Strong Bonds relationship programs, built for your chaplaincy
A complete suite of OXYGEN curriculum, assessments, and facilitator training that helps Air Force chaplains and religious support teams strengthen the relationships of the Airmen and families they serve.
Trusted by more than 100,000 military couples, individuals, and families.
Service takes a toll that does not end when the shift ends or the deployment is over. Stronger Families gives chaplains practical, ready to deliver tools for every setting you work in, from a marriage retreat to a resilience training to personal pastoral care. These programs foster not just healthier relationships, but mission-ready homes. Everything here is designed to be facilitated by you, on your timeline, with your people.
Three programs, two assessments, built for military life
Mix and match to fit your context. Each program stands on its own, and our assessments turn self-awareness into practical next steps. Get certified to facilitate them yourself.
Couples Programs
The 8 session OXYGEN Couples Seminar plus 7 single topic Taste of OXYGEN workshops.
Relational Readiness
OXYGEN for Singles & Leaders: six modular lessons and a profile assessment that build relational intelligence and resilient leadership.
Family Program
OXYGEN for Families, a parent and teen weekend that builds deeper connection at home.
OXYGEN Profile Assessment
Our flagship personality assessment. It maps behavioral styles and motivational drivers, and it is used within the OXYGEN Seminar and the Relational Readiness series.
Stress Response Assessment
A confidential, non-diagnostic reflection tool that shows how stress may be shaping a relationship, in about five minutes. It is the assessment behind the After the Storm workshop in the Taste of OXYGEN series.
Want to lead these yourself?
Certification is not a separate program. It comes in two 2 day virtual tracks that together equip you to facilitate all three OXYGEN programs, with delivery training, coaching, and everything you need to lead them well.
Not sure where to start?
Tell us about your unit and your goals. We will help you build the right mix of programs and assessments and get you the resources to deliver them.
The OXYGEN Couples Seminar
Just like oxygen itself, this experience breathes life into relationships and catalyzes real change and impact.
The OXYGEN Seminar gives couples a roadmap to deepen communication, better understand each other's differences, create closer intimacy, and understand the power of forgiveness. It is highly interactive, includes breakout sessions, and has each couple build an action plan for every section. Two assessments, the OXYGEN Profile Assessment and the Couple Checkup, help each couple understand themselves as individuals and as a team.
Two formats to fit your event: the full course runs 8 to 10 hours, and any single Taste of OXYGEN topic runs 60 to 90 minutes. Mix and match to match your window.
The full seminar includes
- 8 sessions, 8 to 10 hours total
- Participant guides with content, action plans, and additional resources
- The OXYGEN Profile Assessment
- The Couple Checkup Assessment by Prepare Enrich
Seven single topic workshops for couples
Each is a standalone event, delivered on its own or back to back. Every topic includes tools and information to help participants grow in that relational area, typically over a 90 minute window and customizable to your group.
Love Styles
Bring back the spark and learn to better connect and express love for each other.
Understanding Differences
Relate, respect, and reinforce the way you love while embracing each other's unique needs.
Communication
Understand the difference between listening and hearing, and why both are important to build strong intimacy.
Love & Money
Create an action plan to best adjust your strengths while retaining a strong identity.
Managing Life's Transitions
Create an action plan to best adjust your strengths while retaining a strong identity through change.
Connection Through Conflict
Learn the difference between conflict that brings you closer and conflict that can drive a wedge.
After the Storm
Understanding trauma's impact and reestablishing connection, featuring the Stress Response Assessment.
Every Taste of OXYGEN workshop includes single topic sessions and study guides with content, discussion questions, and action plans.
OXYGEN for Singles & Leaders
A mission-ready curriculum that equips military personnel with the relational intelligence and emotional resilience they need to lead others and build healthy relationships in every sphere of life.
The course builds what we call Relational Readiness: the self-awareness, communication skills, and emotional tools needed to succeed in friendships, dating, leadership roles, and family systems. Whether single by choice, between relationships, or preparing for a future partnership, participants learn to show up with clarity, character, and confidence. It is especially powerful for young service members, chaplain teams, and first-time leaders, cultivating both personal maturity and spiritual fitness.
Grounded in the OXYGEN Profile Assessment, participants uncover
- How they connect and communicate under stress
- Their motivators and blind spots in relationships
- The impact of personality on dating, friendships, and leadership
- Practical tools for boundaries, forgiveness, and conflict navigation
- How to build trust before commitment without losing their values or identity
Six modular lessons
Deliver them in any order, on their own or back to back, to fit your setting.
Leading From Your Strengths
- See how leading from your strengths improves team morale
- Understand how difference on a team can be an asset
- Unlock the power of the right seat on the right bus for the workplace
Communication Training
- Discover differences that may affect your communication
- Explore the art of listening
- Discuss empathy and tools that help people communicate effectively
Understanding Differences
- Explore how to relate to people with different personalities
- Discover how to respond to and reinforce those in your department
- Understand what motivates you and those around you
Conflict Training
- Discover your conflict persona
- Explore the layers of conflict and the original emotions behind them
- Discuss alternate actions that turn conflict into collaboration
Navigating Transitions
- Discover how transitions affect us
- Explore how past strengths can carry you through today's transitions
- Navigate life's transitions in ways that strengthen relationships
Relational Style for the Workplace
- Discover your unique relational style in the workplace
- Learn healthy ways to relate to your team members
Mitigating the stress of relationships at work and home
Learn about your unique strengths to manage stressful moments on the job and at home, understand how work and home transitions influence your ability to manage stress, and see how your career impacts you physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
OXYGEN for Families
A weekend designed for parents and their teens, whether that is both parents with one teen or one parent with several.
