Happiness and the Highly Sensitive Person Part Two

The teleconference series is composed of four classes. The first two, Happiness and the Highly Sensitive Person, Parts One and Two, are five weeks each.  When you've completed Part One, here's what's included in Part Two:

Week 1: Social relationships:

• -Ridding shyness from your self-concept
• -When things don’t go well socially
• -Reasons to value small talk (how skipping it turns into relationship quicksand!)
• -Venting vs. problem-solving
• -Honoring your intuition
• -Cementing bonds with active-constructive responses

Week 2: Close relationships:

• -Finding a best friend
• -How and when to forgive and when not to forgive
• -Predicting happy marriage vs. divorce
• -Daily steps for keeping warmth and love in a relationship
• -Disagreeing without being disagreeable

Week 3: Thriving in work:

• -Drudgery, job, craft or calling?
• -Recognizing the drain of “emotional labor”
• -Importance of friends at work
• -Handling criticism and setting boundaries
• -Money manners and poverty addiction

Week 4: Freeing ourselves from negative stereotypes:

• -Replacing negative labels of yourself with more balanced descriptions
• -When we stereotype others: empathy vs. advice
• -If your only tool is a hammer
• -Nature or nurture? Soma or psyche? Individual or culture? An interactionist perspective
• -Reframing, revisited

Week 5: Reaching for heaven with both feet firmly on the ground:

• -Myths that can derail your personal development goals
• -Recognizing cult-like trends in a group
• -Balancing your life wheel and avoiding spiritual addiction (keep good intentions from turning into quicksand!)
• -Identifying the links between life purpose, religion, spirituality, positive emotion, and positive behavior
• -Honoring your existing beliefs and practices (this material applies to all traditions, denominations, and philosophies)

You can register for both classes together or consolidate your learning by adding five weeks of one-on-one coaching to keep your learning on track. Each class meets one hour a week for five weeks. Thirty-minute coaching sessions are scheduled by appointment usually every week or every two weeks.

Would you like to know more? I'm available to answer all your questions--and I love talking to HSPs--we'll talk about your goals and how the teleclass can help you reach them. Just click on this contact button to schedule a free, no-obligation twenty-minute conversation.