Between Friends: A 1-Day Workshop on Connection, Distance, and Repair

Most people don’t lose friendships because they stop caring.

They lose them because they were never taught how to maintain them.

Over time, friendships tend to drift — not because of one big conflict, but because of small misunderstandings, unspoken disappointment, and moments of emotional distance that never get repaired.

We often don’t know how to talk about these moments. So we stay silent, minimize them, or hope they pass — until the connection quietly weakens.

What’s missing for many of us is not friends.

It’s the skills to sustain friendship over time.

Most people were never taught:

- how to talk about hurt without damaging the relationship

- how to repair misunderstandings instead of avoiding them

- how to stay connected when disappointment shows up

- how to prevent emotional distance from slowly building

This one-day workshop is designed for pairs of friends who want to understand how their relationship actually works in practice — and learn how to communicate and repair in real time, with guidance and structure.

You attend with a friend, and you work directly on your own relationship throughout the day.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

- understand your friendship patterns and cycles

- identify how misunderstandings and distance develop

- learn how to express tension without damaging the relationship

- practice real-time repair conversations with your friend

- explore boundaries, expectations, and emotional needs in friendship

WHO IT’S FOR

- friends who feel close but occasionally misattuned

- friendships that have drifted or become inconsistent

- people who overgive, withdraw, or struggle with boundaries

- anyone who wants more emotionally honest friendships

FORMAT

- 1-day in-person workshop in Amsterdam

- bring one friend (you attend as a pair)

- guided exercises + structured dialogue practice

' facilitated by a relational psychotherapist

IMPORTANT

This is not group therapy. It is a structured relational skills workshop designed to help friends improve communication and repair patterns in real time. The workshop is designed for a small group of max. 5 pairs of friends (10 people), to maintain intimacy and space for reflection.