Pre-Marital Workshop
Prepare for your marriage, not just your wedding!

Valentine's All Year

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Start your marriage right!

Join me for two Saturdays for the fun, upbeat and informative “Pre-Marital Workshop: Prepare for your marriage, not just your wedding.” Learn how to be more mindful and attentive of your relationship from day one to your 50th anniversary together. What better wedding gift to give each other than to commit to enhancing your marriage by learning skills that will continue throughout the years to reinforce your love for each other. Give the best gifts: the gifts of knowledge, commitment, appreciation, communication and time together. This workshop is perfect for recently married couples, too!

Included:

  • Eight Sessions in Six Hours over Two Days! 6 hours of instruction, discussion, exercises, etc. See full details & schedule below.
  • Great Relationships Workbook full of the best of the best articles, worksheets, exercises, ideas and inspiring quotes.
  • Approaches that really work based on the best research and the PREPARE/ENRICH model. More info about the PREPARE/ENRICH model...
  • Refreshments.

:: Dates & Schedule ::

Dates: Two Saturdays, Next date TBA: When class is full with pre-registrants we will set dates and begin.

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1st Saturday
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Welcome, Registration & Socializing 12:30 - 1:00 PM
Seminar 1 1:00 - 2:25 PM
Session 1: Explore Relationship Strength and Growth Areas
Summary: This session is devoted to providing couples with feedback from their Inventories. Using the Couple Report, couples are walked through the feedback process, giving them the opportunity to identify Relationship Strength and Growth Areas and to plan for future growth.

Session 2: Developing Assertiveness & Deep Listening Skills

Summary: Couples are taught how to improve their assertiveness and active/deep listening skills. These skills are the foundation for building and maintaining a good relationship.
Break & Refreshments
 2:25 - 2:35 PM
Seminar 2 2:35 - 4:00 PM
Session 3: Strengthening Communication skills.
Summary: Communication is the lifeblood of a relationship. This session is designed to help couples increase their awareness concerning patterns of communication that presently exist in their relationship and to introduce skills that are useful for enhancing their ability to communicate.
Session 4: Resolve Conflicts using the Ten Steps Procedure
Summary: Learning to effectively handle conflict and the anger it produces is an essential skill for relationship growth. In this session, the focus is on accepting conflict as a natural part of relationships and learning ways to manage it in a constructive manner.
End of first half.
Meet again the following Saturday for the second half.		 4:00 PM

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2nd Saturday,
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Welcome & Socializing 12:30 - 1:00 PM
Seminar 3 1:00 - 2:25 PM
Session 5:Explore Relationship and Family-of-Origin issues using the Couple & Family Map.
Summary: One of the most vital influences in the early years of marriage is each partner's family of origin. This session focuses on understanding the impact of each partner's family-of-origin on their present relationship. The Map is introduced as a tool to help couples evaluate the effect of those families on their relationship.
Session 6: Develop a Workable Budget and Financial Plan.
Summary: A significant issue for a high percentage of married couples surrounds their ability to manage financial resources. This session explores the various meanings which money can have in relationships and investigates ways to effectively handle finances as a couple.
Break & Refreshments
 2:25 - 2:35 PM
Seminar 4 2:35 - 4:00 PM
Session 7: Demystifying Marital Intimacy and Sexuality.
Summary: Developing and maintaining intimacy is a primary goal for most couples. This session focuses on the importance of affirmation and affection in marriage. It is designed to help couples find a variety of ways to create intimacy, including through their sexual relationship.
Session 8: Develop Personal, Couple and Family goals.
Summary: Change is inevitable but growth is intentional. This session focuses on the importance of partners taking responsibility for growth in their relationship and helps them formulate a plan for continued progress. Couples focus on their personal, couple and family goals and develop an action plan using the CHANGE Model.
Farewells
 4:00 PM
  • Note: descriptions in session summaries are from the PREPARE/ENRICH Counselor's Manual. This workshop is based on the PREPARE/ENRICH model as it is one of the most well-researched approaches available and is considered the best-practice in the field of pre-marital and marital enhancement work.

