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This was the most transformative workshop that I attended at BM. It pushed my limits of comfort through cultivating intimacy with complete strangers. We would eye gaze with a partner for several minutes while the orchestrator would describe a meditation to enhance the feeling of connection, and then rotate to a new stranger.. For example, during one eye-gazing session we were told to think of 3 words that we were not told enough growing up by one of our parents. Then we were to see the person in front of us transforming into that parent, and to whisper those 3 words into their ear. The partner was then instructed to embody the spirit of that parent, and to whisper the 3 words back in the most loving way possible. The feeling this brought up is hard to describe here. It was powerfully emotional, feeling the love you yearn for from a parent, but from a complete stranger. Just wow.