A transformative 2-day workshop for Couples and Individuals

Upcoming Relationship Bootcamp

Nancy Pickard & Andrea Masters

Join us for our next Relationship Bootcamp!

Mill Valley, California
Saturday & Sunday, June 7–8, 2025
9:00 AM–5:00 PM daily

Cost: $895 per person and $1500 per couple -

Early Bird Pricing Available NOW for $600 and $1200!

Build a Relationship Built on Compassion and Collaboration for Lifelong Intimacy

In a small group setting, you’ll gain a wealth of practical skills you can use immediately to build healthier, more meaningful relationships, including:

✔ What gets in your way of the deeply satisfying relationship you want.

✔ How your self-esteem & boundaries intersect to create repeated patterns in your relationships. 

✔ How to ground yourself so you can effectively engage in challenging conversations.

✔ Healthy listening & responding skills to improve communication & de-escalate conflict.

✔ How to assert your wants & desires in a way that empowers your partner to meet them.

✔ Winning strategies to nurture your connection and cherish your partner.

  • This Relationship Bootcamp is Suited For:

    ✓ Couples looking to strengthen their connection, improve communication, and sustain intimacy.

    ✓ Individuals looking to overcome their barriers to intimacy and cultivate more meaningful relationships.

    ✓ Mental health professionals looking to deepen their understanding of the RLT model and facilitate their own Relationship Bootcamps.

    This workshop is welcoming and inclusive of all humans and the facilitator maintains a space of safety, respect, dignity, and belonging for participants of all races, sexual identities, genders, religions, and nationalities.

  • What Should I Expect from the Relationship Bootcamp?

    You will learn essential skills from Relational Life Therapy (RLT)

    RLT is the radically effective approach to relationship therapy created by internationally-recognized therapist and bestselling author, Terry Real. RLT is known for its ability to spark profound, lasting change in individuals and their relationships, and these skills will help you build and sustain meaningful connections.

    You will learn through a combination of lecture, small group exercises,
    and personal reflections.

    Limited to 24 participants, Nancy & Andea give personalized attention to support your learning and growth. (Pass rule is always in effect!)

  • Why spend a weekend on your relationship?

    We all want deeply satisfying relationships, but sometimes it feels like we’re stuck in patterns that hold us back. I may be biased (I am!) but I believe deeply in the importance of our intimate relationships.

    In fact, research shows that the quality of our closest relationships can even predict our longevity.

     We know that relationships take work, but few of us know what that work actually is…

    The real work of relationships isn’t occasional, it’s minute-to-minute.
    And this workshop will teach you those critical minute-to-minute skills that build and sustain true intimacy. 

    Designed to help participants make significant progress in a short amount of time, in an intimate setting (max of 24 participants), and with expert guidance from Andrea & me, who have trained with Terry Real, the founder of Relational Life Therapy (RLT), we help you to make meaningful change. Relational Life Therapy is a practice that uses a range of powerful diagnostic and transformative tools to help people to first reconnect to themselves in order to build a stronger, more intimate connection with their partner.

    Is it magic and will it solve every issue? No (though I have been given a magic wand and been called a fairy therapeutic godmother), but, as past participants have shared, it can be life-changing and revolutionary for your personal life and relationships.

    Just ask my husband – we laughed, cried, and came away with a deeper understanding of ourselves and each other, grateful for the group experience.

How the Relationship Bootcamp Has Helped Others

  • We started seeing Nancy toward the end of May, 2024. Marriage 1.0 was a wreck; we were in divorce proceedings, my husband had an affair, we had stopped communicating, and all forms of intimacy was scarce - but, somehow we were willing to see if we could make Marriage 2.0 work. We had come across Terry Real’s “Us” book - and it resonated with us both. I found Nancy and we started couples work and I also started some individual work. It has been transformative for us both. We are in the relationship that we both have wanted for a long, long time. The communication, intimacy, and love has returned and is stronger than ever. Nancy has an ability to be direct and on-point - making us each look at what we have brought to the marriage. Through her guidance we have learned how to repair when tough conversations arise, no longer retreating behind a wall. She is a wonder to work with - and I cannot recommend her enough! Thank you, Nancy for helping us move into a beautiful partnership.

    - Lynne, California

  • Though my wife and I had been married for over 30 years, we had stopped communicating, lost our intimacy and drifted apart. I had given up on the marriage, found another relationship and embarked on a divorce process. During this difficult journey my separated wife and I came to learn about RLT and in the process found Nancy. Our work together has been fabulous and turned our marriage that had died on the vine into the kind of relationship that each of us always wanted. It more than saved our marriage and was instrumental in working through the repair process, move beyond my own shame and allowed me to find forgiveness for myself. Our work with her helped each of us truly find ourselves and “see” the other through our relationship. I can’t recommend RLT or Nancy enough.

