Partnering
Bringing your “whole self,” (a person who has been exploring, developing and integrating their mental, emotional, physical and spiritual intelligences and energies) to another person, 
generates a partnership/relationship which is founded in discovering together what it means to interweave the two individuals into a couple, and at the same time, honoring the integrity of the “self” created by each person.
Creating a commitment together to stay conscious and practice ways of being, listening, speaking, relating/connecting, brings forth the sense of integration, connection and wholeness of partnership you desire.
There are many resources here for you. Websites, seminars, books, videos; Please explore!
Journey to a Committed Relationship
| ABSTRACTION | DISTINCTIONS | EDUCATION |
|---|---|---|
| Silence | Silence creates space to be | Practices in reflection, meditation, being quiet |
| Communication | Self Expression; Straight Talk; Speaking purposefully | Saying honestly what is there to say; Open, honest, nothing hidden; Self-expression; Feedback, positive and negative |
| Extraordinary | Integrating/Integrated Individuals | Mental, emotional, physical,spiritual interconnected ; activities include all experiences to forward the context for an integrated relationship; |
| Partnership | Creating a life time partnership | Listening, speaking; integrating multiple points of view |
| Friendship | Being friends first ; Growing together; mutual support | Pushing boundaries together; Inquiry, exploration, what does it mean to be “related“ |
| Financials | Clarity of roles/agreements | Accountability, candid conversations |
| Creation | Who I am is the creator of my life; Who we are: the creators of our lives | Storytelling, creating a story of life together; Practicing together |
| ABSTRACTION | DISTINCTIONS | EDUCATION |
|---|---|---|
| Silence | Silence creates space to be | Practices in reflection, meditation, being quiet |
Silence
For on human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task
that has been entrusted to us; the ultimate task, the final test and proof the work for
which all other work is merely preparation. Loving does not at first mean
merging, surrendering, and uniting with another person – it is a high
inducement for the individual to ripen, to become something in his/herself,
something that chooses and calls her/him to vast distances
The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down
all boundaries, on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each
partner appoints the other to be the guardian of her/his solitude, and thus they
show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging to two people
is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a
hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or
both parties of their fullest freedom and development.
But once the realization is accepted that even between the
gives them the possibility of
always seeing each other as a whole and
before an immense sky.
Rilke
| ABSTRACTION | DISTINCTIONS | EDUCATION |
|---|---|---|
| Communication | Self Expression; Straight Talk; Speaking purposefully | Saying honestly what is there to say; Open, honest, nothing hidden; Self-expression; Feedback, positive and negative |
Communication
When did you last have a great conversation?
A conversation which was not just two intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation in this culture anyway, but a great conversation
… where you overheard yourself saying things you never knew you knew, that you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely found places within you that you thought you had lost, and a sense of an event of a conversation that brought the two of you onto a different plane.
A conversation that continued to sing in your mind for weeks afterward
These conversations are food and drink for the soul.”
John O’Donahue
Extraordinary Relationship/Life
| ABSTRACTION | DISTINCTIONS | EDUCATION |
|---|---|---|
| Extraordinary
Relationship/Life |
Integrating/Integrated Individuals | Mental, emotional, physical,spiritual interconnected; activities include all experiences to forward the context for an integrated relationship; |
Partnership
| ABSTRACTION | DISTINCTIONS | EDUCATION |
|---|---|---|
| Partnership | Creating a life time partnership | Listening, speaking; integrating multiple points of view |
Friendship
| ABSTRACTION | DISTINCTIONS | EDUCATION |
|---|---|---|
| Friendship | Being friends first ; Growing together; mutual support | Pushing boundaries together; Inquiry, exploration, what does it mean to be “related“ |
Financials
| ABSTRACTION | DISTINCTIONS | EDUCATION |
|---|---|---|
| Financials | Clarity of roles/agreements | Accountability, candid conversations |
The Balance: Budgeting; Three Methods for Co-Mingling a Couple’s Finances
9 Important Financial Moves All Couples Should Make; Suze Orman
CREATING relationship
| ABSTRACTION | DISTINCTIONS | EDUCATION |
|---|---|---|
| Creation | Who I am is the creator of my life; Who we are: the creators of our lives | Storytelling, creating a story of life together; Practicing together |
Creating a commitment together to stay conscious and practice ways of being, listening, speaking, relating/connecting, brings forth the sense of integration, connection and wholeness of partnership your desire.
There are many resources here for you – Relationship resources, websites, seminars, books, videos; Please explore!
Websites
