Volunteer for Marriage Enrichment

We need your help! Please consider volunteering for one month of weekly marriage enrichment. At the end of the month we will request that you offer some feedback.

Enrichment sessions are held at the same time each week over Zoom. You select which topics we will cover during our time together.

Learning these practical skills has re-forged our marriage and family life. We look forward to sharing this Good News with you.

 
 

Practical Skills For Marriage

Parenting:

  • Mothering and Fathering: How to harmonize these complimentary and distinct roles.
  • Discipline: Developing your family's system.
  • Needs: Prioritizing the needs of each member of the family.
  • Sleep: The role of sleep in a Christian home.

Security/safety/conversion:

  • Security: How we constantly look to each other to feel secure.
  • Safety: How to become the safe friend whom my spouse desires & needs.
  • Conversion: How to facilitate conversion, change, and growth in myself and my spouse.

Intimacy:

  • Satisfaction: Understanding your spouse's needs and wants.
  • Gratitude: Learning to be happy with what you have before seeking growth.
  • Receptivity: Sharing body and soul vulnerably, honestly, and completely.
  • Unity: Strategies for moving towards one another when your visions do not match.

Communication:

  • Forgiveness: As Christians we know it's necessary. How exactly to go about forgiving well.
  • Family Culture: How to establish a joyful family culture and a plan for growth.
  • Help: Asking for help and allowing my spouse to help.
  • Trying again: How to bring up a topic I’m convinced will go poorly (because it always has).
  • Anger: How to effectively diffuse anger and conflict and redirect the passion towards unity.

Sharing hopes, dreams, disappointments, and fears:

  • Needs & desires: How to effectively communicate these without accidentally being threatening.
  • Hopes & fears: How to make it easy for my spouse to understand what I'm trying to share.
  • Mistakes: Avoiding blame, sharing the disappointment, avoiding resentment, & trying again.

Finances:

  • Roles: How to determine what roles you'll each play (who pays the bills, who earns income).
  • Debt & Budgeting: Giving every dollar a job.
  • Planning: Coming together and finding a new way (saving/spending/organizing) which you both prefer.

Sharing your faith:

  • Prayer: There are many ways to pray. How to find one that might work for you to share.
  • Leadership: St. Ignatious on discernment of spirits.
  • Intercession: Effectively calling down God's blessing on your wife or husband.
  • Virtue: Choosing to become attractive when we want our spouse to be attracted.

Your own topic

  • Couples often have a specific area which they desire growth in.