RLT Relationship Skills Bootcamp

In partnership with Relational Life Institute, based on the work of renowned therapist and teacher Terry Real (founder of Relational Life Therapy),
Relational Life Foundation offers his powerfully transformative RLT Relationship Skills Bootcamp workshop at an affordable, sliding scale rate
​in an effort to provide all individuals, regardless of financial means, with the relational tools and essential skills needed to create more loving, intimate relationships. This workshop is taught by Certified RLT therapists around the country.

We are proud to be bringing this workshop to under-served populations at a rate they can afford.

"The RLT Relationship Skills Bootcamp teaches you how to effectively restore balance to bring about profound transformation in each partner and the relationship as a whole."

  -Terry Real, RLT Founder

​Through a combination of lecture, role-play, small group exercises, and personal work, participants will learn how to:

• Be connected and protected in relationships
• Recognize the Five Losing Strategies™
• Practice the Five Winning Strategies™
• Develop healthy listening and responding skills
• Identify where they get stuck the most with their (current or past) partner 
• Transform their relationship into one that is based on compassion, collaboration and closeness.

All individuals and couples, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, ability, religion, culture, age, relationship configuration and financial means are welcome. Attend on your own or with a partner.


Therapists are Welcome
Therapists who attend will learn:

• The skills necessary to teach couples how to assess losing strategies and how to move to the winning strategies.
• How to teach the practice of self esteem and to use the protective/containing boundaries to be connected and protected in relationships.
• Proven skills for sharing constructive feedback and repairing conflict.
• How to apply these skills in their own relationships.

THERAPISTS PLEASE NOTE: Therapists who attend for RLT Certification will come to participate not just observe, and are highly encouraged to attend with their partner. Please consult the Instructor about CEU availability.

Upcoming Bootcamps:

Washington DC Metro Area October 14-15, 2023
In partnership with Black Therapists Rock, for their members only.
Taught by: Certified RLT Practitioners Desirae Ysasi, LPC-S and Anna Sterk, MS LMFT In collaboration with BTR! Founder, Deran Young

Denver, CO November 4-5, 2023
Taught by: Certified RLT Practitioners Dee Marcotte, LPC and Julie Rudiger, LSCW

Minneapolis, Minnesota January 19-20, 2024
Taught by: Certified RLT Practitioners Anna Sterk, MS LMFT and Sarah Barrett, MSW, LICSW

Interested in being a part of
​one of our upcoming bootcamps?

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Partner with us to
bring a Bootcamp to your Community!

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Relational Life Foundation’s
​Inaugural Bootcamp!

April 1st and 2nd, 2023 marked the Foundation’s first in-person Relational Life Therapy Bootcamp Workshop, held in Denver, CO. Designed for underserved, marginalized communities and led by Certified RLT Practitioners Dee Marcotte and Julie Rudiger, this group of individuals and couples worked collaboratively to learn healthy relationship skills, connect with each other, and develop interpersonal growth. A successful event and the start of an ongoing program for Relational Life Foundation!

Key Learnings from Past Participants
“Learning how to communicate and listen”
“Identifying and understanding my adaptive child”
“Learning about the inner child… and that I don’t have to listen to my inner child”

Highlights from Past Participants
​“Self reflection”
​“Opening Up”
“Finding my healthy center”

Participant Testimonials

“My partner and I both came out of relationships and families with poor communication skills. This course helped give us the tools needed to discuss openly and not react.”
-Robin, Denver CO

“I feel so grateful for this course. It helped me understand myself and my partner more and from a deeper place (adaptive child). I feel I will be going back out into the world with a new lens!”
-Samantha, Denver CO

“Before this course I was in a trench of emotion. After this course I don’t think being told to calm down will trigger me as much. Because that’s my adaptive child, and not my wise adult.”
-Anonymous Participant, Denver, CO

“This workshop helped me understand where I come from, who I am, and a path to be the better me.”
-Justin, Denver CO