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Interdependence

Selves & Others

This is a space for those who want to understand more about how to create, negotiate, and maintain meanings with others.

love cannot exist in a context of domination

bell hooks

Social Exchange

Reciprocity & Rewards

What types of relations are you living in? What is your level of relational satisfaction?

Uncertainty

Expectations & Social Norms

Our experiences of relationships are often riddled by what we have witnessed of our past, the possibilities of where we can be located, and the capacity of our sociality. A more-in-depth understanding of "communication" is key to expanding in our experiences with others across roles, interpersonal relationships, and close relationships.

Autonomy & Closeness

Attachment

Autonomy & Closeness

Individual and relationship developmental stages contain expected challenges and unexpected joys and disappointments, with multiple points of intersection. The relationships we are born into and those we choose across our life - including the intergenerational echoes - weave a rich interconnection of experiences, stories, and narratives. It is often through our close relationships that we are moved to stretch in understanding as we engage new frames of reference for inclusivity.

Tensions between our experiences.

Relationships

Patterns of Relating

Relationships are constantly changing. Communication offers us a fluid, ongoing process that focuses on the meanings between people as they live in and through the historical, relational, and sociocultural contexts of their worlds.

Tensions between in an uncertain world.

Resilience

Trauma & Stress

Across health-related, intergenerational, workplace, financial, and societal stress, our relationships have the capacity to adapt and trqansform if they can engge in an effective communication process.

co-creating resilience

Communication

meaning making in and through communication

The tapestry of events across life stages create shared meanings with individually and relationally unique life experiences.

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