2017 Programme

Relationships come in all forms: life partners, friends, family, teachers, work colleagues, community and with ourselves.  They play an important role in our overall happiness, wellbeing and fulfillment in life.  Studies show that strong and lasting relationships help to contribute to long and healthy lives.  Is there a relationship in your life that you struggle with and would like to improve?  Are you wanting to create a relationship in your life now or in the future?  This one day workshop will empower you with knowledge, skills and understanding of relationships: what makes them work, what makes the break down, how to strengthen & protect them and allow them to grow.  Through exercises, information, discussion and guided imagery, you will learn how to reduce conflict, make small changes that can strengthen the quality of your relationships, understand the essentials of a strong relationships, learn skills for communicating difficult issues without hurting someone, and find out the key factors in what makes a relationship last or breakdown.  Based on 40 years of research from Psychologist John Gottman’s Institute in Seattle, and drawing on the Human Givens approach to Psychotherapy, this workshop is suitable for beginners and experts alike, whether you are single or in a relationship, this workshop will empower you to create and maintain healthy and nurturing relationships, personally and professionally.

Outline for the day:

~ Introductions, hopes & expectations

~ Information, discussion & exercises

– key behaviours underlying relationship success

– Behaviours that poison and those that heal

~ Building great foundations

~ Creating a culture of appreciation

~ Ships that pass in the night & the importance of affection

~ The water of love exercise

~Practising skills

– Feeling heard

– Raising difficult issues successfully

~ Relaxation/Guided Imagery exercise

Facilitator:
Ann Marie Taylor is married with children & has lived with her partner for more than twenty years. She studied Psychology at Bangor University (University College of North Wales) before gaining a distinction in HG Psychotherapy in 2002. Ann Marie holds a BA (hons) in Psychology and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Human Givens Psychotherapy. She has worked with people under pressure &/or in distress for more than twenty five years, helping people get their lives back following major set-backs. She is a founder member of MindFully Well, an organisation specialising in treating emotional & stress-related difficulties, using only up-to-date, evidence- based methods. www.brainheart.ie

Workshop Location:

Chrysalis Centre Ireland
Waverly House
Church Rd. (Main St.)
Greystones, Co. Wicklow
+ 353 (0) 87 7798877
www.chrysalis.ie
peace@chrysalis.ie
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