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