    - Mark, California

  • My partner and I just completed the Relationship Skills Bootcamp over the weekend. Without a doubt, it was a game changer! Our relationship was on the brink and by the end of the first day we had hope; by the end of the second day we were downright excited about our future, both as a couple and as individuals in life in general. I highly recommend this bootcamp to anyone interested in improving any or all of the relationships in your life, including the one with yourself. It’s THAT good!

    - Lynette Mancuso

  • Yes, the practices of RLT have changed my life and improved my relationships tremendously!

    - Anonymous

  • This course will give you several opportunities to put Terry Real’s concepts into practice.

    – Sara

  • RLT is warm, loving, and astute to what is vital for self respect communication with my partner, my family, friends, and everyone I encounter. The work is genuine and filled with integrity. Thank you!

    – Rene Rivera

  • Thank you for the tools and thank you for talking about the Adaptive Child and how she has been instrumental in keeping me safe and how a shift must take place for the Wise Adult to be in charge and to communicate my needs in an honest way, making requests, and how to communicate after I have taken care of the "triggered" part of me.

    – Nancy Kornfield

  • RLT is the most practical set of therapeutic interventions in psychotherapy.

    -Jane Prevost

  • The Relationship Boot Camp provided a wealth of knowledge, tools and skills to help with developing effective communication and enhancement of our relationships with family, friends and/or our intimate partners.

    – Anita Amstutz

  • I started working with Nancy one on one to understand why my romantic relationships kept failing. I was successful in many aspects of my life. However, the clock was ticking, and I was constantly losing at love. We identified my patterns of self-sabotage; including my habit of running when things got either too hard or too good. We worked on my self-esteem and boundaries. She helped me see that I was modeling the unhealthy relational stances of each of my divorced parents and I deserved to be happier than they had been in any of their relationships. With Nancy’s support I reached out to the love of my life who I had broken up with more than once, in the past. He was at first very resistant but then agreed with the support of Nancy he would step back in, one last time. It hasn’t been easy for either of us to change our attachment styles and to learn to repair using better communication skills and each working our own side of the street when we got out of harmony. We learned to trust in ourselves and in our love and commit to the work to create the loving relationship we both desired. We are happy to report we are married and having our first child. We owe so much to Nancy’s guidance and support. We call this happily ever after with support.

    - S. and J. from L.A.

  • I started working with Nancy one on one to understand why my romantic relationships kept failing. I was successful in many aspects of my life. However, the clock was ticking, and I was constantly losing at love. We identified my patterns of self-sabotage; including my habit of running when things got either too hard or too good. She helped me see that I was modeling the unhealthy relational stances of each of my divorced parents. With Nancy’s support I reached out to the love of my life who I had broken up with more than once, in the past. He was at first very resistant but then agreed with the support of Nancy he would step back in one last time. It hasn’t been easy for either of us to change our attachment styles and to learn to repair with better communication skills and each working our own side of the street when we got out of harmony. We learned to trust in ourselves and in our love and commit to the work to create the loving relationship we both desired. We are happy to report we are married and having our first child. We owe so much to Nancy’s guidance and support. We call this happily ever after with support.

    S. and J. from Miami

“Intimacy isn’t something you have, it’s something you do. And you can learn to do it better.”

— Terry Real

Meet Your Facilitators:

Nancy Pickard

Nancy is a certified Relational Life Therapy Coach and a bootcamp facilitator and board member of the Relational Life Foundation. She is also a Master Integrative Coach certified in Breakthrough Shadow Coaching, Empowered Parent, Healing Your Heart, Leadership, Holistic Lifestyle, and Boundary Coaching, among others. She coaches both individuals and couples.

Nancy is the author of the international bestseller, Bigger Better Braver: Conquer Your Fears, Embrace Your Courage, and Transform Your Life, which she wrote after climbing Mount Kilimanjaro at the ripe age of 61. Prior to her work as a coach, she owned and operated a personal training gym called Tight Ends Inc. Her path toward coaching evolved naturally—she has a BS in Psychology and an MS in Education.  She is the mother of two adult sons and grandmother to five. Nancy splits her time between Aspen, Colorado and Mill Valley, California with her partner and their Australian Labradoodle (Bliss).

Learn more about Nancy at: https://nancypickardlifecoach.com

Email Address: nancy@nancypickardlifecoach.com

Andrea Masters

Andrea is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker based in Richmond, Virginia.

Andrea graduated from the University of Virginia with a BS in Psychology, and a membership in Psy Chi, the National Honor Society for Psychology. She obtained a Masters Degree in Social Work from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2000 and went on to work in community mental health, specializing in adolescent substance abuse, before joining a private practice. 

After her second child was born Andrea worked in the non-profit sector with parents court ordered for treatment due to charges of child abuse or neglect. Andrea currently owns a practice where she sees individuals and couples, specializing in high conflict couples, anxiety and depressive disorders, trauma, and helping people get comfortable being human. She has three children, a dog, two bikes, and way too many pickleball paddles. 

andreamasterslcsw@gmail.com

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Mill Valley, California
Saturday & Sunday, June 7–8, 2025
9:00 AM–5:00 PM daily

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