You already feel the field.
Learn how to read it.
Relational Field Intelligence™ (RFI) is the capacity to perceive the dynamics shaping what is happening within you, between people and across the larger system, then respond with clarity, sovereignty and conscious choice.
The RFI Program is a four-part experiential training designed to develop that capacity. You’ll learn to recognize the seen and unseen forces that shape relationships, decisions and outcomes, work with those dynamics as they unfold and make a positive impact within your sphere of influence.
Read what’s really happening.
Recognize emotional undercurrents, hidden dynamics and repeating patterns before they pull you into confusion, conflict or self-doubt.
Strengthen your sovereignty.
Stay clear and regulated in charged moments, distinguish what belongs to you from what belongs to someone else or the field, and keep your discernment available when it matters most.
Choose from power, not pressure.
Perceive what is happening beneath the words and respond while the pattern is still forming, so your choices come from clarity, values and inner authority instead of fear, projection or emotional pressure.
Influence what becomes possible.
Use your influence to increase coherence, restore choice and expand what becomes possible in a relationship, group or room.
History, emotion, attachment, culture, power dynamics, expectations, unspoken agreements and unconscious patterns all influence the relational field and shape what becomes possible between us.
We are continually receiving information from within ourselves, other people and from the larger systems we participate in. Without a way to interpret that information, we can mistake another person’s emotions for our own, react to dynamics we cannot name, misunderstand or take responsibility for something that does not belong to us.
I developed Relational Field Intelligence™ to give language and structure to this dimension of human experience.
RFI develops your capacity to notice and interpret what is moving through the field, discern what belongs to you, another person and the larger system, and make conscious choices about how you participate in and influence what becomes possible — in service of the highest good.
There is always more happening than what is being said.
The gap between insight and change
INSIGHT DOES NOT GUARANTEE CHANGE
Conversations can be honest, revealing and emotionally significant while the same underlying dynamics continue to organize what happens next.
AWARENESS DOES NOT CREATE CAPACITY
You can recognize a trigger, understand a pattern and know what you want to do differently, then lose access to that clarity when emotion enters the field.
MORE LANGUAGE DOES NOT MEAN MORE CLARITY
We have more language than ever for boundaries, projection, nervous system responses, inherited patterns and emotional dynamics. This language can illuminate our experience or become another way to label others, defend our interpretations and explain away conflict without changing it.
UNSEEN DYNAMICS STILL SHAPE THE OUTCOME
What goes unnamed still has influence. Emotion, history, power, expectation, projection and unconscious patterns can shape what happens between us before anyone recognizes what is happening.
Insight helps us recognize the pattern.
Change begins when we develop the capacity to participate differently.
The Sovereignty Framework™
Within Relational Field Intelligence™, The Sovereignty Framework™ provides a practical structure for maintaining agency and making conscious, values-aligned choices under emotional and relational pressure.
It helps you discern what belongs to you, what belongs to someone else and what is happening in the larger field, then choose how you will participate with clarity and self-governance.
The framework traces the development of sovereignty from recognizing that your actions matter to exercising conscious choice and remaining aligned with your values when the field is charged.
Sovereignty changes the field.
Relational Field Intelligence™ deepens your internal authority so you can remain anchored in your values, discernment and choices while navigating the relationships, systems and forces influencing you.
As you become clearer about what is yours, what belongs to someone else and what is emerging in the field, your participation changes.
Conversations move differently. Repeating patterns begin to dissolve. Your choices become more intentional.
As your participation changes, the field reorganizes around you.
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”
~RUMI
Voices from an earlier expression of this work
Before Relational Field Intelligence™ was developed as a framework, I taught many of these capacities through the Transcend Into Oneness program. These conversations reflect that earlier work and the foundations from which RFI has evolved.
From insight to tools you can use in real time
Changing the field without needing others to change
A deeper look at the work and its impact
From individual change to systemic impact
WHERE RFI APPLIES
Relational Field Intelligence™ can be applied anywhere people are influencing and being influenced by one another. It offers a way to understand what is shaping the interaction, discern your own role within it and participate with greater clarity and choice.
RELATIONSHIPS: Recognize the dynamics beneath conflict, attachment, expectations and recurring patterns while staying connected to yourself.
CONFLICT: Read what is happening beneath the positions people take, reduce reactivity and create conditions where choice and movement become possible again.
LEADERSHIP: Stay clear under pressure, perceive what is happening beyond the obvious and understand how your presence shapes the field around you.
