Turn Over the Rock:
A Four-Week Group Course for Sober Singles to Attract Healthy Love
Ever feel alone at a meeting, in a crowded room, or even inside a relationship?
That disconnect usually comes from emotional unavailability, and feelings of isolation can lead to relapse.
This in-person group is for singles in recovery with at least one year sober who are ready to identify their real blocks to intimacy and build healthy relationships.
Together we work through the patterns that keep you guarded, vague, shut down, or choosing the wrong person, and practice showing up as your most authentic self in a room that's warm, encouraging, and safe.
You'll learn to build emotional intimacy with yourself first, the essential step most people skip before they can build real intimacy with others.
Practice new skills through fun, eye-opening exercises that reveal where you get stuck and how to ease past your blocks.
Four Wednesdays: January 6-27, 2027
6:00-8:00pm in Manhattan
Commitment: $600 paid up-front (payment plans available).
Four-Week Curriculum:
Week One: First Impressions & What Emotional Unavailability Costs Us
• Fun, unconventional introductions
• Magnifying group first impressions
• Defining your intimacy levels with self and others
• Explorations of individual blocks and frustrations in relationships, origins and symptoms
• Goal-setting for yourself in this course
• Initial communication tools for more honesty
• The detriment and boredom of vagueness, in our lives and words, and how it negatively affects perceptions of us
• Experience the thrill of expanding your feeling vocabulary to express yourself in new ways that feel more seen and heard than ever before
• Body signals: learn to check in with your body for clues about how you're feeling emotionally
• Mindfulness and meditation to ground and connect with yourself and others, forming a more intimate relationship with yourself, the path to healthier relationships
Week Two: Turn Over the Rock
• Social experiment results check-in
• Learn the top ten primary blocks to intimacy and how to spot them so you can stop your negative patterns
• "Turn over the rock," or checking the impact of what we share, and all the amazing stuff underneath that blows the lid off our interactions
• How being emotionally unavailable sabotages your relationships, and what you have to lose
• New words and phrases to undo your insecurities
• Break the repression cycle to bring yourself and others out of their shell, igniting inner aliveness seen in each other's eyes
Week Three: Danger then Fiction
• Identify the false, limiting stories you create when feeling insecure, causing what you don't want instead of what you do
• Experiential exercises open your eyes to your strengths and show you what attracts others to you
• Navigating anger and conflict resolution with new ease and success
• How to avoid defensiveness and shutting down, both in yourself and in how you affect others
• Mindful Muscle Building: Reports on social experiment outcomes
• Goals review and progress check-in
• Building your vulnerability muscle through practice of increasing honesty
• Using the tools to make challenging conversations so much easier
• Getting in touch with the power and magnetism of showing your vulnerability
• How to dig deeper into yourself and others, to access dormant parts and visions to get happier in your life
Week four: Transformations & New Opportunities
• Goals review, group insights, and reflections
• Lasting impressions: group feedback on personal transformations in each other, and progress made
• Next steps for using your new blackbelt communication skills at mindfulness events with other self-improving New Yorkers
What I'm Including
• Bonus: ongoing, personalized support and networking for social opportunities with more mindful people in the city
• Bonus: useful tools handouts
Alisonbulman@gmail.com | 917-539-8788
AlisonBulman.com/turnovertherock
"Alison leads an eye-opening exploration into areas that many don’t even think about. She provides a safe, emotionally stimulating, playful atmosphere. It had me thinking about the levels of intimacy in my life for days." Dayton, 53 - New York, NY
"Alison's skilled facilitation guides people to feel truly seen as their authentic selves, while supporting them to let go of old ideas." -Sydney