Marriage Team

July 10, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Marriage Coaching Training (for couples who either want to be coaches or who want to simply strengthen their marriage).  Two weekend training on marriage coaching for the weekends of Sept 24-26 and October 2 and 3 of 2010 (25 hours total)  It would be Friday night, Saturday most of the day, and Sunday afternoon on Sept 24-26 as well as Saturday most of the day and Sunday afternoon Oct 2 and 3.  Details at the end.

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Mentoring is similar to coaching. A mentor serves as a wise and trusted counselor or teacher. In business, mentors help their proteges to become wise like they are. Coaching involves teaching skills and helping others improve their performance or achieve the results they desire. Marriage coaches help other couples work out their unique relationship to achieve the results that they desire from their marriage. Many studies have proven the value of an experienced coach or mentor (coaching and mentoring studies). Before our society became so mobile, families often lived close enough where wives and husbands could seek coaching from respected senior family members.
Today there are numerous approaches that couples try to improve their marriage. There are self help books, friends, counselors, weekend retreats, and the old favorite, nagging. While each has its advantages and disadvantages, there are many failures as evidenced by our divorce rate. Why is that?

We believe the answer is straightforward. We receive little training in interpersonal communications and many of the examples that we grew up around were not healthy. Consequently, we never learned effective methods of communication. When poor communication skills are coupled with unhealthy ideas about marriage roles and responsibilities and unexpressed expectations that we have for our spouse, it should be little wonder that marriages are experiencing difficulty.

Changing our thinking and behavior is difficult and long-term change is unlikely to occur from a single conversation or weekend retreat. Couple coaching as presented by MarriageTeam provides several features that promote long-term change and growth:

  • Learning improved interpersonal communication and problem solving skills that are practiced for several weeks and incorporated into daily use
  • Supportive environment for effective communication and exploring issues
  • Exercises to explore “hidden” issues with practical approaches for resolution
  • New insight into many of the issues causing stress in the marriage
  • Different paradigms for looking at the marriage relationship
  • Accountability with the coach couple for implementing agreements

We have seen how coach couples can come along side other couples with skill building materials to create stronger marriages. This provides an excellent outreach opportunity to the community where couples can come and improve their relationship.

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Who: Al and Autumn Ray from the Marriage Team and Charlie and Brooke Granade from Ridgeview

Where: Ridgeview Bible Church in Chadron, NE at 919 E 10th Street.

How much: We are asking each couple to make a donation of between $40 to $200 (if you don’t have the money, come anyway). We are asking each outside church who have couples attending to pay $175/couple

DEADLINE for signing up:  August 1, 2010.  You don’t have to pay anything until the final weekend.  However, only say you’re coming if you’re sure you can make it.  We can have up to 20 couples attend this incredible event.

For more info: call Charlie @ 308-432-5131

Marriage team website here: http://www.marriageteam.org/index.html PDF Brochure is attached here: Brochure.

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