Do your relationships enhance your life or drain you? Do they mirror what you need to see? In her dynamic, interactive talk, Julie Orlov empowers you to create the relationships you want and demonstrates how your relationships can reveal the perfect conditions you need to heal, grow and transform your life. The author of The Pathway to Love, she draws on more than 25 years of experience as a psychotherapist, executive coach, speaker and consultant to show how your relationships hold the key to unleashing your personal power, freedom, and well-being. "Every relationship has a developmental path and a life cycle all its own," says Julie. "When you understand how relationships grow and thrive,you can navigate yours with more ease and grace."

When your relationships work, everything in your life works better, and Julie's breakthrough talk will empower you, your employees, members and congregants with the know-how to create powerful, transformational relationships that make your organization, business and community thrive. A sought-after speaker, facilitator, and agent of change, she uses the art of storytelling to bring her concepts to life in a way that is engaging and life-changing. Participants take away concrete communication tools that can be used immediately to improve their relationships at home and work and gain a deeper understanding of themselves and the significant people in their lives. You'll leave this talk inspired and motivated to navigate your relationships successfully toward a life filled with joy, love, health and well-being.

The Pathway to Love: Create Intimacy and Transform Your Relationships through Self-Discovery 
Your relationships hold the key to unleashing your personal power, freedom, and well-being. Whether you’re single or married, in a new or long-term relationship, or looking for that someone special, there is a pathway toward more understanding, acceptance and love. In her dynamic, keynote presentation, Julie Orlov reveals how relationships grow from beginnings to true intimacy in four phases. She will not only empower you to create the relationship you want but demonstrates how your relationships mirror what you need to see, thereby providing the perfect conditions to heal, grow, and transform.

Turning Disappointments into Intimate Connections
Disappointments are part of life ─ and part of relationships ─ but when someone lets you down, it can easily turn into hurt, pain, and disconnection. What you may not know is that disappointments can offer us many gifts ─ things to learn about ourselves and the people we love. Using her STOP, LOOK, and LISTEN method, Julie shows how to create more intimacy, trust, and connection from life's disappointing moments. You'll leave this talk with a deeper understanding of disappointment that allows you to turn it into opportunity for intimate connections. When you can do this, your relationships with others become transformational.

Turning Conflicts into Powerful Solutions
Conflicts are part of life ─ and part of relationships ─ but when you're in conflict with someone, it often turns into a power struggle, anger, and disconnection.What you may not know is that it doesn't have to be that way, for conflict can offer us many gifts ─ things to learn about ourselves and the people we live and work with. Conflicts allow us to get to know each other in a more profound and authentic way. Understanding the nature of conflicts enables you to transform them into opportunities for creative problem solving and effective relationship building. Using Julie's unique STOP, LOOK, and LISTEN method, you'll learn how to create trust, creativity, and connection from conflicting moments.When you can do this, your relationships with others become transformational and you find win-win-win solutions.

Communicating From Intention
One of the basic components of creating relationships that work is your ability to communicate effectively. Everyone wants to be heard and understood, but it's easy to get caught up in power struggles and fighting over "the right to be right."In this breakthrough talk, Julie shows how to focus on what you want to convey and what results you want to produce before you speak, especially when it comes to important discussions. You'll learn why your intentions must always lead the way, regardless of what words you choose. Whether you are relating to someone at work, at home, or in your greater social community, learning to communicate from intention is a must!

Reclaiming Your Power
Success comes from making decisions and taking action from a place of power, and genuine power is created by establishing healthy boundaries.To accomplish this, you first need to identify the values, needs, and goals that comprise your boundaries. This enables you to retain your integrity, accomplish your goals, and enhance your well-being. It’s essential to regularly re-evaluate and redefine your boundaries. This results in making effective and powerful choices and creating the life you want. 

At the end of the presentation, each participant will:
- Create a clear understanding of their values, needs, and goals    
- Develop a strategy for maintaining healthy boundaries
- Enhance their personal and professional self-respect and integrity
This presentation is highly participative, and you'll learn a specific process for “Reclaiming Your Power.”

Julie Orlov, MAOL, MSW, LCSW holds a master’s degree in organizational leadership from Chapman University, a master’s degree in social work from University of Southern California, and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from University of California, Los Angeles.  She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the American Society of Training and Development, Los Angeles, where she served as the 2010 president on the board of directors. She has also served as foundation chair for KindredSPIRITS, a humanitarian organization located in San Pedro, California. Julie also holds a license in clinical social work, and has provided psychotherapy services for the past 24 years.

Julie's clients include The Los Angeles Times, Behavioral Health Services, American Medical Response, The City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, Department of Public Works, LifeSteps Foundation, American Society for Training and Development, The Growing Place, The Syntax Group, LimmudLA, and many other corporations and organizations. Her radio appearances include The Les Brown Show, The Aware Show, The Self-Improvement Show, Tron in the Morning, The Mancow Muller Show, and many others, and she has been featured on The Sunday Morning Show on ABC-TV. Julie is the author of The Pathway to Love: Create Intimacy and Transform Your Relationships through Self-Discovery, The Pathway to Love Workbook and Guide, and The Pathway to Love Audio Guide.

What people are saying...

“Julie Orlov’s presentation style is energetic and engaging ─ she gets the audience involved so that her suggestions and direction can be tailored to the needs of the audience she is trying to reach.”
─ Karen Holt, Bezaire and Associates
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“Julie Orlov is a talented facilitator, diagnostician, teacher and agent of change.She provides a forum for active participation, for real-time information processing and for discussing issues that participants face in their current work environment. We continue to use her services…”
─ Louise Langerud, LMFT, Director of Training, Clinical, and Quality Management, Life Steps Foundation

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“Julie receives rave reviews about the classes she facilitates for us. We hear nothing but positive feedback from our clients.”  
─ Nancy Kane, Claremont EAP Senior Account Manager

Praise for Julie's book, The Pathway to Love...

“Insightful, practical, heartfully and psychologically sound, The Pathway to Love provides the steppingstones to creating genuine love in your life. It is a must-read for those who value honesty, authentic commitment to self and others, and appreciate relationship as a vehicle to self-actualization.”

─ Michael Bernard Beckwith, author of Spiritual Liberation: Fulfilling Your Soul’s Potential
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“The Pathway to Love, for those who did not experience love as a child and fear relationships, is a journey of self-discovery. You will acquire a whole new appreciation for who you are and what you can bring to your relationship with yourself and others.”

─ Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of 365 Prescriptions for the Soul and 101 Exercises for the Soul
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“Dr. Orlov shows us the keys to the next door to intimacy with the encouragement that self-discovery will be the ultimate prize.”

─ Melanie Chartoff, actress, writer, melaniechartoff.com

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“Orlov presents a developmental model of the pathway to love in a way that is informative and trains the reader how to take charge of developing a love relationship from its present phase to its best outcome.”

─ Shahin Sakhi, MD, PhD, clinical faculty, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, and President, Grex, Group Relations
 

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