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I’m excited to be posting this 32-minute interview with Jim and Zaina Keeley.
Jim has more concentrated, useful, practical wisdom than almost anyone I’ve ever worked with, and I make it my business to show up at most of his workshops, no matter where they are.
Jim and Zaina have been married for 10 years, and are happier together all the time. The love and the excitement of the relationship has lasted for them.
At the end of July they are running their first relationships workshop.
My future wife and I are going to this workshop, so I decided to interview them about it, and share that interview with you.
Please note: I am not being paid to tell you about this workshop. I’m going to it, and I think you might get value out of it too.
In this 32-minute interview with Jim and Zaina, they cover…
- Practical steps for growing spiritually in a relationship,
- How a relationship can go from being just a place a person gets his or her needs met to becoming a place where people grow together into their fulfillment and happiness,
- Why sharing feelings or your “truth” can sometimes turn into a fight or a session of complaining, and what to do about it,
- How the purpose of relationship communication is not just to get your point across, but to discover the next place inside of you that you need to transform to move even deeper into the relationship,
- The problem with thinking that your partner are the same person every day, and how who you partner is today asks new things of you… and how those new challenges can be catalysts for transformation,
- How Jim and Zaina “hold” each other during conflict, and avoid the major traps of “just listening” to your partner.
- How to get past the idea that “sooner or later all couples drift apart” or the other ideas that dull many relationships,
- How to listen “deeper” to what is upsetting your partner,
- The “subtle losses of heart” that happen in relationships, and how to overcome them,
- Good news about how a couple can set the intention to be ridiculously and outrageously happy together, and can keep that intention (and experience) alive through the bumps and challenges of the relationship,
- and more.
About their workshop:
Location: The workshop is happening in Auburn Massachusetts, USA. (By the way, Fawn and I are traveling from Madison, WI to this workshop, on the weekend before our wedding… We think it’s worth traveling to get to this workshop, and encourage you to think so, too.)
Date: Saturday and Sunday, July 26-27, 2008.
Price: Probably because this is the first time they’ve let this workshop, it is priced at only $150/person. (I think you can expect the price to go up dramatically in the future.)
Who can come: This workshop is open to people who are in a relationship, those who would like to be in one, or someone who is getting over a heartbreak or anyone else.
Next steps for you:
If you’d like to hear more from Jim, he has a free newsletter and many hours of free audio at his website http://howtowalkwithgod.com (Opens in a new window).
To find out more or sign up for the workshop, you can email Jim at [email protected].
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