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Couples Tool Kit
add a new tool to your relationship tool kit
If you've ever thought to yourself that you don't fully understand your significant other and why they do the crazy things they do... Well, you're 100% normal.
Sharing your life with another person is an extraordinary and complex process of discovery, compromise and, sometimes, misunderstandings.
More information - insight into how you and your partner tick - is a valuable tool in your relationship tool kit.
The Birkman will provide you with detailed information about what each of you is passionate about, your individual strengths, the underlying assumptions that inform each of your needs, your possible flashpoints, areas of misunderstanding and concrete ways to meet your own needs and understand (and respect) each other's perspectives.
There's no such thing as bad news
There is no such thing as a "bad" score or result in your two reports. This is just about gaining mutual knowledge and self-awareness so you can fight fair, avoid misunderstandings and ride off into the sunset together happily.
The Birkman is ideally suited to explore couple relationships as it produces reports that compare two peoples' results and explain the areas of alignment, areas misunderstanding and possible negative cycles of behaviour that can ramp between you given the wrong circumstances.
Reports like "Your Strengths" "The Biggest Mistakes Someone Can Make With You" "How You Seek to Influence Others" "How You Handle Other People" "How to Talk to You" "What Kind of Team Player Are You?" "Your Relationship with Your Significant Other" "Money and Trust" "Forgiving Others" "Trust" "Handling Conflict" and "Handling Commitment" each provide a one-page exploration of your underlying assumptions and needs and are a great way to gain an understanding of your significant other's needs and perspectives.
Don't see what you're looking for? Contact Catherine and we can create a package that will have you reaching your specific goals.
What's the best part of doing the Birkman as a couple?
It provides you with a non-critical, shared vocabulary that you will use when you're stressed out to cut through the tension and get to the heart of the matter quickly and with a great deal of genuine understanding between each other.
Hear what a couple has to say:
Ryan and Laura Stockie
"
The Birkman has been very helpful in my relationship with my husband.
I can better understand his point of view and how he behaves when he is stressed.
At the same time, he is also better able to see my point of view and understand my less-than-rational stress behaviours.
The biggest potential issue we discovered was that I am an indirect communicator and he is a direct communicator. Seeing on paper how different our communication styles are has helped us to communicate more effectively."
-Laura
"
The Birkman has helped me to understand the needs of my wife. We can discuss any disagreement more calmly and with respect and understanding of where the other one is coming from. With understanding each other's strengths and needs, we've been better friends and parents for our children. It's been great to have our relationship continue to grow stronger with the work we we did with Catherine."
-Ryan
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