Group Workshops
I work with couples in small and large group formats, including online virtual courses, weekend workshops and three-day retreats. Each group program is designed to support the quality of each your relationship and to foster partnership in your marriage.
Some workshops are designed around an important aspect of marital life (e.g., connection, communication, teamwork, etc.), while other programs are tailored to the needs of a specific group of couples (e.g., graduate students and the spouses, empty next couples, etc.).
The Partnership Marriage Course
The Partnership Marriage Course is a virtually facilitated course for individuals and couples who are committed to the quality of their marriage and/or committed relationship and are interested in fostering an effective and powerful partnership.
In The Partnership Marriage Course, you will consider marriage as a life-long conversation for fulfilling, enduring partnership. You will examine the societal conversations over the past 250 years that have given rise to a radically new view of marriage and explore the conversations that are central to 6 distinct stages of marriage.
More importantly, though, you will:
- Explore the quality of your own marriage and/or committed relationship and look at how you can enhance your partnership.
- Learn conversational tools that will help you create the life you love together.
- Create a vision of the quality of partnership you’d like to have with your spouse or committed partner.
Couples as well as individuals whose partner cannot join the course are welcome. You will engage in exercises, participate in facilitated inquiry and have opportunities to share. This course is typically 8 sessions over a period of several months. The calls are 90 minutes long. Homework is given between sessions.
The Partnership Marriage Workshop
The Partnership Marriage Workshop is designed for couples who are interested in expanding passion, play and partnership in their marriage. You and your partner explore what you value and find fulfilling as individuals and as partners and work on an area of your life where you want greater freedom and power.
The Partnership Marriage Workshop takes place over two weekends (often a Saturday and half-day Sunday). This work is designed for four to five couples. The dates, times and location of the course are designed with you and the other participating couples.
Through facilitated activities and fun exercises, you will envision a future for your marriage that excites and fulfills both of you. By course completion, you will be aware of and inspired by the special contribution you make to your families, to other couples, and to the people in your lives. You and your partner will experience being deeply connected with each other in new ways.
Large Group Partnership Marriage Programs
Large group seminars and workshops are designed for groups of from 20 to 50 people, where both couples and individuals are welcome. Such seminars are three to six-hour programs that are interactive and participatory in nature. You engage in facilitated activities, paired sharing and interactive dialogue with the course leader(s). Program ideas include:
- Examining what’s important to you and what you value in your relationship.
- Expanding your capacity to listen to each other’s wants and needs and to effectively communicate with each other.
- Exploring the difference that connection and teamwork make in creating a mutually satisfying life.
- Creating a shared vision of the life that excites and fulfills both of you and design concrete actions to fulfill that vision.
- Nurturing the connection with each other through appreciation and acknowledgment.
I lead large group programs in university settings, conference settings as well as health care settings.
The Partnership Marriage Retreat
I facilitate weekend retreats are for six to eight couples who want to get away for a three-day together to experience deeper connection, intimate communication, freedom from distraction, honest sharing, enhanced trust, play, dreaming, and romance!
A couples’ retreat offers precious time to reclaim your vision of your shared future, deepen your connection, enhance intimacy and who knows what else? It is a safe and comfortable environment where you will be given exercises to do with your partner. Confidentiality is respected and preserved throughout the retreat.
At a couples’ three-day retreat, you will have lots of time for you to be together to talk, apply principles, and integrate what you learn. Like all of my programs, you engage in facilitated activities, paired sharing and interactive dialogue with the course leader(s). There will also be buffet breakfasts and lunches Saturday and Sunday and a gourmet dinner on Saturday night! What’s not to like!
