Relationships Workshops
For better or for worse, relationships influence our overall personal well-being, our health, our jobs and careers, our finances, our view of ourselves, and our feelings about the future. When our relationships are going well, our lives go a whole lot better than when our relationships are troubled. We all want to have close and satisfying relationships with our friends and family members. Yet, for many people, the work of developing and maintaining positive relationships requires skills that they have never learned or can't quite put into practice in spite of a strong desire to do so.
Nourishing Relationships that Work is a professional relationship training program that will give you the skills and support to bridge the gap between wanting better relationships and actually having them. The program focuses on relationship assessment, relationship goal setting, and on an ongoing process of reflection and action (praxis) needed to achieve desired relationship goals.
In Nourishing Relationships that Work you will learn how managing yourself and your own emotional responses is a key part of positive relationship building. Understanding and managing your own emotional responses happens when Bipolar is In Order. Nourishing Relationships that Work will help you get there.
You will also learn that disruptions in relationships are inevitable and that there is no such thing as a "perfect" relationship, but that "good enough" relationships are essential for keeping Bipolar in Order. Developing positive relationships requires you to know how to ask for what you need, to have the humility to accept caring from another, and to consistently act in ways that demonstrate honoring and valuing of human relationships.
Nourishing Relationships that Work is a relationship training program developed specifically by Dr. Maureen Duffy for people with bipolar disorder and their families and friends. Dr. Maureen Duffy is a professor of counseling and family therapy and a practicing couples and family therapist. She is highly regarded in the marriage and family therapy world and is on the editorial boards of The Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, The Family Journal, and The Journal of Systemic Therapies. She is the Co-Editor of The Qualitative Report, a journal dedicated to qualitative research and inquiry and is also the Co-Editor of the "Family and Health" column in The Family Journal.
- Stop blaming yourself and other family members for family problems, including bipolar.
- Stop feeling guilty, ashamed, or stigmatized as a result of bipolar.
- Increase the quality of communication within your family.
- Learn how to successfully handle intense emotion in your family.
- Develop highly effective non-blaming family conflict resolution skills.
- Learn how to develop an appreciative perspective and be the family that you have always wanted to be.
- Strengthen and deepen the bonds of connection within your family.
- Become a family that can turn to each other for support, caring, and love.
- Become a hope-filled family that experiences life deeply while recognizing and celebrating the uniqueness of each family member.
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