FACILITATION + COACHING: Distinguish what belongs to you, another person and the larger field so you can work with relational dynamics as they emerge in real time.
ORGANIZATIONS: Recognize the unseen patterns, power dynamics and cultural forces shaping communication, trust, decision-making and change.
PURPOSE + CO-CREATION: Understand how your choices interact with relationships, circumstances, timing and the larger field as you co-create what comes next.
Imagine what becomes possible when you can read the field.
Imagine conversations where truth can be spoken without making anyone the enemy.
Conflict that reaches the source of what is actually happening, instead of circling the positions, reactions and stories on the surface.
Leaders, families and communities that can recognize what has gone unseen, interrupt old patterns and open new possibilities. People who understand when to speak, how to listen, when to act and when to make space for what wants to emerge.
When we change how we participate, we change the field.
Together, we can co-create what comes next.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Relational Field Intelligence™ is a four-phase live program designed to develop your capacity to perceive, discern and respond to relational dynamics in real time.
Each six-week phase stands on its own, giving you four distinct entry points into Relational Field Intelligence™. Begin with the phase that speaks to you, move through them at your own pace or experience all four for the most comprehensive exploration of the work. There are no prerequisites, and you do not have to commit to the full program to begin.
The training unfolds through four 6-week phases, with each building on the one before it. Through teaching, experiential practice, real-life application and integration between sessions, you will develop greater capacity for perception, discernment, sovereignty and conscious participation in the relational field.
The work is designed to become something you can access when it matters most: while the field is moving.
Four 6-week phases · Live online training sessions · Wednesdays, 6:30–8:30 p.m. ET
Session recordings are provided in case you have to miss a class.
PHASE 1 · READ THE FIELD · FALL 2026
OCTOBER 28 – DECEMBER 9
Develop your ability to recognize what is happening within you, between people and across the larger system.
WEEK 1 · START WITH WHAT MATTERS: Discover the values beneath behavior and how they shape what happens between us.
WEEK 2 · FACT OR STORY?: Learn to separate what actually happened from the meaning, judgment and assumptions you’ve attached to it.
WEEK 3 · HEAR WHAT’S BENEATH THE WORDS: Listen beyond positions and behavior to recognize the pain, values and human experience underneath.
WEEK 4 · SEE YOUR IMPACT: Recognize what you bring into the field and how your presence and actions affect other people.
WEEK 5 · RECOGNIZE POWER: See how power, authority and hierarchy shape what happens between people, including when you are the one holding power.
WEEK 6 · EXPERIENCE THE FIELD: Enter a systemic constellation and experience what the body can perceive before the mind has an explanation.
There will be no session Thanksgiving week.
PHASE 2 · EMOTIONAL MASTERY · WINTER 2027
JANUARY 13 – FEBRUARY 17, 2027
Develop the capacity to stay clear, grounded and discerning when emotion enters the field.
WEEK 1 · UNDERSTAND YOUR EMOTIONS: Learn why emotions matter, what they’re telling you and what emotional mastery actually means.
WEEK 2 · NAME WHAT’S REALLY THERE: Move beneath blame-based feelings to identify what you are actually feeling and experiencing.
WEEK 3 · FEELING OR KNOWING?: Learn to distinguish emotional activation and projection from intuition and clear perception.
WEEK 4 · REGULATE WITHOUT SUPPRESSING: Use the body to stay grounded and present without overriding, avoiding or being governed by what you feel.
WEEK 5 · INTERRUPT THE ESCALATION: Recognize the trigger, story, projection and blame cycle and create space for context, clarification and choice.
WEEK 6 · STAY PRESENT IN CONFLICT: Practice stopping an argument in its tracks and staying connected to yourself during emotionally charged conversations.
PHASE 3 · SOVEREIGNTY · SPRING 2027
MARCH 10 – APRIL 14, 2027
Strengthen your capacity to choose consciously, act from your values and remain internally directed when the world around you pulls you elsewhere.
WEEK 1 · AGENCY · MY ACTIONS MATTER: Recognize how you participate in what happens around you and your capacity to create an effect.
WEEK 2 · AUTONOMY · I AM ALLOWED TO CHOOSE: Recognize your right and ability to make decisions for yourself and take ownership of your choices.
WEEK 3 · FREEDOM · I ACT: Explore what keeps choice from becoming action and what it takes to move through fear, conditioning and outside pressure.
WEEK 4 · SOVEREIGNTY · MY VALUES LEAD: Develop the internal compass that guides your choices and actions.
