Healthy Relationships

Healthy human relationships are built on several key components that contribute to their strength and longevity.

These components include:

1. Communication: Effective communication is essential in any healthy relationship. This includes being able to express thoughts, feelings, and needs openly and honestly, as well as actively listening to and understanding the other person’s perspective.
2. Trust: Trust forms the foundation of a healthy relationship. It involves having confidence in the other person’s reliability, integrity, and intentions. Trust is built over time through consistent actions that demonstrate honesty, dependability, and respect.
3. Respect: Mutual respect is crucial for maintaining healthy relationships. This means valuing each other’s opinions, boundaries, and autonomy. It involves treating the other person with kindness, consideration, and empathy, even in times of disagreement or conflict.
4. Empathy: Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person. It plays a key role in fostering connection and intimacy in relationships by allowing individuals to connect emotionally and support each other through challenges.
5. Support: Healthy relationships are characterized by mutual support and encouragement. This includes being there for each other during difficult times, offering encouragement and motivation, and celebrating each other’s successes and achievements.
6. Boundaries: Clear and respectful boundaries are important for maintaining healthy relationships. Boundaries define acceptable behavior, personal space, and limits within the relationship. Respecting each other’s boundaries helps to prevent misunderstandings, conflicts, and resentment.
7. Equality: Healthy relationships are based on a sense of equality and balance. This means that both individuals have an equal voice, share responsibilities fairly, and contribute to the relationship’s growth and well-being in a balanced manner.
8. Compromise: Compromise is essential for resolving conflicts and finding solutions that are mutually beneficial. It involves being willing to make concessions, find common ground, and work together to address differences and challenges.

Overall, these components work together to create a supportive, fulfilling, and mutually satisfying relationship where both individuals can thrive and grow together.

Managing Workplace Relationships

Many people spend over a third of their lives with co-workers, and therefore, having positive relationships with them can mean the difference between an enjoyable day and a miserable one. It is important to learn ways to minimize negative outcomes with co-workers and maximize the ability to work well together. Participants will learn strategies that help them build successful relationships with their co-workers, thereby influencing their level of happiness while at work.

Presenter:    Becca Denli

Becca has a true passion for empowering others to reach their full potential in all areas of personal health, fitness and wellness. Overcoming being extremely overweight most of her life by losing 100 pounds, she understands what it takes to reach goals and take control of personal health. She has empathy for those on their own personal journey and feels privileged to work with them. Becca is a Certified Health Coach and Personal Trainer with her college studies being in Nutrition and Psychology.