Believing You Can Have a Great Mixed Faith Marriage – Here you will uncover and look at your current beliefs around faith transition and mixed faith marriage. If you think it’s going to be very challenging then it will be. You will be guided to create a new way of looking at your mixed faith marriage.
Dealing with your Feelings (Part 1) – This week you will learn why your feelings matter (and they REALLY do) to your mixed faith marriage and how to actually process your feelings so they do not overwhelm or sabotage you.
Dealing with your Feelings (Part 2) – You will take a deeper dive into your feelings and discuss common mistakes people make when dealing with their feelings. We also take a closer look at how grief plays into a faith transition and mixed faith marriage.
Communication: Inner and Outer Work and Knowing your Preferences – This week you start working on communication. Communication is a set of skills. Here you learn about the framework for effective communication and the foundation skill of knowing your preferences.
Communication: Direct and Indirect Communication– Communication skills build on each other and this week you will learn about direct and indirect communication (think passive aggression). We apply these skills directly to issues in a mixed faith marriage.
Communication: Difficult Conversations and Decision Making – You will learn more communication skills such as how to have a difficult conversation and how to make decisions as partners. You will learn this under the frame work of managing your own thoughts and emotions about your mixed faith marriage.
Value Based Decision Making – This week you will build on the decision making and communication skills you have been developing. You will learn about your values (not necessarily what you think they are) and your spouse’s and use these as the foundation for your mutual decision making. This provides you with a fail proof way of making family decisions.
Codependency – Here you will learn about dealing with blame and how to stop being emotionally dependent on others so that you can mange fear, control and resentment. We will use real life examples from mixed faith marriages.
Boundaries and Requests – A boundary is put in place to preserve and strengthen a relationship. This week you will learn how to use boundaries and requests to build and protect your relationship and not to control others and not to defend yourself.
Manuals and Love – You will learn some things you are doing that are stopping you from feeling and acting from love in your relationship and how to change that so you can feel better and act better.
Forgiveness and Your New Story – Here you will learn a step by step process for forgiving in a way that is validating and empowering.
Relationship Goals – This week you will learn how to set relationship goals in a way that really works so you can keep improving your mixed faith marriage.
Parenting topics are sprinkled through out the whole class and discussed regularly.
Bonus modules are also included on very specific topics and frequently asked questions.
