Eterna’s Marriage Readiness Workshops are thoughtfully created for adults who value marriage and want to approach it with care, clarity, and intention. While especially designed for singles preparing for marriage, these workshops are equally meaningful for those who are dating, engaged, or already married and seeking to deepen and strengthen their relationships. Each session focuses on building strong foundations for healthy, lasting partnerships – covering communication, emotional safety, discernment, values alignment, and essential relational skills.
Marriage is meaningful. Preparing for it with intention truly matters.
Dating apps, simplistic advice, and rushed timelines rarely prepare you for one of the most important decisions of your life. Too often, people learn essential communication and conflict skills only after months—or even years—of frustration.
These workshops focus on clarity, discernment, and practical relational skills, empowering you to make intentional, informed choices about partnership. Marriage deserves more than good intentions; it deserves preparation, discernment, and responsibility.
Participation is open to individuals seeking clarity and growth. Attendance does not imply involvement in Eterna’s matchmaking services. These workshops stand fully on their own.
Whether you are single, dating, engaged, or married, our workshops offer something genuinely valuable at every stage of a relationship. These workshops are for people who:
We do not rush insight. We do not promise outcomes. We do not confuse availability with readiness.
Preparation is an act of respect.
Not sure where to begin? You are welcome to start with one workshop and see if this approach is a fit for you!
Gottman’s research – conducted over two decades – found that 69 percent of relationship conflict is perpetual. Not solvable. Not fixable. Rooted in fundamental differences between two people that will never fully resolve. The couples who thrive are not the ones who solved these problems. They are the ones who learned to dialogue about them without gridlock – and to repair when the conversation goes wrong.
That is what this workshop teaches.
Most relationships do not break down because of conflict.
They break down because they never learned how to repair after conflict.
Conflict is inevitable in any relationship that matters. What is not inevitable is the slow accumulation of unresolved moments – the things that were said and never fully addressed, the ruptures that were papered over rather than genuinely healed, the distance that grows one unrepaired argument at a time.
Tori Mudie, MA, RP, CCC
Tori Mudie is a Registered Psychotherapist, client advocate, and entrepreneur, and the owner of On Your Mind Counselling, a virtual private practice serving individuals, couples, and families across Ontario.
She works with clients at all stages of relationship, including singles, premarital couples, long-married partners, and those navigating separation with care.
Extensively trained in the Gottman methodology, Tori brings a research-based approach to communication, conflict management, and building meaningful connection. Above all, she is passionate about equipping her clients with the skills, tools, and insight to become the best version of themselves.
A live workshop on the communication patterns that turn small disagreements into the same recurring battle.
Most couples who struggle with communication are not struggling because they do not care enough. They are struggling because they have developed patterns: unconscious, automatic, deeply grooved – that turn ordinary conversations into battles and genuine connection into something that feels increasingly out of reach.
You say the same thing ten different ways and still feel like they are not hearing you. Small disagreements escalate into something neither of you intended. After conflict you feel further apart than before it started. You love each other but talking about certain things always ends badly.
This is not a character flaw. It is a pattern. And patterns can be changed.
The four destructive communication patterns that are quietly eroding your connection, and why they are so hard to stop once they start.
How to replace reactive language with responses that actually create safety rather than more distance.
What it means to listen in a way that makes the other person feel genuinely heard – not managed, not tolerated, but actually heard.
How to repair a conversation that has gone wrong before it becomes another wound that neither of you fully recovers from.
Ife and Dr. Dami Adingupu, PhD are certified premarital and marriage coaches and the co-founders of Thriving Relationships Now, an organization dedicated to helping couples build strong, resilient, and fulfilling partnerships.
Ife and Dami have been married for 14 years. They combine real-life experience with coaching and research to help people understand and navigate the patterns that shape relationships.
Together, they bring an evidence-based, culturally sensitive approach to relational wellness, drawing on coaching expertise, research, and mental health-informed practices.
Through coaching, workshops, and community initiatives, they equip couples not just to stay together, but to truly thrive together.
Celebrating Learning, Growth, and Everlasting Happiness
If you would like to explore the thinking that informs this workshop series, I regularly share written reflections on faith, love, and relational responsibility.
These essays focus on the skills and patterns that shape healthy relationships, regardless of stage.
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