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Couple Communication
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| Program Description
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This group is designed to help couples learn the skills they need to communicate with each other more effectively. Improvements can be gained not only within the couple, but also with friends, family, and at work.
This group is not marriage counseling, and in the group we will not attempt to resolve any significant individual or marriage issues.
This is an excellent group for couples that are currently in counseling who need to learn more effective communication skills. The communication skills taught in this group will enable a couple to work much more effectively to address any issues that may exist and to avoid the problems created by a lack of communication skills.
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| Program Content
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The content of this group was developed at the University of Minnesota, has been taught to over 600,000 couples, and research has shown it to be highly effective in improving communication skills.
Effective communication flows out of self-awareness and skill in communicating awareness, particularly about issues. You will learn how to:
 Distinguish types of issues.
Use the Awareness WheelTM, a practical map for understanding issues and the foundation for communication skills.
Reflect on and expand your awareness through the Self-Talk process.
Apply six talking skills for expressing yourself more clearly when it is important.
Understand how caring or uncaring attitudes and skilled or unskilled communication affect the way you and your partner relate.
Relationships grow with attentive listening and accurate understanding of one another. You will learn how to:
Identify poor listening behaviors and attentive listening behaviors.
Apply five practical listening skills for tuning in to your partner.
Experience the power of the Listening.
CycleTM for getting to the heart of your partner's concern.
The way you and your partner handle conflicts determines your satisfaction with the outcomes and each other. You will learn how to:
Recognize your typical patterns for handling disagreements.
Set comfortable procedures for managing conflicts.
Combine the talking and listening skills in an 8-step collaborative conflict-resolving process, called Mapping an Issue.
Partners respond as much to how something is said as to what is said. You will learn to:
Identify the characteristics of four distinct styles of talking and listening.
Recognize the positive and negative impacts of each style.
Apply skills to increase meaningful conversations or decrease stressful exchanges.
Understand the impact of mixed messages and how to deal with them.
Integrate the Styles of CommunicationTM with all COUPLE COMMUNICATION I skills and concepts.
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Group materials cost $39 per couple. The cost of the sessions is usually covered by medical insurance. Please contact Family Life Center to verify coverage. If clients chose to pay privately, the cost is $85 per couple per session, or $300 for all sessions if paid in advance. If no current diagnostic assessment is available, one can be scheduled at Family Life Center for an additional charge.
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