Relationship skills includes the abilities to establish, maintain, and restore healthy and supportive relationships and to effectively navigate settings with differing social and cultural demands and opportunities among individuals and diverse groups. This includes the capacity to use restorative practices to reflect on the impact of their words and actions and to repair and heal relationships with others. Such as:

• Listening actively, communicating effectively, and self advocating
• Developing mutually healthy and productive relationships
• Making and maintaining trusting, respectful friendships
• Demonstrating gratitude
• Demonstrating cultural competence and humility
• Practicing collaborative problem-solving focused on the common good
• Attending to harm or conflict through restorative practices
• Resisting negative social pressure
• Showing leadership and contributing productively in groups
• Standing up for the rights of others