Benefits of the Lasting Connection System®
When you learn how to utilize the Lasting Connection System® with your partner you will have the additional tools you need to move into more closeness as well as through distress to connection more reliably and quickly – one step at a time.
You will notice:
- The Lasting Connection System® guides you through a process where you learn, through supported experience, how to be open and what to be open about as well as how and when to respond with empathy. These are skills most couples don’t have and can be difficult to learn as adults.
- The Lasting Connection System® assists you and your partner in navigating through issues and differences in a manner that is transparent, concrete and connecting.
- The Lasting Connection System® guides you in your quest to deal with emotion “here and now,” allowing you to monitor the process with a visible reference that keeps you working together, that helps you and your partner emerge with a richer, more effective communication experience.
- If you and/or your partner are in therapy for relationship concerns the Lasting Connection System® is perfect to use as homework between therapy sessions to get to know yourself and your partner better as well as to increase your love and understanding. If you are in Emotionally Focused Therapy you will find the Lasting Connection System® provides excellent at-home practice in support of the work you are doing with your therapist. This practice is designed to increase the effectiveness of your therapy sessions by helping your feel more clear, connected and settled in your own self-awareness as well as in your relationship so the time you spend in therapy can better utilize your therapist’s expertise and make their support more targeted. Imagine, reaching your goals and feeling better faster.
- Through using the Lasting Communication System®, you will learn aspects of communication that incorporate the principles of attachment theory that are not taught or emphasized in typical communication skills training. You learn how to share and process issues on a deeper, more vulnerable level. The mat assists you to remain focused and grounded while sharing instead of feeling triggered or flooded. It prompts you to discover and share hidden feeling and needs. You begin to discover you can problem solve together. Most importantly, taking one step at a time, you learn how to be accessible, responsive and engaged, which is key to the development secure attachment.