PREPARE FOR YOUR MARRIAGE
WHY PREMARITAL COACHING?
Marriage coaching invites you to address key areas, so that you know how to deal with them when they arise - an important skill in deepening your connection and understanding of one another.
Whether you and your partner are dating, considering marriage, or currently engaged, premarital coaching will be a step towards deepening your connection and understanding of one another.
You will understand the way you each receive, process, and communicate information. You'll discover how to open communication so you talk to each other in a way that brings you closer.
The program is customized and will address your unique relationship.
You will more fully understand the way you each receive, process, and relay information. Premarital coaching will help you learn how to ask for what you need, express how you feel, and actively listen to your partner. You'll discover how to open communication so you communicate in a way that brings you closer.
Understand each other's point of view
You probably already have good communication already, and even if it needs improvement, learning how to more deeply connect with your partner will build on your communication and deepen your relationship.
Set Goals
In order to establish marriage expectations and create relationship goals, you have to know where you’re going together.
Engage Healthy Conflict
Conflict can lead to growth when you know how you share opinions, ideas, and feelings effectively during times of conflict. Learn effective ways be on common ground and have less conflict in your relationship.
Enhance relationship and marital satisfaction
Identify and communicate about your fears, desires, beliefs, values, dreams, and needs. Marriage preparation empowers couples to discuss marriage stressors before they become a potential problem and gives your marriage stability, cohesiveness, and trust.
Get to know your (new) family
You may love your soon-to-be in-laws, but have you ever thought about the ways in which your new family impacts the way your fiancé sees you and your relationship? With marriage coaching you'll will gain insights about this. And if you don't like your in-laws, we'll talk about that too.
Explore hot topics
Faith and spirituality, personality, finances, stress management, politics, parenting, and affection.
Marriage Coaching Program
Explore strength and growth areas
Strengthen communication skills
Identify and manage major stressors
Resolve conflict using the Ten Step Model
Explore family of origin issues
Discuss financial planning and budgeting
Establish personal, couple and family goals
Understand and appreciate personality differences
How it works
To begin your sessions, each of you will first take an online Prepare/Enrich assessment. The dynamic assessment uncovers the specific strength and growth areas unique to each couple. Couples build on their strengths giving them the confidence to work on their specific growth areas.
What makes Prepare/Enrich unique?
- Suitable for couples in all phases and stages of life.
- Customizes to each couple, making it dynamic and in depth.
- Proven effectiveness and accuracy.
- Highlights strengths and uncovers opportuities for growth by measuring agreement and satisfaction across core and customized relationship topics
What does Prepare/Enrich assess?
- The couple’s alignment on core areas such as communication and conflict resolution, as well as topics customized to their relationship phase and context
- The impact of family of origin experiences on each partner’s perception of the couple relationship
- Positive/negative feedback cycles affecting the relationshipW
- hich relationship areas to focus on and which to build upon
- Stress level of each partner
- Key personality similarities and differences
