Relationship Clinic

Throughout your life, relationships will come and go. There will be life-changing romances and meaningful friendships that last a lifetime. Of course, there will also be toxic situations, painful breakups, and grief after you fall out of touch with a friend, lover or loved one. These relationships teach you more about yourself and about powerful, sometimes elusive love.
At Canadian Multicultural Centre, we believe that strong communities are built on strong families, and strong families build even stronger communities. The key to keeping families together is equipping couples with the know-how to nurture their marriages long past the moment they say “I Do”. Our Marriage Enrichment Program, therefore, supports, equips, and empowers couples to grow into the wholeness that marital wholeness and to fully enjoy the benefits of a healthy relationship. With the goal of care and restoration in mind, marriage programs and seminars are organized to help couples take the time to positively refocus on their marriage priorities. Each couple has strengths to build on and identifying these strengths is an essential element for enhancement in any marriage.
  • Are you and your partner looking to get married?
  • Are you already married but would like to further enrich your marriage?
  • Are you struggling to maintain a healthy relationship with your children or family members?
  • Are you struggling to maintain a healthy relationship with friends and colleagues?
  • Are you struggling to maintain a healthy relationship with your educators and mentors?

If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions or you know of people that might have answered yes, then the RELATIONSHIP CLINIC (RC) has something for you. RC was set up to help develop strong marriages. It’s increasingly becoming clear to all that the type of storms that confront marriages in our world today require strong informed enriching influence for marriages to be successful. It’s not a case of whether the storms will come, because they surely will, but whether marriages are adequately equipped to deal with the storms when they arrive. What’s more, the institution of marriage in our society today has been very much trivialized. Commitment has gone out of fashion and people are marrying and divorcing with the flimsiest of excuses. Things like pre-nuptials have become common place among our ‘so-called’ celebrities, and it is not surprising that other people are doing the same. However, the institution of marriage is supposed to be blissful when built on the proper foundation. The RC team are passionate about helping couples to develop the proper foundation, thus developing marriages that help to restore value into the institution of marriage.

The program objectives for Marriage Enrichment are delivered via four strategic instruments:

1 – Premarital Preparation
The Premarital preparation (PP) is for couples considering engagement and marriage. The goal is to help couples recognize and build upon the strengths of their relationships and to identify and discuss potential trouble spots. No matter how well you know each other, and even if you’ve been living together, being married is very different. Even people who have been married before benefit from marriage preparation. Mostly, marriage preparation covers the important areas of communication, conflict resolution and intimacy. Apart from these enormous topics, the PP team at Canadian Multicultural Centre focus on other topic areas such as: the effects of ancestral marital history on contemporary marriages, cultural differences; religious issues; myths about marriage; realistic expectations; careers and marriage; family and friends; life stages; finances; family planning; and commitment. Whilst based on proven relationship principles, PP is very helpful for any new couple.
2 – Marriage Enrichment
The marriage enrichment arm of the program is designed to promote better marriages by providing opportunities for couples to learn and develop, have fun, increase intimacy, and strengthen their relationships. Marriage Enrichment programs teach spouses interpersonal skills in communication and conflict resolution. This process over time creates positive changes as the couple practices healthy interaction skills. Couples who deem their marriage of primary importance and thereby commit to an ongoing marriage enrichment program tend to have more successful marriages.
3 – Marriage Counselling
Marriage is a beautiful gift of life to mankind. When couples go through problems in their marriages, even to the point where the threats of separation or divorce are very real, what is often required is the intervention of another party with an objective viewpoint. Marriage counselling generally helps to provide this. Many couples find healing and enrichment through marriage counselling, as it is a method used to assist couples with all sorts of issues. Consequently, marriage counselling is not strictly reserved for those on the brink of a break-up or those with unfaithful partners. We firmly believe that an understanding of the ideal foundation for a healthy marriage is essential for any couple considering marriage.
4 – Wedding
Canadian Multicultural Centre in collaboration with TCIC offers two types of wedding ceremonies: a) registered marriage; and b) church wedding, which also includes renewal of vows. Couples looking to get married in the community will usually get in touch via the CMC Admin Office or via Virtual Communications. They will be asked to complete the Wedding Application form and subsequently put in touch with the RC faculty. Member of our staff at Canadian Multicultural Centre, are licensed to conduct civil weddings; therefore, there is no need for a couple to have a separate ‘registry wedding ceremony’ elsewhere prior to getting married in Canadian Multicultural Centre.
We would love to send our couples off with a written guarantee that they will live happily ever after having completed this process, but obviously we cannot do that. However, we can tell you that people who diligently go through our Relationship Clinic programs obtained marital strength and guidance, and many have testified that it’s given them new skills in relationship building their. We hope and believe that couples who take advantage of the CMC marriage preparation will get their marriage off to a good start.
Besides Marital Relationships, The Canadian Multicultural Centre Relationship Clinic also purposes to enrich and support other forms of relationship, including Friendships, Parental Relations, Business Relationships, and Kinship etc.