A Comprehensive Approach to Self-Knowledge and Intimacy
Practical, proven relationship strengthening skills for sustaining happy, healthy, fulfilling marriages and families
PAIRS (Practical Application of Intimate Relationship Skills) programs provide a comprehensive system to enhance self-knowledge and develop the ability to sustain pleasurable intimate relationships. The program's innovative approach integrates a wide range of theories and methods from psychology, education and psychotherapy and presents them in an educational format.
Since 1983, the mission of the nonprofit PAIRS Foundation has been to teach those attitudes, emotional understandings, and behaviors that nurture and sustain healthy relationships (collectively called "relationship skills") and to make this knowledge broadly available on behalf of a safer, saner, more loving world. PAIRS has developed best practices in evidence-based marriage, family and couples education, including curricula, training processes, ethical standards, and quality management, that have been widely delivered through the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense, and private practitioners across the globe. PAIRS programs have touched countless lives, offering real promise for a future in which healthy, thriving marriages and families provide the foundation for resilient communities.
A world that increasingly embraces the outcomes made possible through PAIRS, combined with technologies that provide broad access to real-time coaching and collaboration, offers unprecedented opportunities to bring this vision to life for singles, couples, families, parents and the children they influence and impact on every continent.
