Jeff uses Prepare-Enrich to help couples navigate important relational dynamics, expectations and customized relationship challenges.  All marriage coaching with Jeff will tackle the topics of:

• Communication, assertiveness and active listening
• Personal stress, identifying critical issues and resolving conflict
• Family or origins’ influences and the couples’ relationship map.
• SCOPE profile and marriage goal setting

You can also get extended coaching to tackle specific marital challenges such as,

• Financial goals and agreement
• Roles and responsibilities in the relationship
• Sex and affection
• Children and parenting
• Leisure time and activities
• Faith and Spirituality

Prepare-Enrich consists of each individual in the couple filling out an assessment survey that helps determine the strength and growth areas of the couple.  It also measures each person’s satisfaction and idealistic distortion which helps couples understand each other’s starting place for the conversations to follow.  Couples will receive workbooks to complete assignments to reference through the coaching sessions, which will consist of the couple and the coach reviewing the determinations of the assessment and practicing conversations and skills from the workbook to help couples navigate differences and find common language to boost marriage confidence.  The assessments are research based and you can learn more about the 40+ years of marriage research by visiting www.prepare-enrich.com

In addition to marriage coaching Jeff is also passionate about coaching people navigating Church Hurt.  Jeff knows whether your faith community has experienced a split, or you’ve felt overlooked, ignored or taken-advantage of, Jesus never wants us to confuse the failure of pastors or leaders for faithlessness on His part.

Jeff experienced his own season of church hurt when the church he worked at for almost a decade suddenly fired him.  Through a journey of prayer, confrontational conversations, and education, Jeff came to understand the systemic issues within many churches that cause people to be treated as disposable parts in the machine of ministry.  

Maybe you’ve had a leader you’d describe as a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” or had your pastor tell you something in a one-on-one conversation, but say something completely different from the pulpit.  Perhaps you’re not sure what to do after a church split has scattered your friend group and faith support system.  Or, if you’ve put your trust and financial investment into a church community for years, but never felt noticed or known.  You are not alone.  These are common issues that many Christians have experienced in mainline churches and non-denominational communities.  

Jeff can talk you through your personal journey of pain in the church.  Together, you can explore the biblical narratives where faithful people, trying to obey God, faced betrayal, rejection and hurt from those they previously called leader or friend.  If you desire to have confrontational conversations that will help you find closure, Jeff will reach out on your behalf and arrange a mediated video-chat.