Marriage Enrichment Resources

Marriage enrichment (ME) is about intentional marriages. Marriage is a gift to treasure but often the pressures and burdens of daily life leave this relationship impoverished. The primary aim of these resources is to assist potential leader couples to design and deliver engaging ME events that foster a safe place where married couples can take time out to nurture and strengthen their relationship and grow towards increased intimacy. Safety is created through community building activities, leader couple modelling and designing ME sessions that provide a transformational place where couples can learn, grow and change.

The underlying desire to be a leader couple is usually motivated by loving concern for the well-being of other couples in your community. However, the immediate outcome is the continuing growth of our own relationship, which is, after all, the basis for anything we may wish to offer others. If we hope for commitment by other couples to their marriages, we must first be committed to ours. If we desire other couples to communicate well and solve their problems creatively, it needs to begin with us.

Our aim in offering you these resources is to share the tools, techniques and experiences for marriage growth that we have used over many years. These resources are intended to highlight the possibilities as well as shape the sensitivity and skills necessary for authentic leadership of couples as they seek to grow in their marriages. It is important to declare that our Christian faith informs every aspect of our lives and will sometimes be reflected in the resources. However, from our cross-cultural experience we have learned that the principles, truths and concepts we explore in relationships have universal application, whether in a faith-based community, a culturally specific group or otherwise. It is our hope that this resource manual and training videos will be a landmark for you as a couple and that, whatever the benefits for other couples, you will find it a real stimulus to your own growth and that this will flow out to others in a vital and effective way.