Are you so close that you are really a part of your partner(s) but also have an identity and seek to be apart from them at times? Then you are human. Dan explores how we can gain empowering awareness of how we can gain healthy apartness, and also balance that with being connected closely to our partners. To grow like redwoods, fed by the same roots, sharing the same space, yet towering in independence.
Apology can be a scary word. It's hard to give them, and sometimes you are not ready to believe in apologies that someone wants to give to you. This anxiousness can continue when one of you DOES decide to jump in. In this episode we help you break it down, make it safe, and thus deliver that incredible gift when you re-pair the trust and ease that were undermined. Let us know what you think as you move into this awesome space that can make relationships even stronger than they were before a setback occurred.
In this session, Dan shares a way to take what's weighing on your mind and heart and introduce it to your partner in a way that your partner can hear it. And he shares a way that you can listen to a partner when they need to get something off their chest - whether it's about you or their boss, an employee, an adult child or a parent. Dan shares how to make it safe and to strengthen your partnership through the sharing!
Sharing your core values with a partner feels great. In this episode Dan briefly shares the research on why value-sharing - or appreciating what your partner appreciates - not only feels great but provides a really secure foundation for working together on tough issues.
Good listening is like magic. It has a power to change you, your partner and your relationship. Grab your partner, or anyone you'd like to partner with to learn about and practice the magic of listening. Can you hear the sound of Ting?
Every great partnership - personal or professional - grows stronger in motivation and closer in alignment when the partners share their visions and goals. This episode is designed to make it easy for partners to share. One live listener shared that she felt her partner's heart grew in size like the Grinch. That's diacardia.
Grab your partner, gently. Diacardia is a podcast for pairs. It's an easy episode. Have fun with research-backed practice.