10 Great Dates/For African American Couples
10-session, easy-to-lead, skilled-based marriage education program in which couples watch a short video on a marriage topic, then go out on a date to discuss that topic and how it relates to their own marriage.  10 Great Dates program for African American couples is also available.  Facilitators can be family life educators, lay couples, clergy, or individuals. No training is required to become a facilitator.
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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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ACME: Building Better Marriages
ACME consists of married couples dedicated to enriching their own marriages and other marriages in their communities. Trained lay-couples facilitate various types of events throughout the United States, Canada and several other countries. Professionals in marriage enrichment and related fields are also members.  Does ACME have a model of marriage enrichment? Well, rather than referring to an ACME model, it might be more accurate to say that there is an ACME style or that there are distinctive elements which are promoted in leadership training and which characterize ACME enrichment activities.  Experiential Learning,  Group Process,  Couple Dialogue, Couple Leadership, Positive, Growth Focus, Non-sectarian.  In enrichment events, couples are encouraged to explore meaning and direction in all areas of their lives, as individuals and as partners. Developing the spiritual or faith dimension in marriage may be expressed through dialogue or in other more focused experiences.
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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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African American Marriage Enrichment Program
Helps African American couples establish intimate and satisfying marriages by enhancing their knowledge and skills.  Focuses on empowering working and middle class families and preventing them from slipping into poverty.  Offers a marriage commitment and/or re-commitment ceremony during the final class.  The African American Marriage Enrichment Program© is a research based, skills building curriculum designed to help individual`s establish intimate relationship. Additionally, the curriculum assists couples who desire to build satisfying marriages.  The curriculum is on the cutting edge as it openly and interactively engages and guides participants through an eight (8) week course conducted by a trained AAFLE Certified Family Life Educator.
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Basic Training: A Black Marriage Education Curriculum
A video-based marriage education curricula for the Black community that allows them to form and sustain healthy marriages.  This video based curricula is designed to be used by facilitators in a group setting, but most of all, they are designed for the numerous couples and singles who will never make it to a class.  They include exercises, homework, weekly affirmations and new habits to learn.  There are also three new curricula: Basic Training for Singles, Basic Training for Men and Basic Training for Women.  They can be used in the comfort of your home in the evening, late at night, Saturday morning, Sunday afternoon, on vacation at the beach or whenever you choose.   Just choose to do it!!  Your marriage can be better, wedded bliss can be your goal.  Basic Training is your map to get there.
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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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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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Columbus Saves
Columbus Saves is a grass roots social marketing campaign focused on increasing wealth among low to moderate income households.  The goal of the campaign is to convince the residents in Columbus through financial literacy education that they can build wealth through consistent saving and by taking advantage of the phenomenon of compound interest and to assist them in doing so.  Columbus Saves is a community coalition of organizations from educational, nonprofit, government, and private sectors. These partners have come together to promote and increase saving and the accumulation of wealth among individuals and families throughout central Ohio.  The goal of Columbus Saves is to assure the residents of central Ohio that they can build wealth and to assist them in doing so.
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Essential Disciplines for Adults
This curriculum, ready to use out-of-the-box, equips adults 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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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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Fortified Marriages
Fortified Marriages is a non-profit, faith-based organization that developed a marriage enrichment manual to be used under the direction of a facilitator in various settings or by couples on their own.  The manual contains 52 sections with study questions, inventories, and questionnaires to promote communication between marriage partners.  Based on Biblical principles, couples learn to carry out effective communication skills and relationship tools to improve their marriage.
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Keirsey Temperament Sorter
The Keirsey Temperament Sorter II® is a powerful 70-question personality instrument that helps individuals discover their personality type.  The Keirsey Temperament Sorter II®  also 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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Loving Couples Loving Children
Utilizes scientific knowledge, community building techniques and cultural sensitivity to provide weekly workshops that are focused on building strong and successful marriages, families and relationships.  The facilitation of the workshops is conducted through the use of information sharing, fun and engaging exercises.  Many organizations across the country have participated in the Loving Couples Loving Children program such as Healthy Families, Father Involvement, Domestic Violence Prevention, Child Abuse and others.
