Relationship Enhancement
Relationship Enhancement® for Couples helps couples to give each other the Gift of Love by learning skills which make love comfortable, generous, healing, and joyful. Founded on values of honesty and compassion, RE enables each partner to fully express what is most important and use that expression to resolve conflict and build love. It consists of training in 9 relationship skills that enable couples to:- Speak in ways that will help your partner want to cooperate.
- Express understanding in ways that help each other communicate from your deepest, best selves.
- Discuss issues and conflicts in ways that lead to solutions you both can feel good about.
- Find and express the positives that are part of every conflict.
- Use conflict to grow closer Work out the details of agreements so issues resolved today are lived out tomorrow and next month.
- Use skills to transform over time both your couple relationship and your relationships with children, co-workers, and friends.
Counseling is generally short-term in nature and focuses not only on helping couples resolve current relationship issues, but also empowers couples by teaching them communication skills, conflict resolution skills, and relationship skills which can be used by couples to work cooperatively to resolve future problems and to proactively work on restoring and increasing intimacy and satisfaction in their relationships.
Even when one partner in a couple refuses or is unable to come for couple counseling, counseling can help the other partner to develop and apply a variety of communication skills, conflict management skills, and relationship skills aimed at developing cooperation, increasing mutual understanding, and creating an atmosphere in which relationship issues can be resolved constructively.
-- Excerpts from The National Institute of Relationship Enhancement
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