Skills for Strengthening Your Relationship

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Creating a Collaborative Marriage

COUPLE COMMUNICATION I & II

Partners learn 11 interpersonal skills for effective talking and listening, plus processes for better decision making, conflict resolution, and anger management. Whether gained through marriage preparation, enrichment, or counseling, these skills and processes help you build a more satisfying, collaborative relationship.

Collaboration is the highest form of human relationship. In marriage, this involves a strong man and a strong woman who can bridge to each other, committing to a mutually fulfilling, vital partnership across a lifetime together. COUPLE COMMUNICATION I and II give you the tools to develop a collaborative marriage.

These two educational programs, in which you and your partner participate together, help you enjoy each other more, increase intimacy, reduce tensions, and resolve your differences.

• COUPLE COMMUNICATION I -- newly revised and available end of June 2007 -- is an award winning program that helps you understand yourself and your partner better as you learn skills and processes to communicate effectively about day-to-day events and important issues.
  
• COUPLE COMMUNICATION II -- the advanced program -- extends the use of skills taught in COUPLE COMMUNICATION I into processes for you to manage your own, and respond to your partner's, anger more effectively, as you further build a collaborative partnership.
  
• THRIVE -- the online Collaborative Marriage Profile -- will be available Fall, 2007 (and for instructor training workshops in Summer, 2007)

To date over 700,000 couples worldwide have taken COUPLE COMMUNICATION I since its development at the University of Minnesota Family Study Center.