Time, Touch and Talk
We are grateful to be joined by Richard Cohen, who is well known in the community. In this webinar, we discuss his latest book: Time, Touch and Talk.
TIME represents sunlight. Time to get in touch with your soul, heal your wounds, and fulfil your unmet love needs. No one will love or respect you if you don’t love or respect yourself.
TOUCH is like water for all relationships. Without water, we die. Touch is the most important and the most neglected of our five senses. Because there is great confusion between sex, love, and intimacy, we have been denied the natural benefits of healthy touch in our daily lives. We are born with skin hunger as infants. If those primal needs went unmet in early childhood, if we were misused, abused, or neglected, we may spend the rest of our lives looking for love in unhealthy relationships or behaviours—porn and compulsive masturbation for men, romance novels and erotica for women, and perhaps hooking up with multiple sex partners.
TALK, or good communication, is the Air for all personal and professional relationships, which includes both listening and sharing. You need to learn the art of effectively sharing your thoughts, feelings, and needs. Equally important is to learn the art of listening, which takes twice as much energy as it does to share. Remember, we have two ears and one mouth, so we need to listen twice as much as we speak.
Date: Saturday 26th March 2022
Time: 5 pm GMT (1 pm EDT)
Richard Cohen, M.A., is a psychotherapist, educator, and author who travels throughout the United States, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East teaching about marital relations, communication skills, parenting skills, healing from sexual abuse, and understanding gender identity and sexual orientation issues. Over the past 30 years, he has helped hundreds in therapy and thousands through healing seminars, as well as trained over 6,000 physicians, psychologists, counsellors, and ministry leaders on how to assist those dealing with gender identity and sexual orientation concerns.
Cohen is the author of five books that have been translated into twelve languages. He founded the International Healing Foundation (IHF) in 1990 and is currently the president and co-founder of Positive Approaches To Healthy Sexuality (PATH). Based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, PATH offers counsellor training programs, family healing sessions, consultations, resource materials, and speaking engagements. Cohen is a frequent guest lecturer on college and university campuses, and at therapeutic and religious conferences.
Cohen holds a Bachelor’s degree from Boston University and a Master’s of Arts degree in counselling psychology from Antioch University. He has worked in child abuse treatment services, and individual, couples, and family therapy services. For three years, he worked as an HIV/AIDS educator for the Seattle, Washington chapter of the American Red Cross where he authored a statewide curriculum for foster parents and health care providers dealing with HIV infected children.
Cohen has been interviewed by newspapers, radio and television media including appearances on 20/20, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Larry King Live, The O’Reilly Factor, CNN, and other news outlets throughout the world. He lives in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area with his wife of thirty-nine years, while his three adult children are making their mark in the world.