Transform Your Bonds

An intervention designed for individuals navigating stress in relationships within the Christian faith

Tackle relationship stress through intuitive, empathic, and Christian-guided measures, paving the way to relationship health and stability.

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MODULE ONE

Foundations of Spiritual Relationship Building

OUTCOME

You will lay the groundwork for spiritual and emotional connection frameworks in your relationships.

DESCRIPTION

This week focuses on integrating your Christian values to form a strong foundational understanding of how spirituality influences relationships. You'll explore daily prayer and reflection exercises, as well as mindfulness in conversation, to deepen your spiritual connection with your partner.

MODULE TWO

Empathic Listening and Response

OUTCOME

You will be better equipped to understand and react empathetically in various relational contexts.

DESCRIPTION

Empathy is crucial in strengthening bonds. You'll practice and refine empathic interactions through role-playing scenarios, journaling responses, and empathy-focused meditation. These skills will help you connect more deeply with your loved ones and foster stronger relationships.

MODULE THREE

Stress Management Through Faith

OUTCOME

You will adopt faith-based methods to manage and alleviate relationship stress.

DESCRIPTION

You'll learn to use your Christian faith to handle stress responses effectively, promoting calm and reasoned relationship interactions. Through prayer meditation, stress-relief scripture recitation, and group sharing sessions, you'll develop powerful tools to maintain peace in your relationships.

MODULE FOUR

Conflict Resolution in Relationships

OUTCOME

You will gain skills to handle disputes constructively without damaging the relationship foundation.

DESCRIPTION

Conflicts are inevitable, but you'll be equipped with spiritual tools to resolve them amicably. You'll participate in conflict resolution workshops, practice forgiveness, and learn peace-making prayers. These techniques will help you navigate disagreements while preserving the love and respect in your relationships.

MODULE FIVE

Deepening Emotional Connections

OUTCOME

You will experience deeper emotional bonds and a renewed sense of intimacy.

DESCRIPTION

This module focuses on strengthening the emotional aspects of your relationships through guided, heart-centered activities and discussions. You'll engage in emotional sharing circles, partner empathy exercises, and explore love languages. These practices will help you build a more profound emotional connection with your partner.

MODULE SIX

Maintaining Relationship Health

OUTCOME

You will establish and maintain healthy relationship practices that endure life's trials.

DESCRIPTION

You'll learn to consistently nurture your relationship to maintain its strength and vibrancy. Through relationship health check-ins, commitment rituals, and weekly couple's reflections, you'll develop habits that keep your relationship strong and resilient in the face of life's challenges.

MODULE SEVEN

Leadership in Relationships

OUTCOME

You will step up as a spiritual and emotional leader, steering relationships towards growth and harmony.

DESCRIPTION

Enhance your role as a leader in relationships, providing guidance and direction rooted in your Christian faith. You'll engage in leadership role plays, study spiritual leadership, and practice guided leadership meditation. These experiences will empower you to lead your relationships with wisdom and grace.

MODULE EIGHT

Integration and Moving Forward

OUTCOME

You will fully integrate the skills and practices from the previous weeks into everyday life, ensuring sustainable relationship success.

DESCRIPTION

Consolidate your learnings with practical implementations and forward-planning strategies, readying you for continuing spiritual relationship success. You'll review comprehensive exercises, tackle real-world application challenges, and create plans for the future. This final step will help you apply everything you've learned to create lasting, fulfilling relationships.

Modules

1 Self Discovery

This is the starting point, you embark on a journey of self-discovery. By identifying your ideas, values, interests, passions, and strengths, you’ll be able to start to map out a meaningful and fulfilling future beyond your current role and identity.

Duration: 3 hours

2 Purpose Discovery

The 'Purpose Discovery' module involves deep, perhaps lengthy, reflection exercises and visualisation techniques to help you discover and validate your new purpose beyond your work identity. You will leave this module feeling empowered and confident about your next phase of life.

Duration: 3 hours

3 Process Development

In this ‘foundation’ module, you’ll start to build a clear roadmap for your journey into the future. Through a clear understanding of goal-setting and action planning, you’ll gain the tools and techniques you need to navigate this significant transition. You may well find this quite different from any change you’ve managed before.

Duration: 3 hours

4

Support Development

This module will guide you in how to prepare yourself for the way forward. You’ll learn to ‘let go’ of the ‘past’ and the need for forgiveness and gratitude to facilitate this. We’ll discover who and what to avoid and how to identify ‘partners in believing’ who’ll support you in what may be a complex period of setting yourself free.

Duration: 3 hours

5 Managing Transition

Building on the previous module, you'll learn stress management techniques, how to deal with anxiety, and resilience-building strategies. You’ll learn to have faith and belief in yourself and transmit this to others. We’ll revisit the work you did in Modules 2 and 3 and fill out any additional detail or clarity. This module prepares you emotionally to manage the way forward seamlessly.

Duration: 3 hours

6 Harvesting Transition

In this module you’ll ‘launch’ your new ‘business’ of being YOU in ‘life-after-work’. You'll learn confidence-building exercises and ongoing action planning techniques to face any future fears and uncertainties. By paying attention to your intention without tension and with the support of your ‘team’ you can be confident your expectations will be met. This module ensures you step into your next phase ‘Powered Up’ with a sense of renewed significance and life force. Perhaps it’s time for a ‘starting party’!

Duration: 3 hours

Who is it for?

Struggling with stress in relationships at any age
A Christian looking for spiritual intervention for your relationship stress
A professional, irrespective of field, seeking a faith-based approach to stabilize your relationships

Who is it not for?

Not seeking a solution to stress in relationships
Not willing to explore a faith-based approach towards strengthening relationships
Not open to using empathy and intuition for personal growth and relationship stabilization

About Mattie L. Ivy

Dr. Mattie L. Ivy is an ordained non-denominational minister, motivational speaker, and accomplished educator with a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Speech Pathology from Arkansas State University. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Christian Counseling, she is passionate about guiding individuals to strengthen their intimate and romantic relationships. With her philosophy to “meet you where you are and inspire you to aim higher,” Dr. Ivy offers compassionate, practical guidance that empowers personal growth and authentic connections.