Relationship Skills

Relationship Skills:

The abilities to establish and maintain healthy and supportive relationships and to effectively navigate settings with diverse individuals and groups.

This includes the capacities to communicate clearly, listen actively, cooperate, work collaboratively to problem solve and negotiate conflict constructively, navigate settings with differing social and cultural demands and opportunities, provide leadership, and seek or offer help when needed.

Relationship skills include:

• Cultivating connection and friendship

• Developing positive relationships with diverse individuals and groups

• Practicing listening and communication skills

• Working cooperatively

• Resolving conflicts

• Offering and seeking help

• Applying appropriate uses of humor

• Approaching relationships with positive presuppositions

• Managing and expressing emotions in relationships, respecting diverse viewpoints

• Resisting inappropriate social pressures