Active listening | The Connection Academy: Relationship Skill Sessions
Sun, 29 Nov
|Fruition House
A two-hour morning session with Amy Nelson on listening so your partner knows they’ve been heard.
Time & Location
29 Nov 2026, 10:00 – 12:00
Fruition House, 388 Albert Rd, Woodstock, Cape Town, 7915, South Africa
About the event
The Connection Academy: Relationship Skill Sessions
Active listening
A two-hour evening session with Amy Nelson on listening so your partner knows they’ve been heard.
The details
When: Sunday 29 November, 10h00 to 12h00. Please don’t be late, and allow time to park.
Where: Fruition House, 388 Albert Road, Woodstock
Cost: R350 per person or R650 per couple
Vedic Astrology reading. Add-on for only R450 extra!
Food and drinks: Botanical drinks and water for sale
Listening well means understanding what your partner means, staying present while it’s hard to hear, and letting them know they’ve been heard. Those are skills, and this session teaches them in plain language, with practice.
What you’ll learn
How to listen for what your partner means and what they need
How to listen without fixing, defending or correcting
How to stay with what you’re hearing when it’s hard, including when your own reaction is rising
How to reflect back what you heard so your partner knows you understood
How to notice when you’ve stopped listening, and come back
How the session works
Amy teaches the skills and you practise them, with your partner if you’ve come together. If you come on your own, Amy will guide you through the practice. Nobody is asked to share with the group. You can pause, step outside or skip any exercise, and you don’t need to give a reason. If an exercise gets heated, Amy will pause it and help you slow down.
Who it’s for
All relationship configurations, and all genders and orientations. Come on your own or with a partner. If you have more than one partner, message us and we’ll arrange tickets for additional partners. You don’t need any experience, and you don’t need to agree with each other about why you’re coming. If one of you is keen and the other is unsure, you’re both welcome. Neurodivergent partners are welcome, and Amy teaches with different communication styles in mind. Fruition House is an inclusive space with activism and queer feminist values at our core.
A note on safety
These sessions teach skills for relationships where both people feel safe. If you’re afraid of your partner, or there has been violence in your relationship, practising together here isn’t the right setting. Message Amy privately before booking and she’ll help you find suitable support. You’re welcome to come on your own.
Amy’s approach
Amy brings the techniques she uses with couples in her practice to these sessions. She’s an experienced teacher and facilitator with an un-shaming approach, known for making people feel safe, seen and understood, and she supports people who arrive nervous. Couples bring the things they find awkward or embarrassing to talk about, and Amy works with all of it without shaming anyone.
“Married 9 years, been to 4 therapists and were about to give up. Amy got us feeling optimistic and like a team from the first session. Forever grateful.” Google Review
About Amy
Amy Nelson is a relationship coach and shamanic therapist in Cape Town, and the founder of SomatoSensual Therapy. She holds a Bachelor of Applied Social Science, majoring in Psychology and Counselling, specialising in Gender, Sex, and HIV. She works with couples and individuals of all genders and relationship structures, with sex and sexuality, and with psychedelic integration. She runs Beyond Monogamy SA and Queer Spirit Cape Town with her wife, Ancois Human-Nelson.
She has chosen not to register with the HPCSA (Health Professions Council of South Africa) because she works in the sexuality and psychedelic spaces. She’s a member of the Psychedelic Society of South Africa’s accountability network and the Safety Network, so her practice stays ethically grounded. These sessions are educational and don’t replace therapy.
Read more about her philosophy and approach, relationship coaching and nonmonogamy coaching. Deepen with astrology
Marjorie Lobel, Vedic Astrology & Life Guidance, offers Vedic astrology readings to help you understand your relationship and yourselves.
Vedic Relationship Synastry. Marjorie compares your individual birth charts to explore how your energies interact, the strengths you bring to one another, and the challenges that may arise. Understanding each other’s ways of thinking, feeling and communicating can bring greater awareness, compassion and understanding into your relationship.
Your reading includes:
A personalised 15 minute couple’s reading
A copy of each partner’s Vedic birth chart, plus additional insights to take home
How it works
The readings are part of the first session in this series, Self-regulation and co-regulation on 22 November. Marjorie is there in person for the first part of that session to give each reading. If you book your reading after 22 November, you receive the same reading by telephone.
Marjorie prepares both charts in advance, so she needs the day, month, year, time and place of birth for both partners. Please send them on WhatsApp to 071 603 6077
If you come on your own
Marjorie can look at the kind of partner you may meet and some of their characteristics, where you may meet them, and when the timing is favourable for marriage or partnership in your chart. She can also give you a mini birth chart reading on where you are now and what to focus on.
