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Marriage Prep 101
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Category: Counseling & Mental Health [Edit]
Neighborhood: Marina/Cow HollowFort Mason Center
Bldg C, Ste 300
San Francisco, CA 94123
(415) 905-8830
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5 reviews for Marriage Prep 101
I highly recommend this course to anyone in a serious relationship whether it be long term, engaged, or even already married. As a matter of fact, I wish I had discovered it long ago! This workshop has many strengths, but to name a few: VERY PRACTICAL, strengths focused, and a great introduction to conflict resolution skills. I thought they put a balanced energy in strength, conflict, and goal identification.
The instructors use humor (they're real, not hoaky) to help illustrate theory/demonstrate excercises, present science based research in an enlightening way (much to my relief-I left the lectures behind in college), and gave us the opportunity to practice everyday skills in the workshop. . They made themselves available for private questions- overall guidance to everyone throughout the duration of the workshop for all excercises.
To conclude: The fiance was surprisingly impressed. In short, he thanked me for signing us up! I recommend Marriage Prep 101 with utmost confidence to anyone looking to grow as an individual and/or as a couple.
My husband and I took this class several months before our wedding and highly recommend it to the engaged, almost engaged, or recently married.
The class and the strategies it teaches are research-based and non-religious. The teaching couple is genuine and hilarious, as well as highly qualified: they're both psychologists and they're a happily married couple, having worked hard to build the marriage they want.
I appreciated that this class had us take a "Relate" survey/questionnaire that compared my point of view and my husband's point of view on a long list of topics: communication, conflict, family models of relationship, priorities, children, religion, money, etc. It was a good way to highlight where our perspectives were somewhat different so that we could understand that and communicate effectively about it.
Much of the class consists of communication and conflict-resolution type strategies and exercises. Probably most adults need these skills, married or not, but especially so if you want to actually live your life with someone. Students aren't forced to share with other students, so don't worry about being put on the spot in front of the group.
Our class was at Fort Mason, easily accessible by public transit and with abundant parking. They served us food from Green's to go, provided useful workbooks and articles, and answered all manner of questions with professionalism, humor, non-judgment, and insight. Students were of many ages and backgrounds (religious, cultural, economic, geographic, etc.). I don't remember any gay couples in our class, but I think they'd be welcome. The Marriage Prep 101 website has a lot of useful information, and just got re-vamped for a friendlier and more aesthetically-pleasing interface than the site used to be. The class was very worthwhile and we wish that everyone wanted to take a class like this one and could do so.
My fiance thought I was dragging him to a Mormon marriage class since the "Relate" test we took before the class was produced by BYU. Much to his relief (since we're both not religious), it was completely secular.
My fiance and were in the instructors' 60th class, and found it very helpful. I second everything the first reviewer said -- the couple leading the class are hilarious, with great stories and an approachable style.
After hearing about an experience a friend had with a class taught by another organization (which drew participants into the drama of other participants' lives), I really appreciated that the class was focused on the individual relationship you have with your significant other.
Even the food they provided was great -- desserts Friday evening, bagels Saturday morning, and yummy food from Green's restaurant and sandwiches from another place that were all good.
With all the wedding planning that goes on, it made sense to us to plan for the marriage as well as the wedding day itself. I've recommended to several friends that they take this class -- some are engaged already and others are living together but not yet engaged. I'd think it'd be worth it either way.
My fiance and I took this course and absolutely loved it!It provides a neutral setting to talk about challenging issues in the relationship and focus on the resolution.You also get to reflect on many of your strengths as well.I found the instructors to be knowledgeable and real.They do not preach about how a marriage should work in theory, they talk about the tools we can all use to make a marriage work in practice.I would recommend this course to anyone getting married.In fact my fiance and I plan to attend the course every five years.
My advice, don't wait until you have a conflict to discuss it.Chances are at that point one of you will be defensive.This is a great way to put everything on the table and talk about it in a rational way.
We spend so much time planning a wedding and sometimes forget that the whole point is that it's really about a marriage. Spending $400 and ten hours planning for our marriage in this workshop was a great investment.
This class provided us with a great opportunity to learn about our similarities and differences, identify strengths and weaknesses and develop helpful tools to communicate more effectively. The course was fun and the Gannons (husband-wife therapists leading the class) used lots of funny stories from their own marriage to illustrate their point.
The class was comprehensive, informative and extremely practical. I can't recommend it enough.
