Communication for Engaged Couples: Keeping your Intimate Partnership Alive Throughout Marriage
Register Here: https://www.process-works.ca/product/keeping-your-intimate-partnership-alive/
Facilitator: Elke Haggerty, LL.M., MBA, CNVC Certified Trainer & CALF Certified NVC Trainer
March 28 and April 4, 2026, 9 am – 5 pm MT (11 AM - 7 PM ET)
For Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
No Prerequisites
How we handle life challenges and relationship tensions can bring us closer or further apart. This 2-day course, aimed at dating, engaged, or newly married couples, introduces a way to translate criticism, contempt, defensiveness and stonewalling into connecting conversations that keep relationships strong.
We all disagree. Indeed, we seem to partner with opposites to keep our lives balanced. We can see things differently when it comes to the household, our finances, problem-solving, spirituality, sexuality, and parenting. How do we stay connected and find a way forward in the midst of these differences so that we can stay loving and committed and feel fulfilled in our lives together?
Over 2 days, Keeping your Intimate Partnership Alive introduces you to how to communicate clearly and collaboratively so that you can be honest AND increase understanding. Specifically, the course offers insight into a way to:
Reframe messages that marriage researcher Dr. John Gottman found breaks down relationships: criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling
Separate what happens from your interpretations of what these words/actions mean
Shift unpleasant feelings including anger with self-empathy
Unpack triggers to get clear on what you want to do or ask for
Express appreciation more fully and celebrate more deeply
This series, which is designed for people who are dating, engaged, or newly married who want to invest in building a stronger relationship foundation, uses a variety of learning tools such as demos, roleplays, The Road to Connection Game scenarios, personal reflection, dyad exercises, and more. During the sessions you will have the opportunity to practice using life examples.
Included: Partnership worksheets. Postcard-sized feelings and needs list. You may receive other tools based on the needs of the group, such as an anger tool.
Note: If your relationship is significantly strained, the series can give you valuable tools for rebuilding your connection. If there is no history of physical violence in your partnership, you are welcome to join. There are no quick fixes, but it is possible to rebuild your connection. If you like, I can refer to you colleagues who support couples in significantly strained relationships.
$337-560 CAD ($246 - $410 USD) for Individual
$499 - 742 CAD ($365 - $543 USD)
Minimum 5 People; otherwise will reschedule
Coupon codes valid until 11:59 pm MT Edmonton, March 14
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Facilitator: Elke Haggerty, LL.M., MBA
CNVC Certified Trainer & CALF Certified NVC Trainer
Process Works; https://www.process-works.ca/
Note: If the ranges are still too much for you, help me with promotion (my least favourite part of being a trainer) and come in for less or even for free. Contact me through my website contact page to arrange a deal with me.