Marriage Coaching: It’s About More Than Preserving the Union by Jeff and Jill Williams
Saving marriages is one thing, but helping couples to live in a pleasurable and purposeful relationship is another. Can marriage be about more than commitment, endurance and perseverance? Can more couples experience more pleasure, joy, purpose and fulfillment? YES...
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Marriage Coaching Tips: Three Essential Questions to Ask Couples by Jeff and Jill Williams
You’ve completed your introduction and orientation session with a couple. The couple to be coached is satisfied with their understanding of the process, and they think it might be helpful. Now What? It is essential to get answers to three questions as soon as possible...
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Coaching Communication in Marriage Relationships by Jeff and Jill Williams
It is the number one request of couples seeking Marriage Coaching: Improved Communication. This seems to bear witness to the maxim that, “The conversation is the relationship and the relationship is the conversation.” How can Marriage Coaches help couples to improve their communication?
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Coaching Couples to be Participant-Observers in Marriage by Jeff and Jill Williams
If you want to help couples learn to help themselves by coaching their own marriage relationship it is essential that they learn to do two things well: 1. To participate in conversations with heart and skill. 2. To observe and adjust their own communication process.
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Coaching Men to Reconcile Marriage Separation – Part II: Challenges and Effective Strategies by Jeff Williams
Rich was separated from his wife Sharon for sixteen months, from 2003 until 2005. Today he coaches men to reconcile their marriage. “I encourage men to seek God, hold out for hope, and always remember that if they make changes in themselves that it has to result in changes in the relationship.
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Coaching Separated Men, Part I: An Interview with a Coach Who’s Been There by Jeff Williams
Some coaching ministries evolve out of painful experiences. This is exactly how Rich Wildman[1] developed compassion for separated men. He and his wife Sharon were separated 16 months before a successful reconciliation. Today he serves men that are enduring the painful and scary challenge of reconciling their marriage by coaching them.
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Coaching Your Own Marriage: An Alternative to Marriage Counseling By Jeff and Jill Williams
Many couples have asked in jest if we could live with them. Why? They experience effective communication, problem-solving and goal-setting in sessions that we facilitate, and they aren't confident that they can continue such high quality conversations without facilitators to guide and police the process. However, with enough practice and good-will, couples CAN learn to do this for themselves.
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Walking and Talking Your Way to a Closer Relationship by Jeff and Jill Williams
"I want to take more walks with you, Jeff" Jill said as part of a demo during one of our Marriage Coach training classes. "I'm curious about you wanting to take more walks" I asked. She was happy to share. "It seems that when we walk we have some of our best talks. There are fewer possibilities of interruption, and it's when I get your most focused attention. It helps me feel closer to you", she said. Walking and talking to get closer? Cool. We just improved our marriage.
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