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Marriage and Parenting Program ("MA&PA")
MA & PA, as the program is affectionately called, focuses on strengthening the couple relationship (married or unmarried) through a shared exploration of parenting attitudes and skills. This 10-week curriculum utilizes some of the most effective approaches from The Nurturing Father`s Program to create a series of couple`s dialogues.  With the addition of new relationship building activities, spouses/partners learn about themselves and each other, while creating a shared vision for family life. The weekly group experiential activities, and the Home Activities in the MA & PA Journal, help each couple to develop the attitudes and skills for successful family formation.  Couples improve on topics such as self-nurturing, communication, conflict-resolution, and parent-child relationships.  The ten-week program is facilitated by a male and female team and is offered across the country at parenting centers, schools, Healthy Families, Prevent Child Abuse, and others.
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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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Marriage Enrichment, Inc.
Provides mutual support to help married couples improve communication and recognize or discover the strengths in their marriage.  Weekend retreat format.  Facilitator teams are trained married couples.
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Marriage LINKS
Marriage LINKS teaches couples how to keep their marriage alive through pursuing intimacy, cultivating trust, meeting needs, being committed, and romantically renewing their union.  Couples learn skills for communication, conflict resolution, forgiveness and rebuilding trust, satisfying personal needs, developing commitment, and enhancing physical intimacy.  A couple who still feels “in love” after years of marriage is unsinkable in the waves of life. In the LINKS Program you will learn how to regularly revitalize the dynamic links of your marriage with the Relationship Attachment Model (R.A.M.). In a simple picture, this model characterizes the complex interactions of the ways you know, trust in, rely on, belong to and become intimate with each other in marriage, and the boundaries needed to protect your relationship from harm.  The Relationship Attachment Model (RAM) has been used empirically validated in the PICK Program for pacing the development of a new relationship. Now married couples can use the RAM for maintaining the harmony of an ongoing relationship. Receive tools for managing crucial relationship links such as mutually knowing each other (talking, togetherness), trusting in (keeping positive/respectful opinions), depending on (mutually meeting needs), committing to (cultivating deep feelings of belonging together), and sexually fulfilling each other. Comprised of five sessions, each lasting 45 to 60 minutes, the program can be taught in a variety of settings, including churches, community agencies, and the military.
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Marriage Matters Video Series
Faith-based, 8-session video series incorporating material from the full 13-session Marriage Matters Seminar. Facilitator workbook provides structure for a 24-session course.  Marriage Matters Video Series explores complex issues and emotions surrounding marriage with research-based psychological advice and biblical direction.  Topics in the series include infidelity, unrealistic expectations, communication skills, relationship change, and a biblical model of marriage.
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Married and Loving It!
The Married and Loving It! program is designed to strengthen marriage relationships by presenting the research findings about successful and happy couples to the general public. The purpose of Married and Loving It! is to help couples identify communications skills including love languages, give couples guidelines for establishing a sound financial situation, address anger issues and conflict resolution in a marriage relationship, discuss the role of in-laws, extended family, and other factors that influence the marriage relationship, teach participants how to enjoy sharing their lives with each other.  Ten-session curriculum designed to teach couples practical knowledge and skills for building, establishing, and strengthening a healthy marriage.  Curriculum includes such topics as communication, finances, sources of anger, conflict resolution, and commitment.  Couples attend a 2-hour class one night a week for 5 weeks. In class, couples have an opportunity to interact with each other, fellow participants, and the instructor.
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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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Power of Two
Dr. Heitler teaches the skills that make marriage successful. With easy-to-remember guidelines and entertaining examples, she shows us how to create satisfying dialogue, resolve conflicts, and deepen intimacy to ensure 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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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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