We long for closeness and we fear closeness
There are many paths that lead us back home. Path of Relating walks through the relational field. It is a path for people who long to be fully themselves and still belong.
“The wounding that taught us to hide often happens in relationships, and the repair often happens there too.”
- Buster Rådvik, leading facilitator, psychotherapist and founder of Path of Relating
Trainings and sessions
Path of Relating offers a seven-month Intimacy Training (starting sept), weekend workshops, online gatherings and one-to-one sessions for people who want to deepen their relationship with themselves and others.
At the heart of the work is a simple practice: learning how to be together in a way that feels better than being alone, and discovering that we can stumble, make mistakes and still belong.
"We realized we were not alone in our pain and struggles. That we were so welcomed, even wanted."
- Name Namesson, participant
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Enough is enough
Something brought you here.
Maybe you've been on this path for years. Sat in circles, attended retreats, trained in a modality or two. You've felt the openings, those moments when something softens and you're suddenly here, suddenly real, suddenly met. And you've also felt how quickly it can disappear again. The guardedness returns and the performance resumes. You know the maps, but something still stands at the door.
"I had done a lot of work before, but I had never felt so safe that these things could come out of me too."
- Luna Lala
Or maybe something recently cracked you open. A workshop that reached deeper than you expected, a relationship that changed everything or a life transition that shattered an old way of being. Maybe there was a moment when your body spoke louder than your mind, and you knew, with a clarity that both excited and frightened you, that you couldn't go back to how things were before.
Or you may not have years of training behind you, but you have something just as important: a willingness to step into the unknown.
Either way, you've arrived at the same threshold.
Enough now, I'm ready. Even though I'm scared and I don't know what comes next.
Path of Relating exists for moments like this. We work through the body, in relationship and over time.
"My body felt so seen. It was not a training for my mind. My instincts loved being in the driving seat. I met them. They showed themselves, and I could meet them with love. For the first time."
- Louise
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Many of us learned, often without realizing it, to adapt ourselves in order to stay connected. We learned when to stay quiet, when to be useful, when to take care of others, when to perform, and when to disappear. The body remembers these strategies long after the situations that created them have passed and is draining us of life energy.
What we want to cultivate through the practice is to:
Access the aliveness, play, and erotic energy that lives beneath the protective strategies.
Discover that the parts of us that feel most difficult to share are the very things that create genuine connection.
Learn to trust ourself among others, through a regulated nervous system and an embodied sense of home.
Feel safe enough in our body to let others truly in.
Develop the capacity to stay present when intimacy gets real, not just for a weekend, but as a way of being.
Build relationships where we can be seen in our wholeness, not just our competence.
"This journey isn't about learning something new. It's about remembering. Coming home. Meeting yourself in raw truth and unapologetic life force."
— Enya
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Cultivating aliveness
Slowing down to feel
Path of Relating draws on neuroscience, somatic psychology, and decades of clinical and facilitative experience. But the method is simple: we slow down and pay attention to what is actually happening in the body and we become honest about it.
The facilitators guide the process, but the work itself happens between people. In the moments when someone says something they have never said before, when a boundary is expressed, when support is received or when shame softens.
Again and again we witness the same longing:
To be seen.
To be accepted.
To be fully ourselves and still belong.
We work with the body (through breath, sound, touch and movement) because that's where the patterns live, and that's where they change. We work in community because relational wounds are easier to heal in relation. And we work over time because real rewiring doesn't happen in a weekend.
"I've met my edges again and again, and found pure connection on the other side." — Camilla
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You will naturally attract the people you want to attract when you live from a place of embodied purpose.
It all starts with a deepening from the center…and expanding outwards.
Focus on vertical alignment
Access the wisdom within the body
Go deep versus wide
Different ways to practice
To go deeper with yourself, with others, and with what it means to be fully alive.
The Intimacy Training A seven-month journey through four week-long retreats and a weekly sharing circle. For those who are ready to stop standing at the edge and step fully into the work. Next group starts in September and participation is by application.
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Weekend workshops Through embodiment, relational practice and honest human connection, we explore what becomes possible when we slow down, become more real and meet each other beyond our usual roles and strategies.
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Alive & Connected - Online Community An online community for weekly ongoing practice. A place to stay connected to yourself, to others and to the work. To keep practicing, integrating and growing alongside people who are walking a similar path.
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1:1 Sessions with Buster Private sessions for individuals and couples. A space to explore whatever is alive in your life right now, whether it relates to intimacy, relationships, trauma, personal growth, professional challenges or the deeper questions of being human.
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Evening workshops with special guests
Path of Relating offers teaser workshops that allow you to get a feel for this brave, playful world and to experience the essence of Buster Rådvik’s work and the community it supports.
Weekend workshops with expert co-hosts
Dive into an immersive 2-day experience, where you will engage with more layers of the practice and connect with other participants, Buster and special co-hosts, on a deeper level.
Deeper immersions: longer trainers
Go deep into your personal and professional development with Buster’s longer trainings. These are only offered at certain times during the year, for 3-4 weeks over a period of 6 months, and require an application.
1:1 Coaching Sessions
Psychotherapist and psychologist, Buster Rådvik, brings over 25+ years experience in clinical practice and research to help you connect with your truest self, find safety and meaning, and embrace your relationship with this thing called life.
The facilitators
Buster Rådvik is a certified psychotherapist and psychologist (MA) with over 30 years of experience. He has trained over 1,000 people in nervous system regulation, embodiment, and relational trauma. Path of Relating is not a method he invented from the outside. It grew out of his own relational struggles and his willingness to fall apart and come back together.
Mara Kölpin is a singer, musician, and systemic psychotherapist in training. She brings the voice into this work: using song, breath, and rhythm as gateways into embodiment and connection. Her spiritual roots in Universal Sufism and her M.Sc. in Clinical Psychology merge into a facilitation style that is both grounded and sacred.
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Co-facilitators
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Cofacilitators
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Mara Köplin
MUSICIAN, THERAPIST & FACILITATOR
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Triambaka Vive
FACILITATOR & TRAINER
Readiness to meet fear
People arrive from many different walks of life. Some are therapists, coaches, facilitators or bodyworkers. Others are teachers, engineers, artists, parents, leaders or people who have never attended a workshop before.
What unites us is a readiness: I'm excited and I'm going for it AND I’m scared.
And a willingness to slow down, tell the truth and discover what becomes possible when we no longer have to do it alone. You don't need to have it all figured out.
"As a professional trauma therapist, I wasn't sure what to expect, but these five days with Buster immediately had a strong and lasting impact on me and my work with my patients in the practice. His courage to show himself honestly and authentically as a person, and not to hide behind roles or masks, allows you to feel safe and accepted and also to become more courageous to look at yourself completely." — Dr. med. Matthias Lange, Specialist in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
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