Largest Number of Coach Couples to Date Completed Training

Vancouver, WA — On March 21, MarriageTeam completed a 24-hour training program for marriage coaches. Twenty-four couples learned how to strengthen marriages through the process of building relationship skills and helping couples clarify issues, identify options, and move to action. Training included how to use the internationally acclaimed PREPARE/ENRICH marriage inventory that facilitates the coaching process.

After their graduation from MarriageTeam's training program, many of these couples will be available to coach other couples who want to improve their marriage. With these new coaches, MarriageTeam anticipates having over 45 coach couples in the Portland and Vancouver areas.

Marriage coaching works for premarital as well as married couples. There are business, leadership, personal, life, and fitness coaches to name just a few and now there are marriage coaches who can empower a couple to create a winning marriage. Coaching is all about helping couples achieve the objectives they want in their marriage. Coaching will be available on a first come, first serve basis.

Coaching can provide an affordable and effective alternative for many couples who want to improve their marriage. Interested individuals can learn more about marriage coaching at www.MarriageTeam.org or call 866 831-4201.

Background

MarriageTeam is a nonprofit based in Vancouver, WA that provides couple coaching as a faith based community service. It is dedicated to empowering couples for winning marriages through coaching and relationship skill building. The organization uses volunteers and donors to provide the staffing and funds needed for operations. Services are provided to couples by trained coach couples. MarriageTeam currently provides:

Premarital coaching for engaged couples,
Enrichment coaching for couples wanting to improve their teamwork,
Coaching for couples who are experiencing significant conflict in their relationship

Coaching is different than counseling because it assumes that couples are healthy and can resolve their issues with the assistance of a trained coach. An analogy helps to explain what happens. We are all born into different teams called our family. As we grow up, we learn the plays that work for our team. Some teams of origin are more functional (winning) than others. As young adults we become free agents and create our own new teams called marriage. The problem is that we bring our old playbook and we do not share it with our new teammate. This creates errors, fumbles, and frustration.

Coaches help marriages create a common playbook so they can work together for a winning marriage.