How you'll benefit
What you'll learn
What to expect

Next scheduled workshop

You’re deeply in love and so happy to have found each other, but the engagement period can be filled with stresses that test your relationship before you’ve even walked down the aisle.

The specific issues vary by couple, but all engaged couples have them:

• Intermingling families and satisfying two or more sets of parents

• Differing attitudes toward wedding details, e.g. cost, guest list

• Deciding where to live or whose needs take priority

• Difficulty communicating openly, calmly and productively about important issues

• Wanting to ensure the success of your marriage, when so many other marriages fail

• Uncertainty about making this ultimate commitment

An important thing to remember is: The wedding is an event. Marriage is a lifetime together.

If you put your energy into preparing for your marriage, the wedding will be a very happy event, indeed! How can you prepare for your marriage so that you:

• Both feel confident and eager

• Enter your marriage with your eyes open and set on a common vision of the future

• Have the tools you need to resolve today’s problems and address future challenges together

The Relationship Studio Imago Workshop: Getting the Love You Want

Invest in your relationship now and the dividends can last a lifetime.

Participating in the TRS Engaged Couples Weekend Workshop will provide you with skills to help you through the stresses and pressures leading up to your wedding, and enhance your relationship for the life ahead.

TRS workshops are based on the work of Harville Hendrix, founder of Imago Relationship Therapy and best selling author. This internationally known and accepted approach to transforming relationships is renowned for its effectiveness, the safe and secure environment it creates for experiential learning and the practical tools it provides for enhancing communication and deepening relationships for the future.

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The Relationship Studio:
How you’ll benefit

• You’ll feel better about yourselves as individuals and more connected as a couple.

• You’ll communicate with each other more honestly and with greater ease.

• You’ll make intentional, conscious choices, both for yourselves and for your relationship.

• You’ll co-create safety and trust.

• You’ll learn to disagree and express differing opinions and ideas without breaking the relationship connection.

• You’ll experience a deeper connection and have more fun together.

• You’ll become attractive to each other in a way that will last and preserve the excitement in your relationship.

• You’ll receive important tools for sustaining an intentional loving relationship long after the workshop has ended.

• You’ll plan for your future together.

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The Relationship Studio:
What you’ll learn

• To expand upon the positive aspects of your relationship

• To communicate in a way that addresses hurts, frustrations and disappointments within a safe, trusting and mutual partnership

• To sustain fun and romance for the long run

• To deepen emotional and sexual intimacy

• To be successful in meeting your partner's needs

• To create a relationship vision for your lives going forward

• To clarify and express your individuality while fostering your connection and identity as a couple

• To develop win-win solutions to problems that arise

• To become a cohesive couple with a shared sense of values and priorities

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Amidst all the wedding frenzy… set aside one weekend for yourselves and each other.

The TRS Engaged Couples Workshop gives you an opportunity to step away from the stresses and details surrounding your wedding day to focus on making your life happy and rewarding long after the cake has been cut and the last photo snapped.

The Relationship Studio:
What to expect

• A safe and confidential environment where there is no blame and no shame

• The company of other engaged couples like you

• Non-threatening approaches to understanding yourself and your role in your relationship

• Actionable tools that will help you communicate and step confidently and happily into your future together

• A highly diversified mixture of adult education formats:
--- Short lecture, video clips, music, guided imagery, re-romanticizing exercises, demonstrations, and communication tools
--- Private time together as a couple to practice what you’ve learned, using issues that are real to you
--- Voluntary sharing of insights and experiences

• The equivalent of six months of couples coaching or therapy in one 20-hour weekend workshop

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Next Scheduled TRS Weekend Workshop for Dating and Engaged Couples

DATE: June 21-22, 2008

Saturday from 9:00 am to 7:00 pm
Sunday from 9:00 am to 7:00 pm

PLACE:
The Relationship Studio
1613 Florence Avenue
Evanston Illinois 60201

COST: $695 per couple for the 20-hour workshop. Also included are two workbooks, beverages and snacks.

FUTURE CHICAGO-AREA WORKSHOP DATES:

October 11-12, 2008

Check back frequently for updates!


Other things you should know:

• Dress is casual. Be comfortable. You may even want to bring a pillow

• Both members of the couple must attend the workshop

• Beverages and snacks will be provided

• Lunch on Saturday and Sunday will be on your own (a chance for on-going communication inspired by the sessions) and are not covered by the workshop fee

• Deposit of $200 is required with registration

• The balance ($495) is due one week prior to the workshop

• Special Offer:
--- Registrations made 3 or more weeks prior to the workshop date will receive a $50 discount on the total cost of the workshop.

• Cancellation Policy: If cancellation is made more than 8 days prior to the workshop, a refund of the deposit will be made, less a $75 administration fee.
If a cancellation is made less than 8 days prior to the workshop or if you fail to attend or to complete the workshop, the deposit will not be refunded, but can be applied to a subsequently scheduled workshop.

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