The "Relationship Enhancer Coaching Course" is a 12-week curriculum-based program designed to show you how to create the relationship of your dreams. You will learn the fundamentals of relationship success. In this process you will find out what you and your partner most need from each other to experience love, respect and connection. Also emphasized in this course is the notion that what makes a relationship successful and fulfilling will change throughout the relationship. As each individual grows and new developmental challenges are encountered by the couple, the "rules" can change. Therefore, ongoing dialogue and healthy communication is necessary for continued relationship enhancement.

Mike's philosophy and approach to working with couples and individuals can be described as collaborative and solution focused. He specializes in helping individuals identify and overcome limitations in their thinking, and has a knack of helping couples individuals find rapid solutions to long-standing challenges. As many of the newer schools of psychotherapy acknowledge, there is a strong connection between an individual's thinking, feeling and behavior. Therefore creating slight shifts in any of these areas can start the ball rolling to create profound change.

COURSE OUTLINE

Session 1: Developing a foundation for relationship fulfillment

The initial session will focus upon the basics of relationship fulfillment. Within a structured format you will rediscover what initially attached you to your partner. You will define your relationship goals, and then develop questions to ask yourself and affirmations to keep you on the path to relationship fulfillment.

Session 2: The most common relationship contaminators

This session will focus on the most common patterns in relationships that lead to conflict and disconnection within relationships. Ultimately, this process is not about changing who you are, but changing what you do. This session will emphasize the pragmatic philosophy of find out what works and do more of it. On the flip side, finding out what doesn't work, and stop doing that.

Session 3: Understanding relationships within the developmental life span

Couples, like individuals, are not static. Life presents certain challenges to couples which can out date formerly successful ways of connecting, expressing love, and solving problems. This session will help you explore your relationship within a developmental framework. Have our careers changed? Do we now have children? How have I and my partner grown over the years?

Session 4: Relationships and our basic human needs

We all have needs. Some are basic, like are our physical needs (food, clothing, shelter) and our need to feel safe. More advanced needs include our need to belong, to feel good about ourselves, and to continue to grow and expand ourselves. The more advanced needs are met in very individualized ways. This session will help you connect with how I can meet my higher level needs, and how I can be a champion for my partner in their pursuit of actualizing their personal needs.

Session 5: Expressing Love Effectively

This session will focus on how my partner and I express and experience love. There are five basic ways: words, time, service, gifts, and touch. They are all important, yet one is usually the "golden key." Questions answered in this session include: what is my love language? What is my partner's love language? How can I express love to my partner in a way that is experienced as love?

Session 6: Communicating Effectively

This session will focus on the basics of communication, as both the sender and the receiver. Specifically, the format of communicating requests, appreciations and criticism will be emphasized. The most effective communication emphasizes action talk. Moving away from vague labels to specific behaviors. The notion of words can hurt and words can heal will be strongly emphasized.

Session 7: Dealing with difficulties without defensiveness

This session will build on a number of previous sessions and emphasize the development of conflict resolutions strategies in your relationship. A framework will be developed to respectfully send messages, and how to respond in a healthy non-defensive manner.

Session 8: The art of forgiveness

No matter how respectful partners are to each other, there will come a time in any relationship when a real or experienced violation of expectations for each other will occur. This session will identify ways to ask for and receive forgiveness in your relationship. It will be emphasized that forgiveness is more of a process that an event. Yet there are events which keep the process of forgiveness in motion.

Session 9: Keeping the romance alive

This session will focus on how to keep a spirit of passion and romance in your relationship. The session will utilize a structured format to explore "I feel loved when you...?" and "I feel passion when you...? Like all good ideas, they are limited unless applied. This session will help you plan more spontaneity, romance and passion in your relationship.

Session 10: Co-creating an empowering future

As the say in the play South Pacific -- You gotta have a dream! If you don't have a dream, how are you gonna make a dream come true. This session will focus on developing your dreams for the following categories of your life: your relationship, family, personal, business, financial and fun.

Session 11: Making plans to realize your dreams

As emphasized throughout, plans are one thing; implementation is where true fulfillment comes from. This session will help you identify plans to realize the dreams that you and your partner have.

Session 12: Becoming your partner's champion

This session will focus on the essential ingredients of becoming your partner's champion. Melding you dreams, leaving room for yours, mine and ours. Recognizing when you will be the string in your relationship and when your will be the balloon. An additional focus will be on how to continually reinforce the principles for relationship enhancement on an ongoing basis in your relationship.

Success.bz will pay you every time you refer someone to our site and they purchase this program. And unlike many other partners programs, we do not require our partners to meet lofty sales quotas to receive referral fees. As a Success.bz Partner, you start earning right away.