Innovative Delivery of a Marriage Enrichment Workshop
Class
Article
Graduation Year
2017
College
Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services
Department
Family, Consumer, and Human Development Department
Faculty Mentor
David Law
Presentation Type
Oral Presentation
Abstract
When we think of “enhancing the human condition” we envision people with superpowers. We look at the vast world of human services, discover a problem, zone in and ask ourselves, “What can we do to solve this?” The Marriage Enrichment Workshop strengthens the family unit one marriage at a time. As undergraduate students involved in the workshop we have uncovered that equipping couples with tools to strengthen their marriage is the best superpower you can give to a family.
The Marriage Enrichment Workshop (MEW) is a capstone of the FHCD 5540: Family Life Education Methods class teaches students how to design a workshop through hands-on facilitation of a workshop offered to rural couples. The materials for the class and workshop are based on the highly effective methods of Dr. John Gottman’s The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, Dr. Willard Harley’s His Needs, Her Needs, Lane H. Powell’s Family Life Education: Working with Families across the Life Span, and Love, Limits, and Latitude: A Thousand Small Moments of Parenting by M. Gawain Wells, David Law, and Jennifer E. Johnson. The semester is divided into two sessions, the first six weeks are students receive in-class instruction and feedback from the instructor to help develop their material to be presented to the couples. The last six weeks of the course is the workshop. The workshop is designed to increase marital satisfaction by helping spouses learn to meet each other’s needs and practice effective communication.
Research indicates that satisfaction with sexual communication was significantly and positively associated with sexual satisfaction, dyadic adjustment, dyadic satisfaction, dyadic cohesion, affectional expression and dyadic consensus (Cupach, 1990). We experienced positive feedback when we discussed sexual fulfillment, a key component to any marriage yet is often left out of the discussions about strengthening marriages.
Location
Room 204
Start Date
4-13-2017 10:30 AM
End Date
4-13-2017 11:45 AM
Innovative Delivery of a Marriage Enrichment Workshop
Room 204
When we think of “enhancing the human condition” we envision people with superpowers. We look at the vast world of human services, discover a problem, zone in and ask ourselves, “What can we do to solve this?” The Marriage Enrichment Workshop strengthens the family unit one marriage at a time. As undergraduate students involved in the workshop we have uncovered that equipping couples with tools to strengthen their marriage is the best superpower you can give to a family.
The Marriage Enrichment Workshop (MEW) is a capstone of the FHCD 5540: Family Life Education Methods class teaches students how to design a workshop through hands-on facilitation of a workshop offered to rural couples. The materials for the class and workshop are based on the highly effective methods of Dr. John Gottman’s The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, Dr. Willard Harley’s His Needs, Her Needs, Lane H. Powell’s Family Life Education: Working with Families across the Life Span, and Love, Limits, and Latitude: A Thousand Small Moments of Parenting by M. Gawain Wells, David Law, and Jennifer E. Johnson. The semester is divided into two sessions, the first six weeks are students receive in-class instruction and feedback from the instructor to help develop their material to be presented to the couples. The last six weeks of the course is the workshop. The workshop is designed to increase marital satisfaction by helping spouses learn to meet each other’s needs and practice effective communication.
Research indicates that satisfaction with sexual communication was significantly and positively associated with sexual satisfaction, dyadic adjustment, dyadic satisfaction, dyadic cohesion, affectional expression and dyadic consensus (Cupach, 1990). We experienced positive feedback when we discussed sexual fulfillment, a key component to any marriage yet is often left out of the discussions about strengthening marriages.