Connecting With Self and Others

Life is a series of interpersonal exchanges-connections and disconnections-ranging from painful, distracting, and destructive encounters to joyful, meaningful, intimate and productive experiences. How well you communicate with your friends, partner, family, and people at work, determines in large part how satisfying these relationships are. Connecting will help you become a more alert and effective communicator. It will increase your: Awareness of self, others, and your relationships, Skills for sending and receiving message mroe clearly and accurately. Options for building relationships. Connecting is the result of 20 years of testing and development which began at the Unviersity of Minnesota Family Study Center in 1968. Since then, over 30 additional studies have been conducted at other Universities and more than 300,000 people have participated in Couple Communication and other interpersonal communication courses based on the concepts and skkills presented in Connecting.