Free Relationship Education Class Preview

Council for Relationships offers the best of nationally recognized relationship education programs available and has the most comprehensive program available anywhere in the country. These programs have proven success based on research and evaluation. Our programs, ranging from 2 hours to 120 hours in length, provide basic, intermediate and advanced skills for individuals and couples who want to strengthen, preserve and deepen their relationships. Privacy and a safe learning environment is a top priority in all of our programs. 

Our Previews are a free, no pressure opportunity to learn more!  While we have a wide range of programs at our various offices, our experienced workshop leaders are also available to lead programs at other locations throughout Philadelphia as part of our commitment to outreach and community services. 

To register, please contact Rita DeMaria, Ph.D., LSW, LMFT, Program Director at 215-628-2450.

"Participants of the Single, Dating & Reconnecting workshop will learn the five bonding dynamics that help to balance the heart in order to avoid bonding attachments that cause participants to override the signs of future problems. If these dynamics are properly attended to, participants can avoid being among the many that refer to their failed relationships with some variation of the remark: 'I saw the signs; but I overlooked them (or thought he/she would change).'" 

• February 3, 2010
  Spring House, PA

For more information or to register, please contact Rita DeMaria, PhD at 215-628-2450.

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.

This workshop is for anyone who wants to understand more about how their unique family history provides legacies for living and shapes their individual strengths. Participants will learn how to use the genogram to create an action plan for growth and change.

For more information or to register, please contact Rita DeMaria, PhD at 215-628-2450.

Intentional Dating Support Group:
Creating and Nurturing Healthy Relationships

Relationship success coaching supports you through the dating process from meeting potential partners to developing the foundations of healthy, lasting relationships. This support group can help you to understand your needs and values and support you in developing truly successful relationships. The group meets once a week for six consecutive weeks.

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

PREPARE/ENRICH Program:
Premarital Counseling Program by Life Innovations

Helping couples prepare for marriage and enriching the relationships of those already married, the PREPARE/ENRICH is a program based on a set of five inventories that examine major relationship issues a couple may experience.  These inventories must be administered by a trained PREPARE/ENRICH Counselor and include 4-6 feedback sessions in which the counselor facilitates discussion between the couple based on their inventory results.  

If you are interested in participating in the PREPARE/ENRICH Program, check with your local counselor or clergy person to see if they are already using it.  Or if you are unable to locate a trained professional, visit the Find a Counselor page on the Life Innovations website.

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.

• Love, Sex, and Romance - A Workshop
  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.

• Becoming Your Best Sexual Self:
  Rewriting Your Sexual Script - 1 Day Seminar
  Do you feel like there is something important missing from your sexual experiences? If your intimate encounters are less than fully satisfying, this intensive may have answers for you. Our everyday life is filled with messages and advice about regarding how our love life should be. Taken together, cultural, family of origin, friendship, and media influences are powerful forces on our personal lives and can lead to feelings of sexual dissatisfaction and inadequacy.

  This intensive has been developed to help you explore and identify unhelpful messages, relationship styles, and patterns of relating that you can change. Participants, individuals and couples will be empowered to create uninhibited intimacy in their lives, allowing them to free their sexual selves to engage wholly and fully in their relationship. The importance of mutuality as a guide to balancing giving and receiving within the dance of intimacy will be highlighted.

For more information about any of these courses, please visit CFR's website or call Rita DeMaria, PhD at 215-628-2450.

Marriage & Family Builders/PREP Workshop

This workshop is a Prevention & Relationship Enhancement Program for all singles, cohabitating, dating, engaged & married. PREP is education, not therapy and is a research-based approach to teaching couples how to solve problems, manage conflicts without damaging closeness, and preserve and enhance love, passion, commitment and friendship. This skills and principles curriculum is designed to help people say what they need to say, get to the heart of problems, and increase their connection with each other. Program is available in English and Spanish. Please call for more information at (610) 299-0961.

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