What it is
The premarital workshop is for partners who are dating seriously, engaged, or newly married and want to build on a strong foundation. You'll leave with more shared language, a clearer picture of how you function as a couple, and practical tools that can help navigate the hard moments often show up later in relationships.
What makes our approach different is the perspective our therapists have that comes from working with couples across the full arc of a relationship — not just before marriage, but through the conflicts, ruptures, and crossroads that come years and decades later.
We think of premarital workshops a bit like an inoculation: it can help you more effecively resist relational pitfalls. If those do show up, premarital work can prepare you to recognize them sooner and increase the likelihood that you will get help before they become a years-long gridlock pattern.
While we cover topics discussed in therapeutic settings, this workshop does not constitute therapy and does not create a patient-therapist relationship.
Topics frequently covered
We often tailor the workshop experience to spend more time on the areas most participants indicate they would like covered (during the registration process). Depth varies with time constraints. Below is a list of common topics covered:
- Communication & Conflict — How you handle disagreements, repair after fights, and express difficult things.
- Family of Origin — The patterns, expectations, and unspoken rules you grew up with and how they show up in your relationship.
- Finances & Values — Your beliefs about money, value, financial security, and fairness.
- Sex & Intimacy — Desire, frequency, initiation, and creating a meaningful sexual relationship.
- Parenting & Roles — Whether you want children, how you'd raise them, and what you each expect around division of labor and responsibility.
- Values & Vision — What a good life looks like, what you want to build together, and how religion may or may not fit into it.
- Technology & Outside Connections — How you each use technology and social media, as well as boundaries for relationships outside the marriage.
- Extended Family & In-Laws — Boundaries with family, time splitting, and communication strategies.
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