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Musings about Friends Couple Enrichment and the practice of Couple Dialogue
Musings about Friends Couple Enrichment and the practice of Couple Dialogue
Pull up your computer and join FCE Leader Couples from Alaska and Texas for Zoom retreat.
This exercise is a lighthearted invitation to start conversations that let you learn 5 things you didn't know about your partner.
Half-way through 2025 we have already had more in-person retreats than in all of 2024. Read on to get a flavor of the different sorts of retreats offered.
All relationships have a past, a present, and hopefully a future. This activity encourages couples to reflect on romantic behaviors over different stages of our relationship.
You can participate in regular witnessed dialogues without leaving the comfort of your home by participating in FCE's monthly online drop-in dialogues.
Jess Walcott shares how listening in dialogue gives us the superpower of being able to let go of defensivness.
For the dialoguing couple the witness holds a safe space for curiosity and exploration. For the witness the discipline of opening the heart creates a space of deep compassion.
Do long-distance relationship have be a temporary solution? Kirsten Brink shares how when our beloved is in another city, state, or country, the concept of home stretches and bends.
Research shows that watching movies together (and then talking about how the characters communicate) can improve your own couple communication.
Sometimes the magic of dialogue involves uncovering emotions that lie hidden beneath the surface of the dialogue.
A testimony from Mark and Daphne, past participants in a Couple Enrichment Workshop
Couple Dialogue practices use many of the same skills that help us respond when racism rears it's head.
For a couple with children at home, having a "Dialogue Night" instead of "Date Night" was a way to renew the intimacy of their relationship.
2025-09 "Five Things...Go" exercise
2022-06 Info Session in Spanish
2021-09 To Live Intentionally as a Couple after 15 Months of Sheltering Together
2020-12 Reflections on a Honolulu Retreat
PDFs of other articles about Marriage
Patricia McBee, Marriage as a Spiritual Discipline (Friends Journal, July 1994)
Margaret Hope Bacon, Grow Old Along With Me (Friends Journal, March 1994)
David & Vera Mace, Marriage Enrichment Retreats (Friends General Conference, ca 1969)
David Mace, Marriage As Vocation (Friends General Conference, 1968)