The event helps families build deeper connections. Through stories, discussions, breakouts, and brainstorm sessions, parents and teens come to understand each other better, resolve conflict better, establish healthy boundaries, and start to work through the hurts and hangups in their relationships.
It works through communication, anger, conflict, and forgiveness, and contextualizes these hard conversations in a way that translates for teens and their parents alike. Teens grow in understanding their identity, and parents gain a model for connection and better communication at home.
The parent and teen weekend includes
- 6 sessions
- Participant guides with content, action plans, and additional resources
- The OXYGEN Profile Assessment for parents and teens
- Two Stronger Families facilitators (contact us for details)
The OXYGEN Profile Assessment
The backbone of the OXYGEN experience. It maps each person's behavioral styles and motivational drivers, and it is built into the OXYGEN Seminar, the Relational Readiness series, and the Parents and Teens weekend.
The OXYGEN Profile Assessment combines decades of behavioral research with proprietary algorithms to deliver an integrative picture of how each person connects, communicates, and is motivated. Rather than a generic label, it tailors its results to each individual's responses, turning self-awareness into practical insight that participants and facilitators can use right away.
What sets it apart
- Maps behavioral styles and motivational drivers, not just a personality type
- Grounded in decades of behavioral research and science
- Developed with neuroscience and EEG brain imaging
- Independently validated by third-party statistical review
Helps each couple understand themselves as individuals and as a team.
Uncovers each person's core relational style for dating, friendships, and leadership.
Gives parents and teens a shared language for connection and communication.
Patterns, not problems
The assessment behind the After the Storm workshop in the Taste of OXYGEN series. A confidential, non-diagnostic reflection tool that helps service members, veterans, first responders, and their spouses see how stress may be shaping their relationship, in about five minutes. No clinical jargon, no diagnosis, no judgment, and every result ends with one concrete next step.
Six patterns of stress in a relationship
Emotional Distress
Anxiety, guilt, heaviness, helplessness, or emotional fatigue.
Disconnection & Withdrawal
Emotional distance, isolation, or loss of connection.
Cognitive Strain
Mental overload, overthinking, replaying events, fatigue.
Behavioral Coping
Avoidance, numbing, overcontrol, or short-term relief habits.
Hyperarousal & Reactivity
High alertness, irritability, sleep disruption, quick escalation.
Relationship Impact
How stress is affecting safety, connection, and the couple bond.
It opens the conversation, giving a couple shared, non-threatening language for stress they may never have named out loud. It lowers the barrier because it is private and non-diagnostic by design, and it points toward growth: every result ends with a doable next step that can become a bridge to deeper care, a referral, or a follow-up conversation with you.
It works as a retreat opener, a resilience training check-in, or a warm-up before a counseling conversation, on any device in minutes. Issue a single link or QR code for a retreat, unit, or chaplaincy program, and a private dashboard shows participation and the patterns showing up across a group.
This assessment is not a diagnostic or clinical evaluation. It is intended for self-awareness, reflection, and relational growth. It is a mirror, not a diagnosis, and recognition, not a label. It names patterns already present so a couple can talk about them, which is exactly what keeps it in the chaplain's lane and safe alongside licensed counselors. Responses stay private, and a couple's reports are only ever combined when they choose to pair, so nothing is shared without the participant's own action.
Get certified to deliver the programs
We certify chaplains and other leaders who share our passion for strengthening relationships and serving service members and their families. Certification comes in two tracks, and each one is a 2 day virtual training.
Couples, Taste of OXYGEN & Parents and Teens
Certifies you to facilitate the OXYGEN Couples Seminar, the Taste of OXYGEN workshops, and OXYGEN for Parents and Teens.
Singles & Leaders, Relational Readiness
Certifies you to facilitate OXYGEN for Singles & Leaders, the Relational Readiness curriculum.
Both tracks are delivered live and virtually. Participants are trained to deliver the curriculum in their track, along with facilitation training, tutorials in the technology platforms, event management, and more.
Every participant also works one on one with a professional speaker coach who helps facilitators connect their own stories to the curriculum, so each event becomes engaging and life changing for the people in the room.
Ask about the next certificationWhat every track includes
- Program demonstration
- Curriculum design and implementation training
- Facilitation training and delivery examples
- One on one coaching with a professional speaker coach
- Certification to deliver the curriculum in your track
Let's build the right plan for your chaplaincy
Tell us about your unit, your goals, and your timeline. We will help you choose the right programs, get you the resources and training to deliver them, and answer any question along the way.
Contact our team
We would love to hear what you are working toward.