Workshop for Interfaith
- Intercultural Couples.

These workshop sessions are religiously neutral.

Individual Therapy
Couple Therapy
Family Therapy
Anger Therapy

 

This is an opportunity to join other couples in a workshop format to gain an understanding of your partner’s faith and cultural differences, and to build skills for dealing with the effects of religious, ethnic, identity and emotional differences on a couple’s life. We will help you examine your interaction with your partner’s family and community, issues surrounding child-raising and celebrating holidays, and strengthen communication in your relationship so you are prepared as challenges surface.

This workshop will cover:

Interfaith Exploration

  • Clarification one’s own religious/spiritual beliefs and practices
  • Understanding your partner’s religious/spiritual beliefs and practices
  • Celebrating areas of convergence and respecting areas of divergence
  • Negotiating religious/spiritual expectations and boundaries

Common Challenges

  • Reconciling ideological differences.
  • Dealing with parents, in-laws, extended families, and communities
  • Deciding about religious conversion
  • Planning a wedding
  • Negotiating and celebrating the holidays

Important issues

  • Maintaining one’s own religious identity
  • Growing spiritually as a couple
  • Celebrating areas of convergence and respecting areas of divergence
  • Raising an interfaith family

 

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