Couples Resource Center | Couples Workshops

Couples Workshops

San Francisco CA • SF Peninsula CA • West Linn OR

Spring/Summer

Enrollment for the Spring/Summer 2010 is now open. To enroll for a workshop, please visit our enrollment page. Couples and individual counseling is available at all times. Check out our new offerings, "Dealing With Differences - The Enneagram for Couples", and "Loving Touch - Inviting Deeper Intimacy".

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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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.

Saturday, April 24, 10:00-4:00PM

Location: Palo Alto

Cost: $225 per couple

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Leader: Carol Schira, MFT

Loving Touch – Inviting Deeper Intimacy

In our mind-based Western culture, we often overlook the most basic, organic, and direct path to connection. You may think that being together for some time, you are familiar with touch in your relationship. But, familiarity can be the first barrier to enlivened touch. In this workshop, we will explore the power of simple touch as a means to communicate without words and to deepen our connection. Allow yourself to explore touch as a mean of rediscovering who you both are today; and meeting yourself and each other again, and for the first time.

Saturday, May 8, 10:00-4:00PM

Location: San Francisco

Cost: $225 per couple
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Leader: Yvonne Guertin
Carol Schira, MFT

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, May 22, 10:00-3:00PM

Location: San Francisco

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

Individual Couple Workshop

This workshop is designed for those couples that would prefer individualized work or perhaps when there are no workshops currently scheduled on the topics of interest. Unlike the other workshops, it includes (a) a Pre-workshop Assessment Session, (b) Completion of a questionnaire, and (c) a four-hour workshop based on the specific needs of the couple.

Saturday, On Demand

Location: San Francisco

Cost:

Pre-workshop Session: $130
Questionnaire Review: No charge
4-hour Workshop: $400
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Leader: Carol Schira, MFT

Bringing 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, TBA

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

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, August 14, 10:00-4:00PM Francisco

Location: San Francisco

Cost: $225 per couple

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Leader: Ada Rios-Rivera, MA

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.

TBA

Location: Palo Alto

Cost: $180 per couple

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Leaders: Veronica Dostal, CFRC
Julie Gauthier, Phd.

Dealing With Differences: Enneagram For Couples

This introductory workshop provides an opportunity to view yourself and your partner through a new lens, the Enneagram; a mapping of human nature into a set of nine personality types. The Enneagram offers the gift of looking deeply into how we experience the world as well as the different ways others view reality, which helps to build greater understanding and compassion.

Saturday, April 10, 10:00 – 3:00PM

Location: Los Altos

Cost: $225 per couple

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Leader: Sandy Roos, 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.

Saturday, July 24, 10:00-4:00PM

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, May 1, 10:00-3:00PM

Location: Los Altos Hills

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

Individual Couple Workshop

Saturday, On Demand

Location: Palo Alto

Cost:

Pre-workshop Session: $130
Questionnaire Review: No charge
4-hour Workshop: $400
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Leader: Carol Schira, MFT

West Linn, OR

Communication Skills: 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, May 23, 9:00 to 1:00PM

Location: West Linn, Oregon

Cost: $95 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.