Dr. Birgit Trauer

Do you long to know how to navigate the world of relationships more skillfully?

Do you miss the joy and aliveness of heartfelt connection, love, and a sense of belonging?

Come and join me in my interactive in-person workshops in  Australia.

Step into a new adventure with a purpose. 

Dare to Care and Connect 

Develop Your Relational CORE Fitness

Travel into your inner and outer world. Elevate your awareness and understanding of your relationship aspirations and dynamics.

Gain valuable insight, tools, and practical skills in this program specifically designed to re-ignite your sense of love and well-being.

Get to know yourself anew, who you are and who you want to be as an individual and as part of life’s old and new relationships.

Reflect and introspect. Get in touch with your thoughts, your emotions, and your taken-for-granted behaviour patterns.

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

Generate a butterfly effect and be part of relational and collective wellbeing and a caring and loving peace-oriented culture.

Foundational Courses

View all

RELATIONSHIP WISDOM
Insight matters for clarity, confidence, and joyful relational living

Foundational Courses
Course highlights
  • Explore mindfulness from a wider perspective and elevate your relationship know-how, which is vital in our world of growing disconnect.
  • Identify the diversity of relationships and their meaning in your private and public spheres, at home and work, and daily life.
  • View love beyond romanticism and appreciate different meanings of love as our core driver in our connections as we travel through life.
  • Reframe the concept of intimacy and embrace it as part of nourishing relationships with yourself, your loved ones, friends, and others.
  • Recognise and identify characteristics of unhealthy and healthy relationships and their impact in your private and public spheres.
  • Consider boundaries as a bridge to nurture healthy relational biospheres, remembering love and kindness as key motivators.
  • Engage your wise mind to assess your self-esteem and hidden behavioural mechanisms in romantic and platonic relational dynamics.
  • Draw on proven strategies to rebalance and improve your relationships in your new role as a relational champion.

EMOTIONAL EMPOWERMENT
Feelings matter in all our relationships, at home and at work.

Foundational Courses
Course highlights
  • Recognise and embrace the power of emotions in your daily interactions with yourself, others, and the world around you.
  • Expand your emotional literacy and uncover their changing and interactive nature in body, mind, and heart.
  • View the cycle of emotional episodes and develop your ability to enact positive relational change.
  • Discover your hidden needs, desires, and values and their intimate relationship with your emotions and feelings.
  • Get in touch with your emotional triggers and glimmers and sooth your fears in the name of love.
  • Tap into your natural capacity for empathy and nurture meaningful connections and relationship dynamics.
  • Strengthen your emotions and needs management patterns to honour your feelings and proclaimed values.
  • Give and receive the human energy of love and care in your romantic and platonic relationships.

CONSCIOUS COMMUNICATION
Language matters to connect and reconnect heart to heart

Foundational Courses
Course highlights
  • Familiarise yourself with the principles and values of communication and specific styles in your interaction with others and yourself.
  • Recognise unhealthy communication patterns in yourself and others, and the benefits of conversing with compassion and kindness.
  • Build a new language of human experience to embrace and share the joy of empathy, compassion, love, and intimacy.
  • Discover the influence of your communication patterns and wisely manage the reality of disharmony and conflict inherent in all relationships.
  • Engage your wise mind to assess your self-esteem and your role and stance in the dynamics of your relationships at home and work.
  • Express and honour boundaries, your own and those of others, as part of winning strategies to stay connected and protected in your relationships.
  • Implement effective communication strategies to encourage healthy relationships or respectfully distance yourself from unhealthy ones.
  • Activate the mindful storyteller in yourself to take on the role of relational champion and rewrite your life narrative.

Blog: Explore Relational CORE Fitness

Relational CORE Fitness – Why it is important

Relational CORE Fitness is vital for our sense of happiness 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 decline in empathy,...

Relational CORE Fitness – How to develop it

Have you ever asked yourself: Am I fit enough for the relational challenges in my life? I invite you to follow your curiosity and join me in my interactive, in person workshops – starting in Melbourne, Australia in August 2025.   Take your ...

Relational CORE Fitness – What it is

Relational CORE Fitness is the ability to function wisely in the web of our modern relational lives. Relational CORE Fitness takes on the role of an antidote to the disconnect, unhappiness, and loneliness that have creeped into our lives. Its development...

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 meaningful connections,...

2 Comments

Relational CORE Fitness – Its Benefits

Relational CORE Fitness to connect and reconnect, to relate and care, 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 are co-creators, directly or indirectly,...

2 Comments

Dr. Birgit Trauer's MessagesMonthly Newsletter

Receive insightful resources and training to bring energy and vitality back into your relationships.

Personal reflections and insights from Dr. Birgit Trauer on important relationship topics.
Key takeaways to enhance your Relational CORE Fitness.
A curated set of resources for deeper exploration.