TOOBS "Teach Out of the Box" - MINI "Training" workshop format
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These workshops will be recorded live at the
13th Annual 2009 Smart Marriages Conference and will be available on
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Thursday Workshops, July 9, 10–11:30am
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Marriage LINKS – TOOB
John Van Epp, PhD
LINKS (Lasting Intimacy through Nurturance,
Knowledge and Skills) teaches the Relationship
Attachment Model (RAM) for maintaining intimacy,
trust, sexuality, forgiveness and mutuality.
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Divorce Busting Programs – TOOB
Michele Weiner-Davis, MSW
Marriage Breakthrough & Keeping Love Alive: two
programs to help even last-ditch couples avoid divorce,
even if only one spouse attends. Teach classes or use
the techniques in your practice.
210
The 7 Stages of Marriage – TOOB
Rita DeMaria, PhD
Give couples a roadmap to help them understand
the journey, anticipate the stages, and succeed at
the mission with commitment and passion intact.
Use with any marriage education program.
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Active Parenting of Teens – TOOB
Michael Popkin, PhD, MEd
Parenting teens can stress any marriage. This
video-based communication/discipline program
empowers parents to help their teens (and their
marriage) not only survive – but thrive!
213
The Five Keys to an Incredible Marriage – TOOB
Tim Gardner, MA, DMin
Teach couples to remember 5 proven keys to a
great, fulfilling marriage on one hand…and it is
guaranteed they will never forget them. Faith-based,
entertaining, interactive & research-based.
214
Married and Loving It – TOOB
Barbara Petty, PhD
This 5-week, skill-based program always has full
classes and waiting lists. Learn what makes the
program so successful and how to replicate it in your community.
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305
The Second Half – TOOB
Claudia and David Arp, MSW
Teach empty nesters to reinvent their marriage, avoid
divorce, and make the rest the best. Great for mentor
couples to teach in church or community. Bonus
"Dates for Empty Nesters" material.
309
Stepping Together for Stepfamilies – TOOB
Brian Higginbotham, PhD
Learn key strategies to supplement any marriage
education program or create a stand-alone class for
stepcouples and children. Information for work with
ethnic minorities.
310
Love: What Everyone Needs To Know – TOOB
Pat Love, EdD, Jon Carlson, PsyD
This engaging 23-part, DVD & research based series
provides everything you need to teach marriage from A to Z.
Multi-cultural. Experience segment #1: Why Marriage is Worth it.
311
ScreamFree Parenting – TOOB
Hal Runkel, MS, Neil McNerney, MEd
Teach parents a simple method to help them quickly
understand and master how to reduce their emotional
reactivity to their child's behaviors. Based on Bowenian
family-systems concepts.
313
The Third Option – TOOB
Pat Ennis, MSW and a mentor couple
Give couples a THIRD option – not endurance, not divorce.
This enrichment/crisis group program is ongoing! Couples
attend when and as needed. Self-contained manual – easy to implement!
314
Sex and Romance in the Biblical Marriage – TOOB
Hon Jim Sheridan, JD, MBA
Scripture describes marriage as a relationship between
equals filled with passion and love. Learn how to put this
into practice with disagreements, sex, and the realities of
lifelong marriage.
316
Basic Training: Men, Women and Marriage – TOOB
Rozario Slack, DMin, Nisa Muhammad
Two straight-talking curricula developed in the crucible of
the Black experience. Teach Black men and women the
principles and skills to create and sustain successful marriages.
318
Genograms – TOOB
Rita DeMaria, PhD
Easy-to-use tools explore family patterns (cut-offs,
legacies, addictions, etc.) that influence relationships plus
5 exercises to strengthen love and commitment.
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Friday Workshops, July 10, 10:15–11:45am
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The First Dance: Wedding Planning – TOOB
Bill Doherty, PhD, Elizabeth Thomas
Wedding planning often involves complex, conflicted
couple & family dynamics. Learn how to plan a “family-systems”
wedding that will lay a solid foundation for life-long marriage.
