Marriage Enrichment



Are you interested in discovering the joy of thriving in your marriage? Great marriages don’t just happen – but they can happen.

Catholic parishes of the Inner North Canberra in conjunction with the Holy Cross Anglican are running a course which combines face-to-face and zoom sessions.
Course times are consecutive Thursday evenings from 2 May – 27 June 2024.

Participants can engage from the comfort and privacy of your own home as well as meeting a couple of times with those undertaking the course and feel supported on your marriage journey by other married couples.
This course welcomes all couples (married or cohabiting) from all faiths and none, and is designed for you to discuss questions as a couple in the privacy of your own home. The Alpha Marriage Course provides tools to help you develop and grow your marriage from a good to a great one! It is suited to couples who:
  • have been together from 1 to 61 years or more
  • are in a good relationship or are struggling
The course is 9 weeks in total and includes 7 sessions looking at topics such as strengthening connection; communication; resolving conflict and the power of forgiveness as well as love in action. Each session will have up to date video material and some time for you to connect as a couple.

"There's no marriage that can't be improved" - Nicky Gumbel

To learn more, please contact Helena Zobec on helena.zobec@cg.org.au or 0405 440 463.
To register for the program go here
A mentoring program for couples in their early years of marriage.

Each year for 5 years the newly married couple is matched up with a new mentor couple who meets with them 4 times a year to explore issues shown by research to be pertinent to building good foundations in early married life.

So over 5 years, the newly married couple gains insight into 20 important topics as well as experiencing 5 different mature marriages.

Ministry to the Newly Married aims to foster the development of relationship skills, broaden a couple’s understanding of each other and assist them in the living out of the sacrament of marriage.

Contact: Ralph & Angela Frank 0401 994 081 contacts@newlymarried.org

For more information: http://www.newlymarried.org/
Register your interest here.
A lay movement within the Catholic Church that offers couples a chance to discover the Lord’s presence in their marriage and to live in Christian fellowship with other couples as a way of giving thanks to God and bearing witness to Him in the world.

http://www.teamsoceania.com.au/

Contact:
John & Alex Eyers
0408 497 899
jeyers@webone.com.au
Weekend Program designed to enrich and deepen couples and priests in their vocations and to help rediscover and reignite some of the sparkle that can get lost through time. Our mission: to proclaim the value of Marriage and Holy Orders in the Church and in the world.

Worldwide Marriage Encounter
Grace & Brendan Price
0423 431 683
gracemaryprice@gmail.com
www.wwme.org.au
Investing in your marriage and your relationship with each other is important. The Marriage Kit created by SmartLoving is a self directed online course for married couples wanting a lasting, passionate relationship. It can also be run by parishes in a group setting.

Enquire at www.smartloving.org/marriage-kit

SmartLoving
+61 434 346 280
info@smartloving.org
www.smartloving.org
Many couples at various stages of their marriage face times where they feel stuck and are at a standstill in their relationship. The SmartLoving Breakthrough course helps marriages under stress by working with individual spouses to optimise their interior peace so that they can approach their difficulties from a position of strength and love.

This course will help to:
  • Identify conflict triggers
  • Learn strategies to de-escalate an argument
  • Find constructive ways to re-establish connection
Register for SmartLoving Breakthrough here: www.smartloving.org/breakthrough
CatholicCare’s Family & Relationship Counselling Service offers counselling to individuals, couples and families who are seeking support to deal with a range of issues including: building relationships, conflict resolution, improving communication, coping with change, step parenting and parenting after separation.

Our Family & Relationship counsellors are professionally qualified Psychologists, Social Workers or Counsellors. They are skilled in individual, couple and family therapy and have a vast knowledge of issues that impact family relationships.

Our counsellors can help you by:
  • Assisting you to explore your options to change
  • Supporting you while you implement changes to improve your relationship
  • Helping you as parents to provide ongoing support to your children
  • Helping you as individuals to minimise the pain should you decide to separate or divorce
This service is provided in the ACT, Goulburn, Bega, Moruya and Queanbeyan.

There may be a fee associated with this service, call us on 1800 068 698 for more information or to book an appointment.

Funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services
“The Christian proclamation on the family is good news indeed”
(AL 1)

Read Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia here here.