Couples Connect: A Deeper Bond Workshop for Couples is based off of Dr. John Gottman’s New York Times bestselling book – The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work. He has compiled 40+ years of empirically-validated research and developed an approach that not only supports and repairs troubled marriages, but strengthens happy ones.
About this Workshop:
Couples Connect is a 12 hour educational workshop provided over 6 weeks (2 hours/week). It is designed to be interactive and skills-based, offered through lectures and private couple exercises. As this is not group therapy, participants will not share their personal problems in front of others. Registration includes the book The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work and two workbooks. The workshop is currently being offered through the Office of Life, Marriage, and Family of the Archdiocese of Vancouver.
What you will learn:
- Improve friendship, fondness, and admiration
- Enhance romance and intimacy
- Manage conflict constructively
- Gain skills to address perpetual and solvable problems
- Create shared meaning
- Maintain gains throughout a lifetime
Couples Connect is appropriate for:
- Engaged Couples
- Everyone from newlyweds to seniors
- Those who wish to enhance a good marriage
- Those needing better conflict resolution tools
Couples Connect is inappropriate for:
- Severe relationship distress
- Significant emotional or physical abuse
- Serious mental health problems in one or both partners
- Active addictions (alcohol, drug, gambling, or other compulsive behaviour)
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Upcoming Workshops:
Dates: Thursdays October 4, 11, 25 and November 1, 8, 15
Time: 7-9pm
Location: Our Lady of Assumption Parish – 3141 Shaughnessy St, Port Coquitlam, BC V3B 4L2
Cost: $40 (Includes a copy of the Seven Principles and two workbooks) – This is a one-time cost reduction due to a generous donor
Leaders: Chantel McEvoy, MA, and Stephen Ching, MA, RCC, CCC
Past Workshops:
Dates: 6 Wednesdays from January 31, 2018 – March 7, 2018
Time: 7-9pm
Location: 4885 St John Paul II Way, Vancouver, BC V5Z 0G3
Leaders: Chantel McEvoy, MA, and Stephen Ching, MA, RCC, CCC