Relationships

Our relationships are a primary aspect of our lives. We can affirm each others sense of who we are and instil a sense of belonging. We can be energised and entertained by each other. We can inspire each other to progress and achieve. However, relationships can be flexible and adapt to change or they can be rigid. Accepting our relationships as dynamic and changing, rather than static and rigid, while maintaining our boundaries, can assist us to maintain these relationships which are so important in our lives.

I can help you to have:

• Listening skills to acknowledge and accept difference
  • Compassion
  • Connection
• Asserting skills to state boundaries
  • Ownership of unique experience
  • Awareness of influence
• Resolutions
  • Harmony
• Excitement
  • Growth

I can help you to prevent:

• Avoidance of the other
  • Detachment
  • Cold war
• Assuming to know the needs of the other
  • Arguing
  • Outbursts
  • Aggression
• Losing yourself to the other
  • No purpose
  • No direction
• Ignoring the other
  • An unmotivated partner
  • Emotionally absent partner

Resources:

Nonviolent Communication – Marshal Rosenberg

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work – John Gottman

The New People Making – Virginia Satir

The Mastery of Love – Don Miguel Ruiz

The Queens Code – Alison Armstrong

The Way of the Superior Man – David Deida

Radical Honesty – Brad Blanton