Part One: How we learn how healthy communication and how to have health relationships

Entering adulthood does not automatically mean that we should know how to communicate in healthy ways. As you watch our workshop take some time either before, during, or after to fill out this self-reflection worksheet, which offers prompting questions to help you understand how your communication style and/or unhealthy or healthy way of being in relationships came to be.

Part Two: Six Common Barriers to Communicating Well and How to Overcome them

While there are likely more than six things that get in the way of good communication, Dr. Boddy and I have focused on on the one’s that we see most frequently in our clinical practice as therapists. The six barriers in include cultural considerations, getting too heated to think straight, not actually knowing what we want or need before we start a conversation, straying off topic, including too much in the conversation, and not having the skills to have the conversation more effectively. To help you address what to do when you are. getting too heated we have included thisgrounding and coping handout and a feelings list, as it’s hard to get a handle on your feelings when you don’t know what they are. This handout will help you to stay on topic because throwing in everything is not helpful (even though it is enticing). Last, these scripts will help you find healthy language to express yourself when you are having a hard time.

Part Three: Get your questions answered

Stay tuned to listen to the live Q&A. You might hear something that resonates or that you were wondering about, too.