Past Event: Seven Principles for Happy Marriages • Autumn 2024

Past Event: Seven Principles for Happy Marriages

Autumn 2024

This 4-part workshop provides proven tools from the Gottman Institute to help couples improve their relationship.

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Workshop Details

October 2 and October 9

7pm – 8:45pm
ECDC-SMC
Havican Hall Room 20
Saint Mary’s College
Notre Dame, IN

October 16

7pm – 8:45pm
St Joe Parish and School
711 E. Colfax; South Bend, IN 46617

October 23

7pm – 8:45pm
First United Methodist
333 N Main St, South Bend, IN 46601

Cost

$160 if registered and paid before end of business day on September 25
$229 if registered and paid after September 25

couple-embracing

What You Will Learn

This 7-hour workshop, over four weeks, provides proven tools to help couples:

  • Improve friendship, fondness, and admiration
  • Manage conflict constructively
  • Gain understanding of perpetual and solvable conflict
  • Enrich shared meaning in the relationship
  • Maintain gains throughout a lifetime

Who Should Attend

  • Those who wish to nurture and enhance a good marriage
  • Those wanting better conflict management tools
  • Everyone from newlyweds to seniors
  • Pre-engaged couples 
  • Premarital couples

Event Co-Hosts

St. Joseph Catholic Church

St. Joseph Catholic Church

We like to partner with faith communities like St Joe Church and School because, like us, they nurture marriages, children, and families.

More about our partnership

Early Childhood Development Center

Early Development Childhood Center

Family Psychology of South Bend Partners with Early Childhood Development Center of South Bend

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First United Methodist Church of South Bend

First United Methodist Church

We are pleased to partner with First United Methodist to share resources to strengthen relationship health.

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Event Presenters

Sharon Bain, LCSW

Sharon Bain, LCSW

Sharon Bain, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, specializes in work with professional women, especially professional women who are also mothers with high aspirations in work, parenting, and relationships.
Trey Duckett, LMHCA

Trey Duckett, LMHCA

Trey provides a focus on couples counseling using his training in the Gottman Method. He also provides individual counseling for adults and teens using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
Dr. John Petersen

Dr. John Petersen

John Petersen is a Clinical Psychologist with a practice background in family psychology who now focuses his clinical work on couples counseling, individual counseling about love relationships, and sex therapy.
 Sara Baxter, M.S.

Sara Baxter, M.S.

Sara is a clinical therapist in our Marriage and Couples Center. Sara works with couples using the Gottman Method in our couples center. Her own positive experiences with counseling in her teens inspired her to pursue it as a career.