Adventures in Heartache, Humor and Hope:
How to Improve Your Resilience and Relationships When Life Seems Overwhelmingly Stressful
While a chaplain to a group of men in the late stage of chronic alcoholism, Dr. Bev Lonsbury learned it’s possible to be resilient in overwhelmingly anxious situations and to forge relationships even with people who appear to be very different.
Join her unpredictable adventure as she explores and explains a practical, 4-step process that will enable you to respond to anxious situations with greater peace, clarity, and resilience. The eye-opening personal and authentic stories of heartache, humor, and hope will show you how to have contentment, respect, connection, empathy, and emotional well-being through self-care during times when your relationships are painful and difficult.
I Can Relate Game™
An easy-to-play game and process that teach skills for building healthy social and emotional well-being.
The I Can Relate Game™ builds relationship skills that help people relate to others with empathy, understanding, and respect. By encouraging players to “put themselves in someone else’s shoes,” the I Can Relate Game teaches skills to become more self-aware, more mindful of feelings and needs, and to develop more empathy toward others and themselves. Children and adults practice the relationship skills of listening to stories and situations, naming feelings, identifying needs, and showing empathy and kindness — without being aware of the learning process.
The 4-Step I Can Relate Process
The process taught in Adventures in Heartache, Humor and Hope, in the I Can Relate Game™, and in training sessions is built upon a variety of well-established social-science, theological, and philosophical studies.
The process teaches awareness and relationship skills that include listening to stories, expressing feelings, identifying needs, and responding by connecting the needs with empathy and kind actions. Children and adults enhance their emotional and relational well-being by increasing their ability to understand, to respect, and to empathize with others and themselves.