HeartPath
Conscious Communicating
From the Inside Out

PAIRS Two-Day Course Description


The Passage to Intimacy course teaches what you need to succeed in relationship. It addresses arenas such as what to do when your partner withdraws, how to deal with anger in a healthy way, how to maintain closeness, how to communicate about stressful topics, tools for confiding, how to check out assumptions, how to resolve ongoing issues, and more.

The weekend workshop consists of learning and practicing 10 different communication and relationship tools. Each tool addresses a different need. By the end of the workshop, you have developed an entire communication skill set or "tool box" and experienced their transformative effects.


Day 1

The logic of love
The logic of emotions
Emotional intelligence
The role of bonding
Identifying relationship patterns
What happens when stress hits
Demonstrations of communication stress styles
Congruent communication
Tools and practices for staying current in relationship
The role of constructive listening
Tools and practices for constructive listening
What constitutes healthy expression
Tools and practices for healthy expression
How to know and ask for what you need

Day 2

The role of emotion in intimate relationship
The role of anger in intimate relationship
Suppression vs. aggression
Dirty fighting tactics
Tools and practices for healthy anger expression
Tools and practices for the healthy expression of emotions
How to resolve conflict
Tools and practices for negotiating significant change
Your brain and how it processes emotion
The limbic hijack
Emotional allergies
Tools and practices for breaking patterns
Healing the present through the past
Your PAIRS Tool Kit

Contact Us

HeartPath
Debra Greene, Ph.D.
808-874-6441

 

 

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