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Bridging:
My Spirit,
My Self,
My Partner
Retreat/Workshop
for Women
Ages 40-70 years
Reserve your place with a
$100 deposit by 2/15/08
For more information and to
register
Dr. Jan's Calendar
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Top Tips for December '07
Partner-Up To Enjoy The Holidays
It's no secret that the holidays can
be the most stressful time of the
year for couples. The pressures of
family gatherings, blended
traditions, traveling and
gift-giving can turn the most joyous
time of the year into the most
unpleasant. Upbeat methods will
enable you to enhance your
relationship even during the holiday
season. Here are a few suggestions:
Communicate Clearly
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Set aside time early in the season
to discuss individual wants and
needs including finances, travel,
and party plans.
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Stay in touch with each other
through the holidays. When staying
with relatives or having visitors at
your house, make time for a quick
walk together each day or find an
activity that allows you to spend
some one-on-one quiet time together.
Create Shared Traditions
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Create rituals specific
to yourselves as a couple such as an
evening devoted to preparing a meal,
sharing recollections of special
moments in history and future
possibilities-anything that enables
you to celebrate your union.
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Respect past traditions. From white
lights on the Christmas tree to a
food prepared a certain way,
everyone has something special from
their family history that makes the
holidays a festive time. Brainstorm
some ways to blend traditions and
make them your own.
Enjoy a Harmonious Holiday!
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Warm your
relationship in the Brrrrrrrrr
of winter!
Big Picture Partnering:
Create a Rock-Solid Relationship
Listen to radio clips by
clicking these links:
"You get most out of
it when you read, do the
exercises and go to class. All
the pieces together enhance your
relationship. Big Picture
Partnering has taken our
relationship to a whole other
level."
-Pam & Gunter, Workshop
Participants
Four-Sessions
One
Saturday morning per month
Minneapolis Workshop
January 26, 2008
Invest in your future.
Attend this workshop that will
take your relationship to
another level -
giving you tools you will use
for a lifetime.
9 a.m. - noon
Four Saturday
mornings:
January 26, 2008
February 16, 2008
March 8, 2008
April 5, 2008
Reserve
you place with a $60
deposit by 1/14/08
Full fee $480
Remaining fee due by
1/18/2008
For more information and to
register
call 612.377.7923
or download pdf
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Become Empowered to
Create
The Relationship
You Most Desire
No one is born knowing how to have a
relationship. In this day and age,
with so many relationship options
and little direction about what
makes a good partnership, couples
often work at cross purposes. They
find that their relationship feels
good only some of the time and they
don't know why it goes sour or feels
unfulfilling. Big Picture
Partnering: 16 weeks to a rock-solid
relationship teaches
couples how to become empowered to
make skillful choices that will help
them create the kind of relationship
they desire now and in the future.
It's helpful for couples in trouble
or couples wishing to take their
relationship to the next level.
or sign up for the
January workshop and receive
your book for
FREE!
Praise for Big
Picture Partnering:
16 weeks to a
rock-solid relationship
"Dr Jan generously distills her
considerable expertise into a
16-week pathway to relationship
success, empowering couples with
valuable tools that will save
them hundreds in therapy bills
and years of frustration." -
Patty Howell and Ralph Jones,
the authors of World
Class Marriage.
"It's difficult to find a
simple, readable book that
presents such a magnificent job
of untangling the complexities
of relationships - but Big
Picture Partnering does it! A
fantastic book to guide you to
the relationship you long for."
- Patricia Love, ED.D, author of
How To Improve Your
Marriage Without Talking About
It, The Truth
About Love and
Hot Monogamy.
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Jump-start
your
conversation
Here
are some conversation questions to
do with your partner from Dr. Jan's
Living Your Dreams
Together: Conversation Cards for
Couples. They can
help you create more of what you
want in life and from each other.
Sit down with a glass of wine, a
delicious appetizer, and the deck of
117 Conversation Cards - to have a
fun discussion about what you and
your partner most like, dislike and
care about. Topics cover work,
family, fun, friends, money, home,
travel, caring and spirit. Here are
a sampling of questions to get you
started:
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Which of the following do you
like to do? Which would you
rather we hire out if we can
afford it? Gardening,
landscaping, housecleaning, snow
shoveling, mowing the lawn, home
maintenance and repair, making
home improvements, or add your
own here.
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How would you feel about taking
a trip with one or both of my
parents? With any of my
siblings?
Is there anyone in your family I
need to be warned about? Who? In
what way do I need to be careful
around them?
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Do you feel that each of us is
saving enough each month for
retirement?
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If you didn't have to work to
earn money, what would you do
with your time instead?
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What's the one small thing I can
do on a regular basis - and that
I don't do regularly now - that
would most make you feel cared
for?
Go to Our Products
or
go to Amazon.com
type in "Living Your Dreams
Together"
Bibelot Shops also carry the
cards, but call ahead to make
sure they are in stock at the
store nearest you.
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