There are two of us. And we believe in relationships.
Relazioni Autentiche started in Milan in 2019, with one evening and a practice few people in Italy had heard of: Authentic Relating. Michele had learned it with the international schools. Since 2026 the two of us, Michele and Nora, have run the gym together.
Michele Pierangeli
Facilitator and coach
He studied Cognitive Psychology, then Theory and Technology of Communication. Two degrees to understand how we talk to each other. Then he realised understanding wasn’t enough: it had to be trained.
He learned Authentic Relating with Authentic Revolution and ART International. In 2019 he brought the first evenings to Milan, when almost nobody in Italy knew the practice. Between 2021 and 2022 he took the regular rituals of Spazi di Autenticità online.
He is an ICF-certified coach, with a Master’s in Future Coaching. He also facilitates Voice Dialogue and Creative Problem Solving. He invents games that bring people together, and social impact projects. He has been a TEDx speaker.
Nora Silini
Sociologist and facilitator
A sociologist by training, she also looks at relationships from the outside: how groups work, how systems change.
Then she became a transpersonal bioenergetic counsellor and started looking at them from the inside. She works on emotional and relational intelligence, leadership and change.
She facilitates groups and works with institutions and organisations. Since 2026 she has run the relational intelligence gym with Michele.
What we believe in
Play, seriously
If something scares you, try doing it as a game. Play lowers your guard, and the truth gets through.
Evidence, not ideology
Every exercise has its sources and its limits, written down. Where the research is weak, we say so.
Every exercise is an invitation
Nobody has to do or say more than they want. Safety comes first. Depth comes after.
A community, not an audience
We don’t sell evenings. We bring together people who come back and train together.
Where we come from
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2019
The first evenings in Milan and online, on empathy and authenticity.
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2021–2022
Regular online rituals.
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2022–2023
Authentic coaching spaces.
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2024–2025
Retreats in an eco-village: the authentic New Year and “The Roots of Connection”.
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2026
Three days with the team of a digital company. The course “The Courage to Connect”. With Nora, the relational intelligence gym is born: four levels, and a daily practice in the app.
In the words of people who came
During the session I felt welcomed and encouraged to explore a part of me I find hard to make room for. The depth of the practice came with simplicity and playfulness, which let me approach authenticity gradually and with pleasure.
It’s like a small safe harbour where you know you can talk with people who communicate with the same care that we, who want authentic relationships, would like to find in the world.
It was a very stimulating experience. It made me reflect on myself and on the patterns I so often fall into when I relate to others.
It took me out of my comfort zone, to open up to people I don’t know and share personal things too.
Listening, and sharing what I love, I felt this was a space where you could open up and let things flow. How good it is to be listened to.
For me it was lovely to find shared goals and ways of living with strangers, people far from my usual circle.
I’m taking home the quality of listening I felt in the others, and I’ll try to “perform” less in my relationships, focusing more on the other person and the present moment than on my thoughts and fear of being judged.
This space let me share thoughts, memories and emotions without fear of being judged. I felt I had permission to be myself, no filters.
Every time I finish one of these sessions, I don’t feel like the same person who started it.
I’m taking home the gift of listening without the pressure to say or understand anything, just feeling and letting things flow.
Despite my initial scepticism, in the end I liked it a lot. I liked the moments of open discussion: you rarely find a way to have them constructively.
I’ll definitely come back to these sessions: this one gave me back hope and enthusiasm.
It reconnected me with the beauty in people and in simple things, which I tend to forget in everyday life.
Thanks to Michele’s skill, in a short time we manage to go very deep and explore important, transformative themes.
This authentic, judgement-free space made me braver in opening up to other people.
It made me feel welcome: I left smiling more, and lighter.