Relational Proprioception™ Masterclass and Practitioner Cohort 2027
Relational Proprioception™
Locating I, You and We: Freedom, Belonging and Relational Flexibility
A practitioner masterclass and six-month cohort with Anna Skolarikis
When a client says no, a boundary may become clearer. If the other cannot receive that difference, the client may experience distance from the other, or belonging may begin to feel conditional. Can the I remain present when the You disagrees? Can the We hold difference without requiring sameness?
These questions sit at the heart of Relational Proprioception™ (RP), a developmental framework created by Anna Skolarikis. RP explores how we organise ourselves around safety, belonging, agency and being valued, and how those patterns shape what becomes available within us and between us.
The I, You and We are relational capacities, not personality types. The I includes self-location, need, preference, boundary, agency and voice. The You includes how we encounter and respond to another person, with capacities such as care, curiosity, receiving influence and recognising difference. The We includes belonging, shared meaning, responsibility, culture, community and collective life.
Each can become more or less available according to relationship, context, power and history. A person may have a strong sense of I in one setting and lose access to it in another. Belonging may support difference, or require silence and sameness. RP helps practitioners notice these shifts and understand them as creative protective patterns shaped by what has helped a person manage connection and safety.
A relational-developmental approach
The learning connects a clear conceptual map with embodied experience, reflection and clinical application. Participants move through a repeating rhythm of map, experience, notice, name and apply.
RP follows development from ancestry, prenatal life, birth and arrival through early experiences of reception and attunement, and onward into contact, differentiation, agency and wider belonging. These fields of inquiry help practitioners consider how a person’s history may be present in current physiology, affect, impulse, story and relationship. They invite curiosity; they do not determine a client’s history.
RP offers a relational-developmental organising lens alongside practitioners’ existing nervous-system and attachment knowledge. It asks what happens to I, You and We under relational pressure: when needs, power, shame, authority, anger, vulnerability or belonging enter the field. It also includes the practitioner’s own location and the responses arising in the relationship.
Relational Proprioception™: Theory and Experiential Inquiry
A four-hour introduction to the RP framework, its developmental ground and its relevance to clinical practice.
The masterclass explores how I, You and We shift across relationships and circumstances; how early relational fields may shape present-day organisation; and what can happen when difference, boundaries and relational pressure enter the therapeutic encounter. It also considers the practitioner’s participation in the field and the possibilities for greater relational range, choice and repair.
This is a standalone masterclass. Attendance does not include a place in the six-month cohort.
Six-month practitioner cohort
The cohort extends the inquiry through six live sessions. Teaching is integrated with embodied reflection, relational practice, case exploration and clinical application. The learning begins with practitioner formation, develops through the RP map, and moves into clinical response and integration.
The modules
The Drama of the Gifted Child and the Origin of the Attuned Caregiver
Explore how a child’s adaptations of attunement can shape the practitioner’s identity, strengths and vulnerabilities in clinical work.
The Relational Proprioception Developmental Framework
Study the developmental map as a set of relational fields that may be active together and recognisable in present-time experience.
Existence, Welcome and the Earliest Fields
Consider early experiences of reception, welcome, dependence and being met, and how these themes may arise in the therapeutic relationship.
Contact, Turning Away and Return
Explore how people negotiate contact, pause, distance and return, and how the practitioner’s availability influences what can happen.
Difference, Aggression, Agency and Belonging
Consider how a person can express preference, refusal, impact and agency while remaining in relationship with others and the wider world.
Consolidation, Application and the Invitation Forward
Bring RP into case formulation and clinical integration, with attention to intervention, timing, consent, repair and ongoing practitioner development.
Continuing RP supervision
A place to return with real cases as the framework takes root.
For the remainder of 2027, cohort graduates may opt into a monthly 90-minute RP supervision group to examine integration challenges, reflect on what is changing in practice, and learn from what is and is not working.
A separate, optional commitment
Cohort participation does not automatically enrol you in supervision. Dates, group size and fee remain to be confirmed.
Register supervision interestWho this is for
The primary audience is Somatic Experiencing® Practitioners and experienced SE-trained practitioners who want to deepen their relational-developmental understanding of clinical work. The program may also suit experienced psychotherapists, counsellors, supervisors and somatic trauma practitioners with a strong foundation in their practice and capacity for reflective learning.
Anna Skolarikis
Anna Skolarikis is a Relational Gestalt psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, trauma specialist and clinical supervisor. She developed Relational Proprioception through her clinical, supervisory and teaching practice.
RP draws on Anna’s clinical work and on Relational Gestalt, Somatic Experiencing®, autonomic, attachment and developmental perspectives. It is an emerging clinical framework and is not currently an independently validated treatment modality.
Before you register or apply
Who is the masterclass for?
The primary audience is Somatic Experiencing® Practitioners and experienced SE-trained practitioners who want to deepen their relational-developmental understanding of clinical work. The program may also suit experienced psychotherapists, counsellors, supervisors and somatic trauma practitioners with a strong foundation in their practice and capacity for reflective learning.
Do I need to join the cohort?
No. The masterclass is a standalone four-hour introduction. The six-month cohort is a separate commitment and requires application and approval. Masterclass enrolment does not automatically enrol you in the cohort.
How is the cohort different?
The cohort extends the inquiry through six live sessions. Teaching is integrated with embodied reflection, relational practice, case exploration and clinical application. The learning begins with practitioner formation, develops through the RP map, and moves into clinical response and integration.
How many cohort places are available?
The cohort is limited to 20 practitioners, offered by application and approval. Detailed application criteria and selection arrangements are to be confirmed.
Is RP a therapy modality or a certification?
RP is an emerging clinical framework and is not currently an independently validated treatment modality. The cohort is professional development, not a certification, and does not confer the title RP Practitioner.
Does RP replace Somatic Experiencing or other training?
No. RP grew from inside Anna's SE lineage and remains in dialogue with established relational, somatic and developmental traditions. It extends inquiry into unfinished developmental and relational negotiation rather than rejecting other training.
Is this personal therapy for practitioners?
No. The cohort includes embodied and developmental self-inquiry in service of ethical clinical practice. Participants remain responsible for their own therapy and supervision where needed.
Is RP against boundaries, separation or collective belonging?
No. Boundaries, differentiation and separation can be necessary, especially where relationships are unsafe. RP does not position individualism as healthier than collectivism. It asks how freedom, difference and meaningful belonging can remain available without self-erasure or compulsory disconnection.
Is RP Allan Schore's model?
No. Schore's Regulation Theory is a foundational influence alongside Relational Gestalt, Somatic Experiencing and Polyvagal Theory. RP is Anna Skolarikis's original synthesis.
Will continuing supervision be available?
Cohort graduates may opt into a monthly 90-minute RP supervision group for the remainder of 2027, returning with real cases and integration challenges. It is a separate commitment, not automatic enrolment. Dates, group size and fee remain to be confirmed.
What about recordings, CPD and booking terms?
The delivery platform, recording policy, CPD documentation and event-specific refund, transfer and confidentiality wording remain to be confirmed. GST details, deposits and payment plans are also to be confirmed. No recording, CPD or payment-plan entitlement is promised on this page.
“Can the I remain present when the You disagrees? Can the We hold difference without requiring sameness?”
Begin with the four-hour masterclass, or apply for the deeper six-month practitioner journey.