About this module
You’ve probably been shocked, even blindsided, by the behavior of the sociopath in your life, meaning someone with antisocial, narcissistic or psychopathic personality disorder. Why? Because his or her behavior violates your longstanding, lifelong models of what it means to be human and how people should act.
So if you have no choice but to deal with the sociopath, what do you do? That’s exactly what Dr. Liane Leedom explains in this webinar.
Your first concern, she says, is your physical safety. Not all sociopaths are violent, but some are. Your second concern is your psychological and emotional well-being.
Dr. Leedom teaches you specific, evidence-based tools for dealing with the sociopath. Here are three main ones: setting boundaries, validating and protecting your self-respect.
Highlights
- How to be skillful in getting what you want and need from others
- Clarifying your goals in interpersonal situations
- FAST guidelines — how to act in ways that preserve your self-respect
- Barriers to interpersonal effectiveness
- Ending destructive relationships
Learning objectives
After completing this webinar you should be able to:
- Identify destructive and interfering relationships
- Use DEAR MAN guidelines for getting what you want — describe, express, assert
- Use GIVE guidelines for keeping your relationships — gentle, interested, validate
- Choose strategies for when what you are doing isn’t working
- Explain effective strategies for ending unhealthy relationships
Program agenda for Evidence-based tools for dealing with sociopathic behavior
Class 1
- Mindfulness exercise
- Healthy relationship behaviors
- Unhealthy relationships
- Destructive relationships
- Interfering relationships
- Radical acceptance
- Barriers to interpersonal effectiveness
- Chronic abuse can impact how you act with everyone
- Resolve to be skillful
- Assert yourself skillfully — DEAR MAN
Class 2
- Mindfulness exercise
- Linked lives
- Review — DEAR MAN
- What doesn’t work
- Strategy 1: Know what you want
- Strategy 2: Use reflection and say as little as possible
- Strategy 3: GIVE skill for building relationships and keeping the high ground
- Strategy 4: FAST skill for self-respect
- Strategy 5: Ending destructive relationships
You may be so worried that you’ll encounter another sociopath that you avoid people. But with skills of interpersonal effectiveness, you can get what you want and need from people in a healthy and respectful manner. Learn to build social connections with confidence.
Included in Skills for recovery from narcissistic abuse, gaslighting and toxic stress