Course Description:

This course is designed to equip the students to learn how to develop healthy relationships with the purpose of creating covenant relationships, as well as how to navigate through conflict resolution and communication skills in an honoring way where both people are powerful in the relationship.

Course Objectives:

• To build and develop deep, intimate, life-changing, lasting, covenant, connections with others.
• To build relationships with the core values of love, honor, self-control, responsibility, truth, faith and vision.
• To cultivate a healthy balance between intimacy and boundaries.
• To prepare for a marriage or strengthen an existing marriage.
• To develop healthy communication skills, creating a safe place for intimacy to grow.
• To understand and effectively communicate feelings and needs with those we love.
• To redefine our family “normal” by breaking the curses and agreements with the enemy and making decisions that activate blessing and power in our families.
• To develop a thorough listening and understanding skills reinforcing the trust cycle in our relationships.
• To use the common needs between us to overcome our differences.
• To become powerful people so that we empower others.

Course Core Values:

• Being powerful in a relationship, strengthens the relationship and empowers the other person.
• We create opportunities for deep, intimate, life-changing, lasting, covenant, connections with others.
• The 7 pillars to a healthy relationships are love, honor, self-control, responsibility, truth, faith and vision.
• We create healthy strong relationships by making the connection the priority and by protecting and feeding the connection.
• The generational recipients benefit from our powerful decisions to recreate our family “normal” by moving toward blessing and power and away from curses and agreements with the enemy.
• The goal of communication is to “Understand”!
• Intimacy is a choice, a necessity and a responsibility.
• Healthy relationships have a balance of intimacy and boundaries.
• There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out the fear. We are motivated by love and we don’t let fear tell us what to do.
• We honor every person we meet because we ourselves are honorable people, created in honor.
• We empower and do not control. We cannot change someone else—the only person we can change is ourselves.
• We are unpunishable, so therefore we don’t punish others for their failures, mistakes, or sins.

Course Pre-Requisites:

• None

Expectations:

• Student’s are expected to read the text and do any instructor assigned work to the best of their ability.
• We will create a safe place for you to be be challenged and vulnerable.
• Students can expect an intense, powerful, life changing tools that will help them be powerful.
• This course will be an interactive one instead of a one-way teaching format. Students will be expected to be vulnerable, and interactive with the staff who are leading the course by asking questions, role-playing, and being vulnerable.
• Students seeking extra help will be able to make appointments for inner healing or Sozo ministry.
• Students are expected to be present at class and on time to honor fellow students and staff.

Book List

Required Book[s]:

• A culture of honor – Danny Silk

Recommended Book[s]:

• Defining the Relationship – Danny Silk
• Brave Communication – Dan Farrelly
• Boundaries – Henry Cloud
• Loving Your Kids on Purpose – Danny Silk.
• Unpunishable – Danny Silk

Revision Date:4/26/2009

Author: Adam Short & Graeme Morris