Hint of the Month and News Update - December 08/January 09
Past Hints
 
Connect With Your Couples

When you first meet with a couple and offer to work with them using one of the Prepare-Enrich inventories we believe that it is very important to work through a range of issues such as:
  • What does the process of taking the Inventory involve?
  • Prepare is not a test to be passed or failed.
  • So what are the goals of taking the inventory and what will the feedback sessions entail in general?
  • Is confidentiality protected?
  • Why is it important to answer individually and without collusion?
  • Why is it important to answer honestly?
  • How will the feedback process be kept safe - perhaps challenging and encouraging but not destructive and discouraging?
  • What are the costs?
This session is also an important opportunity to form a working relationship with couples and to spend time talking with them about how they met and what attracted them to one another and their reasons for wanting to become involved in the Prepare-Enrich program.


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News Update:  

    The December 2008 issue of the Newsletter, the Prepare Diary,will be posted on the Administrators' web site in mid-December. See the link  on the Adminstators' hompage. 

    PROCESSING FEE NOW $44.00  
    This is the first increase in the base cost of processing since 1999.  Our aim is to maintain the new processing charge for a lengthy period of time (as we have done before). We always aimed to make the processing cost comparable to that of a modest meal for a couple – we feel sure that $44 (for a couple) is still well and truly within those limits.