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Emotionally Intelligent Relationship Series Part 1: Raise Your Emotional IQ! How emotionally intelligent are you? New research suggests healthy marriages are high in emotional intelligence. These workshops will describe the characteristics of emotional intelligence and help you build it into your relationship. Part 2: Know Your Type! This workshop will show couples how to use the Meyers-Briggs Inventory to recognize their unique relational style, communicate this effectively to their partner, and build an emotionally intelligent partnership. Part 3: Emotionally Intelligent Conflict What is Emotionally Intelligent Conflict? Conflict is a part of all relationships and can be destructive or can lead to greater intimacy. Relationships high in emotional intelligence use conflict to build intimacy. This workshop will focus on building skills to increase healthy conflict. The Tipping Point: Getting Couples Back in Balance Drawing on a variety of resources, including The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, this workshop will explore how pictures of partners become negative and rigid, which impacts communication, conflict and intimacy. New research on brain functioning will also be presented and participants will learn specific strategies to tip the marital picture back into balance. Note: this workshop can be modifed for an audience of couples, marriage & family therapists, or clergy. Eyes Wide Open: Removing the Blinders from Sexual Satisfaction Contrary to popular opinion, marriage and passion are not incompatible. Too often, as passion fades, women claim that more intimacy results in better sex, while men argue that more sex would lead to greater intimacy. Couples will learn the top five roadblocks to heightened passion and intimacy, as well as important keys to unlocking deeper emotional and sexual connection. Note: this workshop can be modifed for an audience of couples, marriage & family therapists, or clergy. From Conflict to Caring This workshop focuses on practical principles for effective marital conflicts and healthy resolutions. We’ll give you five easy steps to help you “fight fair.” Tune-up Your Relationship This workshop will help you clarify the strengths of your relationship and the areas that “creak and grind” From Idolatry to Grace: The Spiritual Work of Marriage Utilizing the principles of integrative couples therapy, participants will learn to recognize and treat the powerful spiritual themes that couples are unconsciously working on in their relationships, such as forgiveness, entitlement, grace and redemption. Juggling Work and Family “How can I keep everybody happy?” Too many people feel torn between the pressures of the workplace and the pressures of family. Burnout is often the result of feeling pulled in too many directions at once. This workshop will explore strategies for balancing work and family based on The Couples Survival Workbook (Olsen and Stephens). The workshop will focus on practical ways of addressing the needs of family and the workplace, as well as the need for personal time. |
