Couples Resource Center | Couples Workshops

Couples Workshops

San Francisco CA • SF Peninsula CA • West Linn OR

Fall / Winter

Enrollment for the Fall / Winter 2008 is now open. To enroll for a workshop, please visit our enrollment page. Couples and individual counseling is available at all times. In West Linn, Sylvia Randall will be offering 2 summer workshops

For more information on couples groups, or to get on our mailing list for upcoming group sessions, please email us at info@couplesresourcecenter.com.

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Couples Communication 1

Good communication is essential for healthy relationships and intimacy. It facilitates the expression of feelings and needs in an empowered, non-blaming manner, and increases the openness, trust, and empathic understanding between partners.

Saturday, November 8, 10:00-3:00PM

Location: San Francisco

Cost: $200 per couple

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Leader: Madhu Batheja, MFT

Conflict Happens – How It Can Deepen Relationships

In this workshop, in a safe setting, we will explore your views, attitudes, and experiences of conflict. The focus will be on how to better understand how conflict happens, what it means and doesn’t mean, and mostly how to avoid those circular, or marathon, or emotionally distancing conflicts that can take the joy out of relationships. We’ll look beyond the content of conflicts in order to discover underlying needs and desires. We’ll also look at specific ways to remove the negative aspects of conflict.

Sunday, Nov 16, 10:00-2:00PM

Location: Palo Alto

Cost: $225 per couple

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Leader: Carol Schira, MFT

Relationship Myth Workshop
This workshop will highlight and bring to life the mythical magic in the origins of our intimate relationships. Through the use of Process-Oriented myth work, the participants will learn how to uncover the hidden solutions to relationship challenges embedded in the stories, events and memories that happened during the beginning of their intimate partnerships. Participants will learn how to positively and strategically work with their unspoken hopes and fears through the use of high and low dreams as first invoked through the relationship myth. Participants will leave this workshop with a framework that will help them find the mythic clues and potential tools present in the origin stories of their intimate relationships.
Saturday, Oct 25, 10:00 to 4:00PM Location: San Francisco Cost: $225 per couple Enroll Now	Leader: Ada Rios-Rivera, MA
Saturday, Feb 21, 10:00 to 4:00PM Location: San Francisco Cost: $225 per couple Enroll Now	Leader: Ada Rios-Rivera, MA

Keeping the Glow – A Premarital Workshop

This workshop will help couples move from courtship to mature romantic love. Couples will learn ways to keep attraction alive, resolve conflict, and communicate effectively.

Saturday, October 25, 10:00-3:00PM

Location: San Francisco

Cost: $225 per couple
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Leader: Sandy Roos, MFT

Baby Home: A Workshop for New and Expectant Parents

The transition to parenthood is frequently accompanied by sharp declines in relationship quality. In this two-day workshop, we will help couples with relationship issues, learn conflict resolution skills, and enhance emotional connection while coping with daily stress. We will focus on how to preserve intimacy in the couple, how to ensure each parent’s full participation in the infant’s development, and how to read the baby’s emotional cues.

Two Saturdays, January24, January 31, 9:00–4:00PM

Location: San Francisco

Cost: $375 per couple
Childcare: Not provided, but infants under 5 months are allowed
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Leader: Dana McMullen, MFT

SF Peninsula, CA

Couples and Money: Navigating Today’s Choppy Financial Waters

Money is one of the greatest sources of conflict in relationships. Join this lively workshop dealing with money struggles in relationships. Learn why money conflicts arise, how to navigate them without damaging your relationship, and how to develop teamwork to more effectively enhance your finances and your relationship.

Saturday, Oct 25, 10:00 –1:00PM

Location: Palo Alto

Cost: $180 per couple

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Leaders: Veronica Dostal, CFRC
Julie Gauthier, Phd.

Conflict Happens – How It Can Deepen Relationships

Saturday, February 28, 10:00-3:00PM

Location: Palo Alto

Cost: $225 per couple

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Leader: Carol Schira, MFT

Marriage / Relationship – "It's Not What We Expected"

In this workshop discover how our expectations and illusions get in the way. Explore the specific ways of moving from the fantasy of romantic attraction to the realities of mature love, Using the myth of Tristan and Isolde as well as experiential exercises, couples will create a deeper friendship as well as a more realistic experience of love.

Saturday, November 22, 10:00-3:00PM

Location: Los Altos Hills

Cost: $225 per couple
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Leader: Sandy Roos, MFT

West Linn, OR

Deepening Friendship: For Couples

Research shows a solid friendship is the best predictor of relationship success. This day is designed to focus on your friendship -- to rebuild and deepen or just enjoy this aspect of your being together.

Saturday, TBA, 10:00 to 3:00PM

Location: West Linn, Oregon

Cost: $150 per couple

Leader: Sylvia Randall, Ph.D.

Communication Tools: For Couples

This one-day class offers concrete, useful and immediately applicable tools to improve listening, understanding, and empathy between partners in intimate relationships. The class creates a warm, comfortable setting with support and humor.

Sunday, October 26, 10:00 to 3:00PM

Location: West Linn, Oregon

Cost: $150 per couple
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Leader: Sylvia Randall, Ph.D.

San Francisco area groups and workshops are held in either Palo Alto or San Francisco. Oregon groups and workshops are held in West Linn.