Empowering Couples

The page covers the following topics:

• Overview
• Goals
• Weekly Topics
• Registration and Investment

Overview

This six-session seminar helps create more depth and meaning in communication between yourself and your partner. It is a powerful, practical and provocative guide to building new and lasting relationships. It is based on the book, Empowering Couples by Dr. David Olson and Amy Olson. The course is packed with insights, exercises and examples to help you:

• Recognize that good relationships are built upon a willingness to be flexible
• Discover that conflict in marriage is normal and possible to resolve
• Form personal, couple and family goals
• Empower your relationship

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Goals of the Seminar

Couple Strengths
The seminar begins by helping couples identify and build on a couple strengths.

Communication/Conflict
It will teach couples to use creative communication and conflict resolution skills.

Stumbling Blocks
Learning to identify stumbling blocks (problematic issues), with help facilitate the resolution process.

Stepping Stones
Couples will how to turn their stumbling blocks into stepping stones (strengths).

Empower Couples
Couples learn how to build a stronger and happier marriage.

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Weekly Topics

• Path of the Strong
• Communications
• Conflict Communication
• Role Relationship
• Managing Finances
• Mapping Relationship
• Children & Parenting
• Couple Goals

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Registration and Investment

The investment for this program is $300 per couple, which covers six two-hour sessions of discussion and group interaction. A flexible payment plan is available.

The text "Empowering Couples" for the course can be ordered online at www.prepareenrichcanada.ca.

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