Cultivating Connection Through Mutually Respectful Communication Skills Sander T Jones

From the book Cultivating Connection, the author will teach the essentials of mutually respectful communication, collaborative conflict resolution, and the most important factors in creating and maintaining deep emotional bonds. We'll look at how we balance that with keeping a clear individual identity and strong self-respect and self-esteem. We'll also discuss how interpersonal power is always present in relationships, how it's best to recognize it, openly acknowledge it, learn its positive uses, how it can be abused, how to actively step back from opportunities to abuse power, and some skills for protecting ourselves from abuses of power. Knowing how to respond to interpersonal power is the core of relationship ethics. Learning these skills will enable us to negotiate relationship agreements ethically, and how to get to the deeper level of resolving painful emotions when in conflict. These skills are useful in egalitarian relationships and power dynamic relationships. After the Q&A, you'll leave with concrete skills for keeping your relationships healthy, happy, and mutually respectful.