Your marriage is good, but something is missing.
Designing a marriage that feels fully alive.
A full year of access · Begin the moment you enroll
Somewhere along the way, marriage can quietly shift from building a life together to managing the life you've built.
Maybe your marriage is good. You've built a life together. Raised children. Navigated difficult seasons. Celebrated victories. Carried responsibilities.
But most of the conversation has become logistics.
- Schedules
- Children
- Money
- Work
- Appointments
- The house
What do we still dream about?
Who are we becoming?
What do we want our next season to look like?
You designed a life together once.
Maybe it's time to do it again.
The dreams you had when you married don't have to be the dreams you carry forever.
You've changed. He's changed. Life has changed. Every new season creates an opportunity to sit down together and intentionally ask what you want to build now.
Marriage isn't only something you preserve. It's something you continue to form.
A structured formation you move through together.
Marriage by Design is built to be watched side by side. Every class ends with a workbook and a homework walkthrough, because the work of the program happens in the conversation the two of you have afterward.
- 01A Start Here orientation with a welcome and full program overview
- 02An expectations session, so you both begin with the same understanding of the work
- 03Twenty-one video lessons across six classes
- 04A PDF workbook and a homework walkthrough for every class
- 05A twelve week live class, Formator led, walked through alongside other couples
- 06Three bonus collections, including the Couples Dream Template
- 07A full year of class access, including every lesson, workbook, and bonus above
A full year of access. Begin the moment you enroll, and join any live class within your year.
The live class is a twelve week session led by a Formator couple, trained by the Institute to teach it. You and your husband walk through it alongside other couples. After you enroll, you choose how to begin.
- Join a scheduled class
- Begin in self-study and choose your class date later
Either way, your lessons, workbooks, and bonuses open the same day. You can join any class that begins with at least twelve weeks left on your year.
One class a week. One conversation after each one.
Couples who finish this program are rarely the ones with the most time. They are the ones who chose a night, protected it, and kept showing up for it. The curriculum gives you the structure. The two of you supply the evening.
Six classes. Twenty-one lessons.
The program moves from the way you think, to the dreams you carry, to the skills you build, to the wealth and family culture you leave behind.
Life by Design
- 1Mindset and Belief
- 2Wholeness
- 3Design Your Life Together
Supporting Each Other's Dreams
- 1What Is a Dream
- 2Dreaming Together
- 3Steps to Dreaming
Growing Together
- 1The Importance of Skills
- 2Skill Assessment
- 3How to Grow Your Skills Together
- +Bonus Skills: Growing Together
Couples Self-Image
- 1What Is Self-Image
- 2How to Design a New Self-Image
- 3Managing Critics
- 4Developing a Confident Self-Image
Building True Wealth
- 1The Purpose of Wealth
- 2Abundant Mindset
- 3Financial Future and Generational Wealth
- 4Financial Freedom
Inspiring Family Life
- 1The Purpose of Marriage
- 2How to Stay in Love
- 3How to Inspire Your Children
- 4Marriage by Design Final Review
- Welcome
- Program Overview
- Live Class Details
- Expectations
- How you think, together
- What you want, together
- What you can do, together
- What you leave behind, together
Most couples are never taught how to build a marriage.
They are only taught how to survive one.
Three bonus collections.
These are not extras added to fill a curriculum. Each one exists because couples kept asking for it: a template to dream on paper, a class on the sacred side of marriage, and a planning pack that turns the whole thing into a calendar.
Couples Dream Template
The worksheet the dreaming classes are built around. Two columns, one shared page, and a structure for the conversation most couples have been meaning to have for years.
Thriving Intimacy Class
- Summary
- Honoring Men
- Sacred Space
- Strong Marriage
- How to Inspire Your Man
Wholeness Planning Pack
- The Wholeness Planning Pack
- Wholeness Life Script with Ryan Donovan
A planning system for putting the eight arenas of your life on an actual calendar, taught alongside the life script session.
Strong marriages require formed people.
Not perfect ones.
Self-Worth
Know your value without requiring the other person to continually prove it to you.
Mind and Emotions
Learn to respond intentionally rather than living reactively.
Communication
Express yourselves clearly and listen more effectively.
Boundaries
Love generously without abandoning yourself.
Health
Develop greater capacity for the life and relationships you're carrying.
Relationship
Strengthen respect, connection, and the sacred space of marriage.
Purpose
Bring two people with dreams, gifts, and direction into the marriage.
Home and Family Culture
Intentionally build the environment and legacy you want to create together.
Learn how to become people capable of building an increasingly healthy marriage without losing yourselves inside it.
Not every couple arrives here at the same time.
This is a program for couples, and it is best done together. But many women begin it before their husband is willing to sit down. That is a legitimate way to start.
- Maybe you're tired.
- Maybe you feel misunderstood.
- Maybe you're constantly reacting to one another.
- Maybe you don't know how to establish boundaries without escalating conflict.
- Maybe you've started losing yourself inside the relationship.
- Maybe you want things to change but don't know where to begin.
This formation cannot control or change your husband.
But it can help form you.
- Develop greater clarity about your worth
- Learn to manage your thoughts and emotions
- Communicate more effectively
- Establish healthier boundaries
- Understand what belongs to you and what does not
- Develop greater resilience
- Clarify your needs
- Strengthen your own identity
You cannot do both sides of a marriage.
But you can become increasingly equipped for yours.
Not sure this is the right program for the season you are in? Take the Formation Assessment and we will point you to the right starting place.
Couples who have already done this.
No summary from us. Their marriages, their words, unedited.
These couples completed Marriage by Design as part of an earlier mastermind cohort that met live with January and Ryan. Their experience is their own. Formation is education, and results depend on the work each couple does.
Perhaps the goal isn't simply to grow old together.
It's to keep becoming together.
You don't have to have every answer today. But you can begin becoming more equipped for the marriage you want to build.
A full year of access. Begin the moment you enroll, and join any live class within your year.
Formation is education. It is not a substitute for professional help, counseling, or safety intervention. If you are experiencing abuse or feel unsafe in your relationship, please reach out to a licensed professional or, in the United States, the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233. Better boundaries and a stronger mindset are not a remedy for abuse, and your safety comes first.