Couple Communication

COUPLE COMMUNICATION I teaches a practical set of talking and listening skills, plus other processes. It includes:

Recognizing the 7 Ingredients of a Collaborative Marriage — a healthy relationship

Choosing Communication StylesTM — with a map for you to:

• Identify ineffective and effective ways of talking and listening
• Improve the quality of your communication

Using the Awareness WheelTM — a tool to:

• Understand yourself and situations better, a foundation for effective communication
• Apply 6 talking skills to connect in a clear and constructive way

Applying the Listening CycleTM — a guide to:

• Tune in accurately to your partner
• Use 5 productive listening skills

Mapping Issues — a 9-step process that combines the talking and listening skills for you to:

• Make decisions and resolve conflicts collaboratively

Gain skills and tools that improve every aspect of your life — with your partner, your family and friends, and with people at work and elsewhere.

In COUPLE COMMUNICATION I, you and your partner learn to:

• Communicate together more effectively
• Make better decisions together
• Create faster, better resolutions to conflict
• Increase satisfaction as you strengthen your relationship

Learning Formats and Methods

You and your partner participate in one of two formats:

• In a group with an instructor and several other couples
  (in sessions totaling 8 hours)
• By yourselves as a couple with an instructor
  (often six 50-minute sessions)

Enjoy Gaining Your New Skills Through:

• Explanations of the concepts, skills, and processes
• Demonstrations of the skills and processes
• Practice of skills and processes with real issues of your own choice (appropriate for the setting), using skills mats – innovative tools – to speed learning
• Coaching and feedback on your use of skills
• Application of your learning in real situations between sessions

Your Privacy is Respected

You choose together privately, as a couple, the issues you discuss and practice.

User Friendly Couple Materials

As a couple, you use a COUPLE COMMUNICATION I Couple Packet containing:

• 2 Collaborative Marriage Skills workbooks (one copy for each partner)
• 2 Skills Mats (one for talking, the other for listening)
• 2 Sets of 4 Pocket Cards to prompt skill use
• 2 Awareness Wheel pads

The materials are for:

• Use during sessions
• Practice at home between sessions
• Application after the course to reinforce skills when negotiating issues

The workbook in the Couple Packet comes in one of two versions:

• Regular
• With Scripture

Both are softcover, 8 x 10 inches, 144 pages, 2007
The COUPLE COMMUNICATION I Couple Packet is $39.95

To join a COUPLE COMMUNICATION I class, please contact Rev. Hill at wpcrev@sbcglobal.net or call 428-6603