Registration Link for Graduate Circle

When Love is Not Enough Online Skills Course

Course Goals:

• Honoring each other’s needs around feeling loved, secure and respected.
• Creating a healthy environment that supports our individual needs, dreams and goals.
• Understanding how our past affects and influences the way we react and respond to each other, and what do we need to change or accept.
• Recognizing power struggles: why they occur and how harmful they can be to friendship and sexual intimacy.
• Learning to listen, show empathy, respond effectively and work as a team.
• Maintaining a loving partnership where intimacy, passion, love and sexuality thrive.

*This is an online course. If you miss a session, it’s taped so you can watch later.

Curtain Up Anxiety Down

Many people experience anxiety and insecurity in social situations, and these days this problem is on the increase. Often, it is directly connected to feelings of depression and uncertainty, which can make it difficult to interact confidently with others. But all is not lost: Murray Dabby now offers the course Curtain Up! Anxiety Down! This unique approach to overcoming social anxiety uses the performance art of improvisation. Improv promotes spontaneous “play” with others in ways that are fun, intimate and quickly transformative. Murray’s classes combine therapeutic improvisation with group conversation to help participants fully understand the practical applications of the improv experience.

This class meets in person.

Relationship Skills for Men

Do your attempts to solve relational problems often fail? Do others seem frustrated by interpersonal approaches? Do you feel clueless about what to do with your emotions? Society fails to equip men for the complexities of a relationship. Join our men’s group if you’d like to increase your relationship skills, gain self-insight, and enhance your emotional intelligence. Format:

• Educational Content
• Practical Skills
• Group Processing

You Will Gain:

• Emotional Intelligence – abilities that help you build stronger relationships, succeed at work, and achieve your career and personal goals
• Enhanced understanding – How to identify unhealthy messages that you carry with you
• Communication & Conflict Skills – How to share your perspective & receive another’s perspective more effectively
• Emotional Regulation Techniques – understand, use, and manage your own emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others.

Whether or not you’re single, in a relationship or married, this group is for you. In our group, you will receive a mixture of educational content, practical skills, and discussion with peers, led by a therapist. Group Topics:

• Emotional intelligence: What is it?
• Male stigmas and stereotypes
• Active Listening
• Empathy Enhancement
• Vulnerability
• Conflict Avoidance
• Emotional Regulation
• Control vs. Collaboration

ADHD in Couples

Are your conversations full of rabbit trails and interruptions? Are you frustrated by unmet expectations and misunderstandings? Do you feel judged and ashamed? Does it seem like you’re trapped in a parent-child dynamic? Couples often become gridlocked when it comes to the complexities of ADHD in relationships. Join our group, as we navigate towards a healthier and happier future.
Format:

• Educational Content
• Practical Skills
• Group Processing

You Will Gain:

• Enhanced Understanding – How ADHD affects your personality, needs, and rhythms
• Couples Communication Skills – How to share your perspective and experience in a way that your partner can hear you
• Executive Functioning Skills – How to implement structures and tools to achieve a healthier balance of productivity and enjoyment
• Healthy Dynamics – How to break unhealthy patterns and interact with each other with respect and care

Have you suspected your partner or yourself to have ADHD? Take this free questionnaire to see if symptoms are present:
Do I Have ADHD? Take This ADHD Quiz to See If You Might

Whether one or both you may have ADHD symptoms, we invite you to join our group! No formal diagnoses necessary. In our group, you will receive a mixture of educational content, practical skills, and support through discussion with peers and therapists.
Group Topics:

• Dealing with stigma
• Parent – child dynamic
• Conflict communication skills
• Executive functioning skills aka: “Life Hacks”
• Shame & Destigmatization
• Emotional regulation skills
• Grief and acceptance
• Build on your strengths
• ADHD and neurodiversity

Graduate Circle

The Couples College Graduate Circle is open to all graduates of our five-month and ten-month courses. It’s designed to help couples continue the good work they started in the regular course, with the support of other dedicated couples.

The Graduate Circle helps couples sustain the skills they gained in our primary course. We build on this foundation to help you break out of the cycles of disfunction that keep so many couples stuck in neutral. Our Circle groups are often playful, emotional and enriching in ways that even close friendships don’t experience.

The Graduate Circle consists of two groups that meet five times a year, every other month, starting in October. While not a huge time commitment, we consider these ongoing group sessions to be among the best methods available for couples to continue working on the issues that challenge their partnership.

Each Circle is limited to seven couples in order to foster a smaller, more intimate experience. Those who join tell us they appreciate being part of a community of like-minded couples also seeking to continue strengthening and healing their relationship.

Email and Cell
Allison Caffyn allie@thecouplescollege.com Cell 404-620-0533
Murray Dabby murray@thecouplescollege.com Cell 404-545-2285

Thanks so much for your respect and willingness to work within these guidelines. We are looking forward to a fabulous session with you.

Email and Cell
Luke Durain luke@thecouplescollege.com 404-590-5264

Thanks so much for your respect and willingness to work within these guidelines. We are looking forward to a fabulous session with you.