WEEK 5 · SELF-GOVERNANCE · I STAY ALIGNED: Practice remaining internally directed when emotions are strong, circumstances are difficult or outside influences pull you away from your values.
WEEK 6 · SOVEREIGNTY IN THE FIELD: Learn to remain rooted in your own authority while navigating the influence, expectations and pressures of other people and systems.
PHASE 4 · INFLUENCE · SPRING/SUMMER 2027
MAY 12 – JUNE 16, 2027
Apply RFI to relationships, leadership and systems by understanding how your presence and choices shape what becomes possible.
WEEK 1 · CONSCIOUS PARTICIPATION
Recognize how your presence and choices are already influencing what happens around you.
WEEK 2 · WORK WITH COMPLEXITY
Stay present when multiple perspectives, needs and forces are operating in the field at the same time.
WEEK 3 · RUPTURE AND REPAIR
Learn what happens when connection breaks down and how to participate in creating the conditions for repair.
WEEK 4 · READ THE LARGER SYSTEM
Apply RFI beyond one-to-one relationships to groups, organizations and the systems you move through.
WEEK 5 · EXPAND WHAT’S POSSIBLE
Use your sphere of influence to increase coherence, agency and choice without controlling the outcome.
WEEK 6 · INFLUENCE THE FIELD
Integrate the full RFI framework to consciously participate in creating the conditions for something new to emerge.
INVESTMENT
The investment for each six-week phase is $1,800.
Participants may enroll in each phase separately as they progress through the program.
Those who choose to enroll in all four phases in advance pay $6,800 — a savings of $400 off the full $7,200 investment.
Because enrollment is limited and your place is reserved once you register for a phase, all payments are non-refundable. This includes individual phase payments and payment in full for all four phases.
COMMITMENT
RFI is an experiential program, and your active participation is an important part of the work.
Plan to attend a two-hour live training session each week and participate fully in the teaching, discussion and experiential exercises. Because the learning builds from week to week, live attendance is encouraged whenever possible.
Session recordings will be available when you need to miss a class.
Plan for an additional one to two hours each week for between-session work. This may include practicing what you are learning with family, friends or colleagues, completing experiential exercises and watching occasional supporting videos.
After each class, you will complete a reflection on what you are noticing, practicing and learning. Reflections are due before the next class.
The first live session begins Wednesday, October 28 at 6:30 p.m. ET.
Registration is now open.
READY TO DEVELOP RELATIONAL FIELD INTELLIGENCE™?
The first RFI training cohort begins October 28, 2026.
Because this is a small, experiential training and each phase builds on the one before it, enrollment begins with an application.
The application is an opportunity for me to learn a little about you, what draws you to this work and what you hope to develop through the training.
Questions before applying?
Email Sara at: sara@saradaves.com
APPLY FOR RFI TRAINING
Because this is a small, experiential cohort, registration begins with a short application.
Complete the brief application below and I’ll be in touch to schedule a Zoom conversation so we can talk about what draws you to the work, what you hope to develop and whether the training feels like the right fit.
FAQs
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No. Each six-week phase of Relational Field Intelligence™ stands on its own, so you can enroll in the phases that speak to you without committing to the entire program.
There are no prerequisites.
The four phases are designed to work together as a complete exploration of Relational Field Intelligence, and you’ll have the opportunity to continue as each new phase opens.
Each phase is $1,800. If you already know you want the full experience, you can enroll in all four phases for $6,800, a savings of $400.
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You participate through live Zoom classes that combine teaching, group discussion, experiential exercises and small-group breakout sessions.
Between classes, you’ll complete written reflections, occasional reading or video assignments and experiential practices that allow you to apply the work in real-life situations.
The program is experiential, so learning develops through both participation with the group and practice in your everyday relationships, work and other relational environments.
If you have to miss a class, you will receive the recording so you can catch up.
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For people who want to strengthen their ability to read relational dynamics, stay grounded and discerning under pressure and influence what becomes possible in relationships, organizations and systems.
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When you find yourself noticing more than you know how to work with. You want greater clarity about what is yours, what belongs to someone else and what is happening in the field, and you are ready to practice responding with greater sovereignty, discernment and choice.
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Because enrollment is limited and your place is reserved once you register for a phase, all payments are non-refundable. This includes individual phase payments and payment in full for all four phases.
Complete the Application
Enrollment is intentionally limited to a small cohort.
This allows for precision, depth and direct engagement with the work.
If you recognize yourself in this work, the next step is to complete the application.