Workshop Summary:

Overview:
This transformative workshop is designed for couples and individuals navigating the complex emotional landscape of grief after the loss of a child or loved one. Drawing from the principles of Relational Life Therapy (RLT), the workshop offers a compassionate, direct, and skills-based approach to help participants reconnect with themselves and each other, fostering deeper intimacy and mutual support in the aftermath of profound loss.

Core Themes:

1. Understanding Grief in Relationships

   • Exploring the impact of loss on emotional connection, communication, and intimacy.

   • Acknowledging how grief can manifest differently within partnerships, leading to disconnection or conflict.

2. The RLT Lens: Truth, Love, and Power

   • Embracing honesty and accountability in expressing needs, pain, and boundaries.

   • Reclaiming relational empowerment while remaining deeply connected and compassionate.

   • Identifying learned relational patterns that may block healing and closeness.

3. Emotional Regulation & Self-Awareness

   • Learning to hold space for one’s own grief while remaining open to a partner’s experience.

   • Tools for managing emotional overwhelm and reactive patterns that erode intimacy.

4. Skills for Reconnection

   • Practicing attuned listening, empathy, and emotional validation.

   • Rebuilding trust and intimacy through vulnerability and shared meaning-making.

   • Creating rituals of remembrance and connection that honor the lost loved one.

5. Creating a New Relational Story

   • Supporting each partner in evolving their identity post-loss.

   • Rewriting the relationship narrative in ways that incorporate grief, growth, and renewed closeness.

   • Emphasizing relational empowerment, where both partners are responsible for nurturing the relationship.

Who It's For:
Couples or individuals struggling to maintain connection, closeness, or healthy communication in the wake of loss. No prior experience with therapy is required.

Outcomes:
Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of their grief responses, practical tools for relational healing, and a renewed sense of connection rooted in authenticity, mutual care, and shared resilience.