Relationship Resources

Use Soft Start ups - not Harsh - Softening the start-up of your arguments and complaints is crucial to resolving relationship conflicts.

Gottman Cards Deck App – a relationship app from The Gottman Institute - download and play

Great Listening Skills - a Gottman booklet to help with better listening and relational skills

Small Things Often - How to build a loving relationship (Gottman Institute)

Fondness and Admiration - a Gottman 7 week guide for self-help

The Four Horseman - Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling

Manage Conflict: The Art of Compromise - Compromise never feels perfect. Dr Gottman: “The important thing is feeling understood, respected, and honoured”.

Mindfulness – Leaves on a Stream audio file from Dr Russ Harris

The Marriage Minute - an email newsletter from The Gottman Institute that will improve your marriage in 60 seconds or less. Sign up (free)

The Feeling Wheel - help to identify those deeper feelings and emotions

Fact Sheet - Depression and the benefits of exercise

Fact Sheet - Assertive, not Aggressive

Prepare/Enrich - More than 4,000,000 couples have prepared for their committed relationship or marriage through taking the P/E assessment and working with a Certified Facilitator.

Prepare Enrich Workbook - a helpful supplement to the assessment with useful tips on financial management, communication etc

Gottman Relationship Check up – Created by Drs. John and Julie Gottman, The Gottman Relationship Checkup automatically scores a relationship’s strengths and challenges and provides specific recommendations for intervention.

Intensive Marathon Couples Therapy -Marathon Couples Therapy is an innovative and highly successful approach to couple distress recovery that consists of 2 days in which you and your partner engage in intensive marital therapy for 6 – 7 hours per day broken down into 4 x 90 – 120 minute sessions. Bookings by arrangement.