About this course
This course is for anyone who is in a relationship.
'Understanding your relationships' covers feelings, communication, conflict in relationships, anger, repair and more.
Why would anyone want to do a course on understanding their relationships?
Well, you may want to celebrate it, you may want to give it a bit of an MOT or you may feel your relationship is in need of some attention. Maybe you feel you are drifting, or perhaps things have been difficult lately. You're looking for a way forward.
Relationships can be difficult, complicated, fun, satisfying, exciting, annoying, bring out the best in us, bring out the worst in us. We are often in one, but we don't often spend much time on them. So here's the chance!
Don't do this course all in one go though! Sometimes it's helpful to have a break after a couple of Modules to have some processing time. Sometimes there are Modules with home activities at the end and you'll need a pause to do them. Of course, you don't have to do the home activities, but most people do get a lot out of these and sometimes they are even enjoyable!
There is a certificate at the end of the course that you can download if you'd like to.
2. Understanding how the other person is feeling
6 Units5. Communicating feelings
10 Units- 5.1 How feelings are communicated
- 5.2 The underlying emotions
- 5.3 Doing things differently
- 5.4 Another example of how feelings are communicated
- 5.5 Underlying emotions again
- 5.6 Trying to do things differently
- 5.7 Thinking about how we say things
- 5.8 Saying things differently
- 5.9 Developing a containing relationship
- 5.10 What you've learnt
6. The rhythm of interaction
11 Units- 6.1 Reflecting on the previous Modules
- 6.2 What's coming up
- 6.3 The Dance of Reciprocity: The basics
- 6.4 Communication between adults
- 6.5 More about communication between adults
- 6.6 Understanding the Dance of Reciprocity
- 6.7 The 7 steps of the Dance
- 6.8 The Dance: Some observations
- 6.9 Self-regulation and the Dance
- 6.10 What you’ve learnt
- 6.11 Time to have a go!
7. Self regulation and anger
11 Units- 7.1 Feeding back on Time to have a go!
- 7.2 Key learning points from Time to have a go!
- 7.3 What's coming up
- 7.4 What are the kinds of things that make you feel angry?
- 7.5 What makes your partner angry?
- 7.6 Seeing anger in a different way
- 7.7 Why do you feel angry?
- 7.8 When can anger be helpful?
- 7.9 When is anger unhelpful?
- 7.10 What you've learnt this Module
- 7.11 Time to have a go
10. Rupture and repair
16 Units- 10.1 Reflecting on the last Module
- 10.2 Feeding back on Time to have a go!
- 10.3 Some observations
- 10.4 What's coming up
- 10.5 The Dance of Reciprocity: Recap
- 10.6 How to recover when things go wrong: rupture and repair
- 10.7 Example of a rupture
- 10.8 Where did things go wrong?
- 10.9 How the situation could be improved: a repair
- 10.10 Repairing the situation
- 10.11 Repairing relationships
- 10.12 What happens after a disagreement
- 10.13 The importance of apologising
- 10.14 More about apologising
- 10.15 Some other observations
- 10.16 Time to have a go!
