True Contact: A New Way of Relating
Bring more of yourself into relationship.
A two-hour introduction to True Contact: an embodied, relational practice for cultivating secure attachment and opening to the love, intimacy, and aliveness you long for.
Mon, Nov 30 · 5:30–7:30pm
Boulder, CO · Sliding scale $25–$45
More datesWed, Dec 16
You can be loved and still feel alone. Someone holds you, but you’re holding back the thing you most need them to know.
That aloneness can follow us beyond partnership. We take care of our family’s feelings and leave our own unspoken. Say yes when we want to say no. Become someone everyone can depend on, without knowing how to let anyone be there for us.
Underneath, there may be a fear: If I let you see what’s true for me, will you still be here?
What if we could make contact with what’s at the heart of it all?
Imagine letting someone see how much you need them, without having to pretend you’re fine. Feeling anger without being left alone in it. Naming a desire without needing to make it smaller.
In True Contact, we turn toward what’s here—in the body, in the moment—with another person offering contact, love, and presence.
We begin to discover:
All of me can be here. And connection is still possible.
From past True Contact participants
I was able to touch parts of myself that had longed to be felt for a long time. I left the weekend feeling empowered — having learned a new practice of meeting myself at any time. To me, it feels like one of the most integrative and potent ways we can incorporate secure attachment into our lives and to life itself.
True Contact, weekend intensive
I am becoming increasingly aware of how much of my suffering comes from a fear of being intimate with life. I see how this fear keeps me moving nonstop, because to stop, to actually land, would mean becoming intimate with myself and with the experience of being alive. This practice has encouraged me to make contact with that. And on the other side, there’s so much liberation.
True Contact, founding cohort
Through the safety of your guidance, your epic team, the container, and the group, we were able to meet each other within that and access true healing and connection. I can feel that this is truly your life’s work.
True Contact, weekend intensive
The practice
A sacred technology
We can talk about the same patterns for years without ever touching what keeps them stuck.
You may know where these patterns came from and still find yourself reacting in familiar ways. True Contact brings us into the body and the attachment system, where we can experience something different.
The form is simple. One person turns toward the sensations most alive in them. The other offers presence and contact through the hands and forearms—pushing or pulling, with both people choosing the pace and intensity.
True Contact grew out of years of attachment work, embodied practice, and lived relationship. We call it a sacred technology because of what can happen between two people when a place that has never felt loved or accepted finally gets met—and because it has a form we can learn, return to, and share.
At the heart of the practice is the possibility of a new imprint:
I can feel fear, anger, grief, joy, or any other emotion—and still be met with love and presence.
Even here, I can be met.
Trauma or early wounding and disruptions to contact have very important protective functions. But it also cuts us off from life. And so this is the invitation to reconnect to all those disowned and disconnected parts and places within us and find our wholeness, which is always present — we’re just not always aware that it’s always present. This is such a powerful direct way to do that.— Brian Duda, True Contact, founding cohort
An evening of True Contact
Receive a transmission of a practice participants have called “as powerful as a medicine journey” and “a shortcut to go right to the heart of the matter.” Through guided practice, you’ll experience a taste of what embodied attachment healing can feel like.
Teachings provide a frame for what we explore together. Depending on the evening, we may work with attunement, containment, or how our projections point toward places in us that are longing for contact.
You’ll be invited to feel what happens when contact reaches beneath the words and stories into the body—and glimpse what becomes possible when this way of meeting yourself and others becomes part of everyday life.
True Contact: A New Way of Relating
Reserve your spot.
Come on your own or with someone you’d like to feel closer to. No prior experience is needed.
- When
- Monday, Nov 30 · 5:30–7:30pm
- Upcoming
- Wednesday, Dec 16 · 5:30–7:30pm
- Where
- Boulder, Colorado
- Who
- Anyone, with or without a partner
Address and arrival notes sent once you’re in. Questions? [email protected]
The weekend intensive
Want to go deeper?
The True Contact intensive offers a full weekend of deep practice with the core attachment material shaping your life and relationships. With directed coaching and time to integrate between practices, we meet what we’ve learned to protect—and open to the love, intimacy, and aliveness those protections can keep out of reach.
Come for the evening, join the intensive, or experience both. The introduction stands on its own and is not required for the weekend.
Fri–Sun, January 29–31 · Boulder
Explore the weekend intensiveThe Facilitators
Meet your guides.
Edmond Lau
Founder
Founder of Co-Awaken, coach, author, husband, and father. Edmond’s work is rooted in years of daily relational practice, embodiment, and attachment work, exploring how intimacy and partnership can become paths of awakening.
Candace “Kiki” Sauvé
Founding Partner
Attachment repair coach, Sleepawake facilitator, writer, and mother. Kiki’s work centers on presence, repair, and village, informed by years of daily embodied practice and training in attachment, Aware Parenting, and Emotional Resolution.
Erica Shapiro
Chief Catalyst & Business Doula
Grounded in Somatic Birth Psychology and relational practice, Erica brings a deep attunement to the nervous system and the thresholds of birth, creation, and change.
Jessyca Jordan
Embodiment Coach & Sacred Intimacy Facilitator
Jessyca brings eros alive as life force through tantra, dance, movement, and embodied relational work.
