The relationship handbook : a path to consciousness, healing, and growth

The relationship handbook A path to consciousness, healing, and growth

Shakti Gawain, 1948-

Book - 2014

"In her first new book in 15 years, personal development pioneer Shakti Gawain encapsulates a lifetime of teaching and learning to offer her most trenchant and universal work to date. These exercises and insights have been tested and refined in the popular workshops Gawain has taught for decades. They reflect the fact that each of us is in relationships - with romantic partners, family, coworkers, etc. - and that each of us is also in relationships with internal core beliefs and a variety of selves, including primary, disowned, and shadow selves. Her revelatory teaching incorporates strategies for becoming aware of hidden beliefs, applying the Voice Dialogue process developed by therapists Hal and Sidra Stone, and learning to experienc...e our every relationship as a path to self-knowledge, intrapersonal enhancement, and even community and global betterment. "--

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Subjects
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Interpersonal relations.
Conduct of life.
Published
Novato, California : Nataraj Publishing, a division of New World Library [2014]
Language
English
Main Author
Shakti Gawain, 1948- (-)
Other Authors
Gina Vucci (-)
Physical Description
159 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN
9781577314738
  • Introduction. The path of relationship ; Shakti's story
  • The power of the selves within. Formation of personality ; Discovering our primary selves ; Learning from our shadow sides
  • Relationship as teacher. Relationships are mirrors ; The aware ego and the inner child ; Exploring common selves ; Integration : awareness and attention ; Couples : the special role of romantic partnerships ; Gina's story : when leaving a relationship is the right thing to do
  • Tools for developing your relationships. Facilitation ; Creative visualization techniques.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Self-help workshop leader Gawain (Creative Visualization) and her writing partner, Vucci, distill years of experienceinto an accessible reference book containing tools that students can turn to again and again. The title might suggest a narrow focus on romance, but Gawain covers many types of relationships, including the interactions among a person's different emotional selves. Personal stories address issues that couples may face, such as when an extroverted woman is married to an introverted man. Accompanying exercises-visualizations and writing prompts-suggest ways to explore similar issues in one's own relationships. Dialogues demonstrate the power of relationships as a mirror, a source of feedback that helps growth. These conversations are intended to replicate the workshop experience, though the transcripts lack the immediacy of watching a facilitator work with a person at a live event. Gawain's most powerful techniques, like physically repositioning the speaker depending on the inner voice being expressed, lose some impact in print. Though Gawain wrote this book with the intention of retiring from leading workshops, it acts as more of an adjunct to her other teachings than a true replacement. (Nov.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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