Teen Sexual Health

This is an opportunity for participants to explore how healthy relationship qualities "look" or how they can be expressed, moving from the abstract (qualities) to the concrete (expressions). It is best to use the words the participants defined as the common qualities that make relationships healthy. If there are any gaps, draw from the qualities Eric Fromm, in the Art of Loving, described as making a relationship special.

These include:

Respect: Honouring someone, holding them in high regard or esteem, valuing them even if they are different from you.

Responsibility: Others are able to depend on you to fulfill your obligations and to know right from wrong.

Understanding: To have knowledge of another person and their feelings, wants, and needs. To have the compassion needed to put oneself in someone else's shoes and see things from their perspective.

Labour: The intent to invest the necessary energy and effort needed to keep the relationship growing and benefiting both people.

Caring: Having a concern or an interest in someone else's feelings, needs, and wants, and wanting them to achieve what is best for them. It is also known as "love," "affection," "liking."