Increasing Intimacy: The Key to Building a Special Relationship
An audio tape series by Dr. Dean Dauw

Tape One: Intimacy: The Way We “Touch”
This tape discusses why intimacy is important to relationship building and the individual elements which come together to produce a condition of intimacy. Several exercises are recommended to help you become more sensitive to the experiencing which is a part of physical and emotional intimacy.

Tape Two: Communications: The Touching Process
This tape addresses how we talk to each other—both verbally and non-verbally. It is based on the observation that everything we do (or don’t do) communicates a message, and that good communication between partners is the factor most strongly related to enjoying a close, intimate relationship. Risk-taking, non-verbal communications and emphatic listening are stressed. Several exercises in effective communication are offered on side two.

Tape Three: Self-Esteem, Intimacy and the Relationship
This tape explores the importance of self-esteem and the role it plays in intimacy and relationship building. Side two offers a series of exercises and suggestions on becoming a creative risk-taker, expanding your self-awareness, coping with rejection and developing a sound self-esteem based lifestyle for you and your relationship.

Tape Four: Partnership & Sex Roles: Expanding your Horizons
This tape addresses two integrated issues. It first discusses how relationships can be viewed as either a “box” relationship, which is rigid, unchanging and controlled by social and sexual stereotypes, or as a “stream” relationship, which is fluid and open to experimentation and change. The tape then discusses how partners in the “stream” or flexible relationship tend to build their world around the relationship rather than building their relationship around the world.

Tape Five: Retaining your Individuality within a Partnership
This tape addresses one of the most crucial questions for any relationship: how does one balance the need for closeness and intimacy with equally valid needs for autonomy and self-fulfillment? The answer is found in three elements which must be continually present in the relationship process: sharing, negotiation and trust. One side two, you will be asked to complete a life inventory, which will help you develop of healthy sense of autonomy and enrich your relationship.

Tape Six: Building Intimacy into the Relationship
The last tape discusses how you and your partner can work together to build intimacy into your lives, how competition can injure your relationship, how to counteract jealousy, and how to evaluate your relationship on a regular basis to spot potential problems. You will be asked to complete several “intimacy in relationships” exercises, and will be provided with an “intimacy contract” outline. Back to Book Listing.

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