Ontology Camp July 8th – July 11th with Peter Ralston

Communication & Relationship Workshop


Day schedule

Starting Thursday at 18.30 ending Sunday around 17.30

09.30 - 10.30 Program with Peter Ralston

11.00 - 12.30 Program with Peter Ralston

14.00 - 15.30 Program with Peter Ralston

16.00 - 17.30 Program with Peter Ralston

18.30 - 22.00 Program with Peter Ralston



About Communication and Relationship
Sometimes you see someone raising his/her voice when having problems communicating. Yet real communication is far more than the words you use or how loud you say them. It is about getting your experience across to someone else, or becoming truly conscious of another’s experience, and strange as it may seem, this isn’t at all about volume or semantics.

Often, without knowing it, we use subtle forms of deceit or manipulation to deal with our relationships. Although this may be a standard and accepted practice, it doesn’t provide a sense of deep connection or satisfaction. The good news is we aren’t limited to the ineffective methods that keep our relating stuck in patterns which produce disappointing results.

Most of us don't recognize that it could be some other way. Learning to communicate and relate more honestly and openly creates the possibility of having really satisfying and fulfilling experiences with others. It also allows you to create the relationships you want rather than just get by with what you have.

The ability to successfully interact provides you with the skills you need to get what you want out of life. Think about it. How much of your day involves some form of communication — speaking, listening, reading, watching, talking to yourself? What role does communication and relationship have in your thinking and emoting? What would life be like without the possibility of relating to anyone, ever?
Notice that how you feel about yourself and your life probably has a great deal to do with how you relate to others.

Most of human existence is found in our relating and communicating. This can be done better or worse. If indeed, without really knowing it, we are acting out unconscious patterns that lead to dead-ends, then too much of our experience of life is lost to meaningless repetition.

We can break free of these unconscious cycles by learning what they are and how they are created, and then creating a new perception of what real communication is and learning new ways of creating empowering relationship.

In the C&R you'll train hard to systematically improve your communication skills, enrich your perspective of relating, and transform your experience of self and others. If you think these skills could make a difference in your experience of life, you’re right. They do!


Ralston Ontology background
Peter Ralston is one of the founders of the consciousness movement that began in the San Francisco Bay Area — the birthplace for most of the personal growth work generated in the late Sixties and early Seventies. It was here that organizations such as Actualizations, EST, Gestalt, NLP, and many, many others sprang up, a vast range of studies from spiritual and New Age approaches to human transformation, to psychic development, new paradigms in psychology, bodywork, health, and more. Although the pursuits were diverse, the overall spirit was one of breaking free from old ways of thinking and creating a more powerful way to live.

Peter Ralston was fortunate to study with the top facilitators of this groundbreaking era in human potential. He worked for Stewart Emery in Actualizations and helped Werner Erhard (EST) to create a shift in his work to create the Forum (still done today via a different organization). Peter spent thousands of hours in Zen contemplation and participated in dozens of intensives with Charles Berner, the founder of modern day Enlightenment Intensives.

After powerful enlightenment experiences of his own, and maturing in his work through further study with other teachers, in 1977 Ralston opened his own teaching center in Berkeley, California. Coming directly from the source of the emerging personal growth movement, Ralston's work at The Cheng Hsin School for Ontological Inquiry contributed a powerful new direction, pressing for a deeper level of honesty and a more authentic approach. In both mind work and martial arts, his approach has always been to lead students away from what is merely believed, and toward a powerful personal experience of discovering for themselves what is true.

Ralston has been doing his Consciousness work for decades, facilitating the staff of Lifesprings and of Tony Robbins NLP trainings, as well as workshops for Esalen, Self Actualizations, Empowerment, and many others across the US. Although many know him for his creation of the Art of Effortless Power, and as the author of The Principles of Effortless Power, and Zen Body-Being, he is also the creator of Empowerment, and the author of Ancient Wisdom, New Spirit, Reflections of Being, and his newest and most powerful work, The Book of Not Knowing.

Ralston is an inspired teacher, electrifying his students as he leads them to experience new insights and breakthroughs, transforming their view of themselves and their experience of life.