Couples Summit Workbook | Improving Marriage Connection and Communication
As a Nashville area wedding photographer for over a decade, I have had the honor and joy of capturing couples’ memorable wedding day moments, documenting their love stories to be enjoyed for generations to come. It’s safe to say I’m an advocate for marriage — good marriage. It is my dream for every couple I photograph to thrive in their marriage. While your wedding day is one of the happiest moments of your life, I want that wedding day bliss to overflow into their everyday lives in the decades ahead. To help couples achieve this, I created this Couples Summit Workbook. It is a self-guided workbook that improves communication and allows couples to grow individually and together, while strengthening their relationship.
My husband and I have been married for three years now, and I can honestly say each year gets better and better. We also know that a strong and happy marriage takes work, effort, and intention. This year, we focused on getting intentional about our growth — both personally and as a couple. To do this, we went on a self-led retreat that left us feeling refreshed and inspired. This Couples Summit Workbook was created from our experience and the actual steps we took during our self-led retreat in hopes of inspiring and helping other couples feel encouraged, supported, and at a minimum, more understood. Regardless of whether you’ve been married one year or twenty, it’s never too late to choose yourself and each other!
Self-Guided Couples Summit Workbook
The self-guided prompts and action steps will help you plan a year with intention, gain a better understanding of yourself and your partner’s shared dreams, align your goals in order to support one another, and achieve clarity on what steps to take to live out your dreams. The workbook will cover every area of your life, from career and financial goals to social, intellectual, and health goals, and everything in between. When you are finished you will have a complete vision of you and your partner’s goals, and an action plan on how to achieve them together, while supporting and encouraging one another.
Planning for Success
Before you begin, discuss where and when you want to complete this workbook. Setting aside time to be together, undistracted, is crucial. You could choose to stay home and block off certain days or hours, rent out a conference or hotel room, or even turn this into a weekend away at an AirBnB. Whatever you choose, the goal is to ensure that you are both comfortable and focused!
In order to give yourself and your partner the time and devotion this deserves, I highly recommend you remove any technology. Turn your phone off or put it on airplane mode and tune out the rest of the world. This is a time for just the two of you – a time to connect on a deeper level without any background noise.
What To Expect
This workbook covers a lot of ground and each section should take roughly 20-35 minutes to complete, depending on how much discussion you have when sharing your action steps with each other. However, you can completely modify this to work for you! Move at a pace that suits you and your spouse. Module I and II will take at least 5 hours, while Module III will take much less time. Therefore, make sure you plan your time accordingly, leaving room for coffee breaks, snacks, or even snuggles.
Also, you can absolutely spread this out over 2 days. In fact, my husband and I did Module III the second day and really enjoyed being able to take the time to process everything overnight before sharing and committing to a plan. We also found it helpful to write down our action steps on a white board, that way we could visualize everything as we continued throughout the day. However, do what works best for you both.
As you complete this couples summit workbook, you will have a clear vision, a plan with intention and no guesswork. You will have your voice heard and you will better understand your spouse, allowing for further growth, connection and intimacy. As a result your marriage will thrive now and in the years to come.
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Whether you are interested in strengthening your marriage or planning your big day, I am here to support you!
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