RELATIONSHIPS with SELF 🌿 SOCIETY 🌿 THE NATURAL WORLD

Be your best Self through our Regenerative WellBeing Program

Be your best Self through our Regenerative WellBeing Program

Regeneration is defined as the process of regenerating, restoring, or renewing. To identify something as ā€˜regenerative’ implies the ability to...

Read more

Cultivate Intuitive Communion with Nature through our Natura Gratia Initiative

Cultivate Intuitive Communion with Nature through our Natura Gratia Initiative

Natura Gratia translates as ā€œThe Grace of Natureā€.  The Natura Gratia Initiative is a series of courses designed to inspire deep relationship...

Read more

Facilitate Social Wellbeing through Healthy Relationships

Facilitate Social Wellbeing through Healthy Relationships

LLR’s Healthy Relationships Initiative has been developed to help people create and sustain happy, healthy, and safe relationships; personally,...

Read more

LEARN ON THE LAND

Wander

Wander

The Wyyldwood Project is an invitation. It is our invitation to you. An invitation to choose the "Road Less Traveled", to let your soul linger in the...

Read more

Gather

Gather

The Center for Living and Learning is a sanctuary for the mind, body, and soul; a gathering place committed to facilitating well-being of self,...

Read more

Connect

Connect

Ray Oldenburg (1989) identifies the ā€œThird Placeā€ as an important anchor of community life, facilitating creative interaction that serves to nourish...

Read more

LLR’s Healthy Relationships Initiative has been developed to help people create and sustain happy, healthy, and safe relationships; personally, professionally, and societally.

Participants in our Healthy Relationships Initiative will develop an understanding of themselves while cultivating the skills necessary to successfully relate to others in a wide variety of settings.

Mastery in this domain includes developing an authentic sense of self and emotions, the ability to deploy the skills necessary to prevent/mitigate relationship distress, and the ability to foster and maintain healthy, mutually beneficial relationships.

How:

  • Social and emotional learning opportunities for the development of healthy and safe relationships.
  • Cultivating an embodied experience of the intra and interpersonal competencies necessary for fostering and maintaining healthy and mutually beneficial relationships.  
  • Engendering the skills of self-awareness, self-regulation, self-advocacy, situational awareness, social/cultural awareness, healthy boundaries, and bystander empowerment and education.
  • Providing supportive resources for dating violence prevention and relationship distress

Why and What:

We are currently, in modern society, experiencing a mental health crisis of epic proportion. Included in the rising statistics representative of this fact are those statistics concerned with relationship aggression and violence.  

Relationship violence has a profound impact on all other aspects of life, individually and communally. Unhealthy relationship dynamics can and do start early and last a lifetime if action is not taken. Individuals who experience relationship violence or distress are more likely to suffer from depression and anxiety, engage in antisocial or risky behavior, contemplate suicide or violence.

By supporting the development of healthy, respectful, and safe/nonviolent relationships, LLR intends to increase the potential for more resilient individuals, families, and communities.

_____________________________________

At LLR we recognize that through the cultivation of intra and interpersonal competencies and activities that assist in the development of healthy relationship dynamics. Our healthy relationship programming includes but is not limited to emphasis on:

INTRAPERSONAL COMPETENCIES

Self-Awareness:

Knowing who you are. The ability to accurately recognize and understand your own emotions and behaviors. Including the ability to accurately identify and deploy the necessary skill, knowledge, value and responsibility for congruent emotional/behavioral response to situations.

This also includes being aware of the effect of your own actions, moods, and emotions on others.

Self-Regulation:

Self-control and the ability to manage emotions, desires, and behaviors in order to reach a positive outcome.

Self-Advocacy:

The ability to effectively communicate, convey, negotiate, or assert one's own interests, desires, needs, and rights.

Self-Motivation:

The ability to set and achieve goals, feel more fulfilled, and improve overall quality of life.

Self-Accountability:

Takes responsibility and ownership for decisions, actions and results…both positive and negative outcomes.