409
Stepcouples: Me or the Kids?? – TOOB
Carri Taylor, Gordon Taylor, MFT
After the fantasy of courtship, reality sets in – delivered
by the kids, ex-spouses, money, and ‘no time for us’.
Teach couples to master the challenges, reclaim the territory,
and prevent re-divorce.
410
The 50-Year Plan – TOOB
Richard Albertson
Give couples a powerful start with a comprehensive
program that includes a new, affordable, inventory,
workbooks, communication skills, finances, and mentoring.
411
The Marriage Course – TOOB
Derek and Cathy Rust
This practical, DVD-based dinner format is easy for lay
couples to teach, transforms & strengthens any relationship
(married or cohabiting), and draws couples in “like magic”.
413
For Better and For Ever: Mentor Training – TOOB
Robert Ruhnke, DMin
Recruit and train couples in your church to mentor the
engaged in communication, responsibility, and family-of-origin
issues. Catholic (also Spanish) Protestant, and secular editions.
414
Why Knot? Marriage-Readiness for Men – TOOB
Eril Vecere
This program addresses the negative beliefs and attitudes
many men hold about marriage and moves men and single
fathers to a positive “readiness” view of marriage.
416
The Circle of Contentment – TOOB
Clarence Walker, PhD, Ja’Ola Walker, MEd, DD
Work with African American marriages using this 3-part
Bible and research-based program in church or community
settings – intimacy retreats, skills, skits, music, & group
discussions.
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Friday Workshops, July 10, 2:15–3:45pm
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Soul Healers Leaders Training – TOOB
Beverly and Tom Rodgers, PhDs
Practical, easy-to-learn tools for professionals or lay
mentors to help couples face even the most difficult,
on-the-brink problems: adultery, addiction, abuse or
other deep wounds.
503
THRIVE – TOOB
Sherod Miller, PhD
Learn to facilitate this new cost-effective, web-based inventory
for premarital and marital self/partner relationship awareness
& conversation. Part 2 training online at your convenience. Usually
$85, here it’s FREE.
504
The Prayer Journal - TOOB
Scott Stanley, PhD, Tera Hurt, PhD, Regero Sampson, MSW
Create powerful, lasting change by engaging deeper
meaning systems. Use with individuals or couples, in
counseling or education, as an add-on to any program,
in any setting: couples, men’s groups, etc.
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African American Stepfamilies – TOOB
Sheila Austin, PhD, Bishop G.F. Austin, DD
Most black couples with children (married or unmarried)
live in stepfamilies. Adapt programs to meet their unique
challenges. Lessons from an HMI project with low resource
families.
512
WAIT Training: All About ME – TOOB
Shelly Donahue
Teach teens & young adults to reduce drama, chaos and
poverty by empowering them with partner selection &
marriage ed skills in a fun interactive program for high
school & college.
513
Marriage Mentoring: 12 Conversations – TOOB
Ed Gray, EdD, Rhonda Gray
Mentoring is easy! Learn the 4 basic approaches. Teach
the narrative, story-telling model and organize a mentoring
program for your church, community, or military. Available
in Spanish.________________
Saturday Workshops, July 11, 10-11:30am
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TIME for a Better Marriage – TOOB
Don Dinkmeyer, PhD, Jon Carlson, PsyD, EdD
This affordable, easy–to-teach, 10-week or weekend
format teaches the core marriage skills with humor and
daily dialogue guides built in. Use in clinical work or
couples seminars.
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Active Parenting Makes Strong Marriages – TOOB
Michael Popkin, PhD, Merrillie Rackham, CFLE
Parenting stresses marriage. Learn how to add effective,
easy-to-teach parenting education to your marriage
classes to bring couples in the door.
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Building a Culture of Responsible Choices – TOOB
Natalie Jenkins, Lief Noll, PhD
Add this affordable, PREP-based, 60-min lesson on
responsible decision making to any program. Special
emphasis on working with individuals in fatherhood,
military, Job Corp, schools, etc.
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Saturday Workshops, July 11, 2-3:30pm
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10 Great Dates – TOOB
Claudia and David Arp, MSW
This widely-used program for churches & communities
combines fun with marriage skills & opens doors for
other programs! Latino, Korean. Official Fireproof Partner
& FREE Fireproof Date.
