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Five Skills for Making and Keeping Adult Friendships

Learning to be available, authentic, affirming, assertive, and accepting in the context of our friendships
Rating: 4.1 out of 54.1 (4 ratings)
10 students
Created by Gina Handley Schmitt, MA, LMHC
Last updated 9/2020
English
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What you'll learn

  • How to make and keep healthy, lasting adult friendships

Requirements

  • No prerequisites

Description

In this online, self-paced course, Gina Handley Schmitt, MA, LMHC, will present 5 skills, that when used together, offer us the best chance for increasingly healthy and fulfilling friendships.

Learn to be available, the skill of “showing-up” for our friends, which is the foundation of friendship. Learn to be authentic, the skill of fostering deep connections with our friends, which allows us to commit to mutual honesty and vulnerability. Learn to be affirming, the skill that ensures that our friendships ultimately become safe and encouraging spaces. Learn to be assertive, the skill that ensures that we are getting what we need from our friendships, while also serving to protect and preserve them. Lastly, learn to be accepting, the skill which helps us recognize the potential in new friendships, while also assisting us in offering our existing friends more grace, within the context of our potential differences.

Life is better with good friends by our side!

Who this course is for:

  • Adults looking to create friendship connections or enhance their existing friendship connections.

Course content

7 sections • 29 lectures • 2h 7m total length

  • Preview02:54

  • Being Available in Our Friendships
    03:05
  • Module 1: The Art of the Long Lunch: Being available for our friends physically
    04:38
  • Module 2: Distractions Be Gone: Being available for our friends mentally
    05:12
  • Module 3: Coffee and Catharsis: Being available for our friends emotionally
    07:25
  • Module 4: Sharing our Spark: Being available for our friends spiritually
    03:45

  • Being Authentic in Our Friendships
    01:53
  • Module 1: Making Space for the Real: Accepting imperfection in our friendships
    05:36
  • Module 2: When Life if NOT Good: Avoiding the pretending game
    06:13
  • Module 3: Go Ahead, Air that Laundry: Making a commitment to truth telling
    04:45
  • Module 4: The Storytellers and the Space Holders: Sharing our real stories
    04:18

  • Being Affirming in our Friendships
    02:44
  • Module 1: Bedroom Dresser, Bathroom Mirror, and Car Dashboard: Self-affirmation
    05:32
  • Module 2: Doctor Cool Boots: Becoming fluent in “Affirmation”
    04:29
  • Module 3: Making Those Deposits: Affirmation as friendship currency
    02:52
  • Module 4: Making Space at the Table: Overcoming our instincts to compete
    04:28
  • Module 5: Me, Too: Affirmation as a pathway to collective empowerment
    02:43

  • Being Assertive in Our Friendships
    04:02
  • Module 1: The Bad Rap: The difference between assertive and aggressive
    05:45
  • Module 2: Passive No More: Relinquishing our assertiveness avoidance
    05:22
  • Module 3: 4. How to Make an Assertive Sandwich: A Simple Approach
    04:05
  • Module 4: 5. Assertiveness Ambassadors: Using our skills to help others
    03:51

  • Being Accepting in our Friendships
    04:13
  • Module 1: Lemons, Sweater Vests, and Bad Romances: Charting our own courses
    04:31
  • Module 2: Red Light, Green Light: Disagreeing without judgment
    04:07
  • Module 3: Lessons from an Adolescent Client: Acceptance without agreement
    03:26
  • Module 4: Permission Granted: Adhering to healthy boundaries
    05:46
  • Module 5: Confessions of a Bad Friend: The role of forgiveness in friendships
    07:59

  • Farewell!
    01:40

Instructor

Gina Handley Schmitt, MA, LMHC
Psychotherapist, Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Author
Gina Handley Schmitt, MA, LMHC
  • 4.1 Instructor Rating
  • 4 Reviews
  • 10 Students
  • 1 Course

With her extensive experience, as a psychotherapist, adjunct professor of psychology, researcher, author, and speaker, Gina Handley Schmitt (aka. Counselor Gina) has a lot to contribute to our collective conversations about healthy relationships, specifically the importance of friendships in our lives.

Because of her expertise, Gina has been a featured speaker at a number of conferences and workshops, in addition to being a regular contributor to articles, radio shows, podcasts, and other media programming.

Gina’s debut book, Friending: Creating Meaningful, Lasting Adult Friendships, was chosen as a 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Finalist, as well as being a strong seller for her publisher. It has been widely praised for offering a practical path to creating and maintaining meaningful, lasting friendships, utilizing the author’s unique 5 skill approach, which is the foundation of this course.


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