Most of us know these moments:
Something small happens.
Someone says a sentence in the wrong tone, a look lands strangely and suddenly your whole system is on fire. Your chest tightens, your thoughts race, you want to run, attack, shut down, or disappear.
Later you wonder: Why did this hit me so hard? Why did I react like that? Why can’t I just stay calm?
Often we judge ourselves for getting triggered – or we judge others for triggering us.
This workshop is for those moments and transforming the way you experience them.
The good news: Triggers are not a personal failure.
They are a natural, intelligent response of the nervous system.
As Susan Campbell writes, a trigger is “a current-time cue that restimulates the sensations of a past trauma.”
In other words: your body is trying to protect you from something that happened in the past, not a threat from the present moment.
During the workshop, you will learn how to interrupt this automatic loop.
You can learn to stay present, recognise what is happening in real time, and choose how you want to respond, instead of being swept away by old patterns.
What to expect from the workshop in detail
Over the course of the session, you will learn how to:
recognise the early signs of being triggered
understand what your body is trying to protect you from
stay connected to yourself instead of collapsing into fight, flight or freeze
communicate your experience without blaming, withdrawing or exploding
transform reactive moments into moments of clarity, connection and choice
The workshop is integrating practices of Authentic Relating with methods from Susan Campbell’s work in “From Triggered to Tranquil”.
Date, Location, Price
📅Saturday, 18th of July 2026
🕐11:00–15:30 with 30 minutes break (we will start at the full hour, please come to land up to 15 minutes earlier)
📍Deep Blue Studio, Lehmbruckstraße 26, 10245 Berlin
💰90 –120 € (sliding scale)
This workshop offers a warm, experiential, non‑judgmental space. You don’t need prior knowledge – only curiosity and a willingness to explore your inner landscape.
To secure your spot
Please register via sending us an e-mail.
This workshop is for you, if you:
often feel overwhelmed or “flooded” in conflict
tend to react quickly and regret it later
typically shut down or disappear when things get tense
feel ashamed of your emotional intensity
want to understand yourself better and communicate more clearly
long for more groundedness, connection, and self‑trust
Your hosts
Ulli is a coach for new leaders and their teams. Her coaching style is holistic, integrating mind, body and emotional work in her formats. She completed Authentic Relating training (Level 1-3) with ART International and has fallen in love with this approach of deep human connection. As facilitator at heart she hosts different workshops and events weaving in Authentic Relating practices wherever she can.
Paweł is a performing artist, event producer and (neuro)queer activist, often working with people and creating communities. He did Authentic Relating Training (Level 1-2) and Authentic Leadership Program with ART International as well as Circling and Surrendered Leadership group with Transformational Connection (fka Circling Europe). Since 2016 he regularly practices contact improvisation and somatics.
Important Note
This workshop is NOT therapeutic. Many serious triggers require trauma work, i.e. therapeutic work that can help to get to the source of the trigger and to root it out. If you need this kind of support, please seek a specialist with a therapeutic approach.
During the workshop, trauma will remain an important context, but we will not be dealing with it directly. With great attention to our own needs and boundaries, we will practice communication skills that are useful when a trigger occurs. We will work on micro-triggers and glimmers (the opposite of a trigger – an event that evokes positive memories).
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
We are very much looking forward to be welcoming soon there!
Accessibility and diversity note
We aim to make our events accessible and diverse. We would like to explicitly welcome everybody, regardless of age, social background, identity, body shape, (dis)abilities etc.
We put effort into dismantling biases and systems of oppressions we participate in as well as meeting various access needs.
Feel free to contact us at [authenticgamesberlin@gmail.com](mailto:authenticgamesberlin@gmail.com) if you have any concerns or questions in this regard.
Our events are based on talking and listening to other people in pairs, trios or bigger groups. Depending on the number of participants, this may generate a considerable level of noise in the space.
The event is held in English with possible translation to German or Polish. While interacting with others in exercises you can talk in a language you choose with your partner(s).
Sometimes the exercises may also involve movement (for example walking). Consensual touch with other participants is allowed but never necessary.
The upcoming event is happening in Deep Blue Studio at Lehmbruckstraße 26– close to U-Bahn Warschauer Straße. The space is on the ground floor, but there is one small doorstep at the entrance.
There is no barrier free toilet inside.