The Power of Connection.

The Power of Connection. TED Talk by Hedy Schleifer, our mentor and the creator of Encounter Centered Couples Therapy. Hedy has profoundly shifted our understanding of our own lives as well as our life’s work with couples.

Contemplations

“Being listened to is so close to being loved that most people can not tell the difference.”

David Oxburg

“We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.”

Anais Nin, The Talmud

“One of the hardest things we must do is to be present to another person’s pain without trying to “fix” it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person’s mystery and misery.”

Parker Palmer

“Your task is not to seek love but merely to seek and find all barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

Rumi

“Intimate connection is a sense that your emotional world is an important part of your partner’s.”

Pat Love and Steve Stosny

“Ultimately, it’s our vulnerability on which we can most depend.”

Rilke

"Life is simple. It’s only the survival pattern that complicates it.”

Hedy Schliefer

“There is a field beyond right thinking and wrong thinking...I will meet you there.”