Session #: 719-220
Presenter(s): Jed Rosen
Session Length: 2 hr. 00 min. Event: 2009 Networker Annual Symposium Date: March 26-29, 2009
How do you forgive a partner who's been unfaithful? This practical workshop offers concrete exercises for helping couples reconnect and achieve forgiveness after the trauma of infidelity. You'll learn what unfaithful partners can do to restore trust and intimacy, including bearing witness to the pain, apologizing nondefensively, and taking responsibility for why the affair happened. You'll learn strategies for helping hurt partners overcome their bitter preoccupation with the injury, take a fair share of responsibility for what went wrong, and create opportunities for the betraying partner to make amends. Unlike models that treat forgiveness as a process accomplished in the mind and heart of the hurt party, this workshop presents a dynamic, interpersonal model that requires the offender to reach out with bold, humble, heartfelt acts of repair.
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