The Magic of Safe Conversations
A Workshop Series for Committed Couples
Do you wish for less conflict and more connection in your relationship? Do you want to learn to communicate in a way that builds safety, intimacy and teamwork? If so, these workshops are for you.
In these workshops, we will be helping you learn the essentials of healthy communication for intimate relationships. Using a powerful fusion of structured dialogue, modern therapeutic techniques and the latest brain science, you will learn simple and effective tools which can radically transform your relationship.
The goal of the Magic of Safe Conversations to empower you
to have more joyful aliveness in your relationships.
You will learn to:
- Develop effective speaking and listening skills so that you can really hear and be heard by your partner
- Deepen intimacy and connection
- Create the change you want to see in your partnership.
- Discover how to stay grounded instead of react when conflict arises.
- Begin to appreciate differences and view conflict as an opportunity to grow.
- Use essential relational tools with individual coaching and steady support every step of the way
- Rekindle romance and intimacy in an old relationship, or ensure that it sticks around in a new one
- Skillfully navigate new conflict when it arises
2020 Workshop Schedule :
NOTES:
1. All workshops need a minimum number of participants to be held.
2. Included with all workshops is a discounted private 2 hour session with Ken and Dee for only $50, if booked within 15 days of the end of workshop.
Magic of Safe Conversations is divided into 3 levels:
Each Level builds on the previous Level and must be taken in order. It is not required to take all three levels, but it is highly recommended. Couples can decide on the pace and timing of entry to the next Level. That is, for some, more practice time or integration time will be needed before moving on to the next Level.
At each of the 3 Levels, you will receive individual coaching from Ken and Dee and their coaching staff to help each couple discover their ineffective/dysfunctional patterns that need work. There is also both giving and receiving of support from fellow participants, which adds to the richness of learning and understanding.
Return to each Level as often as you would like to fully mine the wealth of skills and learning presented. Those repeating any Level will receive a 25% Discount.
In this 2-day workshop you will learn and practice communication tools which deepen emotional safety and connection. You will strengthen your connection by changing ineffective and limited communication patterns and replacing them with effective and therapeutically proven tools that are practical.
You will learn:
- Understanding how Dialogue promotes more joyful aliveness
- Awareness of what “does and doesn’t work” in interactions with your partner
- A way to really Listen (maybe for the first time)
- 3 methods to skillfully Reflect and let your Partner be heard
- A scripted “Appreciation Dialogue” to boost Positivity and help eliminate Negativity
- Knowledge and practice of how to Validate in order to deepen Connection
- Grounding in the 4 Basic Dialogue Phrases that help you communicate in deeply satisfying and connecting ways
- Insight into ways we bring old patterns into our current relationship
Workshop Details
- When: 4 Sunday afternoons April 26 – May 17, 2020
- 12:30-4:00 p.m.
- Registration deadline: April 19
- Cost: FREE. Limited to 5 couples.
- Open to all committed couples.
- ZOOM technology required: (Minimum is one modern computer with printer, Preferred is two computers or one computer with Smart Phone).
Notes:
1. All workshops need a minimum number of participants to be held.
2. Included with all workshops is a discounted private 2 hour session with Ken and Dee for only $50, if booked within 30 days of the end of workshop.
You’ve got the foundational skills, now it’s time to add some supporting structure. Over the course of four consecutive Sundays, this workshop teaches you what to do when the basic skills aren’t working. Conflict is a normal part of any relationship, no matter how “good” at communication you are. The trick is to learn to navigate conflict gracefully and to recognize that relational challenges are not a sign of failure, but the normal pattern of an evolving relationship and an opportunity for growth.
You will learn:
- To identify your and your partner’s Reactivity Style and how to navigate it
- Know how to Time Out or Pause when the going gets rough
- 7 Steps for Self Recovery from upset, fear and anger
- How to replace Negativity with appreciations and caring behaviors.
- How understanding NEEDS/VALUES is a way to resolve conflict
- How to Repair Hurt and Reconnect after Disconnection
- How to turn your fights into dialogues that allow you to safely and naturally increase connection and emotional intimacy.
Workshop Details
- When: 5 consecutive Sundays afternoons from 12:30-4:30, 18 hours
- Nov. 8, 15, 22, 29 and Dec. 6, 2020
- Registration deadline: Nov. 1
- Cost: $200 per couple. Limited to 6 couples.
- Requires successful completion of Level 1 – Basic Skills for Magic of Safe Conversations or graduate of our previous 8 week workshops.
Call Ken and Dee to register: 808-575-9754
Notes:
1. All workshops need a minimum number of participants to be held.
2. Included with all workshops is a discounted private 2 hour session with Ken and Dee for only $50, if booked within 30 days of the end of workshop.
3. 25% discount for graduates of 8 week course and repeaters
This workshop is for couples who have built a solid foundation with the communication skills taught in Levels 1 and 2 and who are now ready to take their relationship to a whole new level!
You will learn:
- Fierce Intimacy: New and more loving, compassionate and effective levels by combining previous skills in new ways to foster greater connection.
- Explore Boundaries
- Negotiation techniques to handle different strategies
- Practicing asking for what we really want.
- Exploration of the spiritual aspects of relational living
Workshop Details
- Five Sunday afternoons
- When: May 31, June 7, 14, 21, 28, 12:30 – 4:30
- To be held on Zoom: Zoom capability required
- Free and we’re happy to receive donations from those who are financially able
- Required successful completion of Levels I & II or Graduates of 8 week course
Call Ken and Dee to register: 808-575-9754
Notes:
1. All workshops need a minimum number of participants to be held.
2. Included with all workshops is a discounted private 2 hour session with Ken and Dee for only $50, if booked within 30 days of the end of workshop.
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