Personality Patterns
Inclusions & Exclusions
Understanding our personality patterns helps us negotiate how we take in and process information from the outside world. What gets excluded from our relationships?
the Enneagram Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. describes nine fundamental or "core" patterns of personality that each have unique ways of processing emotions, directing thought, and driving behavior.
Attachments
Selves & Others
Our experiences of relationships are often riddled with patterns of our past, our capacity for sociality, and the possibilities of where we can be located.
loneliness Thich Nhat Hanh (2013) the suffering of our time
Relationships
Communication Patterns
Expanding in our experiences across roles, interpersonal relationships, and close relationships. What types of relationships are we living in?
relationships Guerrero, Andersen, & Afifi (2021) ongoing interactions between people
Communication
Autonomy & Closeness
Relationships are constantly changing. Communication offers fluid, ongoing processes that focus on the meanings between us as we live in and through the historical, relational, and sociocultural contexts of our world. What is your level of relational satisfaction?
Families
Communication Patterns
Our chosen families are often where we locate our sense of being, belonging, and community. Understanding our communication patterns in our relationships with others.
Resilience
Stability & Change
Relationships can adapt and transform. Across health-related, intergenerational, workplace, financial, and societal stress our relationships have the capacity be resilient and flourish if they can engage in effective and competent communication processes.
turning points Leslie A. Baxter (2011) moments of heightened dialogic struggle
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