Relationship Enhancement® for Couples helps couples to give
each other the Gift of Love by learning skills which make love
comfortable, generous, healing, and joyful. Founded on values of honesty
and compassion, RE enables each partner to fully express what is most
important and use that expression to resolve conflict and build love. It
consists of training in 9 relationship skills that enable couples to:
Speak in ways that will help your partner want to cooperate
Express understanding in ways that help each other communicate
from your deepest, best selves.
Discuss issues and conflicts in ways that lead to solutions you
both can feel good about
Find and express the positives that are part of every conflict
Use conflict to grow closer
Work out the details of agreements so issues resolved today are
lived out tomorrow and next month
Use skills to transform over time both your couple relationship
and your relationships with children, co-workers, and friends.
Thursday evenings: Oct 16, 23,
30, Nov. 6 from 7p-9 pm
Santiago Canyon College
8045 E. Chapman Ave.
(class in Room D208)
Orange, Ca. 92869-4512
Register 714-628-4960 Event #42901 or
Register
on-line (under personal enrichment)
Cost $79 per couple or $59 one person
(optional workbook available in class at $16.16)
Christian Prep
(information below from www.prepinc.com)
First and
foremost, Christian PREP is a program reflecting a clear commitment to
traditional Christianity and Christian truth. The model of integration
employed here gives first place to the revelation of scripture and second
place to sound research. If revelation and research are in conflict,
revelation wins out. The fact is, however, that revelation and sound
research are consistently and amazingly consistent in those areas where
they speak to the same phenomena. This has been one of the most exciting
aspects of bringing this project together.
Christian PREP (The Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program) is
the culmination of years of work by many colleagues on understanding what
makes for great marriages and what causes marital failure and breakdown.
The program is founded on a Christian model and teaching on marriage, with
an integration of solid research on marriage and relationships. The model
of integration we employ is described below after we present some history
of the PREP program in general.
The Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP®) is a
research-based approach to teaching couples how to communicate
effectively, work as a team to solve problems, manage conflicts without
damaging closeness, and preserve and enhance love, commitment, and
friendship. The PREP Approach is based on 25 years of research in the
field of marital health and success, with much of the specific research
conducted at the University of Denver over the past 20 years. Drs. Markman,
Stanley, Blumberg, and a host of colleagues and research assistants, have
been studying what happy couples do right and what unhappy couples do
wrong. One focus of this work has been on how to take this information and
teach couples skills and attitudes associated with marital success.
PREP was designed to teach couples communication and problem solving
skills found to be linked to effective marital functioning. It employs
techniques from behavioral marital therapy (e.g., Jacobson & Margolin,
1979) and ideas similar to some other communication-training marital
programs (e.g., Guerney, 1977).
Cost of Christian Prep
Program $85 individual/ $149 couple including materials (12 hours).
Taught by an authorized Christian Prep instructor.
Group rate $599 plus $30 per couple
Ten Great Dates-
Expecting to start on September 20
Read a chapter out of the marriage enrichment book, Ten Great Dates
to Energize Your Marriage, come to church to watch a 20-30
minute video on marriage enrichment, and then go on a 90 minute date using
some of the questions from the book. Couples say they talked about
things they never would have talked about before. Couples who have
been married over 20 years discover new things about their spouse.
Expecting the program to be in Garden Grove.
More details will become available.
Married Couple Fellowship- Calvary
Chapel C.M.- Continual on Monday Nites
The Married Couples
Fellowship is a body of believers of all ages. We meet on Monday night at
7:30 pm in the Fellowship Hall at Calvary Chapel.
We start with worship, and then we study the Word of God. Pastor John
is currently doing a study in the book of Genesis.
There are monthly activities as well. We have Dessert Night the third
Monday of the month, and we meet for prayer on the second and fourth
Wednesdays of the month.
We would love to have you join us on a Monday night! If you have any
questions, please give Pastor John Mann a call at (714) 979-4422.
Calvary Chapel 3800 S. Fairview Rd. Santa Ana 92704
