Raphael Schwartzman
  • Home
  • Director
    • Resume
    • Climate Follies
    • Let's Find Out!
    • The Curse on Mordrake House
    • Thinking Sacks of Meat
    • The Best of BYOT
    • Dumped Among the Reeds
    • Resurrected
  • Connect

Want to Win More in Love and ​Leadership?

Practice how you show up in high-stakes relationships—so you stop repeating old patterns and start creating the intimacy, collaboration, and confidence you actually want.

​Get notified about upcoming Relationship Rehearsal sessions (digital + in-person):
    Built with Kit
    This is more than coaching. It’s not therapy. It’s not performance. It’s rehearsal.
    ​

    Relationship Rehearsal is a space to practice conscious connection, creative leadership, healthy conflict, and courageous intimacy - with your nervous system on board and your heart wide open.

    You know how you want to show up in your most important relationships...

    But in the moment, you freeze. You fawn. You spiral. You lash out. You shut down.

    You say what you promised not to say. You give up what you really want. You lose trust with the people you love and lead.

    Your head knows what to do. But your body is still running an old script.

    This doesn't just affect your love life. It shows up in how you lead your team, sell your services, parent your kids, collaborate on your creative work, and engage with your community.

    ​If you don’t rehearse something different, you'll keep performing the same dysfunctional scene on repeat.

    Relationship Rehearsal

    Relationship Rehearsal is a live experiential space to practice the version of you that your relationships (and the world) are calling forward.
    ​
    • Communicate with clarity under pressure
    • Navigate conflict and repair with courage
    • Ask for what you want without collapsing or controlling
    • Say "No" without fear or apology
    • ​Deepen intimacy without abandoning yourself

    ​Bring real situations.Try new scripts.
    Get feedback.
    Rewire your patterns.

    ​Just like an actor needs rehearsal to embody their role, you need rehearsal to embody the self you're becoming.
    Because if you can’t do it in rehearsal, you won’t do it when it counts.
      Built with Kit

      ​ABOUT YOUR FACILITATOR

      Picture
      Hi, I’m Raphael Schwartzman - relationship coach, theatre director, business strategist, and trauma-informed social health facilitator.

      For over 20 years, I’ve been helping people rehearse how they want to show up - on stage, in love, in leadership, and in life.

      My work lives at the intersection of creative expression, conscious communication, and powerful relationships. I’ve coached executives through business transformations, creatives through identity breakthroughs, and partners through relational repair. I’ve helped leaders scale their companies and deepen their intimacy - because at the root, life, love, and business are all relationship.

      Before I became a coach, I was a theatre director, and I bring that same rehearsal room magic into everything I do. In theatre, I’ve directed everything from 24-hour festivals to full-length productions. I’ve worked with actors, playwrights, and designers to bring visions to life - and I’ve learned that collaboration only works when people feel seen, respected, and empowered to bring their full selves to the table.

      You can't fake it when the curtain rises.
      And you can’t fake it in a high-stakes conversation with your partner, your co-founder, or your team.

      The moment you freeze, fawn, lash out, or shut down? That’s your nervous system running an old script.
      You need a space to rehearse something new.

      That’s why I created Relationship Rehearsal - to give creative leaders and lovers a place to stop spiraling in theory and start practicing the love, leadership, and collaboration they want to live out loud.

      This is where you condition new choices into your body—where you stop just knowing better and start doing differently.

      ​We can't afford to get it wrong “on the night.”
      Let’s get it right, right now.


        Built with Kit
        • Home
        • Director
          • Resume
          • Climate Follies
          • Let's Find Out!
          • The Curse on Mordrake House
          • Thinking Sacks of Meat
          • The Best of BYOT
          • Dumped Among the Reeds
          • Resurrected
        • Connect