate small wins—strengthening your capacity to bounce back with confidence and care.

CONSCIOUS COMMUNICATION FITNESS
Language matters – to connect with a caring mind and a thoughtful heart.

Foundational Courses
Course highlights
  • Explore principles and values of communication, verbal and non-verbal, and specific styles in your interaction with others and yourself.

    Discover healthy and unhealthy communication patterns in yourself and others, and recognise the benefits of conversing with consciousness.

  • Differentiate between assertive, passive, and aggressive verbal and non-verbal communication styles.

    Build a new language of human experience, expressing needs and wants and personal boundaries with compassion and confidence.

  • Explore how emotions, assumptions, and past experiences shape how you connect and respond to others.

    Learn to mindfully notice and track tone, tension, and triggers in conversation and draw on soothing communication strategies.

  • Reframe conflict from a problem to an opportunity – to connect and protect – your personal and your relational health and wellbeing.

    Develop your personal communication fitness plan, including your winning boundary strategies, to nurture relationships grounded in mutuality, love and respect.

Blog: Explore Relational CORE Fitness

Relational CORE Fitness – Why it is important

Relational CORE Fitness is vital for our individual, relational, and collective happiness, health, and well-being. Our sense of well-being is challenged immensely in a world of growing disconnect, unhappiness, and loneliness. The now-recognised loneliness epidemic, the emotional recession and the...

Relational CORE Fitness – How to develop it

Have you ever wondered if you are fit enough for the relational challenges in your life? You are not the only one. Come and follow your curiosity and join me in my interactive in-person workshops.   Take your courage and lift the...

Relational CORE Fitness – What it is

Relational CORE Fitness is the foundation for healthy and rewarding relationships – at home, at work, and in the world at large.  Relational CORE Fitness builds and strengthens our relational capacity to connect and reconnect with ourselves, others, and the world...

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Relational CORE Fitness – A.L.O.H.A.

A.L.O.H.A. and Welcome to Relational CORE Fitness. Thank you for following your curiosity and explore Relational CORE Fitness which in many ways grew out of my conviction that we all need to learn more about how to create and maintain...

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Relational CORE Fitness – Its Benefits

Relational CORE Fitness invites us to connect and reconnect, relate and care, live love and to love life. Relational CORE Fitness allows us to become conscious of our enculturated beliefs, assumptions, and biases that influence our relational approaches; realise we...

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