Staying the Course: Relationships and Sexuality

(2 part series) – 16 hours

Prerequisites:

Physically able to participate interactively

Description:

Through lecture, dialogue and experiential exercises we explore four stages of human development and their impact on successful relationships. This class utilizes conceptual theory, experiential dialoguing and interactive activities. The course is appropriate singles and couples for personal growth and is useful for therapists, healers and others in service professions.

We will use bioenergetics and the five basic defense systems as a map for understanding some of the most troublesome of relationship failures. We will explore successful interventions for choosing deeper connection instead of stalemate. We will work with genograms and family systems sculpturing to engage the family mystery in a dynamic way.

Objective:

This course will strengthen our ability to sustain healthy relationships. We do this through learning how the self forms. We will look at our original Mother/child attachment as the blueprint for all other relationships. Delving into early developmental patterns and challenges creates a personal map of how each individual approaches ongoing relationship.

Skills:

1. Building a self (becoming an individual);
2. Characterology: defending the emerging self;
3. The role of family and culture and their constant presence in conscious relationship;
4. Interdependence, sexuality and the ability to stay healthy in relationship.

Application:

We will be able to look at sexuality as an expression of connection, or lack of it. Most sexual issues are imbedded in the original childhood dilemmas. We will have the capability of using the knowledge accumulated to study our own sexual patterns recognizing how we can choose to enhance our experience.


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