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  • The Gottman 7 Principles for Making Marriage Work Couples Workshop

    A Relationship Enrichment Workshop

    Are you and your partner keen on learning vital tools to have a strong and lasting relationship? This psycho-educational workshop provides couples with foundational knowledge on healthy relationships as well as the opportunity to try out practical tools to build hands-on skills. The skills are helpful for couples at any stage of the relationship, whether you have been together for one year or many.

    The workshop is built on decades of data and research regarding relationship satisfaction and follows the outline of the groundbreaking New York Times best seller The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman, Ph.D. and Nan Silver. This workshop aids couples in deepening the friendship foundation of their relationship, managing conflict successfully, honoring each other’s dreams, and creating shared meaning.

    This workshop will give you new insights while learning relationship skills that can dramatically improve the intimacy and friendship in your relationship and help you resolve conflict in a healthy, productive way. This class combines teaching and demonstrations with break out sessions where you and your partner work through the various skill building exercises where you focus on your relationship. This component occurs between the couple and is not shared with the group.

    Format

    • A modular cumulative approach
    • Eight, 90-minute sessions
    • Led by a trained Gottman Seven Principles Program Leader who has also completed Level 2 Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy
    • Participants will receive a Couples Guide in addition to ‘the Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work’ book
    • Couples Guide helps integrate knowledge from the book and provides space to complete the exercises in the workshop

    What You Will Learn

    • Improve friendship, fondness, and admiration
    • Enhance romance and intimacy
    • Manage conflict constructively
    • Gain skills to address perpetual and solvable problems
    • Create shared meaning
    • How to maintain gains throughout a lifetime

    Who Should Attend

    • Couples in committed relationships, whether that is pre-engaged, pre-marital, married, common-law. These skills apply to every phase of relationship
    • Those who wish to enhance/strengthen their relationship
    • Couples needing better conflict management tools
    • Couples who may be contemplating couples therapy but are not yet ready for therapeutic support
    • People and couples of all backgrounds, ages, faiths, sexual orientations, and relationship arrangements

    Who Should Not Attend

    This psycho-educational class format is not appropriate for all couples. This workshop is not intended for:

    • Couples dealing with any form of abuse, domestic violence, unwanted touch, or substance abuse
    • Couples dealing with severe relationship distress
    • Individuals struggling with serious emotional or mental health problems
    • Relationships with serious compulsive behaviour with gambling, sexual acting out, and other disruptive behaviours
    • If any of the above-mentioned points describe you and/or your relationship, this class is not appropriate for you; you may wish to seek individual or couples therapy instead

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