Come and learn how the powerful-yet-simple tools of validation and empathy will help you build healthier relationships.

By learning how to help or influence others without "taking over" or trying to "fix" them, we provide caring and direction without taking on misplaced responsibility and guilt. These tools will help every relationship in your life.

In order to build closer and more fulfilling relationships, we need to shift our mode of interacting.

This means trying to relate and connect emotionally to the person while they share, rather than taking on the role of consultant...telling them what to do, how to fix things, what they should have done, etc.

This may sound too good to be true, but it's not. If you put these simple principles into place you will see an immediate benefit in all your relationships.

Workshop Leader: Kim Fredrickson, MFT (MFC 22635)