Connecting the Dots Toolbox

Connecting the Dots puts the thirty-seven templates from Connecting the Dots: A Counselor's Toolbox for Better Relationships, by A. Damianakis, on your phone, tablet and computer, word for word as they appear in the book and the printed workbook. Each template returns one skill to your own participation, how one speaks, listens, interprets, responds, sets a limit, receives a grievance, names X, tends trust, tends what is yours to tend, or takes the next right action, and tends one or more of the three elements: Connection, Communication and Calling. WORK A TEMPLATE Every template opens with when to use it and its working rule, then the prompts as printed. Your writing saves as you type. Each one closes with its Connect the Dots page and the same Record marks every time: alone or together, the weight of the matter today, a follow-up date, whether the next honest action was taken, and…