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Attention Training for Relationships
To attain happier, more satisfying relationships it is important to see beyond your own wants and needs and become more mindful of how our thoughts and actions affect our relationships.
Mindful Presence uses attention training techniques to help you be more open, compassionate, and self-aware. This involves deliberately directing your attention away from negative, judging thoughts, and allows you to be more present and connected to what is happening right now.
Mindfulness for Individuals » Attention Training for Healthy Relationships
What You Will Learn
Attention Training not only helps you understand relationships better, but it will also help you gain the inner strength to overcome your insecurities. When you meditate, you quiet the excess chatter in your mind and steady your emotions so you don’t react as quickly to other people’s words or actions. When the mind is clear you can “see” everything more easily and are able to better respond to what’s actually going on. With consistent practice, you will cultivate greater peace, harmony, and more loving relationships with everyone you encounter. In Mindful Presence’s attention training for healthy relationships sessions, you will learn techniques to:
- Build present-moment, non-judgmental awareness
- Slow down reactivity
- Enable compassion and empathy
- Enhance emotional self-regulation
- Listen mindfully with attending skills and reflective responses
- Increase your emotional intelligence
- Gain health and wellness benefits
Pricing
Mindful Presence’s individual training sessions are held privately, one-on-one, and designed around your specific needs and goals. All information shared in our attention training sessions is held confidential and not shared with others unless expressly required to do so by law. Private sessions may also be held via Zoom to allow you to continue your training no matter where need to be.
Initial Consultation: $225/90 minutes
Individual Session: $150 /hour
Prepaid 6- Week Session: $725 ($125/hr)
What This Work Requires
Meaningful change requires more than insight. It requires attention, reflection, experimentation, and consistent application.
Our work together is designed to strengthen your awareness of how you think, respond, make decisions, and direct your attention. Through cognitive mapping, metacognitive practices, attention training, and coaching, you will begin to recognize patterns that support your performance and those that may limit it.
Between sessions, you will observe specific patterns, apply new strategies, experiment with different responses, and practice techniques to strengthen attention and cognitive flexibility.
The goal is to build the capacity to notice what is happening, understand what is driving it, and make more intentional choices.
The more consistently you engage with the work between sessions, the more effectively you will translate insight into lasting changes in leadership, performance, and decision-making.
Scientific Research
Evidence suggests that attention training practice is associated with neuroplastic changes in the amygdala that positively impact cognition, mood, and enhanced emotional self-regulation. The following studies delve deeper in to how mindfulness and meditation impact relationships and the ability to regulate our emotions:
- Mindfulness and Relationship Satisfaction
Journal of Human Sciences and Extension - Meditation Effect on Amygdala Responses
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience - Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation
Frontiers in Psychology - Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on Emotional Regulation
National Center for Biotechnology Information