Relationship Skills Toolkit

Relationship Skills Toolkit

[Covington, S. (2026). Center for Gender & Justice]

The Relationship Skills Toolkit is an eight-session, trauma-informed program that helps women, men, and gender-diverse people better understand themselves in relationships and build the skills to form healthier connections with others. The program recognizes that our experiences — including family relationships, social and cultural messages, trauma, and past relationships — can shape our beliefs about relationships and how we connect with others. Participants are encouraged to reflect on their relationships with partners, family members, friends, coworkers, roommates, and others as they explore patterns in their lives and identify what they want from their current and future relationships.

Through information, discussion, experiential activities, role-plays, and personal reflection, participants build greater self-awareness and practice skills for communicating and relating to others. Topics include understanding yourself in relationships, communication styles, expressing emotions, the impact of stress on communication, power and control, healthy and unhealthy relationships, conflict resolution, de-escalation, setting boundaries, and making thoughtful relationship decisions.

Participants also explore the qualities of healthy, growth-fostering relationships, including respect, mutuality, compassion, effective communication, healthy boundaries, and constructive approaches to conflict. They have opportunities to practice responding to common relationship situations and to consider how their choices can support the relationships they want to build.

The final session focuses on envisioning the future, including how to end relationships in healthy, safe ways, reflecting on personal growth, and identifying how participants want to be in future relationships.

The Relationship Skills Toolkit is designed as a closed-group program with eight one-hour sessions. The curriculum includes a Facilitator’s Guide and a Participant’s Workbook, with activities participants can use during the sessions and continue to reflect on between sessions.

• Relationship Skills Facilitator Guide - $60.00 each
• Relationship Skills Workbook - $17.95 each

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Relationship Skills