Achieving God’s Design for Marriage
This comprehensive curriculum for marriage enrichment consists of 328 pages chock full of material to help those who teach and enrich marriages. This manual can be used as a guide for leaders who conduct in-depth marriage workshops at churches, conference centers, retreat settings, colleges and Sunday School classes. Achieving God’s Design for Marriage offers a three-part strategy for growth: Biblical instruction (where good, practical Biblical content is taught), small group discussion (where couples discuss and help one another apply the principles taught) and private couple sharing (where couples make decisions about how the subject material will be applied in their own relationship). Eleven chapters address topics such as how to build better communication, how to control anger, how to improve joint decision making, how to enhance physical and spiritual intimacy, how to set goals, and how to develop relationship skills. Besides the actual teaching material there is a chapter detailing how to plan a weekend retreat, appendices for overhead transparency masters, seminar/retreat schedules, checklist for retreat preparation, TIPS for group discussion leaders, and even menus and food buying lists if you have to arrange for your own meals at a retreat center.
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Caring Couples Network
Caring Couples Network consists of professionals from a variety of disciplines who, through large and small group sessions, listen and share life experiences in an attempt to provide support to couples and families who are experiencing difficulties. The objective of the program is to help married couples and families in crisis and to prepare engaged couples for marriage. The facilitators consist of married couples, clergy, and professional consultants — such as counselors, physicians, and attorneys — who organize as teams in religious congregations or community centers to serve couples and families.
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CHOICES for Victims of Domestic Violence
Choices is dedicated to eliminating the cycle of domestic violence through intervention, support and advocacy. Choices also provides a collection of services including a 24 hour hotline, temporary shelter, legal support, advocacy, counseling, community education and training. They also provide specialized programming for underserved and at-risk communities.
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Couple Communication I & II
Partners learn 11 interpersonal skills for effective talking, listening, conflict resolution, and anger management. Whether as marriage enrichment or as part of marriage counseling, these skills help you build a more satisfying relationship. These two educational programs, in which you and your partner participate together, will help you enjoy each other more, increase intimacy, make mutually satisfying decisions, reduce tensions and manage differences, as you create good times together. Couple Communication I, an award winning program, helps you understand yourself and your partner better as you learn skills to communicate effectively about day-to-day events and important issues. Couple Communication II, the advanced program, extends the use of skills taught in Couple Communication I into processes for you to take charge of your relationship, manage anger better, and build a collaborative partnership.
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Discover the Love Of Your Life All Over Again
Attend a conference with Dr. Gary and Barb Rosberg and discover the love of your life all over again! Many times, all your marriage needs is a getaway – a time to put aside the stressors of life to purposefully focus on growing your marriage. Dr. Gary and Barb Rosberg will teach the 6 biblical principles to a healthy biblical marriage through humor, scripture, video, and PowerPoint presentation. Friday evening consists of one teaching session and a short concert by Geoff Moore. Saturday consists of morning worship with Geoff Moore, three teaching sessions by the Rosbergs, short morning break, and time for lunch. An 8-week faith-based program that can be used in all types of churches from large to small, urban and rural and in varying denominations. Facilitators include clergy or local church volunteers. Available in ten languages.
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Divorce Busting
The program offers skill-building workshops, audiotape and DVD programs, a support chat line, telephone coaching and one and two-day intensives help even couples on the brink of divorce improve their relationships quickly. Divorce Busting takes couples through the process of identifying goals for their relationship and establishing an action plan to achieve those goals. In addition, divorce busting focuses on providing knowledge and skills necessary for couples to restore their marriage and solve their problems. Group leaders include members of the community, religious leaders, professional therapists, or others interested in strengthening marriages and families. If you do nothing else, read Divorce Remedy.
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Essential Disciplines for Couples
The mission of Essential Disciplines™ for Couples is to teach a comprehensive, high quality, and practical system of core relationship s kills to help empower whole relationships with self and partner, in a manner consistent with your personal faith and philosophy. The Essential Disciplines programs have been designed to integrate leading theory, as well as, evidence-based research and best-practice outcomes. The skills-based dimension of the Essential Disciplines programs focuses on character, communication, conflict resolution, continual improvement, and one`s calling (the envisioned future).
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Family Dynamics
Family Dynamics is a non-profit marriage and family ministry that focuses on serving emotional, physical, and spiritual needs of couples to strengthen and preserve marriage. It offers help for troubled marriages through interactive seminars and classes. They help churches and organizations take proactive steps to prevent marriages from reaching a state of distress and to revive those that are already in distress. By being trained to lead the Dynamic Marriage course, you can transform bad marriages, increase intimacy in good ones, save the future of children involved in hurting homes, and bring new families into your church. Facilitators are trained during 3-day seminars that are held twice a month. For couples in troubled marriages, they provide a very successful turn-around seminar that saves marriages.
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Family Wellness
Teaches communication and problem-solving skills, values, and money management for couples and families in a multi-day workshop. Provides additional content for specialized circumstances, including stepfamilies, parent and in-laws, domestic violence, parenting, military deployment and incarceration. Facilitators include school personnel, teachers, ministers, mental health and employee assistance workers who are certified through a 40-hour training course. Advanced certification also is available.
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Foccus/Refoccus
Foccus is an internationally used inventory designed to provide engaged couples and those working with them a Personalized Profile of what is needed in their marriage preparation process. It is both a starting place for couple discussion and a map of what issues need time and attention, affirmation or problem solving. Refoccus is a packet of five instruments that a married couple can use by themselves or as part of a weekend or five weekly evenings with other couples. It is designed to fit the needs of couples that want to spend time and energy on their relationship and want some direction and skill building help in doing so.
