Your Great Marriage Workshop (business)

Companies spend millions a year on training their employees to perform at top levels, yet they often overlook the most important training they can offer their staff. While your executives may be highly successful at work, many of them are failing miserably at home.

Historically, companies have looked the other way when a key employee goes through a marriage crisis at home. We have built a culture that tells us to leave our work problems at work and our home problems at home. Yet, this is not possible. One or the other, work or home, will suffer. Often, it’s both that suffer.

When it comes to training staff, elite companies are discovering the importance of investing in the whole person. Looking the other way is not working. That’s why The Stromans have created a marriage workshop just for companies.

Is it possible to maintain a smoking hot marriage? Absolutely! Not only is it possible; it’s easier than people think. So why do so many marriages experience difficulty? The answer is simple…they haven’t read the owner’s manual.

When a salesperson delivers a new car, she goes over every detail, feature and option installed on the car. It’s just a car. How difficult can it be? Even after we resist this time-consuming exercise, the salesperson still insists on walking through every detail. Why is that? Because car manufacturers have learned that when a buyer understands the features and design of his or her new vehicle, the satisfaction level rises with the buyer’s level of knowledge. Understanding the Owner’s Manual equals proper use of the car; and proper use equals satisfaction.

It’s the same with marriage! When we understand the principles that govern marriage, that understanding leads to greater satisfaction. Instead of pushing all of the wrong buttons, wondering why “things” don’t work, why not take some time to help your employees learn how to properly care for their spouse by understanding how he or she operates?

The Your Great Marriage workshop exists to help couples discover the principles that govern relationships. Will Rogers said, “I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.” Yes, the divorce rate is alarming, but marriage is not the cause of divorce. We don’t need to stop marriage. We need to stop divorce. In an age of easy, quick divorce, our culture has encouraged divorce as the ultimate solution to marital conflict. The mission of the Your Great Marriage workshop is to turn back the tide of divorce and reveal truths that help couples build great marriages.

Achieving a “great marriage” requires that we lay to rest a commonly-held myth that a great marriage is a relationship without conflict. Quite the contrary, a great marriage is a relationship that has discovered how to resolve conflict. French author André Maurois said, “A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.” Every relationship has conflict. In fact, we believe conflict, when managed properly, actually strengthens marriages.

A well-known proverb says, “People learn from one another, just as iron sharpens iron.” That’s a lot like a good relationship. Marriage is a union of two people from different family backgrounds brought together as one. The differences, even if subtle, create opportunities for conflict. As your differences rub against each other, you have the opportunity to learn new ideas that lead to a better life together. If you refuse to learn from each conflict, or fail to manage that conflict, that friction will create sparks that have the ability to destroy your marriage.

Conflict, to be productive, must be controlled. It’s like an atom: contain it, and it produces unlimited energy; get careless and that same atom will destroy everything it touches. When a couple learns to harness the energy of their conflict, it propels them toward a great marriage. The principles we teach in this workshop help couples harness their relational energy and put it to good use.

We believe marriage is the most important human relationship that exists on earth – but it doesn’t come naturally. People learn how to be married before they enjoy being married.

As your instructors, we both experienced the pain of unwanted divorce. As a result, we are committed to developing a divorce-proof marriage and helping others avoid the tragedy we suffered. Just like you, we face conflict in our marriage. When conflict does arise, we work together to resolve it, examine what (not who) caused the conflict, and then we identify a principle that helps us avoid that same conflict in the future. Through these simple steps, we have achieved a marriage most only dream of. Our passion is to help others achieve their own “Great Marriage” through the relationship principles we have discovered.

Through this workshop, we share our principles by sharing the story behind the principle. Sharing our “real life” examples has proven successful in helping people identify with the principles that govern successful marriage relationships. Since the focus is on our conflict and how we work to resolve it, this workshop is non-confrontational and fun, regardless of the current health of your relationship.

Do you want your employees to enjoy a smoking hot marriage? It is possible to have the marriage of your dreams. Schedule a Your Great Marriage Workshop in your company for a unique time of learning the simple principles that govern successful marriages. We believe you will discover the principles that govern your own Great Marriage.

Schedule a Your Great Marriage Workshop today.