Marriage Mentoring: 12 Conversations
Sponsored by the Counseling Center, this program provides an opportunity for two couples, one mentoring couple and the other a mentee couple, to have conversations around topics that are commonly of interest to couples.
Kevin and Lynn Hopkins serve as the leaders. If you are interested in being a mentor or being mentored, please contact the Counseling Center (615-690-4661) or Kevin and Lynn Hopkins (615.308.2269) for more information.
12 Conversations
The program is quite simple. Couples meet between 8 and 12 times during the year as they develop a friendship over guided conversations about marriage. Both couples will share their experiences. The two couples meet in a relaxed atmosphere of their choosing, perhaps enjoying snacks, a meal or dessert.
Topics of conversations include the following:
- Thankfulness
- Healthy Marriage Habits: Showing our Love for each other
- Leaving and Cleaving: Making our Life Together
- Recreation and Playfulness
- Money in Marriage
- Communication
- Problem solving
- Balancing God, Marriage, Family and Work
- Children
- Friendship, Closeness, and Intimacy
- Planning for our Future
- Celebration the Holidays
Marriage mentoring is a supportive friendship, with couples sharing their stories about the blessings, happiness, realities and challenges of marriage. Mentoring is not counseling, taking sides, fixing couples, parenting couples, or telling all and relating discouraging stories from marriage.
To be qualified as mentors couples need to have a successful marriage at their stage in life, be willing to share storied in an encouraging way, and be comfortable and positive in discussing mentor conversation topics with their spouse.
Couples are matched up in late April, and begin meeting in May.