Couples Workshops (Engaged & Married)

Whether you are just beginning your life together or have weathered many storms, your relationship has likely gone through many ups and downs. Strong and healthy relationships take work and the effort may feel overwhelming. Your marriage does not have to become a statistic. Learn how to increase your closeness, improve communication, and work as a team to resolve difficult issues.

Join us for our interactive, and informative workshops. These workshops will help you to enhance the fun and commitment in your relationship.

BONUS SESSION:

We have a follow-up session using a Couple Check-Up Quiz. PREPARE/ENRICH is a couples inventory, created 25 years ago, and it is used around the world. Couples can go through the inventory at home, without a counselor, and learn a lot about themselves as a couple that will help their marriage. Check out a sample of what you will get by participating in this booster session. Copy and paste the following link in the address bar. https://www.couplecheckup.com/premarital_checkup/sample/SampleCheckupReport.pdf

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Parenting with Love and Logic

Would you like to feel more confident as a parent, have more fun parenting, and be more relaxed at the end of the day? Most parents want to be the best parents they can be for their children. Since children don’t come with instruction books, parents can sometimes feel ill equipped. It is normal to wonder at times if you are a good parent. If you can relate to this, our workshop may be for you. This parenting program is designed to give you practical skills that can be used immediately. Come to our informative and fun workshop series and learn how to strengthen your relationship with your children, develop effective discipline habits, and become a more confident parent.

In these workshops, you will learn:
• Behavior improvement strategies
• Gaining control through offering choices
• Training your child to be responsible
• Effective discipline habits
• Setting limits through thinking words

The research shows that children learn about healthy choices and responsibility not so much from what they are taught as from what they experience in the home.  There are only a few short years in which parents can generate a positive impact in the lives of their kids.  With all the responsibility, time, and energy that it takes to raise children, let our workshops help put fun back into parenting.

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How To Avoid Marrying a Jerk(ette)

Have you ever wondered if you are the only one that is walking through life alone? You may be surprised to know that 40% of U.S. adults are currently single or unmarried. Factors behind this swing toward singleness include higher rates of divorce, cohabitation, and marriage at a later age. Whether you hope to marry someday or not, having healthy relationships is important.

This program discusses principles for forming healthy relationships and gives guidance on how to recognize red flags. It equips individuals to make informed decisions about their romantic relationships, in order to avoid heartbreak and disillusionment.

Topics covered in this program include:
• Characteristics of jerk(ette)s
• The process of bonding with another person
• How your past can influence you
• Why people get into unhealthy relationship patterns
• How to avoid making relationship mistakes

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Fragile Families

Are you unemployed, raising children as a single parent, or have you been in past relationships in which you felt unsafe?  If you have struggled with feeling unhappy and insecure in relationships, there is help and support for you.  Our free workshops help you learn what a healthy relationship should be like and what it takes to develop one from the very beginning. You will gain basic tools necessary to help you be more effective every day, such as money management, parenting, employment appeal and much more.  Take the first step toward your family’s happiness, join us for a workshop!

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Single Parents

Parenting on your own can be overwhelming.  Taking care of all the day-in, day-out tasks of running a household, making a living, and trying to be a good parent, without having a partner’s support, is just plain hard.  How does anyone manage all that stress?  If you are in this situation and would like to learn some ways that you can be more effective with your children, help them grow and teach them good principles, and develop a healthy discipline plan, come to our free class. 

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Money Management

Are you in debt? Never seem to have enough to make ends meet? If you feel overwhelmed about how to get your finances on track, this is the time to learn how. Money problems will spill over into other areas of your life, including your most important relationships. Our classes will help you get out of debt and start investing for the future. Make your life and your relationships healthier by taking control of your money now.

Topics Covered

1. Debt reduction strategies - Practical ways to work together to reduce debt
2. Dealing with conflict around $ in a healthy manner - Attack debt, not your spouse
3. Effective communication tools for discussing difficult topics – such as who balances the checkbook, where we are going to spend our money, or should we have a savings.

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Bringing Baby Home

Did you know that a couple's emotional life is the foundation for a baby's development?  And, that 2/3 of couples experience a significant drop in relationship quality and a dramatic increase in conflict after the birth of a baby?  Couples often struggle with the transition to parenthood and don't know where to turn for answers.  The Bringing Baby Home workshop equips couples with skills for increasing intimacy and giving their baby a solid foundation for development.  The program has been research-based and research-tested. 

In the workshop, you'll learn:

• How to enhance your relationship satisfaction
• What to expect in the transition to parenthood
• How to co-parent effectively
• How to read your baby's cues and promote healthy development

For expectant couples and new parents.  Babies 6 months and younger (not crawling) welcome!

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