Exploring Our Relationship Garden
A 3-hour experiential workshop for couples in Oslo
Slow down, reconnect, and explore your relationship with fresh eyes.
A small-group experience for couples who want to understand one another more deeply, get curious about familiar patterns, and discover new ways of tending connection together.
Sundays Ā· 14:00ā17:00 Ā· Oslo Ā· 1,500 NOK per couple
Maybe you love each other and still get lost sometimes
You might have the same conversation again and again.
One of you may reach for connection while the other needs space.
You may both be trying, reflecting, communicating, reading the books, even going to therapy, and still find yourselves back in familiar places.
Or perhaps nothing is particularly wrong.
You simply want to understand one another better and spend a few hours tending something that matters to you.
This workshop creates space to do that together.
What if your relationship is a living ecosystem?
There are roots: what brought you together and what matters to you.
There is soil: histories, experiences, inherited relationship maps, and the stories each of you carries.
There is weather: work, health, family, money, migration, community, and everything happening around your relationship.
And there is nourishment: attention, play, care, curiosity, intimacy, laughter, repair, and the small things that help connection grow.
During the workshop, youāll explore some of this landscape together through guided experiences rather than simply sitting and listening to relationship advice.
Three hours of exploring together
Each workshop moves through a gentle arc of:
Connection ā Curiosity ā Communication ā Cultivation
Youāll experience:
guided practices with your partner
creative and experiential ways of exploring your relationship
time for conversation and reflection together
practical tools you can continue using at home
shared group reflection
printed materials to take with you
a warm, small-group environment
Each workshop stands on its own, so you can come once or return for another journey.
This workshop may be a good fit ifā¦
you want to deepen your connection
you keep getting stuck in familiar patterns
you want fresh tools for communication and care
youāre curious about a gentler way of exploring your relationship
you enjoy learning through experience, play, creativity, and imagination
you want dedicated time to slow down and turn toward one another
youāre interested in understanding the wider landscape shaping your relationship
you want to notice more of what already helps your connection thrive
youāre curious about new ways of seeing familiar moments together
you want to leave with practices you can return to at home
Choose a journey
Sundays Ā· 14:00ā17:00
September 13 & 27
October 11
November 22
December 6
BygdĆøy allĆ© 21, Oslo
1,500 NOK per couple
Small-group workshops in English
Meet your guide
Iām Soren Stone, a couples counsellor and somatic coach with more than ten years of experience supporting diverse couples and individuals through relationship challenges, transitions, and the wonderfully complicated work of being human together.
Over the years, Iāve become increasingly curious about what changes when we approach relationships as living ecosystems to tend. Each person brings their own histories, values, ways of seeing, experiences of care, and relationship maps. Around us are families, communities, work, health, culture, place, and all the other conditions that shape how we meet one another.
My work brings together relational and somatic approaches, mindfulness, experiential learning, creativity, and a lot of curiosity. I especially love helping couples slow familiar moments down enough to see something they may have missed before, discover new ways of understanding one another, and notice the strengths and possibilities already growing within their relationship.
This workshop grew out of my relationship course, Tending the Relationship Garden, as a space where couples can step out of everyday rhythms for an afternoon and explore together through conversation, reflection, imagination, and guided experiences.
Iāll offer the structure, questions, practices, and a few trail markers along the way. You bring the particular relationship only the two of you could have created.
FAQ
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No. Some couples come because they feel stuck, while others want to deepen an already strong relationship.
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No. This is a facilitated educational and experiential relationship workshop rather than psychotherapy.
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No. Each workshop is a complete journey and stands on its own. Each workshop will cover a different theme, but all are beginner-friendly and require no previous experience. If you attend multiple workshops, you can expect to get something different out of each one.
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Yes. The overall rhythm stays familiar while the practices and explorations change between workshops.
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I have a wide range of personal and professional experience working with a vast array of different intersecting cultural identities and expressions. I have worked with people of all different racial and ethnic backgrounds, religions, ages/generations, socioeconomic statuses, disabilities, neurotypes, sexualities, gender identities, relationship orientations, national origins, and political views. Iām someone who is comfortable holding lots of space for nuance, complexity, and polarity. Everything and everyone is welcome. Nothing is too taboo or off limits and you will not be pathologized.
I have extensive experience working with the following communities/cultural contexts:
-LGBTQIA+
-Polyamorous, non-monogamous, open relationships
-Kink and BDSM, highly taboo and stigmatized sexual identities/desires
-Sex workers
-Neurodivergence
-Chronic illness and disability
-1st and 2nd gen immigrants, third culture kids, expats, internationals
-Multiple intersecting marginalized identities