Our Story

Creating connections in your relationships is a skill.
And now there is a teachable process.

Getting the Love
You Want

Drs. Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt were already respected relationship experts when they published the breakthrough couples therapy book, Getting the Love You Want. The year was 1988 and the book saw astounding success because its simple, practical advice worked.

Harville and Helen developed and used Imago Relationship Therapy successfully in their marriage, so when Harville debuted the concept with Oprah Winfrey, and demonstrated it with couples from the live audience, he was able to show healing in progress immediately.

There were lots of AH-HA moments. Oprah invited Harville back for 16 additional episodes of the Oprah Winfrey Show and recommended the book to her book club. Translated into 10 languages, Getting the Love You Want opened the minds of couples around the world to relationship equity and safe communication that brings trust and healing.

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Safe
Conversations

Harville and Helen took their movement to another level in 2010 when they met with a group of their friends and colleagues who were fellow relationship scientists, counselors, and advocates. The group discussed ways to make relationship education available to the public, not limited to a therapy clinic, so people would have access to teachable skills before they had relationships in crisis.

The group charged Harville and Helen to begin the project with their process called Safe Conversations®. Dallas was selected as the location to begin the social experiment, and the initial workshops were received with wild success.

Soon after, the Safe Conversations organization was established, and a Leader Training Program was developed. Over the next decade, Safe Conversations trained leaders around the world offering workshops and sharing the proven process in communities everywhere. More than half a million people in 65 countries have been taught the Safe Conversations Dialogue Methodology.

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Quantum
Connections

Employers today are facing an epidemic of workplace disengagement amidst a radically-changing work environment.  As these businesses face the challenge of retaining top talent while promoting employee productivity and wellness, developing well-connected communication and relationship skills has now become mission critical.

In 2019, Harville and Helen first began offering corporate workshops to clients in the New York market.  Based on incredibly positive feedback, they again leveled up on their vision and assembled a team of highly-skilled adult learning experts to expand the programs and materials used to guide companies towards improving their cultures of connection, communication, and collaboration.

In 2023, the company launched a new global brand, Quantum Connections™, to extend our resonance and impact well beyond traditional US markets to specifically introduce and assist corporations around the world.

After years of research, Quantum Connections has recently launched The Net Connected Score™, our proprietary diagnostic metric to help clients measure relational competencies and link quantitative impacts to key organizational metrics such as employee engagement, retention, and profitability.  Today, high-engagement workshops partnering with many recognized  international brands are underway as part of the Work Skills™ and Connecting at Work™ training programs.

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Our Founders

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D. are internationally-respected couple's therapists, educators, speakers, and New York Times bestselling authors.

Together, they have written over 10 books with more than 4 million copies sold, including the timeless classic, Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples.

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