Upcoming Workshops

What We've Learned Along The Way

As a group of therapists specializing in marriage and couples counselling for the last 10 years we've come to understand a few things very well about intimate relationships.

1. All couples inevitably and necessarily encounter some form of struggle.
2. These struggles often evolve into very rigid patterns over time and take considerable time and effort to redirect. 
3. These entrenched cycles are very difficult to escape from for most couples.
4. Even when provided with the right information to help change these destructive patterns most couples are rarely able to apply the information to make effective changes.
5. Even when couples have experienced some degree of success in shifting negative patterns, the chances of the couple eventually reverting back to these old habits is extremely likely.

What Creates Real, Sustainable Change.

1. The Right Information - While there is a lot of information available to couples for how to improve their relationships, as it turns much of it just doesn't work. Outcome research on couples therapy tells us that there are many myths about just what makes for a healthy and happy relationship. It's important to stick with what actually works based on evidence, not just your hope or hunch.
2. Experiential Learning - Experientially learning imbeds corrective emotional experiences into the central nervous system. Information is basically useless until it is integrated and so by actually participating in the new information you take the learning to a much deeper level that is much more sustainable. It's the difference between just reading the menu at the restaurant and eating the food.
3. Intimate Professional Coaching - Many real solutions are counterintuitive, meaning they may be the last thing you think of, or they might just seem outright wrong. Having a professional show and help you navigate your way into the hidden pearls of wisdom. Also our experience has told us that the effectiveness of new information and tools is directly related to understanding the nuances - the small differences that make all the difference with the information.
4. Disciplined Application - "Insight without action is a daydream" New information must be practiced on an ongoing basis in order for it to be learned and integrated as a new way of thinking or behaving. Practice, practice, practice.

How We Created The Relationship Revolution Workshop

Based on the proven principles of effective evidenced based change outlined above we set out to design a workshop series for couples that actually works in the real life world of intimate relationships.

1. The Right Information - We've sifted through our counsellor groups wealth of collective education, training and experience on relationship therapy and distilled down the 7 most proven and powerful evidenced-based habits of healthy,passionate relationships. We've drawn our information from some of most contemporary thinkers in the field of intimate relationships including John Gottman - The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, Sue Johnson - Emotionally Focused Therapy, Marshall Rosenberg - Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Harvel Hendrix - Imago Therapy, Marriane Williamson - Enchanted Love, David Schnarch - Passionate Marriage, and David Deida - Intimate Communion.
2. Experiential Learning - All of the information that we offer in the Relationship Revolution Workshop is backed up by experiential exercises that will give you a deeper undestanding of the theory and it's application to real life relationship issues. This will integrate the ideas from the head and into the heart of your practices.
3. Intimate Professional Coaching - We keep the workshop at a maximum of 15 couples so that we can give specialized attention to each couple to help coach them through the nuances of the processes and help guide the teachings and experiential processes with particular attention to the nuances of each to bring about a deep intimate understanding.
4. Disciplined Application - A weekend workshop is only the beginning of the change process. Ongoing committment to the learnings and practices is a must to create and sustain change. In addition to the full course training, we offer each partcipant a materials binder that has all the information and exercises so that you can continue the learning and practices at home. We also offer an 8 week process follow-up group facilitated by our therapists that will help you to work even more deeply with the practices and get personal support on any challenges you may be having. Practice, practice, practice! This support group helps to avoid the rubberband effect so common after a workshop high.

No Risk 1 year Money Back Guarantee

We're so confident in the value of our program that if you feel you did not not receive full benefit from any one of our workshops we will return your full tution with no questions asked.

Your Workshop Leaders

Join Registered Clinical Counsellor (BCACC) & Certified Relationship Specialist (APA) Trevor Warren, M.A. and his intimate partner of 14 years, Monika Colmorgen, for an intensive weekend of unraveling the seeming mysteries of what it takes to create and maintain a passionate intimate relationship.  Trevor brings with him the experience and wisdom gained through working intensively with couples in his private counselling practice CoreQuest Counselling Group over the last ten years, as well his specialized training in mastery of intimate relationships. Monika has been deeply immersed in the professional development world for over 14 years and has co-facilitated groups together with Trevor during that time. Both Trevor & Monika are deeply committed to serving other couples to evolve their relationships into ones that are spiritually erotic, sexually deep, and passionately committed to love.

Date: May 2010 - TBC

Times: Friday 6pm-10pm, Saturday 10am-10pm, Sunday 10am-6-pm.

Investment: $597 per person -

Location: TBA - Vancouver

Call now to book your spot 604.980.2673