ENCUENTRO Couple Program
Our Approach
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Encuentro provides comprehensive psycho-educational relationship programs to foster positive emotional change that address culturally sensitive issues within the Latino community using a research-evidence interventions based on "Gottman 7 Principles Program for making marriage work". The curriculum it's a structured, goal-oriented, scientifically-based program. Intervention strategies are based upon empirical data from Dr. Gottman’s study of more than 3,000 couples. This research shows what actually works to help couples achieve a long-term healthy relationship.
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Couples Psychoeducational Program
Couple meet on weekly basis with couples educator following the curriculum. The Couples Psychoeducational Curriculum is based on "Gottman Sound Relationship House Theory" which is structured in 4 steps. The first level of SRH address areas of friendship and how to build a base secure relationship. This level includes Love Maps, Share Fondness and Admiration System , and Turn Towards or Away. The second level address the Positive or Negative Perspective, we help participants to access whether or not the couple has a negative perspective.
The third level has to do with the regulation of conflict; couples need to identify the core issues and the anatomy of repeating negative cycles of the relationship. The fourth level works with Make Life Dreams and Aspiration Come True. The couple develops the ability to honor one another dreams and to create meaning together.
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Couples Group Workshop
The Seven Principles Program allows for maximum flexibility in using the curriculum in a wide variety in setting and time frames. It may be offered as a weekly class over a several week time span or single weekend experience. Participants are invited but not required to share experiences, insight, and feelings with the group. Participants are taught new ways to relate and resolve conflict (behavioral adjustments) before they are led to increased awareness of self (cognitive techniques). They then learn to release anger, hurt and fear (affective processes), take responsibility for their own needs cognitively and behaviorally, and develop the ability to understand, hear and give to their partner.
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