Building A Healthy Relationship:
 
Are you prepared for a fulfilling relationship? Whether you're seeing anyone or not, there is much you can do to make relationships more satisfying. In this seminar, look at how you've gotten--or not gotten--what you've wanted in relationships. Create a vision of what makes a relationship
healthy, and practice asking for it. Learn how to increase both self-fulfillment and closeness. Discuss with other men and women ways people express and nurture love. Develop your relationship skills, and create the intimacy you've always desired!
 
The seminar offers:
 
Understanding of relationship stages
A notebook, with selected readings from a variety of bestselling books on various aspects of relationships.
Resource handouts reviewing key topics, tools, techniques, and exercises.
Participation in a variety of self-discovery and skill building exercises.
Interaction with and support from like-minded people interested in fostering healthy relationships.
Membership in an on-going social and community service support network open to graduates of other Divorce Recovery seminars.
 
Building A Healthy Relationship is designed to provide: understanding of healthy relationship; skills and practice for building healthy relationships; strategies for addressing relationship challenges; personal growth and self discovery through participatory exercises; tools for establishing and maintaining healthy relationships; and a network of friends with whom to grow.
 
Seminar Outline:
 
Visions of Relationship
Getting to Know Yourselves
Stages of Relationship
Boundaries & Self-Esteem
Talking & Listening
Communication Styles
Resolving Differences
Sex
Intimacy & Love
Healthy Partnership
 
Weekly Sessions encompass readings, homework assignments, group discussion, and small group sharing. Past seminar participants assist in the sessions.
 
Taught by Mary Lou Serafine, Ph.D.
The next seminar will begin Tuesday, January 4 , 2011, in Room B-21 at St. Mattews Episcopal Church (See Map) from 7:00 pm to 10:00pm.