Better Marriages Leadership Training Workshops

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Date: Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 5:01 AM
Subject: Better Marriages Leadership Training Workshops
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June, 2011

Leadership Training Workshops Scheduled

Split Weekend Leadership Training Workshop

September 9th, 2011 to September 11th, 2011

Conducted At:  Saint Louis, MO area

This training workshop takes place over the course of two weekends: Sept. 9-11 and Sept. 16-18


Schedule and Costs

This training workshop will take place over two separate weekends. The first weekend is September 9th - 11th and the second weekend is September 16th - 18th.  Attendance on Sunday morning is required. Both weekends are required for training.  The workshop fee of $450.00 per couple includes a one-year membership in Better Marriages and training materials. A deposit of $100.00 is required and due by July 15th. The balance of $350 is due August 15th. Contact the Better Marriages office to register and arrangement payment: 800-634-8325. Meal cost: $25 per weekend, per couple for food, excluding dinners to be collected on Friday of each weekend. 
 

Home hospitality by members of the local Gateway Chapter is being offered for couples coming from outside the area. You must be in touch with the Better Marriages office in order to make these arrangements.

 

4-1/2 Day Leadership Training

September 28th, 2011 to October 2nd, 2011

Conducted At: Berkeley Springs, WV

Schedule and Costs

This workshop begins on Wednesday, September 28 and concludes on Saturday, October 2.  The workshop fee of $450.00 per couple includes a one-year membership in Better Marriages and training materials.  A deposit of $100.00 is required. Contact the Better Marriages office at 800-634-8325 to register and to receive information about lodging and food costs.

 

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Preparing Couples to Lead

Over its 37 year history, Better Marriages has trained thousands of couples to lead marriage enrichment and marriage education events. Comprehensive training (40 contact hours) equips couples to lead as a team. They are trained in the methods of group process and experiential, hands-on learning. Couples are prepared to lead retreats, small groups, workshops and couple classes. Though couples receive pages upon pages of resources, they are not limited to any specific curriculum. This broad-based training empowers couples to lead any program, class or event and to do so more effectively.

"Leadership Training was the best thing we've ever done for our relationship. We recommend it even to couples who don't plan to lead events, because the in-depth couple experience is phenomenal. We're closer than ever and feel competent and confident to lead any class, program or event for couples."
 

Leadership Training is highly recommended for lay couples in organizations that want to develop programs to effectively reach couples.


Better Marriages Leadership Training is delivered through a Leadership Training Workshop. The purpose of the Leadership Training Workshop is to help married couples develop skills for leading marriage enrichment programs, classes and events. Each Leadership Training Workshop includes 8 components. These components may be structured in a variety of ways according to the style and preference of the Trainer Couple and the needs of participating couples. The components are:

1. A marriage enrichment retreat.
2. Reflection on the marriage enrichment retreat.
3. Exposure to, and discussion of, a variety of leadership styles, resources and support systems for marriage enrichment.
4. Program/Event design.
5. Practice leadership.
6.  Marital exploration.
7. Reflection, evaluation and growth plan.
8. Encouragement of continued reading.

 
  
 

Find more information on how to register at our website.
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There is still time to register for Better Marriages Fiesta

Check it out here.

 
Better Marriages
P.O. Box 21374
Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27120
  

Better Marriages | P.O. Box 21374 | Winston-Salem | NC | 27120

Upcoming Mastering the Mysteries of Love Workshops for Couples

Please come, or pass this along to others!

Also, please send this out to any list serves you may be on.

Mastering the Mysteries of Love

Weekend Workshops for Couples

The National Institute of Relationship Enhancement® is offering the Mastering the Mysteries of Love version of the Relationship Enhancement® Program for couples in addition to the classic version of the RE Program.

Upcoming dates:

  • July 23-24, 2011 - Mastering the Mysteries of Love with Carrie Hansen, LCSW-C
  • September 17-18, 2011 - Mastering the Mysteries of Love with Joan Liversidge, LCMFT
  • October 22-23, 2011 - Mastering the Mysteries of Love with Carrie Hansen, LCSW-C
  • November 19-20, 2011 - Mastering the Mysteries of Love with Rob Scuka, Ph.D.

Cost is $450 per couple.

Further information can be found at www.nire.org.

Research: The RE Program and Mastering the Mysteries of Love is backed by 35 years of empirical research validating its effectiveness. In addition, an award-winning meta-analytic study involving thousands of couples and over a dozen approaches, demonstrated that RE clients showed far more powerful improvement effects than clients in any of the other interventions for couples or families with which it was compared.

Description: Couples spend two days learning 10 practical skills that deepen connection and empower them to resolve current and future problems on their own.

The skills you and your partner learn will help you:

  • establish a constructive, cooperative atmosphere for resolving difficult relationship issues
  • foster increased openness and trust
  • reduce defensiveness, anger and withdrawal
  • express your deepest feelings, concerns and desires openly, honestly and safely
  • nurture deepened caring and compassion
  • increase love and affection
  • create solutions to conflicts at their deepest levels
  • successfully implement agreed-to solutions and behavioral changes

The weekend program usually numbers between 4-10 couples in order to maintain a more intimate atmosphere. It also features significant time for private couples' exercises and dialogues, which part of the time are facilitated by trained coaches.

The program is non-residential and meets on Saturday from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. and on Sunday from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Information on discounted hotel room rates for those visiting from out of town are available upon registration. Snacks and beverages are provided; participants have lunch on their own.

For further information, or to register, please call NIRE at 301-986-1479.

Mail:
NIRE - Administrative Office
12500 Blake Road
Silver Spring, MD 20904-2056

If you register by fax or mail, please include your name, address, home and work phone numbers, and the dates for which you are registering.

Payment may be made either by check or credit card. Registrations by fax must be accompanied by a credit card number.

If payment is made with a credit card number, please write your name exactly as it appears on the card, the expiration date and your signature.

Please note: It is not safe to send credit card information via email.

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Great News from Divorce Reform

From: Divorce Reform [mailto:updates@divorcereform.info]
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 9:23 AM
To: Bill
Subject: Great News from Divorce Reform

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Dear Bill,

The Campaign to reform America’s lenient divorce laws is picking up a head of steam. We are now active in twenty states and need your help to build grassroots support for the Parental Divorce Reduction Act.

Please click this link www.divorcereform.info and register on the site at:

How Can I Help on the upper right hand side of the page.

We will be encouraging people to post blogs on their facebook pages, email their friends, and participate in occasional national conference calls to discuss strategy.

The Coalition for Divorce Reform is an entirely voluntary effort-- a new grassroots movement to save many of the one million children a year who are victims of unnecessary divorce.

Won’t you become part of this movement? We don’t need much of your time, just a few minutes a week.

But we cannot win this fight without your help.

Thanks very much for your support.

Chris Gersten, Chair
Coalition for Divorce Reform

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