Workbook for Couples WELCOME CONGRATULATIONS! You are joining over 4 million couples who have taken this important step in building a strong marriage and healthy relationship by taking the PREPARE/ENRICH assessment. For over 35 years, research studies have demonstrated PREPARE/ENRICH can improve your relationship skills and happiness as a couple. The PREPARE/ENRICH Workbook for Couples is a complement to your assessment results. It contains skill-building exercises that will help you to understand and apply the insights from the assessment. The exercises consist of ques- tions to both ponder individually and discuss as a couple plus activities to do together. Begin ...
Couples Communication Exercises Worksheet We (Ashley and Marcus Kusi) designed this printable communication worksheet to go along with our article titled Communication Exercises for Couples. So, if you haven’t read the article, please read it before you complete this worksheet. To read the article, click on the link below: www.ourpeacefulfamily.com/cefc Also, you will need at the very least, 30 minutes to go through all the exercises together. Now, let's begin! Who will respond as You: ________________________________________ Who will respond as Me: ________________________________________ www.ourpeacefulfamily.com 1 Exercise 1. May I have your attention, please? What are ...
PREPARE/ENRICH Program: Version 2000 David H. Olson & Amy K. Olson This paper describes a program that enhances one of the most important and challenging tasks of life: staying happily married for a lifetime. The PREPARE/ENRICH Couple Program is a program for premarital and married couples who want to get their marriage off to a good start or enrich their marriage. The couple inventories and program have high levels of reliability, validity and clinical utility. A typology of couples identifies four premarital types (vitalized, harmonious, traditional and conflicted) and a fifth marital type (devitalized). A Couple and Family Map ...
The PAIRS Relationship Mastery Program The full PAIRS Curriculum is divided into six main sections: 1) Communication and Problem Solving; 2) Clarifying Assumptions; 3) My History and Unique Self; 4) Emotional Re- education, Emotional Literacy and Bonding; 5) Pleasure-- Sensuality and Sexuality; and 6) Contracting—Clarifying Expectations. (The following summary has printed specific PAIRS exercises and key concepts in bold.) 1) Communication and Problem Solving PAIRS begins with a presentation of the Relationship Roadmap, the basic PAIRS model of how relationships succeed or become stuck and fail. Couples learn of the essential role of confiding in intimacy and then ...