1. Healthy Relationships

2. What is a Relationship?
Type of connection existing between people related to or having communication with each other.
Examples – family, friends, dating, marriage

3. Characteristics of a Healthy Relationship
Open Communication
Mutual Respect
Honesty
Trust
Support
Fairness/Equality

4. When a Relationship Goes Sour
How do you recognize the signs of an unhealthy relationship?

5. Characteristics of an Unhealthy Relationship
Manipulation
Controlling
Criticizing
Intimidation
Unhappy in the relationship
Threatening or mistreating

6. How to Maintain a Healthy Relationship
The ingredients are simple:
Appreciate each other’s qualities
Have good communication
Keep realistic expectations
Have shared interests
Have the ability to face and deal with conflicts together
Value yourself and the other person

7. What is conflict?
To be in disagreement, or contradiction; any clash of ideas or interests.

8. Communicating During Conflicts
Some things that you can be aware of to communicate more effectively during a conflict are:
Express yourself – stay calm, but explain your feelings
Choose the right words
Body language
Listening
Negotiation
Be Assertive

9. Tools for solving a conflict
Mediation – objective third party helps
Negotiation – mutual discussion and arrangement
Compromise – a settlement of differences by mutual concessions (meet in the middle)
Empathy – seeing things from another persons perspective