This course is for couples of any age. It focuses upon your strengths, sharing the benefits of having fun, supporting each other, being affectionate, and deepening intimacy.
It requires both of you to take part in reflective practices, exercises with pen and paper, and mini meditations. You absolutely need private time together where you both can spend this time undisturbed, no noise, so you can concentrate fully. You will be fully engaging with your partner in ways that are both familiar to you, as well as new and refreshing for you.
This may also be suitable for therapists, counsellors or life coaches who are looking for more ways to help others and add more tools to their repertoire, and to ultimately help people be part of the change that’s going on in the world right now.
Day 1
Our First Encounters
We’re nurturing the foundations first. Reconnecting you both with some, warm, gentle and loving thoughts, feelings and memories. The second phase starts from Day 5 onwards, where we start using exercises, rituals and tools which help us stay aligned with doing things that those in happy and lasting relationships do.
Day 2
Your Sweet Spot That You Share
Today’s exercise helps you recall and appreciate a moment that you have shared together. A moment that you still treasure to this day, which your partner may well have forgotten about until now. This is about recalling that exact moment where there was a snapshot of sweetness. Then the foundations are set for phase 2, where we start using exercises, rituals and tools which help us stay aligned with doing things that those in happy and lasting relationships do.
Day 3
Your Personal Qualities
Now we’re in phase 2. This is where we start using exercises, rituals and tools which help us stay aligned with doing things that those in happy and lasting relationships do. Today you are going to explore a list pf personal qualities. From here you will choose the ones you the ones you truly admire in your partner, as well as finishing off with a reflective practice that helps us recognise that those personal qualities we admire within each other are also within us.
Day 4
What Makes You Tick?
Today we dive into the things that make you tick, the things that really matter to you right now, both as a couple in close proximity, and when you’re geographically separate from one another. We explore some basic science which helps us nurture our own wellbeing so that we can bring this into an intimate relationship in the service of enhancing the wellbeing between the both of you.
Day 5
Meaningful Connection Rituals
Today we explore ways of enhancing meaningful connection for the both of you together. We do this with the power of mini rituals. I call these Meaningful Connection Rituals. They can help strengthen the connection that you already have with your partner. They also provide the benefits of having fun, supporting each other, being affectionate, and deepening intimacy.
Day 6
Your Non-Negotiable & The Check-in Ritual
Today you are going to explore the idea of a non-negotiable in your relationship. This is something that you both would like to share in your relationship. Your non-negotiable will be a larger action that you commit to. Not many couples consciously think about what their non-negotiable is for maintaining a vital relationship, let alone commit to maintaining this habit. Towards the end there is also the opportunity for the creation of a Check-in Ritual.
Day 7
The Science of Gratitude in Relationships
Here we explore the science of gratitude in the context of enhancing meaningful connection in relationships. You are going to be guided through an experiential practice of gratitude so as to learn about your response with curiosity and how to strengthen the neural template within your brain for exactly this.
Final Day
Pulling It All Together
So, let’s pull everything together. It’s so important to have a detailed recap on what we will have covered, not only is this a nice thing to appreciate, but it’s essential to have some clear action points to be reminded of, a set of call-to-actions, that you both get to choose together. All this in the service of enhancing the meaningful connection between you both, as well as being part of the change that’s going on in the world right now.