Communication:  we may speak and think we listen, but do we really connect with and understand the impact of our words or the message our partner is trying to send our way?  It's not just what we say, but the way we say it.   It's also what we don't say.    So many of the couples I work with hit barriers to intimacy because they don't take the time to slow down and be in the moment with their partner, speak without reflecting back that what they have heard, jump over feelings and important points expressed by their partners, and stay focused on their own experience without demonstrating they can see things from their partner's point of view.

 

In this workshop, we will explore ways to transform barriers to intimacy including speaking and listening from the heart, hearing the feelings under words, working with triggers that arise in conversation, slowing down to be present with self and ones partner, and learning to put words on what we really need.  Contact Margaret at msarndt@verizon.net

While Gordon Gecko fostered the notion "Greed is good," when you get too much of a "good" thing, "good" can become "bad" and very destructive.  Former Goldman Sachs executive director, Greg Smith, wrote a powerful editorial in the New York Times this past month, which argues that our financial services institutions, and Goldman Sachs as an example, have fostered the growth of a "greed at all costs" culture that ultimately eats everyone in its path. The greed monster, as Smith experienced it, eats not only its children, but its customers, its opponents and ultimately, our humanity.