Mastering the Mysteries of Love Mary Ortwein, MS
Qualifyto teach the 8 hour Mastering the Mysteries of Love (MML) based on Bernard Guerney's classic Relationship
Enhancement (RE) model. Plus add-on special focus seminars. Ideal for low-income, communty, or faith based.
$150 spouse discount.

Bernard Guerney’s Relationship Enhancement Program (RE) has set
the standard for marriage and relationship education for the past forty years.
Twenty-seven published research studies confirm that the 10 RE skills
and coached couples dialogues can educate hearts and transform relationships.

In the newest, easy-to-teach formats, the RE skills are presented through live or video demonstration
combined with engaging activities and practiced through couple dialogue. The colorful
handouts and course materials are inexpensive and written for easy reading and easy learning.

You will be authorized and ready to teach the 8 hour MML programs plus exciting, topic-targeted add ons:

Mastering the Mysteries of Love – This 8 hour program is effective with couples of any
class or culture and at any stage of development. Couples learn the 10 classic RE skills, develop
affection building habits, and solve three of their most troubling or resistent problems.

Supplemental Topics - Four bonus 6-hour long modules to help couples tackle tough issues:
Trust, Money, Marriage, and Complex Family Relationships (Ex’s, Partner’s children, and
Extended Family). May be added to any of the MML programs.

Spanish–Couple Materials are available in Spanish, as well as video and other teaching aids. Mastering the Mysteries of Love is being used in Latino-focused HMI projects in Texas, Massachusetts, California, Georgia, and Florida.

Cultural Adaptations – Couple Materials and Adaptation Guidelines for Leaders are available
in Vietnamese, Bosnian, French, Arabic, Somali, Russian, Korean, Mandarin, Kiswahili,
and Karen Burmese!

Special Guests - Leaders of programs from the African-American, Hispanic, Refugee,
and other HMI projects will assist with the Institute and share their experiences teaching
RE in their communities.

Additional Programs: You will also be authorized to present programs currently
“in the pipeline” based on the easy-read Mastering the Mysteries RE model, including
programs for singles, pre-marriage, stepfamilies, emotional regulation, and Christian RE.
They’ll be "teach right out of the box" for use by anyone trained in the core RE programs.

What you will learn in this three-day Training Institute:
- The core 10 RE Skills: Showing Understanding (Empathy), Expression, Discussion, Problem Solving,
Self-Change, Helping Others Change, Coaching, Conflict Management, Generalization, and Maintenance.
- How to use the Experience Model and Couple Coaching to deepen couple dialogues
to new levels of intimacy, empathy, and problem solving
- How to use the step-by-step Leader’s Guide and learning aids to create education
sessions which are fun for both you and your participant couples
- How to effectively mix group Experiential Learning Activities with Skills Training to help
couples think about issues in new ways, then talk about them with an honesty
and compassion that leads them to new solutions
- How to adjust and adapt the curriculum to the specific needs of your community.
- How to use any combination of MML programs with “out of the box” targeted
programs to maximize your resources and strengthen marriage in your community – even
if you lack special funding and have limited staff and resources.

Who Should Attend:
No special professional or mental health training is needed to effectively lead
Mastering the Mysteries or Love’s Cradle workshops. Great for lay leaders and mentor couples.
Mastering the Mysteries of Love is being used in 20 of the ACF marriage grants
and in Marriage Initiative, Faith-based,
and Community-based programs across the country. Applications include
prison inmates and their families, Hispanic couples, African-American couples,
rural low and middle income couples, pregnancy centers, churches of many
denominations, refugee couples, inner-city low and middle-income couples,
residential programs, drug diversion programs, and police departments.

Mastering the Mysteries of Love is especially
effective when presented by a married couple. You understand the Relathionship Enhancement “magic”
when you learn and use the skills with your mate. Come together. Not only
learn a program, but discover new ways to deepen your own love. $150 spouse discount.

What you will receive:
- You will leave the training as an "authorized" MML Part I leader.
- You will receive a Leader’s Guide and one set of participant materials & handhouts
for Mastering the Mysteries of Love.
- Video based teaching tools and starter packs may be purchased by authorized RE
leaders.

Special Features:
- No licensing fee.
- Inexpensive! The materials are as low as $7.20 per couple (and that's all you need,
though there are optional add-ons and teaching tools)
- FREE ongoing support from IDEALS through bridge calls, web support, email,
and newsletters.
- Pre and post test measures available - FREE.
- The RE skills demonstration videos are multi-ethnic, multi-age with
“couples that look like us”.
- Participant materials and DVD/video available in Spanish
- The MML learning techniques have been designed to match the way
real people learn and to meet the needs of couples across the spectrum – from high-risk to highly-motivated.
- MML is a train-the-trainer model so you can train others in your community and
quickly and affordably develop independent local capacity! To become a certified trainer-of-trainers
1) complete training institute, 2) present the program to couples, at least twice
under supervision (video-based and by phone), and 3) co-lead a training of instructors
with a certified MML Trainer of trainers (a session like the training institute.)
- Easy bridge to RE Therapy training for Qualified Therapists (You already
know the skills so it's easy to learn to apply them in a clinical setting.
See www.relationshipenhancement.org for training schedule.)
- Special MML-supported Circles-of-Care Program to build Marriage Initiative
Capacity in small communities (under 50,000 population)
- Free listing of your MML workshop schedules
on the www.relationshipenhancement.org

For more information call Mary Ortwein at 502-227-0055
or email at mary@skillswork.org

This institute is part of the week-long Smart Marriages conference.

Conference Details Page to download a conference brochure, Register ONLINE, hotel & travel information & discounts, etc.