Relationships & Marriage

iCare are registered to use ENRICH material with couples.

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Promoting healthy couple relationships and strong marriages is one of our passions. Whether or not you use one of these programmes with us, we are equipped to work with you and your relationship in whatever way may be helpful for you.

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enrich assessments are individually
customised for each couple
'enrich' is an assessment tool adapted for their situation, that couples complete online as a resource for strengthening their relationship.

The assessment can be used by couples both before marriage (or other significant relationship commitment) or afterwards to identify their relationship strengths and possible areas for growth.

Couples receive a 10 page Couple's Report and a 28 page Couple's Workbook. Using results from the assessment, a trained facilitator is available to provide feedback sessions, helping a couple to understand and discuss their assessment results and to learn and improve relationship skills.

More than 2.5 million couples around the world have done the Prepare-Enrich programme since it began in 1980.

Terry Alve has been a certified enrich facilitator since 1995 and has been marrying couples since 1981. His experience of working with well over 100 couples both before and after marriage, indicates that this resource is highly valued. Margaret has experience working with couples both using enrich resources and as a trained counsellor. If requested, both Margaret and Terry, as a couple, can work with you during your enrich follow up sessions.

Couples universally report that Prepare-Enrich helped them to grow in their relationship.

Using enrich assessment tools can help you to:
  • Identify areas of relationship strength and areas for growth
  • Improve your communication skills
  • Identify and manage major stress areas
  • Increase your ability to resolve disagreements
  • Build on your relationship strengths
  • Gain a greater appreciation of your family of origin
  • Deal with financial planning and budgeting
  • Establish personal, couple and family goals
  • Understand and appreciate personality differences
  • Discuss your sexuality 
enrich uses a 165-item online questionnaire to assess relationship strength and growth areas in these categories:

Communication
Conflict Resolution
Relationship Dynamics
Relationship Stress
Partner Style and Habits
Marital Expectations
Personality Assessment
Financial Management
Spirituality
Children and Parenting
Family and Friends
Sexual Expectations
Leisure Activities
Role Relationships
Family-of-Origin Issues 

 enrich programmes are  designed and customised specifically to help couples get their relationship off to a better start, or to enrich an existing one.
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?
Our fee for the Prepare-Enrich Online Assessment Questionnaire is $55.

Each one hour follow-up facilitation session costs $60, or $75 if working with couple facilitators. The number of sessions requested by a couple will relate to the assessment outcomes. Typically, 3 follow-up sessions are requested. Therefore the usual total fee for completing Prepare-Enrich will be around $235-280.
 
The $55 payment for completing the online assessment is paid before you are given access to the online assessment tool. Fees can be paid by Credit Card or PayPal using our Payment link.
TESTIMONIALS
"Thanks again - a great questionnaire & can tell that there will be loads more to talk about through those questions." 

"Our participation (in enrich) has helped us to better communicate with each other, particularly in difficult areas."

"I found the programme to be a most useful tool in helping couples to improve their relationship."

"We know that our marriage has been strengthened through what we've learned in taking this assessment."

"In simply taking Prepare, many of the items stimulated discussions between my partner and I."

"Prepare really helped us to resolve conflict and grow even closer."

WEDDINGS
Terry is licensed to marry couples. He would normally expect a couple to have completed an enrich programme before marriage.

Fees for preparing for and conducting a marriage service will be negotiated separately from enrich fees.