CONNECT: Tuesday, September 14, 5:00-6:30 pm PST - Connection, Support and Check-In

Come reconnect with the Conscious Girlfriend Academy community! Share what's been good and what's been hard in your recent life, and give and receive compassionate support.  

SPECIAL OFFERING: Friday, September 17, 12:00-1:30 pm PST - Flirting & Authentic Connection in Dating & Beyond

Free to Supporting Members. Co-led by Ruth Schwartz and our expertly fun, flirty and authentic guest, Kat Kolegas of www.katkolegas.love

FREE COMMUNITY OFFERING: Friday, September 17, 5:00-6:30 pm PST - Find True Love Online: How to Outsmart the Apps & Meet Your Person 

Free to All Self-Identified Women Who Love Women, or Want To.  

Come learn why no matter what they say, the apps don't actually want you to find love. But you can do it anyway! We'll cover which app(s) to use, profile, photo, messaging, searching, meeting, and preparing your heart and mind. 

LEARN AND PRACTICE:

Saturday, September 18, 10:00 am -1:00 pm PST – Prepare for a Healthy Relationship: How to Be (and Find) a CATCH!

Learn the five key components of a healthy relationship, and how to recognize – and become – someone who is capable of creating the kind of love you really want. We’ll also discuss how to recognize and release unconscious or semi-conscious blocks to love. *** A recording of the first part of the class will be available. We will spend the second half of the class in practice sessions and exercises.***

CONNECT: Tuesday, September 21, 5:00-6:30 pm PST - Initiating Friendship, Pre-Dating and Dating With (More) Ease

Group discussion and a chance to meet other women in pairs and small groups to practice initiating connection, saying No, meeting someone else’s No with resilience, and more.

SPECIAL OFFERING: Sunday, September 26, 12:00-2:00 pm PST - How to Truly Give Through Touch 

Free to Supporting Members. Join us for this very special class co-led by Ruth Schwartz and special guest Kai Wu, a Sacred Sexuality and Touch expert (www.lovebodysoul.com) We will discuss self-touch, non-sexual and sexual touch, and practice some non-sexual self-touch during class, with additional homeplay exercises for later. 

CONNECT: Tuesday, September 28, 5:00-6:30 pm PST – Connection Group for Spiritually-Oriented Women

Meet other women in pairs or small groups to share your spiritual perspectives and practices in a heart-opening environment. Buddhist, Christian, pagan, Jew, meditator, mystic, energy worker, Muslim, Sufi, “spiritual but not religious,” yogi or just person who feels spiritually connected to the natural world? Everyone is welcome.

COACHING CALL: Thursday, September 30, 2:00-4:00 pm PST – Intimate Small Group Coaching  

Open to Supporting Members. You’ll be given the chance to check in, then get some laser-coaching on how to apply Conscious Girlfriend skills to whatever challenges you’re facing – including in your relationship with yourself! Many women get great benefit from hearing other women share and get coached, too.

LEARN AND PRACTICE: Saturday, October 2, 10:00 am -1:00 pm PST – Building Self-Compassion

We’ll dive deep into why self-compassion is key to creating and maintaining a healthy relationship with another person, and how to build new neural pathways that help you to be your own best friend, inner champion and advocate. *** A recording of the first part of the class will be available. We will spend the second half of the class in practice sessions and exercises.***

CONNECT: Tuesday, October 5, 5:00-6:30 pm PST – Butch, Femme, Andro, Genderqueer, None or All of the Above

Fun, frank opportunity to talk in our supportive group, and then in pairs or small groups, about lesbian/queer gender.  

CONNECT: Tuesday, October 12, 5:00-6:30 pm PST – Your Relationship Style: Intimacy & Autonomy

Group discussion, pair and small group discussion of more intimate vs. more autonomous relationship models, so you can better understand your own preferences and needs.

LEARN AND PRACTICE: Saturday, October 16, 12:00-1:30 pm PST – Rewriting Your Relationship Scripts 

Mine your past relationships (romantic or non-) for the learning and healing they can offer, so you can prepare to create the future relationships you truly want. *** A recording of the first part of the class will be available. We will spend the second half of the class in practice sessions and exercises.***

CONNECT: Tuesday, October 19, 5:00-6:30 pm PST – How to Ask for What You Want (In Ways That Help You Get It)

Group discussion, pair and small group discussion of how to communicate your desires skillfully, in romantic relationships and other relationships, too. 

CONNECT: Tuesday, October 26, 5:00-6:30 pm PST – Introverts and Extroverts in Love

Group discussion, pair and small group discussion of how to navigate differences around your connection fuel tank, and how you re-fill it.

COACHING CALL: Thursday, October 28, 2:00-4:00 pm PST – Intimate Small Group Coaching  

Open to Supporting Members. You’ll be given the chance to check in, then get some laser-coaching on how to apply Conscious Girlfriend skills to whatever challenges you’re facing – including in your relationship with yourself! Many women get great benefit from hearing other women share and get coached, too.

SPECIAL OFFERING: Sunday, October 31, 12:00-2:00 pm PST - Sacred Sexuality 

Free to Supporting Members. Join us for this very special class co-led by Ruth Schwartz and special guest Kai Wu, a Sacred Sexuality and Touch expert (www.lovebodysoul.com) 

CONNECT: Tuesday, November 2, 5:00-6:30 pm PST – Let’s Talk About Kissing!

Group discussion, pair and small group discussion. Who initiates the first kiss, and how? What makes a kiss good for you? How can you learn the way someone else likes to kiss, and expand your kissing repertoire?

LEARN AND PRACTICE: Saturday, November 6, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. PST – Building Emotional Self-Awareness & Skill

Key components of being a CATCH include the ability to recognize your own emotions, tolerate them, and communicate about them with skill. *** A recording of the first part of the class will be available. We will spend the second half of the class in practice sessions and exercises.***

CONNECT: Tuesday, November 9, 5:00-6:30 pm PST – Conscious Connection for Friendship or More

Group discussion, role plays, pairs and small group exercises to help you connect with other women in our wonderful community!

CONNECT: Tuesday, November 16, 5:00-6:30 pm PST – Relationship Creativity and Anarchy 

Group, pair and small group discussion to help you explore what you'd like more of in your relationship life (romantic, sexual, friendship, collegial, neighborly or other...) and how to create it. 

COACHING CALL: Thursday, November 18, 2:00-4:00 pm PST – Intimate Small Group Coaching  

PLEASE NOTE: We're meeting on the 3rd Thursday this month, since the 4th Thursday is Thanksgiving.

Open to Supporting Members. You’ll be given the chance to check in, then get some laser-coaching on how to apply Conscious Girlfriend skills to whatever challenges you’re facing – including in your relationship with yourself! Many women get great benefit from hearing other women share and get coached, too.

LEARN AND PRACTICE: Saturday, November 20, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 pm PST – Speak & Be Heard, Listen & Connect

Just in time for Thanksgiving! We'll go over the fundamentals of Clean Speech and Clean Listening, the powerful Conscious Girlfriend approach to creating connection-building communication in any relationship. *** A recording of the first part of the class will be available. We will spend the second half of the class in practice sessions and exercises.***