About Marjorie
Marjorie Lobel is a Vedic astrologer. She works with Vedic astrology to look at the course of a person’s life, deepen their understanding of themselves, and make sense of their experiences. Her aim is to bring clarity, insight and spiritual guidance, so that people can connect with their true nature and move through life with more awareness and alignment.
More sessions in the series
This is one of three Relationship Skill Sessions. The others are Self-regulation and co-regulation on 22 November and Working with Triggers on 6 December. Each has its own page and ticket. (even through the astrology reading is listed in all three workshops, you only pay for it once)
Getting here and access
Fruition House is on the first floor of The Royal Albert, at 388 Albert Road, Woodstock. There are two flights of stairs from the entrance and no lift, and the toilets are up a further set of steps, so the venue isn’t wheelchair accessible. Parking is on the street. The building has a concierge desk and 24-hour security. Seating is provided and you can take a break at any point. If you have an access need, message us before booking and we’ll talk through what we can do.
Questions or access needs? WhatsApp +27 71 603 6077.
FRUITION HOUSE: WHAT’S COMING UP
Fruition House is a space for embodied connection, conscious relating, community, creativity, ritual and exploration.
Our programme moves across different practices and communities, from talks and workshops to dance, sound,
drumming and queer gatherings.
November
Wed 11 Nov: Beyond Monogamy presents Cruising for Convos, a community gathering
https://www.fruitionhouse.co.za/event-details/beyond-monogamy-present-cruising-for-convos-2
Fri 13 Nov: Shamanic Temple presents Queer Men’s Temple, co-facilitated by Francis Chouler
https://www.fruitionhouse.co.za/event-details/queer-temple-for-gbtq-men
Sat 14 Nov: Fruition: Shamanic rewilding dance experience with guest Ka (Storm Willow Hartley) a South African artist based in Berlin.
Mon 16 Nov: Psychedelic Society SA Talks | Online & In-person | Coco & Tersius speak about traditional Bwiti initiations
(with iboga)
https://www.psychedelicsociety.co.za/event-details/iboga-traditional-bwiti-initiation-q-a
Sat 21 Nov: Vortex Energetics Workshop with Carol Nelson
https://www.fruitionhouse.co.za/event-details/learn-vortex-energetics
Sun 22 Nov: The Connection Academy: Relationship skills Sessions with Amy Nelson - Self regulation & co-regulation.
DEEPEN with a Vedic astrology reading to understand your relationship and selves with Marjorie Lobel
Thurs 26 Nov: Queer Spirit Unstructured evening (An evening for all queers to come and hang out)
Sat 28 Nov: Men’s Masturbation Masterclass, hosted by Simon Heller & Francis Chouler at Fruition House
https://www.fruitionhouse.co.za/event-details/beyond-masturbation-expanding-self-pleasure-for-men
Sat 28 Nov: Shamanic Heat Ceremony (Women's sweat lodge)
Sun 29 Nov: The Connection Academy: Relationship skills Sessions with Amy Nelson - Active Listening
December
Tue 1 Dec: Fruition Intimate conversations: Hosted by Amy Nelson with guest Cheshire Vineyard
Thurs 3 Dec: Fruition third space for neurodivergent, non-monogamous, and queer communities, and anyone who lives, loves or relates differently (our very own first Thursday monthly rotating activities like cacao circle, dream sharing and interpretation, conversation nights with prompts about love, desire and difference, skill share, open mic show and tell, crafting evenings)
Sun 6 Dec: The Connection Academy: Relationship skills Sessions with Amy Nelson - Working with Triggers
Thurs 10 Dec: Fruition Friends Night Twenties and Thirties (An evening for people aged 20 to late 30's
who’d like to meet others and create authentic connections. Come on your own, bring a friend or partner.
Tue 15 Dec: Erotic Breathwork with guest Lily
Thurs 17 Dec: Fruition Next Chapter Friends Forty+ (An evening for people over 40 who’d like to meet others
and create authentic connections. Come on your own, bring a friend or partner)
Date tbc: A Deep Remembrance group Ayahuasca ceremony with Amy, Ancois and guest Minjay
Want to stay connected? Message 071 603 6077 for more information
Tickets
ADDON-Vedic Astrology Reading
We would highly recommend that you add this onto your ticket !
R 450,00
+R 11,25 ticket service fee
Ticket - Single person
R 350,00
+R 8,75 ticket service fee
Ticket - Couple
R 650,00
+R 16,25 ticket service fee
Workshop bundle Single
This includes all three workshops.
R 1 000,00
+R 25,00 ticket service fee
Workshop bundle Couple
R 1 850,00
+R 46,25 ticket service fee
Total
R 0,00