Active Relationships (also includes Military and Spanish versions)
Teaches practical relationship skills including effective communication, conflict resolution, money management, sustaining romance, and developing family traditions. This program targets various populations including youth, couples, military families, and singles. Materials available in Spanish for Latino families. Facilitators become certified by attending a 16-hour training workshop or by watching training videos. Spanish-speaking trainers are available.
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Before “I Do”: Preparing for the Full Marriage Experience
An interactive premarital workbook that prepares couples to experience all marriage has to offer! Before “I Do” is an ideal tool to use for your premarital education program. Update your program, or launch a new one with our dynamic, interactive workbook. Discover how to use one of the newest resources on the market with your mentor program, small groups, premarital classes, long distance counseling, or clergy-couple sessions. "Before ‘I Do’ provides a theologically informed, fun, and in-depth review of the key issues premarital couples need to consider. It’s sure to help engaged couples build a solid foundation for a great marriage.” Before "I Do" is a Christian-based pre-marriage education resource that can be used by religious leaders, pre-marital educators, and counselors. Couples attend 8 sessions with a pre-marriage educator or religious leader where they have a chance to discuss with each other and the educator what they are learning about themselves and their relationship. Pre-marital educators use the program resource to teach religious principles about marriage, practical marriage skills, and to explore issues such as money management, future goals, and sexuality.
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Connections
A non-religious, non-sexual content program created for schools and youth organizations. Teaches teens appropriate dating, relationship, and marriage skills. Connections courses teach teens the skills that are essential for success in their dating relationships, and in preparing for marriage: self-understanding, how relationships work, managing emotions, dating and emotions, dealing with problems, effective communication and what to expect from dating and marriage. Connections material is fascinating to teens and immediately useful. In addition to lectures, lessons include lively brainstorming, small group work, games and role-playing. Connections programs were created for schools and youth organizations. Facilitators use instructor manual, student manuals, visual materials, activity and game cards, and handouts during the sessions.
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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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Essential Disciplines For Teens
This curriculum, ready to use out-of-the-box, equips teens with the practical understanding and potential immediate mastery of five Essential Disciplines or necessary practices for personal and interpersonal success. The five Essential Disciplines focus on character, communication, conflict resolution, continual improvement, and ones calling (purpose, passion and vision). In the field of computer and software this is referred to as a consistent user interface. Regardless of the software used, the user always works with a window and always has a pull-down menu at the top of the screen, and so forth. Once a user learns how to navigate these consistent features, they can work their way through almost any software program. Similarly, Essential Disciplines does this for personal and relational growth. It teaches you how to navigate relationships by recognizing certain common and enduring features. Here is a simple overview: The Refine process concentrates on self (me) and focuses on character development. The Share process concentrates on the other (you) and focuses on communication. The reconcile process concentrates on self and other (we) in negative situations and focuses on conflict resolution. The Enhance process concentrates on the positive in situations and focuses on continual improvement. The Envision process concentrates on the possible in situations and focuses on ones calling, purpose and passion.
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First Dance
A DVD designed to help engaged couples navigate the interpersonal stresses and dynamics of wedding planning. Information is also directed toward parents. First Dance teaches couples and parents about working as a team in planning the wedding, negotiating differences with parents and adult children, dealing with difficult people, and staying focused on their values during the process of planning the wedding. Engaged couples can purchase the Couple DVD to watch and discuss on their own or they can participate in a small group workshop with other engaged couples led by a marriage educator.
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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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For Better and For Ever
For Better & For Ever is a marriage preparation program for Catholic and Protestant couples. The program brings together religious leaders, sponsor couples from a congregation, and engaged couples. Religious leaders oversee the program in their congregation, and sponsor couples meet with engaged couples to discuss and teach healthy marriage practices from the For Better & For Ever resource book. Training materials for religious leaders and sponsor couples are available.
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How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk/P.I.C.K. a Partner
Geared towards dating relationships and partner-selection education. Teaches skills for thinking about romantic relationships, particularly about the importance of the connection between knowing a potential partner and how much you trust, rely on, or commit to that person. How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk/P.I.C.K. can be used in a variety of settings.
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Keirsey Temperament Sorter
The Kiersey Temperament Sorter II® is a powerful 70-question personality instrument that helps individuals discover their personality type. Helps peoples gain insight into themselves and the people around them. Useful when selecting a career, choosing a work environment and relationally.
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Love U2
Non-religious and non-sexual content programs designed for schools and youth organizations. Love U2 emphasizes on teen relationships, building relationships, and issues such as attraction, infatuation and rejection, falling in love, dating, and breaking up. Facilitators are provided with a kit that includes all materials necessary to conduct the program. Teens today live and breathe in a culture that touts casual sex and casual connections. Love U2 is a series of units that help young people acquire practical skills for emotionally healthy and ethically sound relationships. It focuses on helping teens craft a roadmap toward what they hope to achieve, not just what they must avoid.
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Love’s Cradle
A Relationship Enhancement Program for unmarried couples who have a child together. The Love’s Cradle Program combines the research proven Relationship Enhancement Program by Bernard Guerney with content topics developed as part of a contract with Mathematica Policy Research for the ACF Building Strong Families Project. It is currently part of an ACF research project in San Angelo and Houston, Texas to determine the effects of relationship education on unmarried couples who have a child together. The full Love’s Cradle Program is 22 two-hour sessions. It may be presented in this format in its entirety or it may be broken up into modules. The foundation portion of the program (20 hours) combines the ten Relationship Enhancement skills with content that focuses on issues of new parents: adjusting to parenthood, maintaining couple identity, building affection, and sharing responsibilities.
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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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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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PAIRS (Practical Application of Intimate Relationship Skills)
Teaches communication strategies, such as confiding, effective complaining, problem solving, and fighting fairly as a way to build better relationships. For more than two decades, the mission of PAIRS has been to teach those attitudes, emotional understandings and behaviors that nurture and sustain healthy relationships and to make this knowledge broadly available on behalf of a safer, saner, more loving world. PAIRS has reached tens of thousands, helped saved marriages and families that others said were beyond repair, and developed a range of experiences that make it possible for people of all ages to learn to create relationships of pleasure and fulfillment. The PAIRS Foundation provides courses for youth and adults to learn these essential skills for sustaining healthy, viable, and joyful relationships.
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P.I.C.K. (Premarital Interpersonal Choices and Knowledge)
Designed by Dr. John Van Epp, author of FOLLOW YOUR HEART WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND, the P.I.C.K. is based upon a thorough review of research, which exhaustively and humorously describes: the major areas that predict what a person will be like in marriage, and the binding forces that must be kept in balance as a relationship grows. It is a five lesson curriculum that has an out-of-the-box Instructor Certification Program. The program also includes a 200+ page manual with lesson plans, PowerPoint, 6-hour DVD instructor course, 4 1/2-hour DVD Program presentation, and more. Christian and non-Christian versions available.
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Pre-Cana
Pre-Cana is a premarital course on marriage used by the Catholic Church. Engaged couples must take part in the course before they can be married in the Catholic Church. It can be taught over a month or a weekend. During the training, married couples give presentations on various topics to educate and support couples as they enter marriage. Games are also utilized.
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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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Prepare to Last
This extraordinary new program combines: The comedic, drama-based teaching of Jeff & Debby McElroy, founders of Forever Families. Prepare/Enrich — has created a new online assessment, the Couple Checkup, based on the work of Dr. David Olson. Support and production assistance from the producer of the nationally televised award winning broadcast, MarriageToday with Jimmy & Karen.
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