Posted: October 11, 2022
Meta Emotion Mismatch Help understand and process personal histories and philosophy with basic emotions. Instructions Ask each other these questions. Anger What is the history of your experience with the emotion of anger? Could you tell if your parents were angry? What…
Posted: October 11, 2022
Consensus Decision-Making Task: Mountain Survival Problem Use the forms that follow to try to problem-solve on a problem unrelated to their relationship. The goal of this exercise is to try to improve skills in working together as a team, compromising, accepting and giving influence. …
Posted: October 11, 2022
Conflict Management Styles I will ask you to take this assessment to identify which of the 5 conflict management styles you work with the most and which you work with the least. Each one has pros and cons, we will work towards taking advantage…
Posted: October 11, 2022
Co-Summarizing A core part of accepting and embracing each other is uncovering and understanding the meaning of each person’s position in conflict, finding out what things mean to each person. Anything worth fighting about has a meaning or value underneath. Sometimes, conflicts are calls…
Posted: October 11, 2022
Choosing One Gridlocked Issue and One Solvable Issue Remember: All couples have perpetual problems. The BIG, HEAVY ISSUES in their relationship that keep causing them a lot of pain and hurt are very likely to be GRIDLOCKED PERPETUAL ISSUES. When couples are gridlocked on…
Posted: October 11, 2022
Build Shared Meaning This intervention can be used several times because there are many questions to reflect upon. Instructions Begin by each getting a personal notebook. Review the questions and tasks listed in the four sections of this exercise: family rituals, roles,…