Healthy, Healing, Communication

This meetup is for anyone who wants to communicate more effectively for the purpose of having deeper, healthier relationships with family, friends and romantic partners. We will be practicing communication skills. My life experiences have shown me the importance of being able to communicate effectively when we are working with others towards a common ideal or goal. This is especially important when we have different viewpoints or don't agree. Generally, we fall back into whatever methods of communicating we learned as a child. This usually follows a pattern of fight or flight (avoidance). The good news is we can learn how to communicate differently. Like anything else, it takes practice. I have studied a number of different techniques from the people at the Harvard Negotiation Project and Non Violent Communication (Marshall Rosenberg) as well as those taught in various mediation training programs offered through the Center for Conflict Resolution in Chicago, Illinois.