COUPLES CALIBRATED
A Three-Hour Experiential Workshop for Connected Couples Seeking More
More curiosity. More connection. More intimacy. More understanding. More intentional love.
Couples Calibrated is a live, online, evidence-informed experience for couples who value their relationship and want to explore what else is possible together.
Using The Mechanics of Self-Authorship: Seven Steps to Engineering Agency and the Five Cs of Connection, couples will explore how their individual stories, beliefs, emotional patterns, and behaviours influence the relationship they create together.
This is an invitation to become more conscious of yourself, more curious about your partner, and more intentional about the life you are authoring together.
The Three-Hour Experience
Part One: The Mirror
Understanding Yourself Within Your Relationship
Explore the internal systems influencing how you think, feel, communicate, and connect.
- Recognize your personal narratives, assumptions, and expectations.
- Explore how past experiences influence present relationship dynamics.
- Identify protective patterns, emotional triggers, and habitual responses.
- Practise observing your thoughts and reactions without immediately acting on them.
- Consider who you are becoming within your relationship.
Experiential practice: Guided grounding, individual reflection, and private partner conversation.
Part Two: The Flashlight
The Five Cs of Connection
Learn and practise five intentional competencies for deepening understanding and connection.
- Curiosity: Become interested in what you don't yet know about yourself and your partner.
- Collect: Gather information through observation, listening, and meaningful questions.
- Code: Examine the meanings, interpretations, and assumptions you attach to experiences.
- Curate: Consciously choose which beliefs, behaviours, and responses support the relationship you want.
- Create: Translate new awareness into intentional communication, connection, and shared experiences.
Experiential practice: Guided exercises, reflective questions, and private conversations designed to reveal new perspectives.
Part Three: The Map
Seven Steps to Engineering Greater Agency Together
Apply the Mechanics of Self-Authorship to your relationship.
Explore how to:
- Recognize automatic programming and habitual relationship patterns.
- Differentiate observation from interpretation.
- Identify the values guiding your individual and shared choices.
- Strengthen emotional regulation and intentional responses.
- Recognize opportunities to interrupt unhelpful patterns.
- Exercise greater agency in how you communicate, connect, and love.
- Translate insight into meaningful, sustainable action.
Experiential practice: Couples create a personal connection map, identifying intentions, opportunities, and practical actions for their next chapter.
What You'll Take Away
- Greater awareness of yourself within your relationship.
- A deeper understanding of your partner's inner world.
- Practical tools for curiosity, communication, and connection.
- A shared language for recognizing patterns and navigating differences.
- A personalized plan for continuing to deepen your relationship.
- Three intentional hours dedicated to each other.
Event Details
Format: Live, interactive online experience
Duration: 3 hours
Time: 6:00–9:00 p.m. Atlantic
Date: November 19, 2026
Facilitator: Patricia Auchnie, RSW, MSW
Presented by: Nova Salutem Inc.
This is an educational and experiential workshop, not couples therapy. Personal reflection and partner conversations remain private, with no requirement to disclose relationship details to the group.
You Already Have a Connection. What More Could You Create Together?
Master Your Mind. Choose Your Intention. Activate Your Courage. Author Your Life.
