Relationships for Life

Based on his successful Relationships seminars, Natale reveals how to recognize and recreate the 20 vital qualities of relationship that influence our relationship with love, family and career. The vital qualities include responsibility, service and acknowledgment, affinity and trust, effective communication, honorable sexuality, forgiveness, laughter, humor and playfulness, relatedness and the presence of love.

The qualities of aliveness in our relationships determine the quality of our life. Natale reveals how to recognize and recreate the 20 vital qualities of relationship including responsibility, service and acknowledgment, affinity and trust, effective communication, honorable sexuality, forgiveness, laughter, humor and playfulness, relatedness and the presence of love. “In seeking these qualities,” Natale writes, “You will gain an opportunity for greater awareness of your self, which is the highest achievement any of us can accomplish at any given moment.” These qualities are found in personal or romantic situations, but are also evident or lacking in our relationships with money, religion, sex, work and authority. They are the indicators of the status of our relationship with everything that is our life.

A teacher’s teacher, author and healer, Frank Natale was founder and creative director of Frank Natale & Associates, an experiential education organization presenting seminars and programs throughout the United States, Europe and Australia. Natale’s teaching emphasizes self-discovery, personal responsibility and choice as paths to conscious living and spiritual growth. A native New Yorker, Natale passed in Hawaii in 2002. Experiential seminars created by Frank Natale include Trance Dance, the dance of life; Rites of Passage, exploring life’s inevitable transformations; Alive Relationships; Manifesting Results, a course in creative consciousness; Creative Communications, the experience of being understood; and Self Esteem, the power within. Committed to dance as a healing force, Natale, with his band Professor Trance, produced music albums featuring extended play trance dance tracks including Shaman’s Breath, Medicine Trance, Rites of Passage, Dance Your Animal, Spirit Animal and Breath of Fire. In addition to Relationships for Life, Natale publishing credits include Trance Dance, the Dance of Life. In 1967 Natale co-founded Phoenix House in New York, which became the largest residential treatment facility for chemical dependency in the United States. After serving as clinical director for twelve years, Natale chose to leave Phoenix House and focus his work on successful, functioning personalities who want to experience new levels of spirituality, creativity and aliveness. During the Sixties and Seventies Natale studied and worked with many leaders of the modern human consciousness movement including Charles Dederich, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Fritz Perls, Baba Muktananda, J. Krishnamurti and Buckminster Fuller.