Talking and Listening Together" is a couples communication class that has been taken by over 600,000 couples. It teaches practical communication skills grounded in research and theory. More than 70 independent studies have found it helps partners learn skills and increase relationship satisfaction. The program integrates concepts and specific skills to improve communication quality. It uses methods like the "Map-An-Issue" process and "Awareness Wheel" to help couples discuss concerns productively and create solutions to complicated situations.

1. What is unique about
Improve your communication
“Talking and Listening Together”?
Over 600,000 couples have participated in
 Develop confidence that you can
communicate together effectively “Talking and Listening Together” since its
 Expand understanding of yourself and beginning at the University of Minnesota
your partner Family Study Center.
 Increase satisfaction in your relationship Practical
Frameworks are instruction
 Create faster and better resolutions
to conflict theoretically grounded
relevant to the Talking and Listening Together
needs of today A Couples Communication Class
 Reduce disagreements and tension and well researched.
 Experience greater caring and respect for
self and partner More than 70 independent studies, many at
major universities throughout the United
States, document the effectiveness of the
program in helping partners learn skills and
increase relationship satisfaction.
“We learned skills we can use the rest of Awards affirming the program have been
our lives to deal with any kind of issue.”
received from the Association of Couples for
Marriage Enrichment, the American
Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
Contact Living Water Counseling and the National Council on Family Relations.
to
register & for more information
Special Kinesthetic Methodology accelerates Living Water Counseling
A ministry of Trinity Presbyterian Church
skill learning
541-840-1924 1332 Mt. Pitt Street
Medford, OR 97501
www.livingwatercounseling.net
541-840-1924
Living Water Counseling

2. Learn New Skills
IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF
YOUR COMMUNICATION
“Talking and Listening Together” integrates an
excellent set of communication concepts and
specific skills that are user-friendly
“It was the best investment in our
marriage that we’ve ever made.”
Take the class
with a friend, relative “Map- An-Issue” The Listening The Awareness Styles of
or spouse Process Cycle Wheel Communication
An eight-step discussion Tune in accurately Organize your Recognize ineffective
that combines 11 talking to your partner’s awareness and effective ways for
and listening skills concerns talking and listening
Understand
Create best-fit Use 5 productive yourself and
solutions to listening skills situations better
complicated
situations Strengthen your Apply 6 talking
relationship skills to be clear
Deal with
and constructive
personal and
relational
concerns more
productively