Michael and Joan Hoxsey
 
SERVICES

Consultation

Relationship Resources LLC will help you create a dynamic, living plan for your organization using the strength based approach of Appreciative Inquiry. All plan development is customized to meet the needs of the individual organization.

Youth Program development is one of the areas of expertise Relationship Resources is particularly adept at providing. RRI has experience in the development of programming for diverse populations and ages. We recently completed the creation of an after school curriculum for the YMCA and have worked extensively with child care organizations to develop family friendly and appreciative services.

Want to develop a system of marriage education/enrichment for your agency, organization or church? Let RRI help you. We have trained over 3000 couples to act as mentors for engaged and/or newly married couples. RRI has a wide variety of resources available including Joan and Michael Hoxseys recent book; “Finding the ExtraOrdinary Marriage; a Guide to Building Strong, Loving and Compassionate Couple Relationships Using Appreciative Inquiry.”

Facilitation

Need a Board meeting, annual or five year plan facilitated from down-to-earth strengths based perspective? Relationship Resources has the ability to facilitate your need. With over thirty years of communication skills training RRI can help you create a plan that will not sit on the shelf but will be used to invigorate your organization, agency or church.

Communication Skills programming is one of Relationship Resources signature strengths. Let us help your organization learn how to communicate more effectively and positively resulting in highly effective outcomes.

Workshops

Building Family Strengths

The six strengths that every family possesses, that are self discerned, and capable of measurement, which are the basis of all our relationships. Possessed by every group of people who share life. Can be experienced and enhanced in any group whether home or workplace .

Finding Our Strengths and Using Them to Enhance Our Most Important Relationships

Using a strength-based approach this workshop is focused on the development of self empowerment based each participant's giftedness. Tools include Myers Briggs Type Indicator, Kiersey Bates typology, Building Family Strengths, appreciative inquiry and other strength assessment frameworks

Goals:

Know the research regarding family strengths and are able to identify the six signature strengths

Apply the research to current work and/or own family

Use a variety of workshop models to enhance the strengths

Appreciative Inquiry Foundations Course

This, hands on, learn by doing, in-depth workshop is designed for anyone seeking to obtain a solid grounding in the theory and practice of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) ­ e.g. - managers, consultants, human resource professionals, organizational and community facilitators - anyone concerned with minimizing resistance while achieving rapid change within human systems.

Goals:

Know the Appreciative Inquiry theory

Understand the Five “D” cycle

Apply the theory in a number of different settings

Able to use Appreciative Inquiry as a strengths based approach for organizational development

Couples Communication Skills

This workshop helps couples learn how to build a strong communication system based on learning all the factors that create healthy and meaningful relationships

Goals:

Know the complete cycle of communication

Able to apply the principles of good communication

Able to use the appropriate communication skills to resolve conflict in the relationship

Using the Enneagram to Build Positive Relationships

The Enneagram offers profound insights into the nine very different ways in which people feel, think and behave. While the Enneagram is a complex system it can easily be grasped and easily used. You will be surprised at the amount of self-awareness as well as awareness of others the Enneagram provides. The Enneagram can offer deep insight into self and others thus making relationships more positively developed.

Goals:

Identify Enneagram Style

Communicate more effectively

Provide better feedback

Prevent conflict or, if it occurs, be able to resolve successfully

Understand leadership style and how to build effective successful teams

Develop a plan of self transformation

Bringing Out the Best in Ourselves at Work

Using a number of relationship development tools and methodologies including the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and the Enneagram this workshop is directed at the development of healthy self esteem and personal goal development at work or in looking for employment.

Goals:

Understand personal preferences and the preferences of others so in order to build their individual sense of self and be able to build healthy reciprocal relationships.

Know how to identify the strengths of differing personalities as they relate to the development of effective teams

Have insight into their strengths and how they can better use them both at home and at work

Bringing Out the Best in Our Employees

What do employers need to include in their search for new employees or in supporting current staff in order to create thriving organizations or businesses? This workshop is geared to assist employers in developing their staff in a positive, goal oriented manner that supports the organization's mission and values.

Goals

How to support employees in a positive manner

Understand the principles of the appreciative approach to staff management

Know what employees really want in order to be productive

Bringing Out the Best in Our Children

Using the latest research on developmentally appropriate practice, this workshop focuses on “catching our children doing good” and creating more of that behavior rather trying to get rid of our children's problems.

Goals;

Understand what the developmental stages are

Understand how the brain develops

Learn what the ideal learning state is

Learn how to focus on what is working rather than on what is not working

Create a plan for re-enforcing the “good”

Special Services

Relationship Resources offers your organization, agency or church specially designed retreats including:

Couples Mini-Retreat

This Friday night- Saturday retreat is designed to help couples assess and plan for their relationship. All couples are welcome. Many churches use this model of retreat to support the couples in their congregations because it offers maximum depth of insight and planning while taking less time than a traditional weekend retreat

Goals

Increase awareness of the need to enrich and enhance couple relationship

Offer practical skill development

Offer support of other couples

Create a plan of growth

Other Couple Enrichment Services

Retreats

Evenings for enrichment

Other specially designed family and couple programs

 

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