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Relationships & Couples
Maintaining A Healthy Sexual Outlook
When we think of our sexuality we often become confronted with many mixed feelings-anxiety, fear guilt, anger, curiosity, and even excitement. The purpose of this class is to give participants an opportunity to assess their beliefs, attitudes, and values regarding aspects of human sexuality. Topics that will be discussed will be phases of human sexual responses, impact of depressio, pain, and chronic illness on sexual functioning, normal developmental phases which couples may experience, how to respond to an affair, and what to do about sexual dysfunction. The for mat is awareness and understanding of today's relevant sexual issues.
Developing Intimacy In Relationships
Most people are not sure what intimacy really means. They find that their relationships with other people roller-coaster between pleasure and pain. Thus, many are confused about how to be intimate. this class will you gradually create the levels of intimacy you desire with the people around you. In this class, you will learn how tocreate a new dimension of love, perceptiveness and happieness that can truly guide you in changing your experience of life in a dynamic way you inever expected.
Building Loving & Healthy Relationships
Loving and healthy relationships do not just evolve accidentally or happen over night. In this class we will discuss the secrets of a great relationship and learn how to build friendships, set boundries, establish and maintain trust, and lay out the foundation for creating loving and healthy relationships.
Clinical Approaches To Treating Sexual Dysfunction
This is a series of lectures in a class at Saginaw Valley State University. The class is entitled the Pyschology of Sex and is offered in through the Psyc. Department. The Professor is Dr. Matt Margress. Mr. Haller is a guest lecturer for several classes. Mr. Haller will be presenting on the Clinical Approaches to Treating Sexual Dysfunction on March 29th, April 5th & April 29th. All lectures are from Noon to 1pm.
The Balance of Autonomy and Boundaries
This couples workshop is designed to help couples understand the balance between creating independence and setting limits. Participants will be introduced to ways of invite independence in their partner as well as request autonomy for themselves. They will learn the language of boundaries and how to draw clear lines and indicate when boundaries are being violated. They will learn the language of autonomy and how to use words that give their partner space to make their own decisions and solve their own problems. This workshop has been most popular with pre-marriage couples and newlyweds.
How to Talk to Your Partner About Sex
Are you left wanting after sex? Do you find it difficult to talk to your partner about your sexual desires or fantasies? It is just easier to do sex than to talk about sex? Have you given up on trying to get what you want from your partner? This workshop is all about how to open up that line of communication about the topic of sex, sexuality, and what your truly desire are. Participants will be introduced to specific language skills that will help them talk about their sexual feelings of when, where, and how. The 5 ingredients to a better sex life will be presented along with helping the participants address low sexual desire and erectile dysfunction. No more need to remain quiet about your sexual feelings and concerns. It is not necessary to attend this workshop with your partner, although it is recommended.
How to Build Mutual Respect and Intimacy in a Relationship
In this workshop you and your partner will discover effective ways to communicate love and acceptance. You will learn how to ask for what you want while simultaneously communicating closeness. The material presented will help you discern the difference between words that communicate appreciation and those that shame. You will find out if you or your partner have a need to be right or tease inappropriately. You will learn why the language of luck, mental scorekeeping, and giving advice sabotages relationships. This workshop has been most popular with pre-marriage couples and newlyweds.
The Language of Feelings in Committed Relationships
This exciting workshop is full of strategies and exercises to help you and/or your partner communicate feelings honestly, openly, and directly. It will teach you how to use language that communicates ownership of your feelings without assigning responsibility for them to your partner or other external source. You will learn the Describe/Describe/Describe technique for communicating anger, frustration, or irritation without wounding your partner’s spirit or attacking his personality. It is not necessary to attend this workshop with your partner, although it is recommended.
Couple Talk, a 2-Day Workshop
This is an intensive 2-3 day workshop for couples. It is a communication skills training workshop full of interactive exercises and educational opportunities. It is required that you come with your partner so that you can together learn to listen effectively to increase understanding, communicate feelings honestly, openly, directly and self-responsibly. Couples will also learn skills of communicating anger in ways that do not wound the spirit, learn strategies for recognizing problems and solving them, acquire debriefing skills for effective processing, become aware of stagnation and movement phrases, and learn how to build intimacy into your relationship by learning to speak in language that affirms, nurtures, and appreciates.
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