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REMEMBERING & REDISCOVERING:

• Explore resentments and other disconnections

• Gain a new found appreciation for each other

• Identify practical tools to implement going forward

• Cultivate harmony within the dynamic

• Tangibly experience another's perspective

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STOP CIRCLING THE DRAIN:

• Learn strategies to combat repeat themes in arguments

• Apply healthy & effective ways to settle disagreements

• Experiential practice at diffusing anger/passive aggressiveness

• Strengthen understanding of self-sabotaging behaviors

• Organize, mine vs. theirs

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PASSION PAYOFF (FOR COUPLES):

• Rediscover sexual desire & intimate connection

• Identify barriers to fulfillment & bliss

• Strengthen trust & vulnerability

• Explore the art of fantasy & ways to evolve and elevate

• Learn to increase understanding of what motivates the other

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FOOTSTEPS TOWARD FORGIVENESS:

• Delve into what's preventing release from resentments

• Discover healthy ways to process unresolved emotions

• Build on gratitude & appreciation for one another

• Learn how much of this might actually be your baggage

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TRANSITIONS:

• Explore root fears - share if safe to

• Practice alternatives to old defense mechanisms

• Identify personal motivation & needs

• Learn how to gain strength together

• Cultivate healthy & effective support 

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FOSTERING BALANCE & GROWTH:

• Create a guidance plan

• Dreamwork Teamwork exercises

• Develop a "compromise" template

• Explore encouragement vs. criticism

• Strengthen personal responsibility & opportunities

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UNSELFISH SELFISHNESS:

• Identify personal boundaries

• Role play communicating needs

• Re-establish yours vs. other's side of the street

• Personal responsibility vs. control

• Examine expectations & challenge perspectives

• Strengthen autonomy within the relationship

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FAIR & EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION:

• Establish off-limits triggers

• Identify & practice the "golden rule of arguments"

• Explore aggressive vs. assertive

• Hearing vs. listening / Helping vs. handicapping

• Discuss consequences & other boundary variables

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PARENTING: IDENTITY INTERRUPTED:

• Triangulation, parentification, & other harmful patterns

• Identify practical strategies to meet goals

• Develop a "beginning-today" systematic plan for the future

• Strengthen a fundamental friendship

• Balance responsibilities fairly

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TO BE OR NOT TO BE:

• Explore barriers to change

• Unconditional love vs. doormat

• Reduce/ Eliminate internal conflict about the relationship

• Realistically determine if improvement is possible

• Consider impact & practice thoughtful, long-term, decisions

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TEMPERATURE CHECK- The Relationship in General

• Fine tune growth opportunities

• Strengthen foundation & core elements

• Refine communication & boundary setting

• Rediscover appreciation for each other's differences