Marriage/Couples

The fastest way to better relationships

Join the thousands of couples who have learned The Art & Science of Love by coming to one of our reknowned weekend workshops!

2 days filled with practical, simple tools and exercises confirm, strengthen or restore your love
For couples of every type
Shown to acheive results similar to those of 6 months of marital therapy (though the workshop is not therapy)
Produces positive results for 86% of those who attend (based on exit surveys)

The Art & Science of Love is offered live in Seattle several times per year with Drs. John & Julie Gottman, or around the country with one of our Senior Certified Gottman Therapists. Along with the memory of re-connecting and the knowledge that "we can do this!", you will take home a box of techniques, cards, tools and tips to support your relationship in your everyday lives.

The live workshop is the single best way to learn this material. If you can't attend one, the next best option is to try The Art & Science of Love via our home study DVD box set .

Attention Microsoft Employees:
If you are a benefits-eligible Microsoft Employee, you may be able to charge all or part of the expense of attending any SEATTLE Gottman Institute Couples Workshop to your CARES/EAP benefit in lieu of direct payment. Participation will count towards eight marital benefit sessions through the CARES program. If this applies to you, please do not register for the couples workshop using this online registration. Instead, please call Linda Wright, Director of Couples Services, at 206-431-5423 to register by phone or email Linda Wright at lwright@gottman.com

Does it really work?
"The seminar we attended in May was fabulous! I honestly didn't think we would ever be able to get back to the intense feelings that we had when we first were married, but this seminar sure did it for us! What a gift it has been! We have been giving your web address out to all of our friends! Thanks so much!!" (H.S., Great Falls,VA)

Couples talk about their Gottman workshop experience

What's behind our success?

In a word: science!

Our work is grounded in 40 years of research with more than 3000 couples.
86 percent of people who complete our couples workshops make significant progress on conflicts that once felt “gridlocked” These numbers are a big improvement over other forms of marital intervention. For example, acclaimed marriage researcher Neil Jacobson conducted an evaluation of one of the most highly regarded therapy methods and showed that only 35 percent of couples using it improved their marriages.

Another story:
"My husband and I have been married 33 years and over the past few years had been exhibiting destructive relationship behaviors. We attended your couples workshop the first weekend of May in Seattle and I'll admit I sat with my arms crossed thinking "I hope he's hearing this." We bickered through many of the exercises. I left feeling we had failed miserably. But returning home something clicked and we started over at the beginning of the book and repeated the exercises. For the past four weeks we have practiced being relationship masters and I feel like we are soul mates once again. This week my husband was diagnosed with bladder cancer. I am grateful we are entering this challenge from a positive relationship place. Thank you." (N.W., Sequim, WA)

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