Workshop: Learning Conflict Resolution Skills
I once heard a psychiatrist define "marriage" as a dance where we find that comfortable distance where we can be with and still tolerate our spouses! Sad, but true, this is often the case.
If we seek to find our happiness in another person, we will never find it. True happiness can only be found within yourself. Once found, this happiness can be shared with others in healthy relationships.
Failure to learn conflict resolution skills keeps us locked in the circular behavior patterns, unable to remove the obstacles in our lives to joy and happiness. The focus of this workshop is to learn conflict resolution skills relating to the conflicts we carry within ourselves thus allowing us to unconditionally accept self and to experience our own inner intimacy.
When you understand that the underlying purpose of life itself is for the soul to cleanse and grow, you will begin to identify the patterns of synchronistic events we draw toward ourselves as learning experiences. Life is a perfect dance, although an uncomfortable one at times, where we enter into various types of relationships in order to complete this process.
As a part of the soul cleansing process, we find ourselves attracted toward individuals whose personality is similar to someone with whom we have unresolved conflict. This is what creates much of the "chemistry" we seek in our relationships. The problem is, as we move toward the experience of intimacy with the other person, we become comfortable enough to allow our unresolved issues with the similar person to surface within ourselves and we project then onto our partner, using them as the surrogate to resolve the original conflict. Please remember, our partner in this dance is attracted toward us for a resolution of a complimentary issue to ours.
If our pattern is to run, freeze, or attack, we often find the relationship faltering and abandon it in order to avoid our discomfort; only to repeat the pattern again and again in life. Through understanding this process and learning skills to utilize the growth opportunity rather than experience a negative reinforcement event, we can set ourselves free and feel safe seeking true intimacy.
If we seek to find our happiness in another person, we will never find it. True happiness can only be found within yourself. Once found, this happiness can be shared with others in healthy relationships.
Failure to learn conflict resolution skills keeps us locked in the circular behavior patterns, unable to remove the obstacles in our lives to joy and happiness. The focus of this workshop is to learn conflict resolution skills relating to the conflicts we carry within ourselves thus allowing us to unconditionally accept self and to experience our own inner intimacy.
When you understand that the underlying purpose of life itself is for the soul to cleanse and grow, you will begin to identify the patterns of synchronistic events we draw toward ourselves as learning experiences. Life is a perfect dance, although an uncomfortable one at times, where we enter into various types of relationships in order to complete this process.
As a part of the soul cleansing process, we find ourselves attracted toward individuals whose personality is similar to someone with whom we have unresolved conflict. This is what creates much of the "chemistry" we seek in our relationships. The problem is, as we move toward the experience of intimacy with the other person, we become comfortable enough to allow our unresolved issues with the similar person to surface within ourselves and we project then onto our partner, using them as the surrogate to resolve the original conflict. Please remember, our partner in this dance is attracted toward us for a resolution of a complimentary issue to ours.
If our pattern is to run, freeze, or attack, we often find the relationship faltering and abandon it in order to avoid our discomfort; only to repeat the pattern again and again in life. Through understanding this process and learning skills to utilize the growth opportunity rather than experience a negative reinforcement event, we can set ourselves free and feel safe seeking true intimacy.
