A Workshop for Couples

This workshop is for couples who seek to deepen their relationship with each other. It can help you better understand your relationship and teach you ways to foster friendship, trust and intimacy with your partner. It will also teach you ways to navigate or prevent relational conflicts.

WHO is this workshop for?

This psycho-educational workshop is appropriate for couples contemplating engagement, pre-marital couples and couples married for decades.

The workshop is not appropriate for couples with severe relationship distress, significant emotional or physical abuse, serious emotional or mental health problems.

The workshop Programme

The workshop curriculum is based on 40 years of breakthrough research that Dr John Gottman conducted with thousands of couples in the University of Washington, Seattle. Dr John Gottman is world-renowned for his work on marital stability and divorce prediction. One of his most notable experiments is called the Love Lab, where he analysed the way couples create and maintain friendship and intimacy, and how this relates to conflict.

Love Lab

In this Workshop, Couples will Learn to:

1. Develop and deepen their Love Maps (know each other better).
2. Foster fondness and admiration for each other.
3. Facilitate turning towards each other to build up each other’s “Emotional Bank Account”.
4. Accept each other’s influence.
5. Manage conflicts by solving the solvable problems.
6. Manage conflicts by overcoming unresolvable gridlock.
7. Create shared meaning as partners.

Upcoming public runs

Each workshop will be conducted over two Saturdays.

• Run 1:
  Saturday, 11 & 18 January 2020
  Registration closes on: Friday, 27 December 2019 @ 6pm.
• Run 2:
  Saturday, 4 & 11 April 2020
  Registration closes on: Friday, 20 March 2020 @ 6pm.
• Run 3:
  Saturday, 6 & 13 June 2020
  Registration closes on: Friday, 22 May 2020 @ 6pm.
• Run 4:
  Saturday, 1 & 8 August 2020
  Registration closes on: Friday, 17 July 2020 @ 6pm.
• Run 5:
  Saturday, 3 & 10 October 2020
  Registration closes on: Friday, 18 September 2020 @ 6pm.

The workshop will be from 9 am – 12.30pm.

Please note that we will conduct the run only if the minimum requirement of 3 couples is met. In the event that the workshop you have registered for is unable to take place, your registration will be carried over to the next earliest run (please read our Refund Policy under the “Fee” tab for more information).

Register here.

Chartered Runs

If you would like us to conduct a workshop for your organisation, contact us at

training@emcc.org.sg

We will work with you to tailor a workshop programme suited to your organisation’s needs.

Feedback from Participants

“I like how the course is scientific and research driven and not religious, really gave us many wonderful takeaways and self-realisations on things to work on. There are couples who are married for 20 over years at the course too so its heartening to know that we can learn from them, continuously working on our marriage for a long time to come (: Do check it out.” Lyyeow 14 Jan 2017