Rachel Rickards is an international leader in the field of personal transformation, intimacy, embodiment, and relating. Rachel and I met skinny-dipping in Bali in 2015 and she has left an impression on me since! In this episode, we talk about the next frontier in trauma-informed facilitation as well as the opportunities & challenges of multiple beloveds and open relating. 

We discuss:

• The challenge of asking individuals to be self-responsible when in a trauma response & how to create trauma-informed group settings.

  
  



• Rachel shares her experience of being in a polyamorous relationship while pregnant and how it affected her beliefs and priorities.

  
  



• We discuss open relationships and the challenges that come with it, including the need to slow down and build on successes

  
  



• I ask Rachel whether she believes some people have a natural propensity towards open relating, while others may need to work on healing past wounds.

  
  



• And so much more!

  
  

This is a great episode to tune into if you are interesting in pursuing, or are already on the path of becoming an embodied facilitator or open relating. 

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Rachel Rickards is an international leader in the field of personal transformation, intimacy, embodiment, and relating. She is a group facilitator extraordinaire, event producer, and a new mother. In 2014 she and Buster Radvik co-founded Embodied Intimacy, which has become one of the most respected organizations globally that offers trainings and events focussed on intimacy, trauma, relational intelligence, somatic education and community. The work of Embodied Intimacy supports hundreds of people each year to come home to themselves, to their body and more regulated nervous systems, and become more of who they truly are. 

Since 2019, Rachel has led the Belly2Belly Facilitator Training after her teacher and mentor, David Cates, passed the torch and CEO position for this work to her. Belly2Belly offers a simple and yet profoundly healing set of embodied and relational practices, which support people to learn to regulate their nervous systems in a way that can be transformational for their relationships. Rachel has single handedly produced and facilitates most of the events with her extraordinary superpowers in the field of event planning and depth in embodied leadership. 

Rachel’s newest passion project launching this year is “The Field Facilitator Training.” This is a revolutionary new experiential learning environment for upcoming group facilitators who are passionate about creating fields of deep group-heart coherence and learning how to facilitate group soul emergence. This requires the development of radically new facilitation skills, such as learning to listen to the group field, collective surrender to the moment, as well as dynamic and fluid collective leadership to support the blossoming of the group soul that is longing to emerge in the space between us. 

Simultaneously, Rachel has just taken on her biggest project to date as a community builder and visionary of Alma Do Solo. With her partner, Lennart Hennig, she has purchased property and is currently in the developmental and visionary phase of creating a regenerative land, and community eco-village on the Azores islands. Their intention is to give birth to an event and education center with a holistic relationship to death at its core.

For more info on her work, you can go to www.the-field.com and follow her on Facebook @ Rachel Rickards.

Come home to Love, Eros & Your Body through her free tools at:

www.embodiedintimacy.com

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