Marriage Essentials Workshop

The Marriage Essentials Workshop minimizes the risk of divorce. It teaches you the art of effective communication and gives you, as a couple, practical tools to achieve a satisfying, long-lasting marriage.  The ability to meet each other’s emotional needs helps you build a strong foundation for true marriage compatibility and harmony.

In just one or two sessions, together as a couple you’ll learn how to: increase your understanding and sensitivity to each other’s feelings; talk, listen and communicate to each other with mutual respect and caring; promote self-confidence in each other; manage your finances; and more.
Learn to enrich your relationship by practicing daily rituals that will keep you marriage alive. Become aware of the anatomy of your relationship and understand its stages.  In knowledge there’s strength!

Discover strategies that will help keep you from growing disillusioned, confused, conflicted and destructive. Learn to communicate your hopes and fears without assuming your significant other is aware of them. Learn how to openly and honestly understand yourself and each other.

Uncover ways to create a “safe” environment in which to confide in each other, to grow emotionally intimate and open, and to become aware of hidden hopes and fears of the past without allowing each other to pay in the present for events from your past.

Recognize your relationship’s basic needs, symptoms of unhappiness and signs of happiness. Identify your stress style and bring your resources to solve whatever problems or challenges you face. Learn how to really empathize and show concern for each other, and yet still remain capable of speaking on your own behalf.

Learn what good talking and good listening involves.

Learn how to…

• Build the habit of expressing appreciation for each other
• Share new information
  
• Solve dilemmas
  
• Express complaints
  
• Express hopes and dreams
  

Learn how to make deposits in each other’s emotional bank accounts. Learn to really care for each other during special times of need, both good and bad. Learn to behave as an emotional adult. Get rid of negative feelings constructively.

Learn how to resolve conflicts, how to manage feeling overwhelmed, how to become aware of your unrealistic hidden assumptions and how not to let them create distance and misunderstanding between you. Recognize what triggers negativity for you and what to do when a trigger occurs. Learn how and when to open yourself up to vulnerability and empathy.

Learn the practical stuff. Discover how to: express your financial preferences to each other and come to a shared agreement on which to honor, and to decide on and divide household tasks.

The Marriage Essentials Workshop can help lead you to a happy, lasting marriage and a deep, emotionally open partnership.