:: Location ::

American Fork Library Community Room
64 South 100 East
American Fork, UT.

Click here for a map to the library.

:: Registration & Fees ::

Cost: Only $150.00 per couple! That's six hours of instruction for two people. If this seems expensive I urge you to Count the Cost. This small investment of your time and resources can pay big dividends in both the short- and long-term.

Inquire about scholarship options if finances are an issue.

RSVP: Reserve your space today.

Payment and Registration Options:

  • By Mail: You can pay by check by printing, filling out and sending in this registration form.
  • Online: You can pay with your credit card, debit card or check online safely, securely and conveniently via PayPal. Just click below.
  • NOTE: Gift Certificate Holders: To register simply email or call me at 801.787.8014 and I'll be happy to reserve your space.

Please contact us at info@bardos.net or 801.787.8014 for more information.
Jonathan Sherman is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and Relationship Consultant specializing in creating "greatness in relationships." He is experienced in assisting people learn to improve their marriages, their parenting and themselves through skill development, life coaching, overcoming depression and anxiety, stress and anger management, and addiction recovery. He teaches extensively on a wide range of relationship topics. He is the founder of Bardos Relationship Consulting. He is married to a skillled husband trainer who has truly earned her keep. They live in eternal bliss (okay, fairly peaceably) with their four children in American Fork, UT. You may reach him at 801.787.8014, jonathan@bardos.net or at www.bardos.net.

About the PREPARE/ENRICH Pre-Marital & Marriage Enhancement Approach

Six Goals of the Program:

1. To explore Relationship Strengths and Growth Areas
2. To learn Assertiveness and Active Listening Skills
3. To learn how to resolve conflict using the Ten Step Model
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To help the couple discuss their Family-of-Origin
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To help the couple with financial planning and budget
6. To focus on personal, couple and family goals

Six Couple Exercises in Feedback Process:

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Building Strength and Growth areas
2. Couple Communication Exercise
3. Ten Steps for Resolving Couple Conflict
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Family-of-Origin Issues
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Financial Planning and Budget
6. Personal, couple and family goals

Twenty Areas Assessed in each of the Four Couple Inventories

A. Focuses on Significant Issues for Couples (13 scales):

  • Communication
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Personality Issues
  • Financial Management
  • Marital Satisfaction
  • Leisure Activities Children and Parenting
  • Family and Friends
  • Realistic Expectations
  • Cohabitation Issues
  • Idealistic Distortion
  • Role Relationship
  • Spiritual Beliefs

B. Personality Assessment (4 scales):

  • Assertiveness
  • Self Confidence
  • Avoidance
  • Partner Dominance

C. Couple and Family Map (4 scales):

  • Family Map used to describe Family-of-Origin
  • Couple Map used to describe Type of Marriage/Couple Relationship

Scientifically Developed and Tested:

National Norms based on:

  • 350,000 couples for PREPARE
  • 150,000 couples for PREPARE-MC
  • 150,000 couples for ENRICH

High Levels of Validity and Reliability:

PREPARE has validity in that it discriminates premarital couples that get divorced from those that are happily married with about 80-85% accuracy. Reliability is high (alpha reliability of .80 - .85).

The Developers

DAVID H. OLSON Ph.D.
Professor, Family Social Science, University of Minnesota; Developed ten diagnostic tools and Circumplex Model; Licensed Consulting Psychologist and Licensed Marital & Family Therapist, State of Minnesota.

JOAN M. DRUCKMAN Ph.D.
Marriage and Family Counselor, Palo Alto, California; Co-directed study on "Effectiveness of Five Types of Premarital Preparation Programs."

DAVID G. FOURNIER, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Child and Family Development, Oklahoma State University; completed study of reliability and validity of PREPARE. Former Director, Marital & Family Therapy Program.

For more information about research with PREPARE Inventories, see Research Studies on www.lifeinnovations.com

© 2004-2006 Jonathan D. Sherman, LMFT & Bardos Relationship Consulting. All rights reserved.


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