COUPLES COMMUNICATION COACHING
The "Problem"
Communication breaks down, resentment builds, loss of compassion and understanding for the other's perspective,
desperation and unhappiness.
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A Solution
Relationship as a Spiritual Practice*
Learning to Live with an Open Heart
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What if there was a way to really be heard by your partner? What if there was a way to get "unstuck?" What if the very obstacles you have struggled against in your relationship turned out to be the keys to a depth of love and harmony that you have only dreamed about? And what if all this did not require years of hard work digging around in "the past," but was available now? *
Randall and Amanda Richards are offering a monthly meetup for interested couples in a emotionally safe environment based on the work by Don and Martha Rosenthal using a process called
Open Hearted Listening.
COUPLES COACHING
My coaching is based on some simple basic principles by three main authors to facilitate a couple's communication with tools I have been using for years. . I'm a certified life coach and have adopted the work Don Rosenthal, Eckhart Tolle and Paramahansa Yogananda. Rosenthal's Open Hearted Listening technique is the core of the communications process that I share. Tolle's concepts put into perspective about how our lack or presence can and ego's can get in the way of loving communication, and Yoganda's teachings about Spiritual Marriage are vital to understand the actual nature of making a healthy and loving relationship happen in your life. I share these techniques and concepts in my coaching practice. There's a huge need for more open communication between couples during this time of change, and I can help.
WHAT TO EXPECT
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I work with individuals and couples on building their toolbox of relationship communication skills. We work together and put down goals. Never mind your partner is not interested in participating in coaching sessions. These sessions can be helpful for one of the partners. There can be true shifts in patterns in the relationship if one of the partners is working on their stuff.
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Skills We'll cover:
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How to listen non-defensively to your partner (and possibly be heard yourself for the first time)
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How to communicate without antagonism around charged issues (sex, money, children, housework, etc.)
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How to create a safe environment in which painful feelings are acknowledged and accepted rather than judged
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How to ask your partner for change in a way that isn't futile
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​BOOKING
Please call/email to book.
NZ+64 204 111 2668 |
US+1 603 763 2668
randall@mtnspirit.org
Sessions can be in person, in Hawea/Wanaka New Zealand, or by phone, Skype or Zoom.
COST
Please get in touch for session prices.
If finances are tight, please get in touch and we can work something out for appropriate payment for the value you've received. Payments can be cash (which we prefer), credit card or bank transfer. See details below,
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From: Eckhart Tolle
From Addictive To Enlightened Relationships
Eckhart Tolle (Excerpted from Practicing the Power of Now, New World Library, 2001)
Love/Hate Relationships
Unless and until you access the consciousness frequency of presence, all relationships, and particularly intimate relationships, are deeply flawed and ultimately dysfunctional. They may seem perfect for a while, such as when you are “in love,” but invariably that apparent perfection gets disrupted as arguments, conflicts, dissatisfaction, and emotional or even physical violence occur with increasing frequency.
It seems that most “love relationships” become love/hate relationships before long.
Read more here.
From: Yogananda, & Br. Anandamoy
Marriage means unity on the physical, mental, and spiritual planes. If you attract others by spiritual magnetism then you will meet your soul companion. An ideal human marriage is the communion of two souls. But the soul finds the highest communion in God. Unless human love is spiritualized, it will be a canker in your soul. Unless you are spiritually-minded and your mate is the same, you can never be completely happy. (os) Marriage between man and woman is for the purpose of each partner helping to uplift the other in a commitment of divine friendship, love, and loyalty that will move both souls closer to their true nature...
Read more here.
Mountain Spirit NZ
For more info on where we do our work
see our website here.
PAYMENTS:
Bank Transfers: In NZ:
Westpac Dexter R Richards #0302960280231000
Credit Card worldwide - Get in touch for instructions to make payment over the phone or online.
Special mention of the book Conscious Loving on which Amanda and I have based our vows, and read daily. I may touch on this book as well as a resource.