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 at large. With its focus on relationships, it serves as an antidote to the disconnect, unhappiness, and loneliness that have creeped into our lives.
Relational CORE Fitness is not unlike physical fitness. It is the way to develop our relational ‘muscles’. It strengthen our critical mindfulness, and our emotional and cultural maturity. It boosts our human energy, our endurance, flexibility, and resilience in support of happiness, a quality of life, and individual, relational, and collective wellbeing.
Renowned Belgian-American human relationship expert, Esther Perel highlights:
The quality of our relationships determines the quality of our lives.
Relational CORE Fitness is the relational wellness program needed in our modern times.
Relational CORE Fitness is the missing pillar of holistic wellbeing in a cultural climate of growing relational dysfunction, estrangement, disconnect, and polarisation.
Relational CORE Fitness affords us the capacity to step beyond the individualistic orientation that is common in our commercialised and commodified global world. It refocuses our attention to balancing self-actualisation with that of self-transcendence.
The Relational CORE Fitness program consists of three foundational courses.
Relationship Wisdom Insight matters – for clarity, meaningful love, and nourishing relational living.
Emotional Empowerment Feelings matter – in all our relationships, in our private and public spheres.
Conscious Communication Language matters – to connect with a caring mind and a thoughtful heart.
Relational CORE Fitness is for everyone ready to re-ignite a sense of aliveness, joy, and mutual care.
Relational CORE Fitness is the way to
Strengthen our relational capacity and wisdom,
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- explore the diversity of relationships and their meanings in our life,
- consider cultural imperatives and their influence on relational dynamics,
- reflect on our contributing roles in co-creating relational biospheres.
Remain focused on what matters in life,
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- honour emotions and feelings – our own and those of others,
- pay attention to needs, desires, and values often not expressed,
- appreciate the significance of relational mindfulness for true connection.
Face challenging conversations,
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- recognise the importance of empathic listening and respectful expression,
- create a space for vulnerability embedded in mutual trust and care,
- contribute to individual, relational, and community wellbeing.
The Relational CORE Fitness program resonates with studies that emphasise the need for greater human skills.
Relational CORE Fitness is the way to develop insight and skills required to exist and co-exist in harmony and peace in a cultural climate of growing relational dysfunction and polarisation, a world where
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- a growing reliance on technology, social media, artificial intelligence, and cyberspace intimacy are undermining our human to human connection capacity;
- estrangement, disconnect, isolation, polarization, and exclusion appear to have become unquestioned attitudinal and behavioural norms;
- a decline in emotional intelligence and empathy suggest a regression in individual and collective willingness and ability to connect and reconnect.
Relational CORE Fitness elevates our awareness and appreciation of our interdependence in the web of life.
The concept of Relational CORE Fitness reflects sociocultural and relational-cultural theory perspectives. These highlight that we do not exist in isolation from the world around us.
Our relational lives take place in our world at home, in our romantic relationships, our families and friends, and our work environment. They exist in the wider world of socio-political, economic, and ecological developments with ever-evolving opportunities and threats.
While the word relationship commonly evokes thoughts of romantic relationships, there are other ‘ships in the sea‘, such as friendship, partnership, companionships, and leadership.
Relational CORE Fitness shines a light on the importance of all relationships in our lives.
Relational CORE Fitness reminds us that all our relationships consist of three parts: You and Me and WE – the entity of our relationship.
Relational CORE Fitness gives us a chance to connect with who we are and who we want to be as individuals and as part of relationships with others as we travel through life.
With Relational CORE Fitness, we can
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- Question our biases and avoid a cycle of maladaptive thoughts and behavioural patterns that undermine healthy relationships.
- Be curious, compassionate, and courageous, demonstrating our willingness and capacity to live by the values we proclaim.
- Acknowledge our shared humanity, replete with vulnerability, imperfection, and emotional conundrums in our personal and professional spheres.
- Act out of love and not out of fear with an honest display of emotional maturity, sense of mutuality, and relational mindfulness.
Connecting with our intimate selves is the starting point for establishing a healthy balance between our individual and relational involvement and mutually rewarding relationships. As famous research professor Brené Brown points out in her book Atlas of the Heart (2021, p.272).
“Our connection to others can only be as deep as our connection with ourselves.”
Relational CORE Fitness allows us to explore the world around us and our role within it.
Relational CORE Fitness enables us to pause and consider the roles we play in life overall and the roles we take on in our relationships. It strengthens our capacity to look below the surface, be curious, and ask questions, for instance:
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- What do I want from the relationships in my life?
- What are my unquestioned beliefs, needs, and values?
- What are my automatic reactions and mindless behavioural patterns?
- How do I react when feeling emotional dis/comfort?
- How do I communicate with others and myself on a daily basis?
- How best can I connect and reconnect and be a relational champion?
We can ask ourselves:
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- Do I live by my proclaimed values that support not only my inner peace but relational harmony and peace?.
With Relational CORE Fitness we realise that we all carry accountability and responsibility for our actions as co-creators in the dynamics in our relationships. It allows us to see the world anew, step outside our hectic and judgmental cultural existence, and recognise that in the end all of us are perfect imperfects.
The Relational CORE Fitness program does not take the place of needed or desired therapy.
The Relational CORE Fitness program is designed as an educational avenue, grounded in social-psychology and positive psychology with relevant insight from other relationship science domains. Mindful experiential learning principles are integrated for everyone to personalise and integrate new insight and skills.
Relational CORE Fitness is a pro-active rather than re-active approach to relationships. The focus is on strengthening our capacity to dare to care, make informed positive relational choices, and connect, reconnect, or disconnect as we travel through life.
Relational CORE Fitness is the way to be fit for the challenges we encounter in a world of growing isolation and loneliness, a world of shifting cultural and relational dynamics,
This article is entirely composed by Dr. Birgit Trauer without AI input.
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