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Marriage Course/Marriage Preparation Course
The Marriage Course and the Marriage Preparation Course provide group presentations in a relaxed and romantic environment where a couple can spend time together, watch a marriage education video or a live talk, and then privately discuss how topics from the video or talk can be applied to their own marriage. Over a series of evenings, couples learn effective communication and conflict resolution skills, the importance of forgiveness and commitment, ways to love and appreciate each other`s differences, and the importance of discussing goals and values. Programs are based on Christian principles but have been used in non-Christian settings. How can we be married to one person for the whole of our life? How can we resolve conflict in our marriage? How can we discover and rediscover sexual intimacy with our spouse? The Marriage Course addresses these questions and more. It is designed to build, strengthen, and even mend marriages. Its simple-to-use, video based format makes it easy for any married couple to lead in their home, church or community. How can we build and strengthen our marriage? Its simple-to-use, video based format makes it easy for any married couple to lead in their home, church or community.
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Marriage Enrichment Weekend Program
This enrichment program is for married and engaged couples. It begins on Friday evening, continues through Saturday, and ends on Sunday afternoon. The couples return to their homes in the evening. The Weekend touches on all aspects of marriage. The talks, discussions, videos, question and answer sessions, and meditations are integrated together to provide an opportunity for growth through learning, sharing of experiences, and reflection. The building of relationships starts with self. It then progresses to include spouse, children, family, and community, with God as an integral part of all relationships. The couple relationship and building of spirituality are the central focus. There are usually no more than twenty-five to thirty participant couples plus the team attending a Weekend. This helps build community. To provide a good balance of experience in marriage, no more that about one-fourth of the participating couples are engaged couples. Married couples from the team serve as sponsors for the engaged couples. The participation of the clergy and religious is important in providing spiritual guidance and support.
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Mastering the Magic of Love
Mastering the Magic of Love is a 16 to 20 hour relationship skills program for couples. Couples work through core problems via extended couple dialogues. Delivered in 20 fifty minute segments. Mastering the Magic of Love is a 16 to 20 hour relationship skills program for couples. It includes ALL of the concepts and skills of the traditional Relationship Enhancement® Program. Created as a result of a sub-contract with Mathematica Policy Research for ACF’s Building Strong Families Initiative, the difference is in how RE is taught. Mastering the Magic of Love uses ordinary words and step-by-step directions for the 10 RE skills. Participant materials are written on a 5th grade level. Group instruction includes new group discussions, audio-visuals, and practice activities that keep both reluctant and traditional learners engaged.
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Power of Two
Teaches the skills that make marriage successful. With easy-to-remember guidelines and entertaining examples, facilitator shows us how to create satisfying dialogue, resolve conflicts, and deepen intimacy to insure a joyful and lasting marriage. Curriculum teaches communication and conflict resolution skills. In the workbook, brief explanations of each skill are followed by practice exercises and discussion. Couples can attend workshop sessions taught by a marriage educator or they can go through the curriculum workbook on their own. A Marriage Educator`s Resource Kit is available for those who lead workshop sessions.
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PREP (Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program) – also available in a Christian version
Teaches specific techniques and practice of constructive communication and conflict resolution skills; helps couples clarify beliefs and expectations about relationships. Taught by facilitators who have been trained through an 18-hour course. Presented in various formats, including workshops, weekend workshops, weekly sessions, one-day workshops and self-guided materials such as video, audio, and books.
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Prepare/Enrich
Offers several relationship inventories that assist couples in exploring relationship strengths and areas for growth, assertiveness, conflict resolution; developing personal, couple, and family goals, and discussing budgeting and financial planning. Participants complete 5 inventories then complete 4-6 feedback sessions involving facilitated discussion based on inventory results. Inventories created for a diverse array of couples, from pre-marital couples to well-established couples over 50. Prepare/Enrich is taught by trained facilitators.
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Reconciling God`s Way
Faith-based curriculum offering a variety of program strategies that churches can use to help couples reconcile their differences. Program strategies include using a support partner who mentors one of the spouses, teaching a class to a group of couples, and training leaders and support partners to help couples. The program provides written curriculum resources for mentors, class leaders, clergy, and participant couples. There are three focal points in this ministry: to provide support and accountability for someone whose marriage is in crisis - even with an unwilling spouse, to equip pastors and lay leaders with tools, materials, and training for these couples in order to come alongside them in a way that will help all those involved to avoid the two most common mistakes: rescuing-thus burning out, and avoidance-for lack of knowing what to do, and to help the Christian community be prepared for a "first response" to someone whose marriage is in crisis.
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Relationship Enhancement
For over 25 years the National Institute of Relationship Enhancement® and its parent organization IDEALS have been training mental health professionals in couple and family therapies based on the Relationship Enhancement® Model. The goals of the Relationship Enhancement® Couples/Family Therapies are to help couples and families resolve current relationship problems while developing communication, conflict resolution, and relationship skills to prevent the development of future problems. Teaches effective communication strategies to assist in discussing difficult issues, reducing unwanted behaviors, and eliciting desired behaviors over time. Taught by trained facilitators or therapists, and offered in single 50-minute sessions, 1-4 hours or 1-2 day blocks.
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Worldwide Marriage Encounter
Worldwide Marriage Encounter assists couples to begin a process of self-discovery and mutual communication and acceptance, with an emphasis on God as a focus for marriage success. Facilitated by volunteer couples in coordination with Clergy. Facilitators must have attended a Marriage Encounter weekend and received training. Worldwide Marriage Encounter offers a weekend experience designed to give married couples the opportunity to learn a technique of loving communication that they can use for the rest of their lives. It`s a chance to look deeply into their relationship with each other and with God. It`s a time to share their feelings, hopes and dreams with each other. Presented in a weekend retreat format with 10-25 couples; not recommended for couples with severe difficulties.
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