Session One Goals
Key Goals
- Learn PAIRS concepts as a framework for understanding the journey of intimacy: Levels of Learning, Stages of Relationship, Three Hopes/Three Fears, and the Relationship Road Map.
- Identify styles and patterns that influence how we communicate under stress and their impact on close relationships. Learn the Leveling Style that strengthens connection and understanding.
- Learn the Daily Temperature Reading and Talking Tips as tools to enhance and nurture connection, cohesion, empathy, and respect between intimates.
- Consider the importance of creating and sustaining pleasure in intimate relationships through the concept of the Love Bank and Caring Behaviors to intentionally nurture a loving environment.