True Contact: A New Way of Relating
Bring more of yourself into relationship.
A two-hour introduction to True Contact: an embodied dyad practice for cultivating secure attachment and opening to the love, intimacy, and aliveness you long for.
There's something you want to say, but your throat tightens. Someone wants to be there for you, but you find yourself saying you're fine. You want connection, but something in you is already bracing to be rejected.
These patterns often feel most intense in intimate partnership, but they show up everywhere—in saying yes when we mean no, caretaking our family's feelings, or hiding what we really want and need.
Underneath, there may be a fear: If I let you see what's true for me, will you still be here?
What if we could make contact with what's at the heart of it all?
Imagine letting someone see how much you need them, without having to pretend you're fine. Feeling anger without being left alone in it. Naming a desire without needing to make it smaller before anyone has a chance to meet you.
In True Contact, we practice meeting these places together. We turn toward what's actually here—in the body, in the moment—with another person offering contact, love, and presence.
With each experience of contact, the body begins to trust:
All of me can be here. And connection is still possible.
This is how we build secure attachment: one dose of being fully met at a time.
The practice
We can talk about the same patterns for years without ever touching what keeps them stuck.
You may know where these patterns came from and still find yourself reacting in familiar ways. True Contact brings us into the body and the attachment system, where we can experience something different.
The form is simple. One person turns toward the sensations most alive in them. The other offers presence and contact through the hands and forearms—pushing or pulling, with both people choosing the pace and intensity.
The evening
In this two-hour introduction, you'll experience how the True Contact practice works—meeting what's here in the body, in contact with another human.
This workshop is a first experience of a practice that can become part of how you live—how you meet yourself, your friendships, your family, and the relationships that matter most.
Come on your own or with someone you'd like to feel closer to. No prior experience is needed.
Address and arrival notes sent once you're in.
From past True Contact participants
"I left the weekend feeling empowered — having learned a new practice of meeting myself at any time. To me, it feels like one of the most integrative and potent ways we can incorporate secure attachment into our lives and to life itself."
— Lilanee, True Contact weekend intensive
"I am becoming increasingly aware of how much of my suffering comes from a fear of being intimate with life. I see how this fear keeps me moving nonstop, because to stop, to actually land, would mean becoming intimate with myself and with the experience of being alive. This practice has encouraged me to make contact with that. And on the other side, there's so much liberation."
— Stevie Calderon, True Contact founding cohort
"Through the safety of your guidance, your epic team, the container, and the group, we were able to meet each other within that and access true healing and connection. I can feel that this is truly your life's work."
— Chelsey Lehl, True Contact weekend intensive
"Trauma or early wounding and disruptions to contact have very important protective functions. But it also cuts us off from life. And so this is the invitation to reconnect to all those disowned and disconnected parts and places within us and find our wholeness, which is always present — we're just not always aware that it's always present. This is such a powerful direct way to do that."
— Brian Duda, True Contact founding cohort
Your guides
Edmond Lau · Founder of Co-Awaken, coach, author, husband, and father.
Candace "Kiki" Sauvé · Attachment repair coach, Sleepawake facilitator, writer, and mother.
Erica Shapiro · Chief Catalyst & Business Doula, grounded in Somatic Birth Psychology and relational practice.
Jessyca Jordan · Embodiment Coach & Sacred Intimacy Facilitator.
Want to go deeper?
The True Contact weekend intensive offers more time and support to meet the deepest patterns showing up in your life and relationships—and the core material beneath them.
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Questions? Write to hello@coawaken.com.