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Interpersonal Communication Coaching |
Many communication experts today focus on how to maintain smooth relations with co-workers, bosses, and business associates. Within the context of the corporate world, their advice is often quite effective. However, one style does not necessarily fit all, and some workplace techniques can fall short when applied to our more layered and emotional relationships. So where can you turn for communication support when difficulties arise -- not with your employer -- but with a close friend or family member?
Why not try a coach who specializes in personal relationships?
Star Shake offers caring support, inspired coaching and proven techniques for transforming the communication between you and your spouse, child or other close loved one.
With Star as your coach, you will…
- Get constructive feedback and support with the communication challenges that impact your most important relationships.
- Be truly listened to without judgement.
- Receive insight into what other people may actually be hearing, thinking and feeling when you speak to them.
- Examine and adjust your value rankings on being heard, being understood, and being agreed with.
- Learn to clear away the debris and get to the authentic core of what each of you is trying to say.
- See how quickly communication breakdowns can be transformed into communication breakthroughs when you surrender your need to “win” an argument.
- Learn how to find the center of your truth in any moment and to speak from the heart.
- Watch as that love and trust is returned by those you communicate with, and conversations that were once face-offs suddenly take on a more constructive and cooperative tone.
- Feel the walls dissolve between you and your loved ones as you begin to search out common ground together and build win-win solutions.
- Be given permission to express passion and show your emotions. (Learn why “staying calm” may not always be the best approach.)
- Creatively break free from the conversation ruts and roadblocks of the past and pave a new path to the future.
"True communication has nothing to do with being a smooth talker or verbally influencing others so you can have your way. Nor is it about avoiding 'a scene'. It’s about revealing yourself and making it safe for others to do the same. It’s about forging real connections with people, cultivating intimacy and building strong, mutually-satisfying relationships. It is some of the hardest, most rewarding work you will ever do. I’m here to help you succeed in it."
-- Star Shake
Star has twenty years combined education & experience in:
Social Science & Teaching
Writing & Communication
Parent-Child Mediation
Parent Empowerment & Child Advocacy
Relationship Coaching & Mediation
Sexuality Education
Spiritual Counseling
Pastoral Marriage Counseling
Techniques and philosophies Star favors include:
- “The Conflict Cookbook” Thomas F. Crum
- “Naka-Ima” as taught by Deborah Riverbend in 1996:
- Direct Centering
- Letting Go of Attachments
- Vulnerable Confrontations
- Asking the Right Question
- Saying What You See - “Centering and the Art of Intimacy” Gay & Kathlyn Hendricks
- “Dao and the Art of Intimacy”(out of print)
- “The Road Less Traveled” M. Scott Peck, M.D.
- Inner Child / Inner Parent Dialogues
- Wisdom Sharing
- Heart Math Institute Studies
- “Creating a Community of the Heart” Tamara Slayton
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