Inner Fitness with Kerena and Ben Saltzman

Week of April 4, 2026

1. The Quality of Our Relationships Determines the Quality of Our Lives

• Our relationships impact everything — from our sense of belonging to our emotional and physical health.
• When connection is strong, we thrive; when it’s not, we feel the ripple effects everywhere.
• In this talk, you’ll learn three powerful ways to bring more honesty, vitality, and depth into your most important relationships, as well as explore three cultural forces quietly undermining connection today.
• We’ll also look at how technology has redefined relationships, challenging the very ways we bond, communicate, and stay connected.

2. Three Skills You Can Use Anywhere to Deepen Connection

• Meaningful connection isn’t luck — it’s built through small, intentional choices.
• In this talk, you’ll learn three relational skills you can use with close friends or strangers to create more depth, honesty, and ease.
• Whether you’re around a dinner table or navigating a vulnerable moment, these tools open the door to real conversations.
• You’ll leave feeling better equipped to create connection wherever you go.

3. How We Keep Ourselves Stuck: Ending Your Commitment to Relationship Groundhog Day

• We often repeat the same relational patterns — not just because they’re familiar, but because a deeper part of us is loyal to them.
• This talk explores how personal choices, unconscious fears, and generational imprints keep us looping through the same dynamics.
• You’ll learn to recognize hidden commitments and start breaking inherited patterns.
• It’s about creating freedom — not just for yourself, but for those who come after you.

4. Bridging the Divide: How to Repair When Relationships Fall Out of Sync

• Even the strongest relationships can hit breaking points — moments when trust frays, connection weakens, or old wounds resurface.
• In this talk, you’ll explore how to approach repair with courage, humility, and clarity — even if the relationship doesn’t fully continue.
• Repair is something we do for ourselves — to release the past, reclaim our wholeness, and move forward freely.
• The ability to repair is a vital skill for both personal healing and relational resilience.

5. From Powerless to Powerful: How to Stop Abandoning Yourself in Relationships

• We abandon ourselves in subtle ways — saying yes when we mean no, staying silent when we need to speak up.
• This talk helps you spot those moments and shift from resentment and self-betrayal to choice, clarity, and healthy boundaries.
• True power isn’t about control — it’s about staying true to yourself even when things get hard.

When you stop giving yourself away, everything in your relationships — and in your life — changes.

 

Kerena Gordhamer Saltzman, LCSW is a therapist, leadership coach, and facilitator with over 25 years of experience. She has been on faculty at Esalen Institute for 15 years, taught at Omega Institute, and curated women’s leadership programs through Emerging Women. Kerena also co-leads a year-long Enneagram and Relational Leadership program with her husband, Ben Saltzman.

She is known for blending depth, humor, and practical tools to help people transform relational patterns and lead with greater presence and purpose. She lives in Santa Cruz, California, with her family and extended family — where she has plenty of opportunities to practice what she teaches.

 

Ben Saltzman is an internationally known leadership coach, Enneagram expert, spiritual maverick, and world class facilitator.

He has coached fortune 500 executives, politicians, superior court judges, non-profit boards, and multi-millionaire entrepreneurs who are greening the planet. He supports his clients in deepening self awareness, confronting their psychological shadows, and shedding old limiting beliefs.

He teaches an established set of relational skills his clients use to create successful relationships with some of the most powerful people on the planet including: Barak Obama, Elon Musk, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, and Royalty in other countries.

Ben co-founded the Israeli Enneagram Center in Telaviv Israel and taught seminars at John F. Kennedy University and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He teaches relational skills with his wife Kerena Gordhamer Saltzman. His biggest challenge is using these skills with his wife Kerena and fifteen year old daughter Jordan who he is deeply in love with.

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