Communication Skills Class Starts Next Month | Craig Toonder, MFT ...

Looking to communicate better with your partner?

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Knowing how to communicate properly can mean the difference between success and failure in a relationship. Problems build up slowly over time and eventually lead to feelings of disconnection and resentment in a relationship.

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Safe guard your relationship today!

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Oakland Couples Counseling is offering an eight-week relationship class.

?The Hold Me Tight Program:?Seven Conversations for Building?Connection and Overcoming Conflict.

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This ?communication skills? class is designed to help couples examine what goes wrong in their attempts to communicate with each other and how to move from arguments to intimacy.

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The class uses Sue Johnson?s book, Hold Me Tight; Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love. (Required text.) Each evening, we will cover a chapter of Sue?s book. The class will examine a ?Healthy Attachment? view of love that explains how feeling supported, accepted and understood by one?s partner positively affects one?s mood, health, and longevity.

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Based on this new model of love and health, the class will help couples determine how they ?get off track? when they argue and give them the skills to get their conversations and relationships ?back on track.?

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Couples taking this class will:

• Learn how your communication goes off track.
• Identify the raw spots and triggers in your relationship.
• Discover the deeper feelings and needs beneath the arguments.
• Learn what makes your partner tick and how to deal with hurt feelings
• Build a greater sense of confidence, security, and trust in your relationship
• Improve your ability to connect emotionally, intellectually, and sexually.
• Create a shared vision of the future together.

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For more information about this class you can visit the workshop page of my website. Or, contact me directly at 510 499-7137, or at ctoondermft [at] gmail.com.

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Dates and Times:

Thursday night from September 20 thru November 8th, 2012

Classes run from 7:00PM to 9:00PM

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Location:

Classes are held at the McKinnon Body Therapy Center.

2940 Webster Street, Oakland, CA

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The Hold Me Tight Program:?Seven Conversations for Building?Connection and Overcoming Conflict program is not for couples struggling with domestic violence, affairs, addiction, or severe mental health issues.

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Source: http://www.oaklandcouplescounseling.com/2012/08/20/communication-skills-class-starts-next-month/

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