Monday, July 30, 2012
Friday, July 27, 2012
Have You Signed Up Yet?
Thank you all for tuning into our relationship video series. Our next one will be on August 13 at 7pm PT. You can register here:http://www.aleyadao.com/pages/102/Relationships.html
My wife Aleya Dao and I have been discussing emotional contracts, honesty and intimacy. It is troubling to read in the news one more celebrity relationship calamity due to infidelity. While adultery is most often a deal breaker, people break their contracts, and are then remorseful, ashamed, and lose the one thing that they hold the dearest, their love relationship. We are here to help forge bonds and assist couples by teaching the skills needed in developing strong and deeply intimate relationships.
Have You Signed Up Yet?
Don't forget to sign up for the second video relationship series August 13 at 7pm PT. Aleya and I are looking forward to teaching more relationship and communication skills to move your relationship to the next level of emotional intimacy! http://www.aleyadao.com/pages/102/Relationships.html
Thursday, July 26, 2012
We Knew We Were On to Something
My wife Aleya and I knew we were on to something when we prepared for our first relationship video series. Hundreds of people in a few days viewed our video confirming what we suspected. Couples are hungry to learn skills to develop that one thing we all crave at our core, yet for so many is elusive. I am talking about emotional intimacy. To be listened to, to be heard, to be understood on a deep level without judgment, blame or recrimination for who we are and where we are at on the path along our own personal journey of life. What a blessing to be able to share what Aleya and I have developed for ourselves personally and for others through our respective business practices.
We are doing it again! Sign up for our next relationship video August 13 at 7pm, and be part of the change that strengthens the fabric of love: http://www.aleyadao.com/pages/102/Relationships.html
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012
Marriage Does Not Come with an Owner's Manual
Relationships are tricky and take skill sets most of us learn by trial and error. These skills are not taught in school, and often the skills we observe growing up from parents don't serve us well. Making a relationship last is one thing. Creating emotional intimacy and avoiding intense rifts is a dance that takes finesse. My wife, Aleya Dao and I have combined our skill sets to assist couples in learning tools to forge deep, lasting and satisfying relationships. Our next video in the relationship series we have created is August 13th at 7pm. See our first one here, and sign up for the upcoming series.
Friday, July 20, 2012
Make Trust Deposits with your Partner
In the course of love there will always be difficult phases, where you are at risk in drawing down the Trust account. To trust is to be vulnerable. Vulnerability allows play. There is no overdraft protection in relationships, and a bounced check is lost trust, credibility, and the fragile sweet spot of vulnerability and play disappear. Investing in your personal relationship builds up a savings account of trust.
Deposits to the trust account are made from listening to your partner’s stories, creating empathic connections, building a solid friendship, sharing, problem-solving on smaller issues, and just spending time together. Your job is to understand, not to be understood.
Monday, July 16, 2012
Friday, July 13, 2012
Couple Crack Communication Code Teach Others How to Develop Emotional Intimacy
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) July 13, 2012
Douglas Noll, peacemaker, award winning attorney, and award winning author, along with his wife Aleya Dao, a gifted sound healer, energy practitioner and Doctor of Oriental Medicine, have created a series of videos to teach couples the answers and secrets for developing, maintaining, and growing emotional intimacy. “We all want to feel loved, listened to and have our needs met. Yet, the inability to accomplish these things is the exact reason for relationships ending and couples suffering, which is sad since strategies to create intimacy can be learned,” Noll says.
A video sample can be viewed on You Tube (). The series teaches couples to pay attention to the emotional experience of their partner, rather than focusing on the words they are saying. “When we are heard by our partner, we are soothed, honored, and feel hope that our needs can be met,” Noll explains. “When we tune into the feeling our partner is experiencing, they know we are connecting to them intimately,” Dao adds.
The couple teaches how empathy creates a bridge during conflict. Noll, a professional mediator uses communication skills to resolve conflicts between families, couples, corporations and organizations. “I find that when people in conflict feel heard by the other party, a shift happens and resolution can come easily after that experience,” Noll observes. Dao uses her skills as a sound healer and energy practitioner to teach couples about the energetic shift that can happen when couples experience empathy without judgment from their partners. Combining the couple’s two different practices into practical and easy-to-understand strategies for couples is resonating with audiences resulting in hundreds of viewers within hours after posting their first video. “We know we are onto something here. Using the combined skills and different approaches from our two practices merges the emotional, intellectual and spiritual needs for couples to create authentic intimacy that results in the joy and bliss most couples strive for but cannot achieve,” Noll says. To register for the next webinar visit http://www.aleyadao.com/catalog/products/Relationship-Series-with-Aleya-and-Doug/541/Relationship-Series-with-Aleya-and-Doug/2579.html
About Doug Noll
Douglas Noll is the winner of the International Peace and Justice Book Award for Elusive Peace: How Modern Diplomatic Strategies Could Better Resolve World Conflicts (http://www.amazon.com/Elusive-Peace-Diplomatic-Strategies-Conflicts/dp/1616144173/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1339101596&sr=1-1). Doug is the 2012 winner of the CLAY award for co-founding the pro bono project Prison of Peace. Doug is a keynote speaker and sought after leader in the field of international, domestic and business conflicts. Doug is a sought after interview guest on TV and radio, and a keynote speaker and workshop presenter. Doug is a full time peacemaker and mediator, specializing in difficult, complex, and intractable conflicts, an adjunct professor of law and has a Master’s Degree in Peacemaking and Conflict Studies. Mr. Noll is AV-rated and was a business and commercial trial lawyer for 22 years before turning to peacemaking. Doug is a founding board member of Mediators Beyond Borders, and the 2012 President of the California Dispute Resolution Council.
Noll is a Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators, a Distinguished Fellow of the American College of Civil Trial Mediators, a Diplomat of the California and National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals, a core faculty member of the American Institute of Mediation, and on the American Arbitration Association panel of mediators and arbitrators. Mr. Noll was one of the first U.S. mediators certified under the international mediator standards established by the International Mediation Institute. Doug is the author of Elusive Peace: How Modern Diplomatic Strategies Could Better Resolve World Conflicts (Prometheus, 2011), the winner of the international peace and justice book award. Doug Noll is a core faculty member of the American Institute of Mediation, a preeminent mediation Training Institute founded by Lee Jay Berman. http://americaninstituteofmediation.com
About Aleya Dao
Aleya is a sound healer, energetic practitioner, Minister in the state of California, Doctor of Oriental Medicine in New Mexico, and a Licensed Acupuncturist in Colorado. She has been an alternative healer for 20 years.
Aleya graduated from Lewis and Clark University in Portland, Oregon and earned her Master's Degree in Oriental Medicine from The Southwest Acupuncture School in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She practiced in Telluride, Colorado for 7 years before moving to Santa Barbara, California where she now serves an international clientele as a spiritual guide and sound healer.
She produces the daily CUPS OF CONSCIOUSNESS meditations, subscription-based guided meditations. http://www.aleyadao.com