A live online event the 2nd Monday of every month
5:00-7:00 pm PT / 8:00-10:00 pm ET
The Real Us Workshop Series is a welcoming community gathering devoted to educating and empowering you to successfully create conscious, heart-centered relationships.
Committed romantic relationships hold incredible potential for healing, growth, and profound fulfillment. Yet most of us were never taught the fundamental principles, communication skills, and spiritual wisdom needed to attract, create, and sustain a healthy long-term intimate partnership. The good news: it’s never too late to learn how to create meaningful, healthy, authentic connections.
Whether you’re single, dating, or already in a committed partnership, each month is centered upon a dynamic aspect of truly healthy relationships. You'll have an opportunity to engage in an experiential exploration and learn grounded relationship skills.
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Welcome to Our Community!
What You Can Expect
We created The Real Us Workshop Series because we believe relationships, whether just beginning or decades in, provide a sacred opportunity for each partner's healing, awakening and fulfillment. Love is an art, a practice, and a journey—and you no longer have to walk it alone.
The sessions provide a rich, engaging learning laboratory blending soulful teachings, intimate storytelling, and experiential activities including journaling and small breakout sessions. This interactive and inquiry style of learning maximizes the flow of personal revelation while providing a place to practice & strengthen new relationship skills.
"I have been around the 'Talk Block' — but these two are the real deal.
For some time I have resisted ‘coaching’ with regards to the dating process, but was pleasantly surprised and grateful that I attended Gavin & Joy’s relationship workshop. Joy’s insights were valuable and appreciated. I found Gavin's wisdom refreshing and his candor very much relatable. They both have a fierceness that comes from Love, not anger — and that was revealing.”
~Dancing Wolf
A safe place to be real...
As husband-and-wife co-facilitators, we bring over seventy years of combined experience in guiding transformational programs, relationship workshops, and personal growth trainings. Our shared passion is creating environments where people feel deeply seen, heard, understood—for both who they are and who they're becoming.
We are devoted to cultivating a space where authenticity can flourish—where you can explore your emotions, speak your truth, and reconnect with the parts of yourself that long to be acknowledged. This is a safe space for spontaneity, vulnerability, growth, and celebration.
Our commitment is to offer the trust, compassion, and skilled facilitation that support new revelations and building grounded relationship skills. Whether you have a desire to enter the dating journey, heal past relationship patterns, or deepen intimacy with your current partner, this is a community where you can show up as the unapologetically real, beautiful human being that you are.
There are two ways to participate in the Workshop Series:
Monthly À La Carte
$25 per Session
For those who want to try a single topic or join us occasionally
Purchase One Session at a Time - $25Recurring Monthly Membership
$20 per Session
The most graceful and cost-effective way to be part of the Series
Join Us for Monthly Sessions Over Time – $20 Recurring
Upcoming Dates & Topics
Held the 2nd Monday of every month
5:00-7:00 pm PT / 8:00-10:00 pm ET
January 12th
With genuine safety, transparency and compassion, relationships become a sanctuary rather than another place you have to protect yourself. This session provides you with empowering principles and skills that foster deeper honesty, courage, and connection—so you can trust and allow ever-deeper levels of intimacy that nourish and strengthen your heart.
February 9th
Step free from the anxiety and pressure to perform into a space of genuine discovery and nourishment. In this session, we explore the art of slowing down and allowing sensuality to be a healing and inviting presence. We'll uncover and release old hang-ups, navigate chemistry with openness and clarity, and transform sexual energy into relaxed levels of authentic intimacy.
March 9th
Intimacy doesn’t have to mean losing yourself—you can actually continue to find yourself within a relationship when you learn to recognize and honor your feelings and needs—and have the courage to express your truth. In this session, we explore how to stay real, grounded, and aligned with the flow of your own truth while immersed in a relationship of safety and honesty.
Meet Your Guides
Gavin Taylor, MA, MFT
Gavin Taylor is a licensed spiritual therapist and leadership mentor with over 40 years of experience guiding individuals and couples toward new levels of flourishing love in their relationships. With a unique ability to weave profound wisdom with practical tools, Gavin has helped thousands of clients uncover their true potential as they heal and transform their relationships.
His work is rooted in the appreciation that relationships are sacred pathways to personal growth and awakening. Gavin’s approach combines intuitive insight, compassionate presence, and a commitment to creating safe spaces for exploration and transformation.
A beloved facilitator, speaker, and author of The Real You: Leading Your Life From Your Authentic Self, Gavin is known for his gentle yet powerful ability to inspire lasting change. His work invites people to live with greater courage, clarity and joy in their personal and professional lives.
Joy Taylor, LMT
Joy Taylor is an authenticity coach and soul-somatic integration practitioner whose work is dedicated to helping individuals awaken their gifts and create a life they love. With over 30 years of experience in personal growth, leadership development, and the healing arts, Joy blends her expertise in body-based wellness, spirituality, and creative expression to guide her clients toward greater connection, confidence and inner harmony.
Joy’s compassionate presence and heartfelt wisdom create a nurturing environment where individuals and couples can explore their vulnerabilities, deepen intimacy and embrace their emerging truth. Her approach is grounded in the knowing that relationships are a powerful catalyst for healing and transformation.
An inspiring speaker and author of Inspired: 7 Wisdoms of a Soul-Inspired Life, Joy facilitates women's circles and retreats and enjoys encouraging others to bring their visions to life by sharing their talents and solutions with the world.
How we found each other...
We met in the late spring of 2022—later in life and well acquainted with the ups, downs, losses, and lessons of love that shape the human heart. We found each other online on the Spiritual Singles dating site and immediately felt a deep resonance personally, spiritually, and professionally. Our conversations were honest, spacious, and full of recognition. We became fast friends and spiritual allies, even from a distance.
After three weeks of daily calls and Zooms, Gavin drove from Seattle to Joy's home in Mt. Shasta for what we planned would be a weekend. It turned into twelve glorious days of connection, laughter, soul remembering, and an undeniable sense of “this is it.” Three months later, we moved in together. One year later, we married.
Our personal journeys are the source of the relational wisdom (and laughter) we now share—helping others experience the kind of authentic, awakening partnership we are grateful to live every day... The Real Us!
What Past Participants Are Saying...
“My experience at Gavin & Joy's gathering was completely engaging, fun, informative and transformative. I'm still in awe of what unfolded. What a great adventure!”
"The evening was a truly enriching experience. I was enveloped in an atmosphere of love, acceptance, and self-discovery.”
“The workshop provided the perfect backdrop for personal growth. I experienced an on-going invitation to connect with myself in new, deeper ways."
“Gavin & Joy are knowledgeable and compassionate, and they created a safe space for us to share our stories and connect deeply. Through various creative processes, meditations, and group discussions, I rediscovered the power of my self-love and gave myself permission to connect with my heartfelt desires.”
“It was refreshing to be surrounded by a community of individuals who understood and respected my journey. The interactive gathering sparked meaningful conversations and heartfelt friendships.”
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