Gottman’s Seven Principles Workshop

Treehouse invites you to attend our intensive couple's workshop based on the internationally acclaimed research of Dr. John Gottman as presented in his New York Times Bestselling book:  The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work. This educational workshop is designed to help couples improve their friendship and conflict management skills. The Seven Principles Program is a preventative and proactive relational skills workshop that includes lectures and private couple exercises. This workshop is not a replacement for therapy, nor will participants be asked to share their problems with others. Registration includes the book The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work and workbooks for each partner.  

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

The Seven Principles Program will give you new insights and research-based relationship skills that can dramatically improve the intimacy and friendship in your relationship and help you resolve conflict in a healthy, productive way.

This class combines teaching and demonstrations with one-on-one work sessions where you and your partner focus on your relationship with each other. Confidentiality is strictly maintained. Although we encourage questions and comments, you do not need to speak in the workshop if you do not want.

  • Foster respect, affection and closeness

  • Build and share a deeper connection with each other's inner world

  • Keep conflict discussions calm

  • Break through and resolve conflict gridlock

  • Strengthen and maintain the gains in your relationship

How it helps

The Gottman 7 Principles Workshop provides tools proven to help couples:

  • ​Improve friendship, fondness and, admiration

  • Enhance romance and intimacy

  • Manage conflict constructively

  • Identify and manage solvable vs. perpetual issues

  • Create shared meaning

  • Communicate effectively and clearly

Couples that would benefit from this workshop

  • Premarital

  • Everyone from newlyweds to seniors

  • Those who wish to take their marriage from good to great

  • Those needing better conflict management skills

Couples that this workshop is not suited for

Although this workshop is run by licensed therapists, the 7 Principles Workshop is NOT therapy. This workshop is a fun, interactive way to learn skills to improve your marriage.  It is educational and based on over 40 years of research by Drs. John and Julie Gottman, two of the nation's most acclaimed relationship experts! Couples will not share personal information with other couples in attendance. This workshop is appropriate for any couple in a serious relationship excluding the following issues:

  • Couples in severe relationship distress (e.g., active affair)

  • Couples experiencing significant emotional or physical abuse

  • Couples wanting to address significant mental health issues or where one or both partners have significant mental health issues.

  • Relationships where one or both partners are currently dealing with active substance abuse/addiction, gambling, .

    (If you are unsure if you qualify, please message us at info@treehousewisdomandwellness.com)

This workshop is for couples of every age, ability, and orientation. who want to improve their relationship by learning the fundamental ingredients of a healthy couple. The Gottman Seven Principles Program* is based on the belief that good relationships don't just build themselves, and problems don't just go away, without knowledge and effort! The workshop includes lectures, demonstrations, videos and private couples exercises. The activities are fun, insightful and informative, as well as the presenters…if we say so ourselves. And there is no need to worry about sharing your personal problems in front of others… we don’t do any group sharing at this workshop.

Research shows that on average, couples wait 2.68 years* from the first sign of problems before they seek professional help. Increasingly, couples are proactive and getting the expert guidance they need to set their relationship up for success or fix their problems before they get worse.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • LIMITED SEATS! Events will sell out! Cancellation Policy: If cancellation is made on or before the Early Registration Cut-off Date, a full refund less $75 processing fee will be given. After the cut-off date, your registration will be converted to a credit to a future workshop within the next 12 months. 

  • Couples of all ages, incomes, races, nationalities, professions, religions, abilities, and orientations attend our workshops. Couples attend who already have a strong, healthy relationship, and couples attend to repair relationship damage and get back on track. Parents sometimes attend who have decided to end their relationship but want to do so in a way that doesn’t negatively impact their children, and receive skills to become healthy co-parents moving forward. We welcome all couples who want to work on making their relationship stronger.

  • Depends. The registration fee is for a couple. There are opportunities to actively engage with your partner during the workshop. However, if your partner decides not come, or if you wish to sign up on your own, you are welcome to attend. The registration fee is the same if you attend with your partner or by yourself.

  • Yes. Couples who attend our workshop tend to fall into two categories: enhancement and repair. We applaud couples who are wise enough to attend the workshop for enhancement purposes. Our brains are more open to new learning when we are not stressed out, and our workshop is designed with plenty of humor and romance, so enhancement couples have a terrific time while learning. Feedback from both enhancement and repair couples indicates that the couples workshop is very beneficial.

  • No problem. Couples sit as an audience during the lectures, and only engage quietly together. There is no group work, and no mandatory sharing

  • No, self-discolsure in NOT required.

  • Once you have completed registration and provided an email address and phone number upon checkout, you will be contacted by our staff to complete the Registration Process. Typically you will be contacted via email a few days of registration. Within that email, you will be directed to fill out a final registration information form. Your registration is not complete until this form is returned via email to info@treehousewisdomandwellness.com

  • The workshop is self-contained; no pre-reading is required. Some couples report that reading The Seven Principles enhanced their workshop experience by providing a foundation in the research concepts and applications. The book is provided to the couple at the event and is included in the registration package.

Here’s what you get!

You will receive all of the following to complete your workshop experience

  • 🕒 10+ hrs of training

  • (2) copies of 7 Principles Couples Guide

  • The ⑦ Principles for Making Marriage Work 📖

  • Love Map ❤️ Card Decks

  • Open-ended Question Cards ❓

Meet your Workshop Facilitators

  • Diana Zadrima, MFT

    Co-Presenter

  • Rachel Heater, LMFT

    Lead Presenter