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(One to four hours)
Family life does affect your work life! We are all aware of how much work time is lost to family issues. This seminar is focused on creating and maintaining emotional intimacy with those we love. These skills improve relationships and reduce lost workdays and inefficiency but also translate easily into the workplace to reduce conflict, gain cooperation and keep people focused on common goals.
 Why do over 50% of marriages end in divorce? Why are so many couples just sticking it out? Why do we often find ourselves in the same old situation with a new partner? Why are there so many false starts when we are dating? Why do we take such a long time to figure out that something isn’t working? Why don’t we do something about it? Why can’t we get it and what is it anyway?
Most books on relationships give generalities that don’t help in specific situations. Love and forgiveness are wonderful concepts but how do you do it when you are under attack, in the depths of despair or covered with emotional scars? How do you love and forgive when you feel that nothing will change, when you have given away your soul and there is nothing more to give? How do you love and forgive when the dream dies and it seems there is nothing else to do but save yourself? How do you deal with the loss, guilt, resentment and anger when things don’t work out? How do you dare to try again when you have failed so many times?
 For the past fifteen years I have been focused on answering these questions. It started out as a personal quest since I had messed up some outstanding relationships, overlooked some potentially great ones and found myself falling into old patterns with new partners.
Since then I have focused on the factors affecting emotional intimacy. What works and what doesn’t? In the seminar we will explore techniques that can predict with 94% accuracy if a relationship will fail within five years. I have identified twelve different ways people erode intimacy (often without realizing what they are doing) and what to do about it. We will explore five characteristics of emotional intimacy and how to create them. And finally, we will define the basic communication skills that enable you to establish, maintain or restore emotional intimacy.
“I used these techniques with a difficult person at work and it really helped.”
“We are finally getting out of this what we knew was there when we married. Thank you.”
“I knew I had to get out but I didn’t know why or how until I took your class.”
“I used to settle for frogs. Now that I know the difference I don’t have to settle.”
“You left me no place to go. I had to accept my part in my relationship problems. I changed and my relationships improved.”
We have stopped fighting and started negotiating using your techniques. Life is a lot less stressful.”
“The seminar was filled with practical techniques that we started using driving home.”
“I sometimes fall into old patterns but when I use your techniques I get better results.”
“I am getting really good at spotting frogs. It saves a lot of time. Dating is fun again.”
“Thanks. You are a prince.”
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