Prepare & Enrich

Prepare/Enrich is a customized couple assessment completed online that identifies a couple's strength and growth areas. It is one of the most widely used programs for premarital counseling and premarital education. It is also used for marriage counseling, marriage enrichment, and dating couples considering engagement. Based on a couple's assessment results, a trained facilitator provides 4-8 feedback sessions in which the facilitator helps the couple discuss and understand their results as they are taught proven relationship skills.

What are the major goals of the Prepare/Enrich Program?

There are several goals of the Prepare/Enrich Program. In order to achieve these goals, there are exercises designed to help couples improve their relationship skills. The program helps couples:

• Explore strength and growth areas

• Strengthen communication skills

• Identify and manage major stressors

• Resolve conflict using the Ten-Step Model

• Develop a more balanced relationship

• Explore family of origin issues

• Discuss financial planning and budgeting

• Establish personal, couple, and family goals

• Understand and appreciate personality differences

Is the Prepare/Enrich Program valid & reliable?

Prepare/Enrich has validity in that it discriminates premarital couples that get divorced from those that are happily married with about 80-85% accuracy. Reliability is high (alpha reliability of 0.80 - 0.85).

Who uses Prepare/Enrich?

The inventory has been utilized by over 100,000 trained clergy members, professional counselors, mentors, and marriage educators throughout the U.S.

Over 3 million couples have taken a Prepare/Enrich inventory and worked through their results under the guidance of a trained facilitator.

Questions

For more information, contact Gary Thompson.