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❤️‍🔥 In Relationship With x 💙 Asian Mental Health Project | Cultivating Trust When Mistakes are Made

Hosted by Stephanie Tran, Kevin Do & Asian Mental Health Project
 
 
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Note on the session: This live Brave Conversations session will be recorded and accessible to the facilitators, Kevin and Stephanie, to write and send a follow-up summary, but for the privacy and protection of folks who attend the session live, the recording will not be available to anyone else.

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Do you ever find yourself taking responsibility for solving your partner’s problems?

Fixating on their mistakes and patterns that they continuously fall into?

Feeling defeated because you aren’t sure how to support them

Sometimes, even after having brave conversations with our partners, things don’t change. Even after getting on the same page on how to support each other, things don’t change as quickly as we’d prefer. It can be easy to fall into the trap of doing whatever it takes to accelerate your partner out of a pattern that they too, want to change.

How often do we make up stories of our partners because of what we know about them, instead of surfacing them to see if our assumptions were true?

Supporting behavior change from a place of trust is not often modeled in Asian culture. It can be common to experience being lectured at or being expected to “flip the switch” and immediately change—or else there can be harsh consequences to follow: getting the cold shoulder, yelling, or even condescending mind games to inflict punishment.

These experiences often create shame, guilt, and fear around these patterns and leave little room to understand and evolve from a place of love. This then may follow us into how we operate in the world and our relationships.

So,

How do you learn to BOTH trust your partner to make their necessary mistakes AND hold them accountable?

How do you learn to trust your partner to go on their journey without taking on their challenges and solving their problems for them?

How do you build the capacity to be “in the suck” with them as they grow and simultaneously tend to your own personal wellbeing?

Relational dynamics facilitators, Kevin and Stephanie, will unpack some of these themes in this ❤️‍🔥 In Relationship With x 💙 Asian Mental Health Project session.

We’ll specifically explore:

❤️‍🔥 Cultivating trust and interdependence: How to instill accountability and create space for mistakes, in support of each person’s growth

❤️‍🔥 Squashing stories: How to surface courageously with the intent to build trust

❤️‍🔥 Tools for relating: The Story skillset by Relating Between the Lines

It’s safe to say that Kevin and Stephanie’s Asian experience has lots of complexity, and while their experience isn’t representative of all Asian cultures, their intention is to create a space to normalize having conversations about these themes.

Join us as we unpack what cultivating trust when mistakes are made could look like in relationships.