Avoiding Mr. & Miss Understanding:
A Guide to Constructive Conflict Communication For Nearlyweds

Marriage in the 21st century carries more complex meanings and requires more sustained effort than ever before. Because of this challenge, our seminar is designed to provide the pre-newlywed community with a marital enrichment program focusing on the key factors toward increasing marital quality and improving marital stability.

Practitioners and researchers agree: the presence or absence of conflict does not determine the quality of a marriage; rather, it is in how the couple handles conflictual situations that the character of the relationship develops. Relatively few couples approach marriage with the skills and commitment requisite for marital success.

Working within a Catholic Christian framework which emphasizes marriage as a covenant, our skills-based seminar will help premarital partners experience how relatively simple behavioral exercises have been proven to foster stable, caring marriages.

Where and when are the classes?

St. Thomas Aquinas currently offers you the choice of attending the seminar on Constructive Conflict Communication either on a scheduled Saturday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. or on a scheduled Monday evening at 7:00 p.m.  Classes are held in the St. Maron Room.

Please register on-line by click this link or call Mr. James Taylor at the parish office at 214-821-3360 to schedule your attendance at one of these seminars.

Constructive Conflict Communication Seminar Schedule for 2008

Instructor: Anne E. Lucchetti, Ph.D.
Interpersonal Communication
University of Texas at Austin, 1998