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A structured, print-ready exercise that gives your couples a clear shared vision — in one 30-minute session.
You know the couples who come in every week working on communication, conflict, repair — but have never actually articulated what they're building together? This exercise gives them that conversation. It moves couples from vague intentions to a concrete, co-written vision statement they can reference between sessions and beyond.
No therapist facilitation guide needed. The prompts do the heavy lifting. Hand it to a couple as a between-session assignment, use it as a session warm-up, or build it into your intake process as a baseline for treatment goals. It's designed to stand alone — your clients don't need you in the room to complete it.
4 guided sections with discussion prompts and shared writing space
A co-written shared vision statement template with signature lines
Designed for couples to complete independently in one 30-minute sitting
Clean, professionally designed PDF — print or use digitally
Grounded in PACT secure functioning, EFT attachment needs, and Gottman's shared meaning framework
1. What does our life together look like? — Daily life, home, finances, community, and family 3–5 years out.
2. What do we want to achieve together? — Shared goals, milestones, and the commitments they've been avoiding.
3. What is the purpose of this relationship? — The anchor question. What this partnership is for when things get hard.
4. How will we make this real? — This-week behaviour changes, pattern interrupts, a check-in rhythm, and a repair signal.
Couples in the maintenance or growth phase of therapy who need forward-looking structure
Premarital work — gives couples a tangible artifact before they walk down the aisle
Post-crisis couples who've done the repair and need to rebuild shared direction
Intake or early-stage assessment — surfaces values alignment and goal discrepancies fast
Therapists building a resource library of between-session tools
No visible therapeutic framing in the exercise itself — it's written directly to the couple in warm, accessible language. Your clients won't feel like they're filling out a clinical form.
Created by Michelle Garraway, MSW, RSW — founder of The Relationship Agency, a group therapy practice specializing in couples work. Level 2 PACT clinician and PACT continuing education instructor at Wilfrid Laurier University.
A structured, print-ready exercise that gives your couples a clear shared vision — in one 30-minute session.
You know the couples who come in every week working on communication, conflict, repair — but have never actually articulated what they're building together? This exercise gives them that conversation. It moves couples from vague intentions to a concrete, co-written vision statement they can reference between sessions and beyond.
No therapist facilitation guide needed. The prompts do the heavy lifting. Hand it to a couple as a between-session assignment, use it as a session warm-up, or build it into your intake process as a baseline for treatment goals. It's designed to stand alone — your clients don't need you in the room to complete it.
4 guided sections with discussion prompts and shared writing space
A co-written shared vision statement template with signature lines
Designed for couples to complete independently in one 30-minute sitting
Clean, professionally designed PDF — print or use digitally
Grounded in PACT secure functioning, EFT attachment needs, and Gottman's shared meaning framework
1. What does our life together look like? — Daily life, home, finances, community, and family 3–5 years out.
2. What do we want to achieve together? — Shared goals, milestones, and the commitments they've been avoiding.
3. What is the purpose of this relationship? — The anchor question. What this partnership is for when things get hard.
4. How will we make this real? — This-week behaviour changes, pattern interrupts, a check-in rhythm, and a repair signal.
Couples in the maintenance or growth phase of therapy who need forward-looking structure
Premarital work — gives couples a tangible artifact before they walk down the aisle
Post-crisis couples who've done the repair and need to rebuild shared direction
Intake or early-stage assessment — surfaces values alignment and goal discrepancies fast
Therapists building a resource library of between-session tools
No visible therapeutic framing in the exercise itself — it's written directly to the couple in warm, accessible language. Your clients won't feel like they're filling out a clinical form.
Created by Michelle Garraway, MSW, RSW — founder of The Relationship Agency, a group therapy practice specializing in couples work. Level 2 PACT clinician and PACT continuing education instructor at Wilfrid Laurier University.