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Santa Fe Center for Relationships Newsletter
Volume 3     -       Number 1      -      January 2010 
In This Issue
About Carrie and Cat
What participants are saying
2010 Couples Workshop Schedule
Relationship Tip
Visioning for Your Relationship
Relationship Vision Event
New SFCR Imago Offerings in 2010!
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Carrie and Cat are passionate about helping couples and individuals have the relationship of their dreams. They invite you to join them at one of their workshops or events in the coming year. Please help them spread the word about Imago and the Santa Fe Center for Relationships by forwarding this email to a friend or loved one who may be interested.
What Participants are Saying About Us and Our  Workshops for Couples:
 
The safest, most deeply satisfying experience
I could imagine having with my partner.
 
Carrie and Cat are/must be the best of the best-definitely two people who genuinely fit the profiles of people who should be helping others better their relationship.
 
Their concern for others shows through their incredible work.  (They) have given our marraige life and hope again. 
 
Realizing that conflict is growth trying to happen has changed my entire outlook on life.
 
I now have hope, not despair. I am excited to have a new vision of my husband, myself and our journey ahead.
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 2010  "Getting the Love You Want" Workshop dates:
 
  
January 15-17
March 19-21
May 14-16
 
 
Lesbian Couples:
February 5 -7 
June 11-13
 
 
Gay & Lesbian Couples:
April 16-17
 
 
Stay tuned for more dates!
 
See our web site www.santaferelationships.com  for more information
 
 
 
 
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Keeping the Love You Find: Workshop for Singles
 
April 9-11 
 
 
Start Right, Stay Connected:
 Premarital Workshop 
 
 March 27
 

For more information or to register go to
 www.santaferelationships.com
 
 
 
 
RelationshipTip:                                                                   
 
Develop and Use a Relationship Vision to inspire and guide you in the coming year.
 
 
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.                                  
~ Henry David Thoreau
 Visioning for Your Relationship

An important step  in the journey toward a conscious marriage/relationship is the creation of a shared vision of your relationship.  A shared vision is essential to a successful relationship.  It provides direction and can help you to focus your energy and efforts on a goal.  Without a vision, your relationship can seem empty and your attempts to replenish it chaotic and aimless.  A vision is a view of the whole that influences the relationship of the parts.  A vision gives direction to each decision and shapes each action.  Standing shoulder to shoulder gazing out at the horizon with a joint vision is a powerful way to begin the new year.
 
Cat and I have been using the Relationship Visioning process for the past 16 years and have found it incredibly helpful. We wrote our initial vision in 1994 and revise it on an annual basis. That vision helps us set goals, make plans, and accomplish the things that are most important to us in our relationship.
 
During Cat's Cancer Journey this past year, we developed a 6 month vision to guide us through this difficult time. After Cat completed her treatments, we created another 6 month vision to guide us as we moved forward from this ordeal and reclaimed our lives.
 
As you begin this new year take time to create a vision of your relationship and where you would like it to be some day. We will be hosting a Relationship Visioning Event on Saturday, January 9 at our loft and invite you to join us. Whether you are able to join us or not, we hope you will make time to create a vision of your relationship and what you would like to have in it. Remember to dream big!
 
 
A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.                   ~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter
 
 
 Create Your  
RELATIONSHIP VISION
(or Revise It)
 
at our Annual Relationship Visioning Event
Saturday, January 9
2-5 PM
$30 per couple
 
Space is limited 

 
Go to www.santaferelationships.com to register.

 

Vision without execution is hallucination.   ~ Thomas Edison

 

New Imago Offerings in 2010
 
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Keeping the Love You Find          
a workshop for singles and individuals 
 
This intensive self-growth workshop for individuals is based on the work of Harville Hendrix, PhD, author of Keeping the Love You Find, and founder of Imago Relationship Theory.

In this workshop you will:

  • Identify your character structure & your defenses
  • Discover how childhood wounds affect your relationships
  • Understand why you are drawn to certain people
  • Gain new relationship skills
  • Create a Plan for Personal Change
 
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Start Right, Stay Connected  
a workshop for Premarital Couples 
  
  In this workshop you will learn ways to... 
  • Communicate effectively with your partner
  • Discover why the unconscious forces that attracted you to your partner may eventually also be the source of your relationship conflicts 
  • Remove negativity
  • Keep the romance, passion, fun and intimacy going in your relationship
  • Help with the wedding planning and not go crazy
  • Prevent an affair
  • Create a vision of where your relationship is headed
 
This workshop is appropriate for you if:  
  • You are engaged to be married
  • You are not engaged, but are contemplating getting married
 
See our web site www.santaferelationships.com for more information