The Relationship Handbook: A Path to Consciousness, Healing, and Growth

by Shakti Gawain, Gina Vucci

Overview

Using knowledge and skills honed over a lifetime of teaching and learning, personal development pioneer Shakti Gawain presents a powerful, life-changing work on a subject she has always been passionate about: our relationships. In her popular workshops and in her personal life, she has tested and refined the insights and exercises in this book, which she cowrote with her longtime collaborator Gina Vucci. Their approach reflects the fact that each of us is in relationships not only with romantic partners, family, coworkers, and children, but also with internal core beliefs and a variety of selves, including primary, disowned, and shadow selves.

These revelatory teachings incorporate strategies for becoming aware of hidden beliefs, applying the Voice Dialogue process developed by Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone, and learning to experience every relationship as a path to self-knowledge. Through her gentle guidance, Shakti shows us how every relationship we have at every moment can be seen as a path toward greater consciousness, healing, and growth.

There is no other book on relationships like this. Give this powerful book even a short amount of time and prepare yourself for some truly remarkable results!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781577314738
Publisher:	New World Library
Publication date:	10/28/2014
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Shakti Gawain emerged as a pioneer in the field of personal growth with her bestselling books Creative Visualization and Living in the Light, which are still popular and in print after more than thirty years. She has led workshops in the United States and internationally for decades. She lives in Mill Valley, California.

Gina Vucci has been coleading workshops with Shakti for nearly fifteen years. She has worked in several fields as a counselor, mentor, and coach for individuals and small businesses. She lives in San Rafael, California.

Table of Contents

Contents

Part One: Introduction
The Path of Relationship
Shakti’s Story

Part Two: The Power of the Selves Within
Formation of Personality
Discovering Our Primary Selves
Learning from Our Shadow Sides

Part Three: Relationship as Teacher
Relationships as Mirrors
The Aware Ego and the Inner Child
Exploring Common Selves
Integration: Awareness and Attention
Couples: The Special Role of Romantic Partnerships
Gina’s Story: When Leaving a Relationship Is the Right Thing to Do

Part Four: Tools for Developing Your Relationships
Facilitation
Creative Visualization Techniques

Conclusion
Acknowledgments
The Voice Dialogue Work of Hal and Sidra Stone
About Shakti Gawain
About Gina Vucci

Editorial Reviews

10/20/2014
Self-help workshop leader Gawain (Creative Visualization) and her writing partner, Vucci, distill years of experienceinto an accessible reference book containing tools that students can turn to again and again. The title might suggest a narrow focus on romance, but Gawain covers many types of relationships, including the interactions among a person’s different emotional selves. Personal stories address issues that couples may face, such as when an extroverted woman is married to an introverted man. Accompanying exercises—visualizations and writing prompts—suggest ways to explore similar issues in one’s own relationships. Dialogues demonstrate the power of relationships as a mirror, a source of feedback that helps growth. These conversations are intended to replicate the workshop experience, though the transcripts lack the immediacy of watching a facilitator work with a person at a live event. Gawain’s most powerful techniques, like physically repositioning the speaker depending on the inner voice being expressed, lose some impact in print. Though Gawain wrote this book with the intention of retiring from leading workshops, it acts as more of an adjunct to her other teachings than a true replacement. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly

“[Gawain and Vucci] distill years of experience into an accessible reference book containing tools that students can turn to again and again.”
— Publishers Weekly

“Shakti Gawain is one of our brightest lights in the consciousness movement.”
— Wayne Dyer

“Shakti Gawain’s work is a great contribution.”
— Deepak Chopra

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