Coalesce
Six-week online journey for couples who want to grow; individually and together.
Next Immersion Starts
20th October!
Grow within. Grow together.
Coalesce is a six-week online journey for couples who want to grow, individually and together.
A space to understand the patterns you each bring into relationship, what happens in your nervous systems when things get hard, and how to move through conflict with greater awareness, ownership and compassion.
And it doesn't stop at learning how to communicate better.
We'll also explore what keeps a relationship alive: intimacy, touch, play, curiosity, desire and the practices that bring you back to one another when life inevitably pulls you apart.
Part inner work. Part relationship work. Part intimacy work.
Grounded in relationship psychology, nervous system and somatic work, with elements of conscious relating, embodied intimacy and tantra.
Practical, experiential and designed for real relationships.
You don't need to be in crisis. You don't need to consider yourselves a "conscious couple." You just need to be willing to look at yourselves, meet each other honestly, and discover what becomes possible when two people commit to growing together.
Explore the patterns you bring into relationship, understand what happens when you're triggered, learn practical tools for communication and repair — and deepen the intimacy, touch, play and desire between you.
6 weeks
7 live calls
Embodied practices
Couples exercises
Integration between sessions
Calls:
Tuesdays October 20 & 27, November 3, 10, 17, 24
Closing: Thursday 26th Nov’
Times: 6:30-8:30PM Lisbon time (WET)
The Format
6 weeks online
One live session each week with Yuna & Seán
Each session combines:
Teaching and relationship psychology
Nervous system and somatic work
Individual self-inquiry
Guided couples practices
Communication and repair tools
Embodied connection and intimacy practices
Live discussion, reflection and Q&A
The work happens both individually and together.
Some practices will invite you inward. Others will be experienced directly with your partner.
Between sessions you'll receive simple practices and conversations to explore together — because the real work isn't what happens on a Zoom call.
It's what changes between you on a Tuesday night when you're tired, irritated, trying to get dinner made and about to have the same argument you've had fifty times before.
WEEK 1
THE SPACE BETWEEN US
Where are we now?
We begin with the relationship as it actually is.
Not the story of how it should be. Not everything that's wrong with it. A chance to slow down enough to see yourself, your partner and the space you've created between you.
We'll explore what happens to connection over time, how life, parenthood, stress and familiarity can subtly change the way we see one another, and why coming back to yourself is often the first step towards coming back together.
We explore:
Individuality within relationship, needs, sovereignty, connection, relationship patterns, nervous system awareness and remembering the person underneath the roles you've both accumulated.
Call: Tuesday 20th October
6:30-8:30PM Lisbon time (WET)
WEEK 2
THE INNER RELATIONSHIP
Patterns, shadows & what you bring with you
Your relationship doesn't begin with your partner. Each of us arrives with a nervous system, history, protective strategies, beliefs, wounds and ways we've learned to get love, avoid rejection and stay safe.
This week turns the attention inward.
What happens inside you when you feel criticised? Rejected? Unseen? Controlled? Not good enough? What do you do when you're activated; pursue, withdraw, attack, shut down, fix, defend?
And perhaps more importantly: what is actually yours to work with?
We explore:
Triggers, shadow, attachment and protective patterns through a somatic and nervous-system lens without reducing either of you to a label.
Call: Tuesday 27th October
6:30-8:30PM Lisbon time (WET)
WEEK 3
RUPTURE
Understanding the dance you keep getting caught in
Most couples don't have hundreds of different problems.
They have a handful of patterns playing out in hundreds of different ways.
This week we slow those patterns down.
The comment that lands badly. The contraction. The assumption. The reaction. The defence. The escalation. The withdrawal. The resentment afterwards.
We explore:
What happens in conflict physiologically and emotionally, the stories we create about our partners, blame and defensiveness, accumulated resentment, and the difference between being triggered by your history and responding to something that genuinely needs addressing.
You'll begin to recognise the moment you're entering the same old dance and learn how to interrupt it before it takes over.
Call: Tuesday 3rd November
6:30-8:30PM Lisbon time (WET)
WEEK 4
REPAIR
A different way through
Awareness alone doesn't change a relationship. We need to know what to do differently. This week is practical.
How do you communicate something difficult without immediately putting the other person on the defensive?
How do you listen when you disagree?
How do you take ownership without abandoning your own experience?
How do you apologise well?
How do you ask for what you actually need instead of expecting your partner to figure it out?
We explore:
Regulation, accountability, empathy, compassionate communication, needs, boundaries and repair.
Not to eliminate conflict.
To become a couple who knows how to find each other again after it.
Call: Tuesday 10th November
6:30-8:30PM Lisbon time (WET)
WEEK 5
THE SPARK BETWEEN US
Connection, intimacy & becoming lovers again
A relationship can function beautifully and still lose some of its aliveness.
You can love each other deeply and realise you've become parents, housemates, business partners, best friends, while the lovers have quietly moved further into the background.
This week is about remembering them.
We explore:
Touch, attunement, play, attraction, responsive and spontaneous desire, longing and anticipation, pleasure and the different ways intimacy can exist beyond our habitual scripts around sex.
You'll begin building your own erotic menu, becoming curious about what actually creates connection, pleasure and desire for each of you now, rather than assuming it should look the way it once did.
Because being a great lover isn't about knowing one route to intimacy. It's about staying curious enough to keep discovering each other.
Call: Tuesday 17th November
6:30-8:30PM Lisbon time (WET)
WEEK 6
COALESCE
Growing together without losing yourselves
Our final week brings the whole journey together.
Two individuals. Two inner worlds. Two evolving human beings.
And the relationship being created between them.
We'll look at what it means to support each other's individual growth without experiencing it as a threat to the relationship; how to remain a team without sacrificing yourself; and how to continue creating intimacy, honesty, freedom and connection as your lives change.
Call: Tuesday 24th November
6:30-8:30PM Lisbon time (WET)
CLOSING Call: Thursday 26th November
6:30-8:30PM Lisbon time (WET)
Who is Coalesce for?
Coalesce is for couples at different stages of relationship.
You might deeply love each other and simply want to keep growing.
You might feel like life, work or parenthood has taken over and you've lost some of the connection you once had.
You might keep getting caught in the same arguments and genuinely not know how to do them differently.
You might communicate well but want more intimacy, play, touch or desire.
Or you might simply believe that your relationship deserves the same attention and intention you give to every other important area of your life.
This is relationship work for people who don't necessarily think they need relationship therapy.
A place to learn the things most of us were simply never taught.
How to know yourself.
How to communicate.
How to disagree.
How to repair.
How to stay curious.
How to touch.
How to ask for what you need.
How to remain lovers.
How to grow without growing apart.