Individuals often come together in a relationship with great excitement and high ideals. This creates a delightful beginning, and yet every couple has its own individual strengths and growth areas. The Prepare/Enrich program can be of great assistance to establish a healthy relationship for the long run.
Prepare/Enrich is a customized couple assessment that identifies a couple's strength and growth areas.
This is one of the most widely used online programs for couples. It can assist dating couples considering engagement and couples seeking premarital counselling, premarital education, marriage counselling or marriage enrichment. In fact, any couple seeking to enrich their relationship!
Based on a couple's assessment outcomes, a Valley To Hills trained facilitator provides 3-4 feedback sessions. In these sessions the facilitator helps the couple discuss and understand their results as they are taught proven relationship skills.
What is provided?
Couples are provided with a summary outcomes report and a workbook that contains over 20 exercises designed to help them explore their relationship. Some of the exercises in the workbook assist the couple to:
* Explore strength and growth areas
* Strengthen communication skills
* Identify and manage major stressors
* Resolve conflict using the Ten Step Model
* Develop a more balanced relationship
* Explore family of origin issues
* Discuss financial planning and budgeting
* Establish personal, couple and family goals
* Understand and appreciate personality differences
What areas are explored in the assessment?
The online assessment provides important demographic and background information for a couple in four main areas:
1. Significant Issues for Couples:
Communication, Conflict Resolution , Partner Style & Habits, Financial Management, Leisure Activities, Affection & Sexuality, Family and Friends, Idealistic Distortion, Relationship Roles, Spiritual Beliefs, Forgiveness, Children & Parenting.
2. Relationship Dynamics:
Assertiveness, Self Confidence, Avoidance, Partner Dominance
3. Couple and Family Mapping:
Closeness and Flexibility of Family-of-Origin, Closeness and Flexibility of Couple Relationship/Marriage
4. Personality tendencies:
Sociability, flexibility, persistence, co-operativeness, emotional stability
Couples also answer questions about stress and, depending on their circumstances answer questions about cultural/ethnic issues, interfaith/interchurch issues, parenting issues, cohabitation issues, forgiveness issues, commitment issues and issues arising from a previous marriage.
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