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR OPTIMAL MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HYGIENE

  • Stress Management
  • Critical Thinking
  • Ethics and Empathy in our Modern World
  • Sensory Awareness
  • Meditation
  • Dynamic Communication
  • Violence Prevention
  • Bystander Awareness
  • Relationship Dynamics

INTERPERSONAL COMPETENCIES:

Recognizing that all kinds of healthy relationships are important, we include intrapersonal competencies necessary for healthy engagement in a variety of settings:

Critical Thinking/Problem Solving: The ability to exercise sound reasoning to analyze issues, make decisions, and overcome problems. You are able to obtain, interpret, and use knowledge, facts, and data in this process, and even may demonstrate originality and inventiveness.

Oral/Written Communications: The ability to articulate thoughts and ideas clearly and effectively in written and oral forms to persons inside and outside of the organization. You have public speaking skills; are able to express ideas to others; and can write/edit memos, letters, and complex technical reports clearly and effectively.

Teamwork/Collaboration: The ability to build collaborative relationships with classmates and instructors (translating professionally to colleagues and consumers). You are able to work within a team structure, can negotiate and manage conflict, and can flow easily between following and leading.  

Digital Technology: The ability to leverage existing digital technologies ethically and efficiently to solve problems, complete tasks, and accomplish goals. You demonstrate effective adaptability to new and emerging technologies.

Leadership: The ability to leverage the strengths of others to achieve common goals and use interpersonal skills to coach and develop others. You are able to assess and manage your emotions and those of others; use empathetic skills to guide and motivate; and organize, prioritize, and delegate work.

Professionalism/Work Ethic: The ability to demonstrate personal accountability and effective work habits, e.g., punctuality, working productively with others, and time workload management, and understand the impact of non-verbal communication on professional work image. You demonstrate integrity and ethical behavior, act responsibly with the interests of the larger community in mind and are able to learn from your mistakes.

Career Management: The ability to identify and articulate your skills, strengths, knowledge, and experiences relevant to the position desired and career goals and identify areas necessary for professional growth. You are able to navigate and explore job options, understand and take the steps necessary to pursue opportunities, and understand how to self-advocate for opportunities in the workplace.

Global/Intercultural Fluency: The ability to value, respect, and learn from diverse cultures, races, ages, genders, sexual orientations, and religions. You demonstrate openness, inclusiveness, sensitivity, and the ability to interact respectfully with all people and understand individuals’ differences.

_____________________________________________________________________

For the past several years, LLR has had the opportunity to develop and deliver adult learning opportunities in healthy and safe relationships at several colleges and organizations. It is our intention to continue the cultivation of healthy and safe relationships for the good of the individual, society, and the natural world.

To get involved with our Healthy Relationships Initiative send us an This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.or sign-up for a few of our courses.

 

Healthy Relationship and Violence Prevention Resources

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

LEARN ONLINE - LIFEWISE U

Reciprocity: Planetary and Individual Well-being

In today’s world, there is no doubt that humans play a significant role in the health of the planet and vice versa. This course explores the...

Read more

Exploring Living Systems Theory for the Wellbeing of Self, Society, and the Natural World

This course invites you to shift your focus of exploration into the wellbeing of the natural world, from one of the separate entities to one of a...

Read more

Introduction to Lunar Living

This 8-week online course invites you to explore the phases of the moon and how they relate to your own natural rhythm and alignment. Uncovering your...

Read more

Interesting Reads

HYDROGEN: GO LOCAL FOR THE FUEL OF THE FUTURE

HYDROGEN: GO LOCAL FOR THE FUEL OF THE FUTURE

Hydrogen is the most abundant element on the planet. It’s all around us, locked up in water and all the life forms around, including us humans and in terms of climate change it’s as clean as it gets. It has the potential to lead us into an almost completely green future but there’s a problem....

Read more

We Conduct Research

Ancestrally Appropriate Dietary Choices and Personal Health and Well-Being

Ancestrally Appropriate Dietary Choices and Personal Health and Well-Being

Ancestrally Appropriate Dietary Choices and Personal Health and Well-being

Research suggests that following a Traditional or Ancestrally Appropriate diet can contribute to nutritional health and overall well-being (Spreadbury, 2012).

Read more

Farmphilia