Mentoring: what's the difference?

Have you committed to pre-marriage mentoring, but are unsure of next steps?
When it comes to mentoring, you have a few choices.

1. Be mentored by your pastor or officiate
2. Engage a counselor/therapist
3. Enroll in a mentoring program with a pre-marriage mentor couple

To help you make an informed decision, please consider . . .

		Jim and Sheri Mueller are the co-founders of the marriage ministry, Growthtrac Ministries. The Growthtrac ministry was birthed out of the needs of our mentor couples. Today, Growthtrac serves over One-Half Million couples annually and is a respected, leading marriage resource. — Please read about our Endorsements and Partners. — More about Jim and Sheri. — Read the Chicago Tribune article
		Jim and Sheri were trained and certified through a leading one-year pre-marriage mentoring program. They later taught and certified new mentors in this program.
		We utilize Prepare-Enrich, the #1 relationship inventory and couple’s assessment tool. Jim and Sheri are Certified Prepare-Enrich facilitators.
		Over a 15-year period, Jim and Sheri have mentored more than 100 couples
		When you engage this ministry for your mentoring, both Jim and Sheri will mentor you. We believe best results come from a two-on-two relationship
		We’re here for you. If you’d like, we’re open to extending our relationship beyond the wedding date.
		We only do pre-marriage mentoring. This is our specialty. This is our passion. We want you to succeed.

We will provide you with a vision for marriage, conflict resolution, budgeting, spiritual issues, communication, and sex & intimacy. In addition, each of you will complete the PREPARE-ENRICH Inventory from Life Innovations, which will help us better coach you in our time together.

As Christians, we place a high value on the principles of the Bible. With this said, we respect your rights to grow in the spiritual path you have chosen for yourself.

The pre-marital education you receive is designed to be fitness training for your relationship. Our role is to facilitate the process while you discuss issues, and develop skills necessary for a healthy, growing marriage. This is not counseling or therapy.

Marriage mentoring is not a guarantee of relationship success. Ultimately, that is the responsibility of the pre-marital couple. Additionally, please see this disclaimer

What is Prepare-Enrich?

Prepare-Enrich is a customized couple assessment completed online that identifies a couple's strength and growth areas. It is one of the most widely used programs for premarital counseling and premarital education. It is also used for marriage counseling, marriage enrichment, and dating couples considering engagement. Based on a couple's assessment results, a trained facilitator provides 4-8 feedback sessions in which the facilitator helps the couple discuss and understand their results as they are taught proven relationship skills.

Over 3-Million Couples

Over the last 30 years, the Prepare-Enrich relationship assessment has empowered and energized more than 3 million couples. We're the #1 relationship inventory and couples assessment tool.

What are the Major Goals of the Prepare-Enrich program?

Explore strength and growth areas
Strengthen communication skills
Identify and manage major stressors
Resolve conflict using the Ten Step Model
Develop a more balanced relationship
Explore family of origin issues
Discuss financial planning and budgeting
Establish personal, couple and family goals
Understand and appreciate personality differences

Is the Prepare-Enrich Program valid & reliable?

An important strength of the Prepare-Enrich Inventory is their strong psychometric properties. High levels of reliability and validity have been found for each instrument, making them valuable tools for research as well as clinical use.

• National Norms based on over 500,000 couples
• High Levels of Validity and Reliability

Prepare has validity in that it discriminates premarital couples that get divorced from those that are happily married with about 80-85% accuracy. Reliability is high (alpha reliability of .80 - .85).

Growthtrac Ministries is a 501(c)(3) Christian, non-profit charity.

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