Our Purpose
Mission & Values
Our mission is to equip marriage champions, couples, and families with evidence-based skills and insights to foster healthy relationships. We Value:
- Service - Our passion to empower you
- Quality - Prioritizing professionalism and attention to detail
- Partnership - Embracing opportunities to collaborate
- Generosity - Operating out of a mindset of abundance
- Teamwork - Working toward a common purpose

Our Process

Transforming Relationships
More than 4,000,000 couples have prepared for marriage or enriched their relationship through taking the P/E assessment and working with a Certified Facilitator. The assessment itself has been proven to improve relationship satisfaction; however there is something extraordinary about the relationship a Facilitator develops with a couple that truly helps the couple grow more than they would on their own.
Our Proven Tool
Evidence-Based
P/E is one of the most widely researched assessment tools. Professors and students at colleges and universities worldwide use the scales as a tool to conduct and evaluate their research. P/E continues to adapt and react to the changing reality of relationships through continued research and development of assessments and resources.

Our People

A Global Community
Dr. David Olson, family science pioneer, and his wife, Karen Olson, founded P/E in 1980 after Dr. Olson connected theory and practice. Dr. Olson developed a method that provided counselors and clergy a framework to use with couples. Today, P/E is powered by a dedicated staff based in Roseville, Minnesota as well as a vast network that spans across the world. The P/E family is over 100,000 Certified Facilitators strong and growing every day.