Divorce Counseling Activities
Working out the problems in your marriage or relationship can be the best and sometimes the only way to save your relationship. This means that you may need to consult the services of a marriage or divorce counselor. Divorce counselors can even help once your divorce has been finalized, as they can help you learn to work together as a couple for the best interests of your children.
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Trust-Building Activities
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Even though you are divorced, the divorce counselor may ask you to engage in trust-building activities that will help you continue to interact with your former spouse in order to provide the friendliest environment for you and your children. These activities may include worksheets; face-to-face encounters with your former spouse that are mediated by the divorce counselor; or other activities that you might undergo with your spouse that will help to bridge the divide between you.
Child-Rearing Activities
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These activities are best described as being about overcoming personal obstacles and grievances to help you determine what is best for your children. Often, these activities will involve reading through scenarios that cover different situations and potential outcomes for these situations. By determining which outcome you would choose versus the one that may be correct, you can see a model of how you should behave with your former spouse that may help your children heal.
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Marriage-Saving Exercises
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If you are seeing a counselor in order to prevent a divorce or to heal your relationship during a separation, you may engage in activities to help save your marriage. An example of these might be working through a book like "The Love Dare," where you try to do things for your spouse without telling each other in order to attempt to patch up your damaged relationship. Marriage retreats, group therapy and couples therapy can all be used to work on saving your marriage.
Verbal Counseling
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As part of either your divorce or of marriage counseling, you may even undergo verbal counseling where you talk over the problems and feelings that you are having with a counselor. This may be done in the presence of your spouse or alone. When you and your spouse attend counseling together, each side is able to discuss problems and how these might be better resolved in the future. The counselor is there to mediate and facilitate the discussion.
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