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Your Ticket to a Happy Marriage in 30 Days…
even if D'Arcy is booked months in advance.
Making Marriage Work is a live workshop series that helps couples dramatically enrich their relationship in 30 days without couple therapy.
What's Included
Introduction to Marriage Enhancement
In this workshop, you’ll learn how your current thinking and behavior patterns were developed during childhood and your upbringing. I’ll help you discover which of these are enriching an emotional connection with your partner and which are sabotaging your relationship.
What We'll Work On:
- Improving your emotional connection, friendship, fondness, and admiration for one another
- Improving other relationship skills
Communication Skills
In this workshop, couples learn how to communicate what they want without escalating conflict. I’ll give you easy to use tips and sentence starters that facilitate cooperation and understanding so you can both feel heard and valued.
What We'll Work On:
- Easy communication techniques that help you become a good speaker and a great listener.
- Other communications skills
Managing Conflict
What We'll Work On:
- Mastery of basic communication skills
- Create your relationship's 5-year plan
- Plan activities to enhance your connection
The Affirming Relationship
What We'll Work On:
- Improving your emotional connection, friendship, fondness, and admiration for one another
- Improving other relationship skills
You'll walk away with enhanced relationship and communication skills that enable you to have a Happy Marriage now and for years to come.
Will and Susie were retired early, after an extremely successful medical healthcare business and 25 years of marriage. But they were very distant and used to arguing with daily battles and little feeling of intimacy and kindness. She was critical and he was withdrawn. Both were angry, biter, and hopeless.
After three classes of The Making Marriage Work Workshop, they were feeling friendly, complimenting each other and learning how to listen and summarize each other’s perspective on previously arguable topics. He struggled a bit with summarizing and she with “I” statements, but they were laughing and wanting to talk about solving their lack of sexual intimacy issues. Their children were pointing out to them how they were getting along better and encouraging them to continue with the classes.
They were having the very best of conversations, felt like a team and were having happy and enjoyable sex by class #4. At the end of the class they felt they had changed their relationship from a war to a loving marriage, feeling open and excited to be with each other, recapturing the feelings of intimacy and love that were flourishing early in their relationship. They said they were happy to have created their affirming relationship and have referred several friends to the program! They decided to do a few sessions of marriage counseling after the workshop, giving them experience with mastery and ensuring their childhood patterns were managed successfully.
William and Susie, retired
You Also Get These Fabulous Bonuses
Bonus #1
Book: The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
Book by John M Gottman, Ph.D. and Nan Silver.
In this book, couples learn new approaches for resolving conflicts, creating new common ground, and achieving greater levels of intimacy. Based on John Gottman’s unprecedented study of couples, this book provides the basis for the Making Marriage Work Workshop and offers strategies and resources to help couples collaborate more effectively to resolve any problem, whether dealing with issues related to sex, money, religion, work, family, or anything else.
Bonus #2
2 Guides: The Seven Principles Couples Guide
By John M Gottman, Ph.D. and Nan Silver
The Making Marriage Work Couples Guide helps couples complete the class assignments from the “Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work” book. The guide is packed full of practical questionnaires and exercises to help couples deepen their foundation of friendship, successfully manage conflict, honor one another’s dreams, and create shared meaning in their life.
Bonus #3
2 Workbooks: Creating Your Affirming Relationship Workbook
By D’Arcy Vanderpool, MA, MFT, PCC
This workbook takes the Gottman Method to the next level with additional guides, tools, and skills to help couples transform themselves and their relationship. Based on Accelerated Couples Therapy, positive psychology, and D’Arcy’s 45 years experience working with couples, this workbook will help couples enhance their relationship with advanced personal development techniques and skills that you don’t find in the typical marriage retreat.
Bonus #4
Love Map Card Deck & Open-ended Questions Card Deck
By The Gottman Institute
These cards enable partners to connect emotionally, and increase intimacy and understanding in a fun, gentle way.
Bonus #5
Gottman Card Decks app for smart phones and tablets
By The Gottman Institute
This fun app includes 14 card decks and offers helpful questions, statements, and ideas for improving your relationship. Available for iOS and Android devices.
Bonus #6
The Gottman Relationship Checkup Assessment
By The Gottman Institute
Leave the workshop series knowing what relationship issues to tackle next. Couples complete the online assessment before the last class can then schedule a separate private session with D’Arcy to discuss details of their report and ongoing couple therapy. (Extra Session is $200 and not included in workshop registration fee.)
Making Marriage Work Workshop
Making Marriage Work is a LIVE, 4-class workshop series that helps couples dramatically enrich their relationship in 30 days without couple therapy.
Four in-person, weekly classes...
And these bonuses...
(Total Value $1,763)
Regular Price - Only $1495.00
Today's Price - Only $995.00
My promise to you is to go above and beyond to give you an exceptional experience, providing you with the benefits of my wisdom, specialized training, and 40+ years experience helping couples have a happy marriage.
Workshops are limited to only 6 couples, and THEY WILL FILL QUICKLY.
Accelerated Couples Therapy + Gottman Method
Making Marriage Work couples program is all about your journey to a happy marriage in 30 days...
- Create emotional connection using proven guidelines
- Develop mastery in couples communication
- Learn to manage differences and conflicts so everyone wins
- Find your shared goals and meaning for the future
Get the attention and focus your Relationship needs to get the fastest results possible
... in just a few hours a week
When my husband and I started with D’Arcy, I really didn’t think we were going to make it. We entered her office with so much pain, and left with so much happiness and hope. Years later, we are still in the place that D’Arcy helped us find, and we will forever be grateful. We could be her biggest fans!
Couple, ages 46 and 48
Making Marriage Work Workshop
Making Marriage Work is a LIVE, 4-class workshop series that helps couples dramatically enrich their relationship in 30 days without couple therapy.
Four in-person, weekly classes...
And these bonuses...
(Total Value $1,763)
Regular Price - Only $1495.00
Today's Price - Only $995.00