From Assumption To Curiosity - by Karolina Gladych

COURSE

From Assumption To Curiosity

With Karolina Gladych

We are always assuming. About ourselves, about other people, about how life works. Most of the time, we don't even notice — our assumptions feel like facts, like simply the way things are. But when we begin to see them — really see them — something opens. This short course invites you to develop a more conscious, more curious relationship with your assumptions. Drawing on awareness practices from mindfulness and the relational tradition of circling and authentic relating, we explore two parallel paths: an inner practice of questioning the stories we carry about ourselves, and a relational practice of checking our assumptions with others — learning to ask, with genuine curiosity, whether what we are perceiving is actually true. In four lessons, you will: - Recognize how assumptions quietly shape your inner world and your relationships - Explore the assumptions you carry about yourself — and try on something more spacious - Learn to check assumptions with others in a way that builds real connection - Discover what becomes possible when you meet life and people with genuine not-knowing If you have a meditation practice, you already know the quality of awareness this course invites. We are simply bringing it into relationship — from the cushion into connection. Image by Pexels from Pixabay


Meet your Teacher

Karolina is a psychologist, coach, and group facilitator with over 15 years of experience, working at the intersection of somatic nervous system regulation, depth psychology, and relational practice. Alongside her individual work, she has been practising and studying circling and authentic relating for several years — relational modalities that explore what becomes possible when we meet each other with genuine presence and curiosity. She is currently training as a facilitator at the Relational Leadership Academy at the Connection Institute. She works bilingually in English and Polish, both individually and with groups, in person and online, and creates spaces where people can meet themselves and each other more fully.

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4 Days

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12 min / day

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English


Lesson 1

The Water We Swim In

We are constantly assuming — about ourselves, about other people, about how the world works. So automatically, so continuously, that most of the time our assumptions feel less like interpretations and more like reality itself. In this first lesson, we explore what assumptions are, why we make them, and how they quietly shape our inner world and our relationships — often without our awareness. This is where the practice begins: with the simple, transformative act of noticing.

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Lesson 2

The Inner Work

Not all assumptions are easy to spot. Some have been with us so long they no longer feel like interpretations — they feel like facts. About who we are, what we're capable of, and what life tends to offer us. In this lesson, we turn awareness inward — exploring the assumptions we carry about ourselves, feeling what they cost us, and experimenting with trying on something more spacious. Not as forced positivity, but as a genuine, playful act of curiosity.

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Lesson 3

What's Real Between Us

The moment we are with another person, assumptions begin to arise. About what they are feeling, what they think of us, what their silence or their tone might mean. And because our nervous systems are wired to lean toward threat, these interpretations more often move toward disconnection than toward what is actually true. In this lesson, we learn to bring genuine curiosity into the space between us — checking our assumptions with others, asking from a place of not-knowing, and discovering how much opens in a relationship when we choose what's real over what we've constructed.

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Lesson 4

The Creative, Connected Life

Assumptions are not the enemy. They are part of being human. But when we begin to hold them more lightly — when we stay genuinely curious about what we don't yet know — something shifts in how we move through life and relationships. This final lesson brings the whole journey together, inviting you to rest in what has opened. A short, still integration — ending with two questions to carry forward, one turned toward others, one turned toward yourself.

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