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  Conscious Couples Network

Hollis and HalThe Conscious Couples Network (CCN) is committed to helping couples enrich, renew and strengthen their relationship. Recognizing the need for group education, discussion and support, the Network sponsors evening gatherings and weekend and/or day long workshops, throughout the year.

We offer the camaraderie of other committed couples,  and a demonstration of ordinary people choosing to learn to develop themselves and their relationship, to create an increasingly rich and satisfying life.

Listening in to other couples’ discussions about issues that I could relate to was fascinating and insightful. Effective job creating a safe space. I felt I could be open and honest and I very much appreciated the leadership.  – Liz
 

Program Benefits

  • Participants find that they create a more emotionally intelligent and mature relationship.
  • Partners bring a more positive influence into their home and other areas of their lives.
  • We offer opportunities to learn, practice and experience  healthy relational behaviors through non-judgmental game play.  

What’s the Conscious Couples name about?

 Our name highlights two features of a healthy, committed relationship

 1. Consciousness, because good relationships just don’t happen – they require intention, attention and care to create a warm relationship that is supportive of the growth of both partners.

 2. Network, because of the importance of providing an ongoing, supportive, and  relational context for couples to practice and refine their skills of friendship and goodwill.  Spending time with other couples provides the opportunity to share what you have learned from your relationship and to learn from others.  The network provides couples mutual support and practical help - couples coaching couples.

Game Play Method of Learning

Game play allows participants to relax and let go of the constrictions of their Do’s and Don’ts.  Benefits of Game Play  include:

  •   Improved communication.
  •   Increased affection and lighten the atmosphere.
  •   Enhanced collaboration and effective partnership.
The games are a method of stimulating insight, wisdom, and personal growth. They belong to the domain of doing and being. They are a way at arriving at the truth through the sharing of experience, but they are neutral concerning the specific content of the truths arrived at.  

Source: Reality Games, Saville Sax & Sandra Hollander, p.21

Program Leadership

Bruce and Irene Perler provide leadership for the CCN. along with  John Hoff, ThD, and Colette Hoff, MA, couple and family life educators.

“The measure of a good relationship is not the absence of problems, but the way in which a couple works with their problems. John Hoff, ThD.

 

 

 

Testimonies

Practical human footsteps. The tools we were given can allow us to better stop and see what we are doing.  JR

Enjoyed the balance between work, play and the exercises. Some positive role-playing games from the leaders. Great Job.  --CF 

I appreciated John’s ability to bring new concepts that help us relate as partners and Colette’s insights into each of our relationships. I admire Bruce and Irene’s willingness to use their relationship as a model. – HGR 

The assessment tools fueled good conversation. I appreciated the time to build and share deeply. The leadership and overall participation was great. - BP

 

     

  

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