Details:
10 am - 3pm


Cost: $450 per couple

Family Matters Workshop

Love has the power to bring up all of our hidden desires, our deepest longings and our past hurts. Our family of origin serves as our original template for everything related to the way we love today. It is also here where we first learned about relationships and emotional expression: fear, anger, sadness and love.  Our upbringing even determines the thoughts that we have about ourselves and provides us with examples of how to behave and what to expect from others in our lives. If, for example, you observed your parents fighting all the time, it will definitely influence how you navigate conflict in relationships. Constant yelling, criticism and disrespect may be so normal for you as well as the regular style of communication you use with your partner today. Or, perhaps you were taught that people shut each other out with conflict -never achieving any resolution- and now it is something to be avoided at all costs. Either way, the foundation for an unhealthy relationship has been set.

No family or human being is ever perfect. Whether we like it or not, most of us carry our family of origin influences with us throughout life. While looking back at problems from our families can be very difficult, doing so with the intent to improve your communication styles can truly make for a much healthier relationship. Both you and your partner can learn significantly more about yourselves and each other. Compassion and empathy is key to creating and maintaining a happy relationship.
 
This workshop provides you with an opportunity to explore what you learned about life, love, and communication in your family of origin so that you can understand what you may have carried into your current relationship – for better and for worse. Unpacking your emotional baggage can ultimately give you the chance to address key issues and overcome painful patterns and help get you the love you want.

Come and learn about:

  1.  The mystery of your connection with your  family of origin and how to develop a better appreciation for the ways you continue to play out patterns you established during childhood.

  2. Emotional triggers, and the typical ways in which your family of origin experiences can help or hinder you in your relationships today.

  3. Attachment, or the relational issues we may struggle with when it comes to the varying degrees of feeling and expressing both love and desire.

  4. Healthy communication, and more specifically, if what you have learned in your own family of origin is what today predicts divorce with 93% accuracy and what you absolutely can do to change it for good.
Lydia is adept at integrating and sharing the best research and studies "out there" and inspiring her clients to seek a more comprehensive understanding of human relationships, most specifically their own. In practice for over 25 years, she also combines years of studies and training at McGill University as well as many professional development seminars both here and abroad.Her dedication and passion for helping couples stay connected in marriage has recognized Lydia as a leader in the field of relationships and continues to be reflected in the demand for her popular couples workshops.

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