A live workshop for two.
Two days held for the two of you.
No audience. No advice from strangers.
Just your marriage, finally getting full attention.
Based on the Gottman research —
the seven principles that quietly hold a relationship together.
Not therapy.
Not a lecture.
Just a clear way to look at how you actually work together.
Couples in every season.
- couples who feel good and want to stay that way
- couples stuck in the same loop
- couples thinking about marriage
- couples who've been married a long time
- couples wondering if therapy is the next step
All ages. All backgrounds. All kinds of love.
You don't need to be in crisis. The couples who get the most from this are the ones who came before they thought they needed to.
What you leave with.
- The Love Map — a detailed picture of your partner's inner world that most couples have never built on purpose
- The Repair Checklist — the specific moves that de-escalate conflict before it causes damage
- The Dreams Within Conflict conversation — a way to hear what's underneath the fight you keep having
- The Stress-Reducing Conversation — a daily practice that rebuilds the friendship most couples accidentally let thin out
- The Softened Start-Up — how to raise hard topics without triggering the person you love
- An introduction to financial alignment — how the same patterns show up in how you handle money together
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 you discovered, together
- The Magic Six Hours — six small weekly practices that keep everything you learned alive long after the workshop ends
Most workshops hand you a workbook and hope you open it. Every tool on this list is something you will have already practiced — in private, with each other — before the twelve hours are over. You're not taking home theory. You're taking home muscle memory.
Live, on Zoom.
Twelve hours, across four sessions.
Private breakouts — never group sharing.
You will never be asked to share anything about your relationship in front of another couple. Every exercise that asks something of you happens in a private breakout — just the two of you.
Confidential. You can stay quiet the whole time if you want to.
No circles. No performing.
There are no public confession circles.
No forced sharing.
No moments where you are asked to perform your relationship in front of strangers.
Most of the workshop happens privately — just the two of you, in guided breakouts.
We teach briefly.
Then you practice together while the ideas are still fresh.
Phones away.
Cameras on.
Twelve quiet hours focused on one relationship.
Most couples arrive a little nervous.
Most couples leave saying it felt smaller and quieter than they expected.
Some couples talk the entire drive home. Some sit quietly for a while first.
The strangest part is not the exercises. It is how unusual it feels to spend an entire day paying full attention to each other again.
When & where.
Next cohort: Summer 2026 — exact dates shared with accepted applicants.
Twelve hours total, on Zoom.
Hosted from Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
Each cohort is limited to 8 couples.
Admission is by application.
Small enough to feel careful.
Large enough to realize you are not the only couple carrying this quietly.
$697 per couple.
No tiers. No upsells. Everything included.
The strongest couples are not couples who never struggle.
- couples who learn how to slow an argument down before it becomes damaging
- couples who know how to reconnect after distance
- couples who know how to notice the drift early
The workshop gives language and structure to those moments while they are still small enough to change.
Eric & Haydee Rodriguez.
Founders. Lead facilitators of the workshop.
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.
Do we have to share anything in front of other couples?
Never. Every exercise that asks something honest of you happens in a private breakout — just the two of you. The main room is for teaching. The real work happens behind a closed door. You can stay on mute with your camera off the entire time if you want to. Nobody will know you were there except us.
What if my partner doesn't want to come?
That's more common than you think. One of you found this page. The other one isn't sure yet. Here's what we'd say: don't try to convince them. Just share the page. The couples who get the most from this are the ones where both people chose to show up — even if one of them chose reluctantly. Some of the deepest breakthroughs we've seen started with someone who almost didn't come.
Is this therapy?
No. We are not your therapists and this is not a clinical setting. This is a structured, research-based workshop focused on how you operate as a couple. We teach frameworks, you practice them together in private, and you leave with tools you can use that week. If what comes up during the workshop tells you therapy would help, we'll say that directly and point you somewhere good.
What happens after the workshop ends?
You leave with the book, two workbooks, every framework we practiced, and a written summary of what you discovered together. But the real answer is: you leave with a shared language. A way of talking about what's happening between you that you didn't have before. For some couples, that's enough. For others, it becomes the beginning of a longer relationship with us. That's what stewardship is.
Twelve hours on Zoom — is that actually going to work?
We thought the same thing before we designed it this way. Here's what we found: twelve hours across multiple sessions, from your own home, with private breakouts, actually works better for most couples than a weekend away. No travel stress. No performing in a conference room. You're in your own space, wearing what you want, with your real life five feet away. The work lands differently when it happens where you actually live.
How much does it cost?
$697 per couple. That covers twelve hours of live facilitation, both workbooks, a copy of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, a written summary of what you discovered together, and a cohort small enough that we actually know your names. There are no tiers, no upsells, and no surprise fees. One price, for everything.
What if we're not accepted?
We'll tell you honestly and we'll tell you why. Some couples aren't ready for this format — they need something different first, and we'll point them there. Some couples are a better fit for a later cohort. Either way, you won't hit a dead end. If we can't help you right now, we'll tell you who can.
Can we get a refund?
Once accepted and enrolled, your spot is held for you — which means another couple didn't get it. Because of that, we don't offer refunds. If something comes up and you can't attend your cohort, we'll transfer your enrollment to the next available cohort at no additional cost, as long as you let us know at least 14 days before your session begins. We'd rather have you in the right cohort than lose you entirely.
The couples who apply are usually not the couples in the most visible crisis.
They are the couples who sense something important drifting quietly — and decide to pay attention before distance hardens.
Most couples wait until the relationship feels visibly damaged before giving it focused attention. By then, years of distance have usually already accumulated underneath the surface.
If this is the year you want to live on the same page —
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
Write to us, together.
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