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WHAT IS THE COUPLES PSYCHOLOGY OF MONEY RETREAT ? This retreat is a five-hour, weekend course for couples of all ages. We actually teach you and your partner a language for solving money and finance issues, so that you can reduce disagreements, and feel in charge of your financial lives. We give you safe, enjoyable ways to practice these skills during the weekend with one another. We also teach you the very best information about couples and money. We teach you about your financial personality. We teach you about the underlying attitudes you developed about money and finance as a child. We teach you how to work through disagreements and how to spend and save money, which helps you and your partner become a financial team that is hard to beat. We help you think through the values underlying your attitudes about spending and investing money, paying bills, and material purchases. We help you confront the two enemies of good financial management for couples: conflict over purchases and disrespect for one another's opinion. With your partner, and a few other bright, motivated couples, you will go through a series of exercises designed to teach you how to become a good financial manager, how to problem-solve and negotiate differences between you, and how to achieve the best financial future for you and your partner. You will take home a workbook filled to the brim with helpful and necessary budgeting, financial management, and negotiation skills and information. WHO'S IT FOR? Anyone who is either married, engaged, or intimately partnered. It is a weekend for all couples, who are committed to each other and want to build a stronger, longer lasting, intimate relationship together. Gay, lesbian, and heterosexual couples of all ages and economic levels work at The Weekend Retreats side by side, to learn to couple better. We do not teach budgeting or how to pay bills. Instead, we teach you and your partner how to think about money and finance together, and how to resolve the inevitable conflicts that arise when two people with different needs and values couple and need to agree about money management. Part of the fun is seeing who is in your class and chatting with them. It is not necessary for you to disclose embarrassing personal financial information during this weekend, since we know that personal information is, indeed, personal. Instead, we form an educational community where you can learn about coupled financial management and money matters. WHAT DO YOU LEARN? We will teach you the four basic skills necessary for successful coupled money management and financial planning. Two of these skills deal with talking and listening from the heart. We call these skills the intimacy loop. The other skills consist of what we call the business of coupling, and consist of interpersonal problem solving and negotiation. We teach you how to apply these skills to the tricky area of financial disagreement between you and your partner. We give you a list of books we think you can benefit from to achieve your joint financial goals. We give you an opportunity to set goals at the beginning of the weekend. We spend the weekend helping you meet those goals. Couples always want to maximize their financial investments, reduce the conflict between them about how to spend money, learn to plan better for a life of financial freedom together, and face retirement with the feeling of a job well-done. Often financial problems feel insurmountable to couples, who love one another, but need basic training in making money work better for them. These are the areas we address together. WHO ARE THE LEADERS? This retreat is led by a team of a Psychologist and an Accountant/Financial Planner. Dr. Coch� invited her friend and colleague, Dennis Allen, to develop this program with her because they saw the need for this in the professional work they have each done with thousands of couples over the last thirty years. This sparkling weekend program is the outgrowth of joint and individual work helping couples with the psychology and financial skills in money management required to make their lives work better for them. Either or both of them may lead the weekend course you attend aided by staff and interns from The Coché Center, LLC. |