Schedule:  Creating Extraordinary Relationships

 

Morning
9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m

  • Welcome
  • Introduction and overview of the day
  • Your goals for the day
  • Discussion: "What is love?"
    The stages and dimensions of a couples life.
  • Work as a couple: Listening and speaking: communication, Acknowledgment and appreciation
  • Discussion: "How do we care for ourselves and be a couple?"

Lunch
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m

Afternoon
2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m

  • Work as a couple: Successful conflict (Rules for the Rocky Road).
  • Discussion: How we handle difficult differences (The role of family of origin values and loyalties)
  • Work as a couple: Apology and forgiveness practices
  • Discussion: When is an apology a strategy and when is it authentic?
  • End the Day: Last issues and questions, feedback, and evaluation.

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