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The Enneagram
The Enneagram is an ancient, powerful tool for personal and collective transformation. Stemming from the Greek words ennea (nine) and grammos (a written symbol), the nine-pointed Enneagram symbol represents nine distinct strategies for relating to the self, others and the world. How do we know what is real? [...]
EFT
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a well-known humanistic approach to psychotherapy formulated in the 1980’s and developed in tandem with the science of adult attachment, a profound developmental theory of personality and intimate relationships. This science has expanded our understanding of individual dysfunction and health [...]
Hearts Before Parts–Sex, Science and Self-Determination Theory in Modern Dating
When I explain to women and men that waiting at least 90-days upon meeting someone new in order to have sex with them is wise, they often laugh, roll their eyes and say something akin to “yeah, I don’t see that happening!” I can [...]
HOW TO GIVE OUR PARTNER SPACE WHEN THERE IS NONE!
How to Give Our Partner Space when There is NONE! Couples, roommates, colleagues, parents and children, we all have one of only 9 different personalities. 7.7 billion people on the planet and there are just 9 personality types. That’s it. Actually, there are 27 [...]
Powerful Values Activity for Couples (or Individuals)
VALUES ACTIVITY FOR COUPLES A great activity I do with couples when they aren’t in duress but perhaps coming in for a tune-up because stress is throwing them off their game and they aren’t jiving like they know they can is the simple yet [...]
Podcast: Pickleball, Deliberate Dating, and Relationships
Talking about Pickleball, Deliberate Dating, and How Relationships Can Heal, Transform, and Enrich Our Lives Across the Ages on Calvin Keeney's Podcast
The Dating Rap…
Dating is Broken Dating is brokenAnd I ain’t jokin’ You need more than a pretty profileTo make me smile What’s in your heart and are you smartMatter way more to me before I even start Can you speak the truthCan you own the wrongs of [...]
Dating Might Be Broken, But You’re Not: 3 Ways to Find More Peace with the Dating Process
“Dating is hard.” “Online dating is inauthentic.” “Men aren’t even trying. They are lazy jerks.” “Women are playing games. Bitches be trippin’!” In the past, before online dating, a single, professional man or woman would be lucky to meet one potential suitor a month. [...]
Male Initiation: Rites of Passage and Why Males Need One
A letter to my almost 16-year-old son for him to open as he goes on a 9-day adventure with Outward Bound in the Pisgah National Forest in the Linville Gorge area of the Blue Ridge Mountains. First, he did NOT want to go. He wanted [...]