Courageous Loving Courses

Healing marital pain and injury – Course 2

Prior to participating in the Courageous Loving program you should plan to attend the introductory seminar. This will give you a foundation for the Courageous Loving courses.

Each course consists of three, 2-hour classes held over a six-week period. This makes it easy to combine the instruction with one-on-one counseling on the weeks class isn’t held. This is highly recommended so you get

Understanding the problem – Course 1

Course overview
The premise of “Understanding the problem” course is, “you can’t change what you don’t understand.”

In this course you will learn:

Why you love, feel and act the way you do
The “Rules of Relationships”
The four “Attachment Styles” and how each style dictates the couples interactions or “The Dance”
The “Cycle of Destruction” and examine how this cycle can predict divorce with 90% accuracy
The role of emotion in our relationships and how it is the music we dance to
The five “Triggers of Emotional Storms” and gain an understanding of the fear that drives us
The twelve “Fear Avoiding Behaviors” that help keep us stuck

Fees

$295 per couple

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Healing marital pain and injury – Course 2

Course overview
When we get hurt by those we love it can become an injury or wound that simply won’t heal. It can literally change the way we view ourselves and others. It can waken fears that we might not be enough, or worthy of love. Those fears become dragons in our life that we tend to run from. These dragons keep us from forming healthy intimate relationships with other, and ultimately from finding personal peace.

The goal of this second course is to begin creating a relationship that is a safe haven for you and your partner. To do this you must understand learn to reconnect emotionally by facing these dragons so they no longer have the power to run your life.

In this course you will learn:

To find the dragon’s lair by connecting with the trauma, pain and fear in your life.
To begin healing from the inside out, using tools that will help you tame the dragons as you begin to face them.
To build emotional bonds by facing the perceived dragon in others. To fully tame the dragon, we must learn to forgive those who have wronged us, especially our spouse or partner, and begin to see and interact with them in new ways.
To build secure emotional connection through the new skills of care-seeking and care-giving.

Fees

$295 per couple

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Maintaining healthy intimacy – Course 3

Course overview
In course 2 you could say we focus on the critical key moments that define our relationships. In this third course we focus more on the trivial daily interactions. You see, the longevity and health of your marriage will now be determined by the quality of your friendship.

The goal of the third course is to help you create new habits and ways of being together that foster and build a strong friendship.

In this course you will learn:

You will be introduced to the latest research in what works and what doesn’t in maintaining marital friendships.
Tools that will help you recognize when your relationship is again headed in the wrong direction, and get it back on track.
The daily habits you will need to build a lasting, loving marriage.

Fees

$295 per couple

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