The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

Making a marriage stronger takes commitment, effort and the right skills. Come have some fun together and learn these proven ways to strengthen your relationship. This one-day workshop is perfect for any couples from newlyweds to seniors, and even pre-engaged or premarital couples. This is the place for any couples who wishes to enhance a healthy marriage!

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work (1999) draws on data from relationship studies and interviews to do exactly what it promises in its title. These classes will take you through the key changes you can make to overcome the common problems that damage relationships and build a supportive, romantic marriage.

What Will You Learn in the Seven Principles Program?

The main goal of The Seven Principles Couples Program is to help couples strengthen their relationships in a variety of ways including deepening their love maps, fostering fondness and admiration, facilitating turning toward each other, accepting influence, solving solvable problems, overcoming gridlock, creating shared meaning, and maintaining gains.

Gottman has been the leading expert for close to 50 years on relational research. The best-selling book, “The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work” contains valuable information, personal assessment questionnaires and practical tools for improving your relationship. The workshop’s format is a series of short teaching units that are paired with plenty of personal couple time. You’ll have time to deepen your relationship, explore new skills and talk together about dreams and expectations. Our goal is that when you head for home you’re re-connected and ready to apply these new skills in your daily lives.

This workshop is appropriate for couples just starting out on the marriage track or on the way toward the marriage world record. This is a good workshop to re-connect, grow together and work on marital and family goals. In most instances this workshop is recommended for all couples as it enhances a good marriage and will provide skills to support a struggling relationship. This workshop will cover many of the skills learned in couples therapy.

Learn more about The Gottman Method here: The Gottman Method – About | The Gottman Institute

*Disclaimer: Sometimes this workshop is not individualized enough to help a couple navigate the more challenging circumstances (ex: recent betrayal, active addiction, health crisis, etc.…) in these cases private couple therapy is recommended. Contact us for more information*