How to Build Healthy VS Toxic Relationships FLEX with a Licensed Teacher

Everyone yearns for belonging, friendship and love. The way we deal with these relationships can affect our happiness and health throughout life. This 5 week flexible course will provide you with a road map to recognize healthy vs toxic relationships, provide the tools to foster positive communication and to build the attributes that nurture truly healthy relationships.

Lessons include:
     * Definitions and descriptions of the many facets of a healthy relationship.
     * Communication styles that can lead to conflict or deeper understanding and trust.
     * How to recognize the signs of a toxic relationship and teen dating violence.
     * An introduction to creating emergency plans to protect themselves against dating violence.
     * You vs I Communication lessons and practice.
     * Therapeutic exercises to practice empathy and forgiveness.

Week 1 
     * Video, PowerPoint with audio presentation defining the many parts of a healthy relationship and the different communication styles that can lead to a healthy friendship or conflict.   
     * Students are provided a guided activity they will use to creating scenarios using one of the different communication styles that the rest of the class will have to guess using their knowledge from the lesson.
          * Part 1: Worksheet: Read and discuss the following communication styles and write down an example that someone using each style would say during the following situations. Each person in the group should have a different answer. 
          * Part 2: Group project: Students pick one communication style scenario to write about and share with the class on the Outschool classroom page. Each student writes a sentence that states a different communication style that the rest of the class must guess. In the end, everyone is to guess the communication style of each sentence and why they believe it is that style.


Week 2
     * Video, PowerPoint with audio presentation that educates the students to understand the difference between Healthy Relationships and Teen Dating Violence.
     * Then we will head over to YouTube to watch a small movie clip Keys to a Healthy Relationship. 
     * They will be introduced to the My Safety Plan Worksheet and Discussion where the class will work individually to submit plans of action for an emergency situation that could occur on a college campus.
     * Finally, they will work collaboratively on the Outschool classroom page to write a skit and present it on the Outschool classroom page.

Week 3
     * Video, PowerPoint with audio presentation stating questions to find if a relationship is healthy and the ways to keep a relationship healthy.
     * Students will be directed to YouTube to watch the Teen Dating Violence movie that shows the facts concerning the common symptoms of teen dating abuse.
     * Here they have a guided activity where they will fill out the You vs I language Worksheet
     * Then they will do the Teen Dating Movie Activity using their answers from the You vs I language worksheet and discuss their answers with the class on the Outschool classroom page.

Week 4
     * This video, PowerPoint presentation is all about Safety & Speech for Healthy Relationships. Here the students will find the statistics, facts and definitions involving teen dating violence, the resources that can be used to stay safe and the tools to produce your best relationships. 
     * Students will be led to practice empathy in the Practice in Empathy activity, where they share their answers with the class and turning them into the Outschool platform.

Week 5
     * Today students will have only a short presentation about forgiveness, its steps and stages that has been proven to heal relationships between people and with one’s self. 
     * Then the 4 Stages of Forgiveness Worksheet will be done to practice their new skills.
     * Finally, they will work together using the Outschool classroom page and the Healthy VS Unhealthy Relationships Worksheet Project to find solutions to difficult relationship problems in a collaborative way with the rest of the class.

Flex Courses are not live classes, the are prerecorded classes that provide the learner the opportunity to access course materials at their convenience and not have to schedule around the class. Flex courses can be viewed at your convenience and provide a comforting sense of anonymity when dealing with sensitive subjects. 

I am always available for you and respond to student questions and comments on a near-daily basis. I enjoy the opportunity to take time answering each student's questions that the flex format affords me!