Aligned & Authentic :
Dating with Integrity
Join women’s therapist, Ferny Barceló, for an empowering 8-week journey to explore dating and relationships through a value-based lens. If you’re seeking relationships that feel more equitable, and that prioritizes teamwork rather than traditional gender roles, or want to enter the dating scene clear on what you value and need in a partnership, this space is for you.
Together, we’ll work on unpacking our own societal conditioning around dating, relationships, and being single — which often prevents us from more actively speaking our needs and upholding important boundaries. We will practice healthy communication, and learn how to align your relationships with your values. Through lecture, open discussions, group work, and journaling, you’ll gain the tools to build authentic, loving connections that prioritize equity, partnership, and healthy emotional balance.
This group will be held virtually, with an opportunity to meet in-person on Week 4 and Week 8.
What we’ll explore…
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✺ WEEK 1
Introduction and Setting Intentions
Explore personal values and goals related to dating and relationships, and get to know other women who will support you along this journey.
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✺ WEEK 2
Unpacking Social Conditioning
Discuss societal expectations of women in dating. Identify how internalized messages shape relationship choices.
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✺ WEEK 3
Untangling from Past Relationships
Address emotional wounds from past relationships, and understand how they may unconsciously impact your present.
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✺ WEEK 4
Defining Your Dating Values & Setting Boundaries
Get clear about your values in the context of relationships. Practice setting and maintaining boundaries in accordance to these values.
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✺ WEEK 5
Red Flags and Green Flags
Identify warning signs of unhealthy relationships and people, and highlight traits of safe, supportive partnerships. Explore your own unique red & green flags.
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✺ WEEK 6
Healthy Communication
Learn and practice assertive communication, and how to express your emotional needs when dating or within a relationship.
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✺ WEEK 7
Building & Embracing Yourself Outside of Relationships
Your worth is not based on your relationship status! We’ll learn practices to build and maintain self-worth, regardless of whether your single, dating, or coupled up.
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✺ WEEK 8
Integration and Goal-Setting
We’ll take what we’ve learned and ready ourselves to put it into play! You’ll create a personal action plan for unique approach to dating, and future relationships and get clear about what dating with integrity means to you.
Who is this group
ideally for?
Keep scrolling for pricing, dates, and group FAQ’s!
Women in their 20’s and 30’s who are wanting to explore what old patterns might be getting in the way of finding healthy, secure relationships
Women who want to feel more empowered — and less insecure — within the dating scene, and who want to work through societal pressures and conditioning about what women “should” want, do, or choose for themselves
Women who want more clarity on who they want as a partner — and who THEY want to be as a partner
Women who want to learn how to make more value-based decisions (and less fear-based ones) within dating and relationships
What you can look to gain from this group?
1. How to Reclaim Your Agency
Empowerment to make choices based on your values, not societal pressures.
Confidence to assert your needs and desires without guilt or fear of judgment.
2. How to Set Healthy Boundaries
Skills to set and maintain boundaries in a way that fosters mutual respect.
The ability to recognize when boundaries are being crossed and how to respond effectively.
3. Enhanced Self-Worth
Understanding that your value is inherent and not tied to their relationship status.
Cultivating self-compassion and rejecting harmful dating narratives that diminish your worth.
4. Better Communication Skills
Tools for expressing emotions, needs, and concerns in a clear, respectful way.
Confidence to address power dynamics or inequities in conversations with partners.
5. Recognizing & Challenging Inequities
Awareness of how patriarchal norms shape relationships and strategies to dismantle these dynamics.
A more equitable approach to love, care, and shared responsibilities in partnerships.
6. Healing & Growth
A safe space to process emotional wounds from past relationships.
Tools to heal and move forward with clarity, resilience, and hope.
7. Building Authentic Connections
The ability to align relationships with personal values and find deeper fulfillment.
An emphasis on equality, mutual respect, and shared growth in partnerships.
8. A Supportive Community
Connection with like-minded women navigating similar challenges.
Validation, encouragement, and solidarity in a non-judgmental space.
Only ten spots available.
Only ten spots available.
Pricing & Dates
10 Week Bundle : $400
Drop-in Rate : $55 per session
Only ten spots available.
Given limited availability, participants committing to the full 10-weeks will take priority.
Our group will meet weekly every Thursday evening from Jan. 30th to March 20th, 2025.
Our meetings on Weeks 1-3 and 5-7 will be held virtually. Participants will have the option to meet in-person for Week 4 and Week 8.
Location : Zoom
In-person location TBD
Time : 7:00 - 8:30pm (CST)
✺ FAQ’s ✺
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This group is meant to be a progressive learning experience, with each week’s topic building on the last. It is highly recommended you attend all sessions (or as many as you can) to receive the full benefit of the group.
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We will meet virtually weekly for 1.5 hours, and you can expect to spend about an hour a week on outside journaling or homework. We will have two optional in-person meetings on Week 4 and 8.
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Yes. We can split your bundle rate into two equal payments of $200 each, which will need to both be paid before the official start date of the group (one at registration, the second before our start date).
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We will have a Slack group where you can stay informed on the group and connected with your peers, and any content/handouts used will be provided once you come back.
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We will begin with quick check-in’s from the group, and from there move on to learn and discuss that week’s topic and prompts. From there, we may do some visualization exercises, breakout group discussions, and have space for goal-setting for the following week, as well as any Q&A’s.
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The group size will be capped at ten total participants. The intention is to keep it intimate and build actual connections and authentic support among your group peers.