How to Get Your Partner to Hear You
A Live Online Relationship Skills Workshop for Couples and Individuals
Are You Tired of Feeling Unheard in Your Relationship?
Do you feel like you're constantly trying to explain yourself, but your partner just doesn't seem to understand? Do conversations turn into arguments, defensiveness, frustration, or silence? Maybe you've tried expressing your feelings in different ways, but nothing seems to change.
The problem may not be what you're saying, but how you're communicating—and how your partner is hearing you.
In this 90-minute live online workshop, you'll learn practical relationship skills based on Relational Life Therapy (RLT) to help you communicate more effectively, express your needs without criticism or blame, and create conversations where both partners feel heard, understood, and respected.
Rather than trying harder to get your point across, you'll learn how to change the communication patterns that keep you feeling disconnected.
Come with your partner—or come on your own. You don't need your partner to participate to begin changing how you communicate.
Who Is This Workshop For?
This workshop is designed for couples and individuals who:
Feel like their partner doesn't listen to or understand them.
Find themselves repeating the same concerns without anything changing.
Feel dismissed, invalidated, ignored, or misunderstood.
Struggle to express their needs without sounding critical, angry, or demanding.
Have a partner who becomes defensive, shuts down, or withdraws during difficult conversations.
Feel frustrated because conversations quickly turn into arguments.
Avoid difficult conversations because they don't want to create conflict.
Want to learn how to communicate honestly without blaming, attacking, or walking on eggshells.
Have tried couples counseling but still struggle with communication.
Want healthier communication skills, even if their partner isn't ready to work on the relationship.
What Will You Learn?
Using practical tools from Relational Life Therapy, you'll learn how to:
1. Understand Why Your Partner Isn't Hearing You
Discover how criticism, defensiveness, emotional triggers, and unhealthy communication patterns interfere with your ability to connect.
2. Recognize Your Adaptive Child
Learn how past experiences and emotional triggers influence the way you communicate, particularly when you feel rejected, dismissed, or misunderstood.
3. Communicate From Your Wise Adult
Practice expressing your feelings and needs clearly, calmly, and confidently rather than reacting from frustration, anger, or fear.
4. Replace Complaints With Clear Requests
Learn the difference between criticizing your partner and making a specific, respectful request that invites cooperation.
5. Stop Triggering Defensiveness
Discover how to approach difficult conversations in ways that reduce blame, shame, and escalation while encouraging greater understanding.
6. Listen So Your Partner Will Want to Listen
Develop skills for listening, validating, and responding without immediately defending yourself, interrupting, or trying to prove you're right.
7. Break the Cycle of Feeling Unheard
Identify your role in recurring communication patterns and learn practical strategies for changing how you show up in conversations.
What Will You Walk Away With?
By the end of this workshop, you'll have:
A better understanding of why communication breaks down in your relationship.
Practical tools for expressing your needs without criticism or blame.
Strategies for reducing defensiveness and emotional reactivity.
A framework for making clear requests instead of repeating complaints.
Skills for listening and responding from your Wise Adult.
A simple communication exercise you can begin practicing immediately.
A clearer understanding of what you can change, even when your partner isn't willing to participate.
The Goal Isn't to Make Your Partner Listen. It's to Learn How to Communicate Differently.
You cannot control whether your partner listens, understands, or agrees with you. But you can learn to communicate in ways that increase the opportunity for understanding, respect, and connection.
Better communication isn't about winning the conversation. It's about creating a relationship where both people have a voice.
Workshop Details
Format: 90-Minute Live Online Workshop via Zoom
Who Can Attend: Couples and Individuals
Class Size: Limited to 10 Participants
Investment: $60 Per Person
Approach: Practical Relationship Skills Based on Relational Life Therapy (RLT)
Facilitated by Richie Pryor, MA, LMHC
Certified Relational Life Therapist
Stop Repeating Yourself. Start Communicating Differently.
You don't have to keep having the same frustrating conversations. Learn practical relationship skills that help you speak more clearly, listen more effectively, and create opportunities for greater connection.
Register for How to Get Your Partner to Hear You
www.richiepryor.com/relationship-workshops
This is an educational, skills-based workshop and is not a substitute for individual or couples psychotherapy.