Feeling rejected is one of the most painful experiences there is. Tonight we’ll practice separating the feeling of rejection from the stories we tell ourselves about rejection, and building inner resources and resilience so that feeling rejected doesn’t have to keep you from connection. 

How can you create more connection, regardless of whether or not you feel romantic interest? How can you determine potential compatibility? What are good ways to initiate further contact, when you want to? How can you be clear about what you’re seeking and what you’re feeling, and consciously navigate the emotions and conversations along the way?

We’ll practice simple tools for creating connection, initiating further contact, creating more clarity around friendship, pre-dating or dating, and working with the feelings that come up, both hers and yours.

Join our community conversation for all lesbians, queer women, and women who love women or want to, as we navigate our shared pain around racial injustice. Topics will include: creating more understanding between women of different races so that white women can better support women of color; understanding implicit bias and microaggressions; and taking concrete steps to co-create a more just world. Open to all women who love women, regardless of Academy membership. The Zoom access info for tonight only is: https://zoom.us/j/99923536307

Learn key skills for creating long-term intimacy, trust, resilience and connection, and how to overcome painful patterns and bad habits that get in the way. (Based on the extensive Gottman research into what makes relationships work!)​

Please attend the earlier session if you wish to take part in this one!

Come get to know other Conscious Girlfriends through pair and small-group discussion and exercises. Bring your questions about how to make new friends and/or initiate pre-dating or dating!​

Learn why painful past experiences and self-protective patterns may be leading you to emotionally barricade yourself from the love and connection you most want – and what to do about it.

Small-group discussions and exercises around releasing blocks and limiting beliefs, and opening your life and heart to the kind of love and connection you really want.

Life circumstances are definitely challenging right now! Yet experts like Rick Hanson teach us how to powerfully transform our experience of well-being, even when we can’t change outer conditions. Tonight we’ll do small-group discussions and practices based on Hanson’s neuroscience-based HEAL technique for boosting positive brain states while being compassionate toward painful emotions.

Free to Advanced Academy members, $25 to others

Join us for a lively evening as CGA Director Ruth Schwartz interviews Caity Reilly about what really creates female sexual pleasure, openness and connection. Caity is a teacher of modern-day mysticism and Tantra, and works as a somatic counselor and soul guide. Her specialty is working directly with the nervous system and body to allow for true, integrated transformational openings.

How can you take conversations deeper with someone whom you’d like to know better, whether she’s a new acquaintance, a long-time friend or even a partner? Learn conversational techniques to create more openness and connection.

Please attend the earlier session if you wish to take part in this one!

Small-group discussions and exercises to help you get clear on the kind of dating that best fits for you,  and specifics about your ultimate relationship vision.​

Emotional literacy and intelligence increase your personal power, and help you build loving, cooperative relationships of all kinds. Learn key skills for understanding your own emotions, regulating your emotional states, and expressing your emotions productively, as well as listening empathetically to the emotions of others.

Please attend the earlier session if you wish to take part in this one!

Free to Advanced Academy members, $25 to others

Join us for a lively evening as CGA Director Ruth Schwartz interviews Caress Fitch about sexuality and kink! Caress is co-founder of Mindful Passions International and a proud Black, queer, disabled, non-monogamous leathergirl who advocates for the BIPOC, LGBTQ+, Poly, Kink, and Disabled communities in every aspect of her life and work.

Small-group discussions around common online dating questions and challenges, including: what kinds of photos attract or turn off other women? How can you craft a profile that makes someone want to respond? What works and doesn’t in terms of reaching out to others? What are the best ways to be in contact as you start to get to know someone? How can you be sure she’s being truthful?

Come share an afternoon of authentic connection, small-group conversation, music and positive intention directed toward the upcoming U.S. presidential election and earth changes.

Since U.S. election results won’t be available for days, we’ll gather tonight for small-group discussions and exercises around making peace with the past (primarily person, but also collective, if you choose), to open space for the future we truly want.

Many women say that Conscious Girlfriend’s own SCORE Process has made a huge difference in their ability to work with their triggers, avoid painful fights and excess processing, and improve all kinds of relationships. This class will cover the key skills involved in SCORE.

Learning a new skill (or even hearing about it multiple times) won’t make much difference unless you integrate it, practice it, work its edges and make it your own! This is a chance to do that. (Please attend the earlier session if you wish to take part in this one!)

Since all of us live in a homophobic culture, we’ve all got internalized homophobia. Join us for small-group discussions and exercises to help you fully accept and celebrate yourself as a lesbian or queer woman (or a woman who loves women, or wants to!)