Author: Jonathan Taylor-Cummings

Jon is obsessed with helping people improve the quality of their relationships – at home, at work, and in life. Over the last 20+ years, together with his wife Andrea, he has helped countless couples have better conversations and achieve better outcomes by developing 4 simple, yet fundamental, habits. Mastering these habits allows couples to successfully get over the basic hurdles that ALL relationships face. Jon & Andrea spoke about the importance of proactively developing the 4 habits in their 2019 TEDx talk – 4 Habits of all Successful relationships.

A framework for Mental Health Initiatives?

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As we prepared for Mental Health Awareness week this year (now only two weeks away, 13-19 May 2019), it struck me that having a framework for thinking about the various initiatives on offer would be a good thing. And what better framework than the wise counsel (and one of my favourite quotes) from Medical Scientist, […]

3 ways to get through conflict in your relationships

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Today, 17 Oct 2019, is Conflict Resolution Day. Hands up who hasn’t had some kind of argument that didn’t go so well in the last week… okay the last month then! Why do you think that was? Was it them? Was it you? Well, if you’re anything like me, hopefully, you’ve learned by now that HOW you say what you […]

Valentine’s Day: Last-Minute Rescue Ideas

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Hoping for a fun Valentine’s Evening… but racking your brains to find something that will hit the mark with your loved one? Did you know that in long-term relationships, often it’s the little things that count? But I hear you ask, which little things??? What if I said, the little things that move the dial the most in […]

#RelationshipGoals: A strategy to strengthen yours

As we come to the end of wk 2 of 2018, how are you doing with your New Year’s Goals & Resolutions? Are you keeping up with them all? The challenge I used to find was that despite starting off with the best of intentions of things I would do differently “this year”… once the […]

Emotional Resilience and the War for Talent

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The times they are a changin’… For sure the next generation is demanding more; mental health is becoming more and more of a concern; and companies are needing to be more and more innovative in their quest to attract and retain the very best talent… Those leading the charge have started supporting relationships and are […]

How to Have a Healthy Relationship in 7 Steps

It was Nelson Mandela who said “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. Having spent the past 20+ years helping couples learn how to have a healthy relationship, we have found that translates to GET MORE UNDERSTANDING and then BE MORE UNDERSTANDING. This blog is a summary of the 7 things we have […]

How to Have a Healthy Relationship in 3 Steps

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They’re funny things, relationships. We all have them but, more often than not, it’s the luck of the draw how they play out! The question lurking at the back of many people’s minds is, “if luck hasn’t been on my side so far, is there anything I can do to still have a healthy relationship?” Our answer is a […]