Learners building healthier friendships, family, dating, sexual, roommate, or work relationships and anyone who wants clearer skills for respect and safety.
Course 47 · Life course 16
Build Healthy Relationships, Boundaries & Consent
Recognize healthy patterns, communicate boundaries, practice clear consent, repair conflict, and respond to control or abuse safely.
Before you start
Use fictional or generalized examples; do not place another person's private or identifying information in course work.
See everything you’ll needWhat you’ll leave with
A relationship skills toolkit with values, boundary scripts, consent checks, conflict plan, warning-sign map, and confidential support options.
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Your project
Start with the practice files. Build your project one lesson at a time.
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- Get your materialsDownload the practice worksheetUse the downloadable worksheet or toolkit alongside the lesson instructions.
- Make your projectView the project checklist Work in your own notebook, document, or software. Use the supplied practice examples when you prefer.
- Keep a private recordSave a project record Sign in to save a description and checklist, then return to update them.
Optional course overview
Watch an introduction.
This overview from MacEwan University introduces ideas you’ll practice in the lessons.
Watch directly on YouTubeMacEwan UniversityRelationship Goals: Equality & RespectYouTube
Course handbook
Know the route before you begin.
Here’s what you’ll need and what you’ll make. You can return to this guide during any lesson.
- Use fictional or generalized examples; do not place another person's private or identifying information in course work.
- Save confidential local and national support contacts before examining warning signs if a relationship may be unsafe.
- Do not use communication exercises to confront an abusive person; work with a trained advocate on a personalized safety plan.
Finish with proof you can use.
Create a private relationship toolkit containing personal values, green and warning signs, five boundary scripts, a consent checklist, conflict and repair process, support contacts, and a safety decision map.
Save a project record in My ProofSee project checklist and review criteria
- A fictional relationship pattern map with green, concerning, and unsafe behaviors, impact, trend, and support response.
- Five boundary scripts across time, digital access, money, physical contact, and communication plus safe follow-through actions.
- A consent decision checklist and six practice scenarios showing ask, response, check-in, stop, and aftercare communication.
- A fictional conflict script, listening summary, specific agreement, pause rule, repair statement, and one-week follow-up check.
- A confidential-help map and fictional support response with warning signs, safe language, advocate contacts, and no-confrontation boundary.
- A private relationship plan: your values, signs of respect, things you will not accept, words for boundaries and consent, regular check-ins, and where to find support.
Three ideas to help you along the way
Three useful ideas
The rules behind the steps.
Respect survives disagreement
Healthy relationships allow autonomy, honest communication, boundaries, accountability, and life outside the relationship.
Consent is active and ongoing
Consent must be freely given, informed, specific, reversible, and checked without pressure or assumptions.
Safety changes the communication plan
When control, threats, stalking, coercion, or violence are present, confidential support and safety planning take priority over joint problem-solving.
What do these words mean?
Key words
Key terms worth knowing.
- Boundary
- A limit or condition a person communicates about their body, time, information, belongings, energy, or participation.
- Consent
- A freely given, informed, specific, and reversible agreement to a particular activity at that time.
- Coercion
- Pressure, threats, manipulation, intimidation, or misuse of power that undermines a free choice.
- Repair
- Actions that acknowledge harm, take responsibility, make amends, and change behavior after a conflict or mistake.
Your route6 lessons.
6 lessons.
One useful project.
Work in order the first time. Each lesson makes something the next lesson can use.
- 1Up next
Recognize healthy and unhealthy patterns
Compare respect, trust, honesty, equality, independence, support, accountability, control, isolation, pressure, and fear over time.
- 225 min
Set, hear, and respect boundaries
Communicate a clear limit, respond to another person's limit, and follow through without punishment or debate.
- 330 min
Practice clear, ongoing consent
Ask, listen, check capacity and freedom, respect changes, and stop when agreement is absent or unclear.
- 425 min
Handle conflict and repair harm
Discuss one issue safely, listen for impact and needs, make a specific agreement, and repair mistakes through changed behavior.
- 525 min
Respond to control, coercion, or abuse
Recognize escalating harm, support someone without blame, preserve privacy, and connect with trained confidential help.
- 620 min
Build a relationship support plan
Define values, boundaries, check-ins, digital privacy, support contacts, and safety actions for future relationships.
Use the tools
See all tools Tools to help you practice.
Source transparency
Sources and further study.
Explore the references behind the lessons and take your learning further. Source notes explain access and reuse.
Ready when you are
Start lesson one Start with the first useful move.
You’ll always know what to do, what to make, and where to go next.
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Potential collaboration: Youth organizations, colleges, health programs, and violence-prevention organizations
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