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MARRIED COUPLES PROGRAM

Right Start Publications has prepared a program for those couples who have not participated in a Right Start premarital program or who need additional work in communication and conflict resolution. The Communication Workbook is a greatly expanded version of Lessons 3 and 4 in the premarital Student Notebook and Student Workbook, recast for married couples and augmented with relevant Bible studies.

Each of the Lessons in this Workbook consists of two to eight pages of text, discussing communication and conflict resolution, with coordinated Bible studies, and one to four worksheets. The Bible studies will ground the learning in God's directions, and the worksheets will aid in the retention, and personal applications, of the concepts presented in the text material.

The Bible studies are not intended to be exhaustive studies of these passages, but are focused on their teaching on communication and conflict resolution within marriage.

APPLICATIONS:

COUPLE SELF STUDY

A couple can use this Workbook on a self-study basis by reading and discussing the text material; completing the Bible studies together; and individually completing the Worksheets, then discussing them together. 

COUPLE SELF STUDY WITH ASSISTANCE OF MENTORS OR FACILITATOR

The same procedure is used as in couple self study, but, in addition, mentors or a facilitator goes over their answers on the written work with the couple.

GROUP STUDY

Couples study the text material in advance of each meeting and complete the Bible studies and Worksheets for each Lesson. In the group meeting, the participants discuss the Bible studies and text materials. It is not advisable to discuss couples' specific answers from the Worksheets in a group setting because of their private nature. However, a general discussion of the Worksheet issues would be helpful.

TESTIMONIALS

It is documented that this workbook has turned around the troubled marriages of couples who had been in counseling for over two years without previous positive results. These results are attributable to the fact that, in each partner's self study, he or she has been confronted with the authority of God's word, as it bears on their own marriage situation.

FACILITATOR'S GUIDE

The Workbook is also available in a Facilitator's Guide, which gives suggested answers for the Bible studies and Worksheets.