Journey to Love for “Singles Again” – TOOB
MP Wylie, PhD
Whether divorced, widowed, or ending a long relationship,
success rests on making wise choices in the dating process.
Learn the critical steps for defining – and finding – what
you’re really looking for.
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Torn Asunder: Mending Infidelity – TOOB
Dave Carder, MA
This model provides a structure to stabilize marriages
in the crucial first 90 days; skills to differentiate types
of infidelity and to start forgiveness and trust building;
plus homework
Smart Marriage & Family Expo® - Seminars Saturday July 11, 2008, 4 – 5:30pm ______________________803
Engaged? - TOOB
Richard and Elizabeth Albertson
Congratulations! You’ve found your partner. Now learn
specific skills that will get you off to a smart start and
guarantee a happy, satisfying marriage that will go the distance.
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How To Avoid Marrying A Jerk – TOOB
John Van Epp, PhD
Great marriages begin long before the wedding. Learn
the 5 keys to successful mate-selection, and how to avoid
the "love is blind" attachment-syndrome. For singles, or
single again.
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10 Great Dates for Black Couples – TOOB
Rozario Slack, DMin, Angela Slack, MD
This program combines fun dates and marriage skills – and
appeals to men! Based on the proven insights of the Arp’s 10
Great Dates program. Teach in your church or community.
809
Remarriage Prep: The Second Time Around – TOOB
Carri and Gordon Taylor, MA, MFT
Learn how to identify your non-negotiables – often
overlooked in courtship – and the ten key steps to the
development of intimacy & trust, both crucial to the
success of any remarriage.
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Money Habitudes: The Last Taboo – TOOB
Syble Solomon, MEd
Play cards with the Money Habitudes card deck and gain
instant, life-changing insights into attitudes about money.
Attend alone, with a partner, or kids (12 or older).
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These TOOB/Teach Out of the Box Programs are being offered in Keynote and Banquet Sessions:
TOOB/Teach Out of the Box programs are being offered in Institutes.
B-Tues, July 7, 6:30pm
BANQUET Keynote
The Five Languages of Apology
Gary Chapman, PhD
Where do we learn whether or not, and how, to apologize?
Learn to help couples identify their own and their spouse’s
apology styles and how to speak their language.
Active Relationships
Kelly Simpson, MA, Karen Anzak
Teach five Active Relationships programs: Active Marriage,
Choices (pre-marital) Military Life & Resiliency (single or married),
a Youth and a Single Adults’ program. Receive material
to complete additional certifications for: Active Money, Active
Romance and Active Living/Traditions. Spanish and Christian
editions and certifications available.
Love Without Hurt
Steven Stosny, PhD
Teach the "Love Without Hurt" 8-hour program to add to any marriage
education course - designed to recognize & prevent domestic violence and child abuse.
Includes emotional regulation skills that make it easier to learn marriage skills.
IMAGO: Connects and Couplehood as a Spiritual Path
Harville Hendrix, PhD, Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD
Two programs teach key IMAGO skills including the
Imago Dialogue Process to help couples begin their
life-long journey of growth, healing, and spiritual
connection.
How to Avoid Marrying (or Dating) a Jerk and Marriage Links
John Van Epp, PhD
Teach 2 courses: teach singles of all ages how to pace a
relationship with the Relationship Attachment Model (RAM) and
select a life partner and teach couples to use the RAM to stay
connected in communication, trust, sex, and mutuality.
Teach groups in churches, schools & bases.
Basic Training for Black Couples and Singles
Rozario Slack, DMin, Nisa Muhammad
Teach two programs to help couples and singles in the
Black community understand the benefits of marriage, communicate
better, manage their conflict and increase their intimacy. Includes
presentation and marketing skills and materials.
Torn Asunder: Mending Infidelity
Dave Carder, MA
Teach Torn Asunder couples groups with a structure to
stabilize marriages in the first critical 90 days; differentiate
types of infidelity and to start forgiveness and trust building;
plus homework.
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