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A weekend retreat to enhance relationships, empathy and communication skills
Program Overview
Pathways to Intimacy is a three day weekend residential program at the Gawler Foundation’s Life and Living Centre in the beautiful Yarra Valley. This program is suitable for couples and individuals who would like to develop skills for creating and inviting more intimacy into life, to enhance all relationships : with a spouse/partner, children, friends and family.
Intimacy is one of our core needs. We all need to touch and be touched by significant others. We need to be seen and known for who we are. We need to love and be loved. We need the ability to be close. In our busy world much emphasis is placed on learning skills for professional development and materialistic success. Less priority is given to developing skills for cultivating more intimate relationships and more emotional openness. As a result, relationships are often neglected; they may stagnate, become one-dimensional, or simply wither and die.
Intimacy can be learnt and intimacy skills can be cultivated to develop or attract more fulfilling relationships.
Format
The program will include many practical and experiential exercises for:
- Taking ownership of your feelings and needs
- Becoming a “safe” person
- Recognising and asking for what you want
- Being assertive without aggression
- Listening deeply to the other
- Exploring the nature of commitment
- Dealing with differences, conflict and anger
- Healing past relationship wounds
Pathways to Intimacy is a practical program for couples and individuals that focuses on developing meditation and communcation skills such as:
Meditation skills:
- Compassion and intimacy
- The ability to listen deeply
- Emotional responsibility
- Clear personal boundaries
- Gratitude and forgiveness
Communication skills:
- Self-disclosure, speaking openly and honestly
- Asking for what you want
- Assertiveness and discrimination.
These skills will enhance your ability to give and receive love.
When and where
Pathways to Intimacy is held at the Yarra Valley Living Centre.
Facilitators
The three day weekend retreat will be facilitated by Paul and Maia Bedson, both counsellors and psychotherapists who have been helping people to develop trust, safety and intimacy for more than 20 years. Meet our facilitators on our About Us page.
Bookings and Enquiries
Call The Gawler Foundation on 03 5967 1730.