Twelve hours. One couple. Just the four of us.
Everything in the workshop — the same research, the same frameworks, the same private exercises — but there are no other couples in the room. Just you, your partner, and the two of us.
This is for the couple who wants the full experience with complete privacy, undivided attention, and a pace that matches exactly where you are.
The cohort workshop is eight couples in a room, learning together, practicing in private breakouts. It works. But a private intensive is a different experience entirely.
Every minute is yours.
In a group, we teach to the room. In a private intensive, we teach to your relationship. Every framework, every exercise, every conversation is calibrated to what we're seeing between the two of you — in real time.
Your pace, not ours.
Some couples move through conflict work in an hour. Some need three. In a private setting, we don't have a schedule to keep. We stay where the work is.
Nothing is performed.
There's no audience, no other couples to be conscious of, no moment where you're wondering if someone heard you. It's just the four of us in a room. That changes what people are willing to say.
We designed this for a specific kind of couple.
- Couples who value privacy — whether because of professional visibility, community roles, or simply because this is no one else's business
- Couples with demanding schedules who need the experience shaped around their life, not a fixed cohort calendar
- Couples who've already done the cohort workshop and want to go deeper
- Couples who know they want this but don't want to wait for the next cohort to open
If you recognize yourself in any of these — this was built for you.
Twelve hours. On Zoom or in person.
We schedule together — weekdays, evenings, weekends, whatever fits your life. Most couples choose two full days or three longer sessions across a single week. Some spread it across two weeks. We'll find the shape that works.
In-person option: we host from Cherry Hill, New Jersey. If you'd prefer to fly us to you, we'll make that work too.
Everything in the cohort workshop, plus what only becomes possible when the room is just the four of us.
- Twelve hours of live, private facilitation with both Eric and Haydee
- The Love Map — built in real time with us guiding the conversation, not just the exercise
- The Repair Checklist — practiced on your actual conflicts, not hypotheticals
- The Dreams Within Conflict conversation — the exercise most group workshops skip because it goes too deep. We don't skip it.
- The Stress-Reducing Conversation — practiced with coaching, adjusted to how you two actually talk
- The Softened Start-Up — tailored to the specific patterns we see between you
- Processing a Previous Emotional Injury — an exercise reserved for private settings where both facilitators are present to guide you through safely
- A 90-minute Financial Alignment session with Eric — not financial planning, but a structured look at how you make money decisions together, where you agree, and where money has become a proxy for something deeper
A copy of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by Dr. John Gottman- Two private workbooks — one for each of you
- A written summary of what we discovered together — personalized, not templated
- The Magic Six Hours — six weekly practices that protect everything you built, with notes specific to what we saw in your sessions
- A 60-minute follow-up session 30 days after your intensive — to check in on what stuck, what shifted, and what needs attention
- Priority access to future cohort workshops and stewardship offerings
The cohort workshop covers the full Seven Principles program. The private intensive covers everything the cohort does — plus the exercises that only work when two facilitators are in the room with one couple. These are the conversations most workshops can't offer. We can, because it's just us.
Eric is one of the only Gottman facilitators in the country who is also an Accredited Financial Counselor. Most couples fight about money more than anything else — but the fight is almost never actually about money. This session connects what you learned in the intensive to the place where it shows up most.
When the room is just the four of us, the work goes places it cannot go in any other room.
$4,200 per couple.
That covers everything — twelve hours of private facilitation with both of us, the book, both workbooks, your personalized summary, the Financial Alignment session, and a follow-up 30 days later. No tiers. No upsells.
Most couples spend more than this on a vacation they won't remember in five years. This is twelve hours that change how you operate for the rest of them.
Travel fees apply for in-person intensives outside of Cherry Hill. We'll discuss specifics after acceptance.
Eric & Haydee Rodriguez.
Founders. Lead facilitators.
Certified Lead Facilitators of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work through The Gottman Institute.
Eric is also an Accredited Financial Counselor (AFC®).
Together since 2002. Three kids. Still learning.
When this is not the right room.
This is not therapy.
If one of you is in active crisis, in active addiction, or in a relationship where there has been violence — please see a licensed therapist first. The work we do here assumes a foundation that is safe enough to look at.
We will still be here when you are ready.
How is this different from the cohort workshop?
Same research. Same frameworks. Same exercises. The difference is that every minute is focused on your relationship specifically. In a cohort, we teach the room and you apply it privately. In a private intensive, we teach you — and we can go where the work is without watching the clock.
Can we do this in person?
Yes. We host from Cherry Hill, New Jersey. If you'd like us to come to you, we can arrange that — travel fees apply and we'll discuss specifics after your application is accepted.
How do we schedule twelve hours?
However it fits your life. Most couples choose two full days or three sessions across a week. Some spread it out over two weeks. We'll build the schedule together after acceptance.
Is this therapy?
No. This is a structured, research-based intensive focused on how you operate as a couple. We are not your therapists. If what comes up tells us therapy would serve you, we'll say that directly and help you find someone good.
What's the Financial Alignment session?
A 90-minute conversation led by Eric, separate from the twelve-hour intensive, focused on how you operate around money as a couple. This isn't financial advice or planning — it's the same research-based lens applied to the one topic most couples argue about more than anything else. How do you make financial decisions? Where do you agree? Where has money become a stand-in for something neither of you has said out loud? Most couples tell us this session connected more dots than they expected.
What happens after the twelve hours?
You get a 60-minute follow-up call 30 days later — with both of us, together. We check in on what stuck, what shifted, and what needs attention. After that, you have priority access to future cohort workshops and stewardship offerings.
Can we get a refund?
Once accepted and enrolled, your spot is held and preparation begins. We don't offer refunds. If something comes up, we'll reschedule your intensive to a new set of dates at no additional cost, as long as you let us know at least 14 days in advance.
If this is the year —
Sending this to your partner?
“I found something I think we should look at together. No pressure — just read it.”
Not the right cohort?
We send one quiet note when the next one opens.
Apply for a Private Intensive
Tell us about the two of you.
There is no form funnel here. We read every application ourselves — your words land with us, not a pipeline.
Either of you can write. Whoever writes, write the way you'd actually talk about your relationship — not the way you think an application should sound.
You do not need to have the perfect words prepared before you come. If you have to step away, what you've written will still be here when you come back.
We built this because we needed it first. — Eric & Haydee