There are always new challenges and pressures. The health and strength of relationships depends on the willingness of couples to face these challenges and work through differences so that each grows as an individual and as a partner.

This eight-week course covers

• ways to create and foster harmony
• family of origin issues, including the fashioning of expectations of relationships and ways in which we learned to show affection, express anger and communicate
• the need to turn to each other in times of stress and challenge, and skills to help with this
• communication skills, both as speaker and listener
• general and individual blocks to communication and its impact
• accepting, managing and celebrating difference
• conflict resolution skills planning ahead.

The course attempts to not only inform participants of ways to improve and strengthen their relationship, but teaches the required skills through experiential exercises and discussion.