Getting The Love You Want: The Imago Couples Workshop
Presented by The Wissahickon Center for Relationship Therapy

"This workshop consists of five processes: re-imaging your partner, restoring empathy, restructuring frustrations, renewing romance and re-visioning the future. The weekend is composed of a carefully constructed blend of educational lectures and films, group discussions, self-exploration and writing work. You will learn new skills - ways to communicate that will allow you to truly see and hear each other with compassion, to melt anger and move through conflict to a place of profound connection and compassion. A significant portion of the workshop is spent practicing these new tools with your partner. While you are invited to share your insights and experiences within the larger group, all such sharing is optional."

For more information or to register, please contact Laura Marshall, LCSW, QCSW at 215-699-1238.

Council for Relationships offers workshops and seminars for couples who wish to explore and enrich their sexual relationship in a safe environment so that they can explore attitudes toward sex, improve communication skills around needs and wants, learn the language of sex, and learn ways to increase intimacy.

• Whatever Happened to Sex Since I Turned 40?
  Do you ever feel like your sexual desire has disappeared since nearing or reaching menopause? Do you worry that your relationship may be suffering because sex isn't as interesting to you as it once was? Come to a program designed just for you! We will be discussing the problem and presenting solutions to this very common issue for women. 

• Sexual Enrichment Workshop (Level 1)
  This is the hallmark course for exploring attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge about human sexuality. Senior CFR staff have taught this course for over 30 years. The goal of this workshop is to help participants explore their attitudes, feelings, and beliefs about sexuality and to understand how our life experiences impact how we relate to one another. The goals include providing a safe place to think and talk about sexuality, to become aware and express feelings about sexuality and examine issues about body image; to improve communication skills in regard to expressing sexual needs and desires; and to learn ways to increase intimacy and fun. The learning process for this course will include voluntary participation in lecture, small and large group discussions; viewing educational films; and role plays by course instructors.

• Love, Sex, and Romance: Introduction
  This 2-hour workshop will introduce you to the stages of love in intimate relationships and to the chemistry of romantic love. The emphasis of this workshop is to establish goals for improving romance, intimacy, and commitment.

• Love, Sex and Romance: The Basics
  This one-day (6 hour) workshop will address the dimensions of love, the chemistry of romantic love, biological and emotional differences between men and women, and the steps to creating a passionate partnership. 

• Rekindling the Spark:
  Love and Intimacy in Emotionally Committed Relationships
  This one-day (6 hour) workshop will explore the stages of a relationship and the deepening of love in committed relationships to go beyond the dampening of desire in contemporary marriages. Too often our sexuality is an unrefined and undeveloped element of our personality and intimate partnership. In this workshop we explore troublesome attitudes and inhibitions that interfere with sexual and sensual expression and fulfillment.

For more information about any of these courses, please call Rita DeMaria, PhD at 215-628-2450.

The Couples Learning Center

Fun and affordable classes, coaching and seminars for couples and individuals on Marriage Enrichment, Marriage Preparation and Successful Dating. Couples gain the insights and master the skills they can use immediately to make their relationship strong, change bad habits and build on their strengths. Couples learn to communicate safely, resolve disagreements and fortify friendship. Research based, faith friendly, culturally sensitive. Satisfaction guaranteed. Free consultation. Also Marriage Education Training for organizations. For more information, contact John Williams at 973-340-8642.