ABSTRACT
The journey in this workshop enables participants to get an experienced-based understanding of the importance of support in couple interactions. In order for couples to develop successful relationships they need to be as interested in the quality of their partner’s experience as they are in their own. As a final exercise in the workshop, the author has participants return to their dyads and, again in the structure of talker and listener, the author has them explore what support they and/or their partner in their life need in the interactions between them. They do this in two rounds, first focusing on what their own needs for support are. And then in a second round exploring what their partner’s needs for support might be. The author's intention is always to hold both couple member’s struggles simultaneously and to never side with one couple member against the other.
