RSS feed of the California Healthy Marriage Coalition events <p>Remember back to your dating days—the excitement you felt? Now you can reclaim that same spark, connection, and creativity in your marriage through ten intentional, memory-making dates. This proven approach to relationship growth is low-key, purposeful, effective, easy, and fun , and will help you </p> <p>* Communicate better<br>* Process anger and resolve conflicts<br> * Develop spiritual intimacy<br> * Appreciate your differences<br> * Balance busy lifestyles<br> * And much more!</p>English &amp; Korean http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=549 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0057294Z A 12 hour training for those who have been through an MML class as a participant and who want to be certified to be an MML Presenter to others http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=448 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0057294Z The program presents a set of simple and practical concepts for keeping your head and your heart in balance while searching for a mate. If you already have a significant other the program will emphasize the need to prioritize marriage responsibilities, create marriage missions statements, and minimize the potential for relationship abuse, and strengthen problem solving and relationship-building skills selection. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=536 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0057294Z This innovative, research-based curriculum helps teens understand the challenges that arise in early relationships, develop healthy dating practices, self-regulate intense emotions and cultivate life skills. Engaging, interactive, ready-to-teach lessons show teens: how positive relationships develop, effective ways to communicate, how to spot destructive patterns, to deal with emotions, and other essential healthy interpersonal skills. Content also integrates material from the highly-respected PREP &#174; program. This 17-lesson course helps teens understand early relationships - and helps establish a strong foundation for later life. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=511 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0057294Z Marriage Enrichment<br> http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=415 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0057294Z FOCCUS is a self diagnostic inventory designed to help couples learn more about themselves and their unique relationship. It is not a test nor is it meant&nbsp;to be&nbsp;a predictor of marital success or failure. It is a tool to help couples identify and work through issues before marriage. Although used by many educators and counselors, FOCCUS is not primarily a counseling or teaching tool. It is a discussion instrument&nbsp;whose purpose is&nbsp;to maximize the total marriage preparation by tailoring it to the individual couple and by providing comprehensive content and process that best serves the couple preparing for marriage and those working with them. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=486 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0213547Z Selecting A partner is one of the most important choices a person makes in life. A poor partner choice can lead to years of unhappiness. In this class you'll learn what it takes to form a loving, lasting relationship and how to recognize it in others. At the end of the class you will be able to predict what a partner will be like in marriage, keep balance in a growing relationship and master the five dynamics that create attachment in relationships. This fun-filled class helps you overcome biology, nerves and awkward situations to develop a dating approach to find the right person for you. Don't leave one of the most important choices you will make in your life to chance. Learn what to look for in yourself so you can identify individuals who are capable of being a suitable mate to you. Pick a Partner using emotional intelligence. Register today, Call (916) 635-6810. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=499 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0213547Z Reconnecting and Reclaim the spark, connection, and creativity in your marriage or relationship through 10 intentional, memory-making dates. Short meetings and videos at the beginning of each date suggest a new relationship-centered topic to focus on throughout the evening. What fun, you are on a date by yourselves for a couple of hours. This proven approach to relationship growth will help you communicate better, resolve conflicts, and balance your busy lifestyle. *Free Childcare with classes 7pm-9:30pm* http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=502 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0213547Z Mastering the Mysteries of love; talk about it, watch others do it, practice it yourselves. Learn the 10 communication skills and start clearing away the roadblocks to your happy relationship. Lean conflict resolution that is specific and practical for long lasting solutions achievement. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=552 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0213547Z Remember back to your dating days—the excitement you felt? Now you can reclaim that same spark, connection, and creativity in your marriage through ten intentional, memory-making dates. Childcare provided. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=505 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0213547Z The Retrouvaille Program consists of a weekend experience combined with a series of 6-12 post-weekend sessions over 3 months. It provides the tools to help put your marriage in order again. The main emphasis of the program is on communication in marriage between husband and wife. It will give you the opportunity to rediscover each other and examine your lives together in a new and positive way. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=431 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0213547Z A program designed to give each couple an opportunity to discuss honestly with each other, in a face-to-face manner, their strengths and weaknesses, desires, ambitions, goals, their attitudes about money, sex, family, their role in the church and in society. Through a series of ideas presented by teams of married couples and a priest, the engaged couples are stimulated to dialogue privately on all aspects of married life, always from the viewpoint of their own relationship. Couples are given the opportunity to question, examine and deepen their relationship with each other. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=406 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0213547Z <p>The Retrouvaille Program consists of a weekend experience combined with a series of 6-12 post-weekend sessions over 3 months. It provides the tools to help put your marriage in order again. The main emphasis of the program is on communication in marriage between husband and wife. It will give you the opportunity to rediscover each other and examine your lives together in a new and positive way.</p> http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=372 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0213547Z <p>The Retrouvaille Program consists of a weekend experience combined with a series of 6-12 post-weekend sessions over 3 months. It provides the tools to help put your marriage in order again. The main emphasis of the program is on communication in marriage between husband and wife. It will give you the opportunity to rediscover each other and examine your lives together in a new and positive way.</p> http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=373 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0213547Z <div>Engaged Encounter is an investment in the future - a weekend experience in which an atmosphere is created that enables each couple to concentrate exclusively on one another while free of the pressures and interruptions of daily life. However, this weekend is not a recreational retreat. It is a program designed to give each couple an opportunity to discuss honestly with each other, in a face-to-face manner, their strengths and weaknesses, desires, ambitions, goals, their attitudes about money, sex, family, their role in the church and in society. Through a series of ideas presented by teams of married couples and a priest, the engaged couples are stimulated to dialogue privately on all aspects of married life, always from the viewpoint of their own relationship. Couples are given the opportunity to question, examine and deepen their relationship with each other. Through a series of writing and sharing exercises the couples are challenged to explore many aspects of their relationship in a much deeper, more honest way than they may have before. Personal reflection and dialogue are the main emphasis of the weekend, with the exception of meals and a few group activities interspersed. &nbsp;Although the weekend was designed primarily for couples planning to be married in the Catholic Church, it is open to all couples of any faith. It has been found to be both beneficial and supporting of couples from differing faith backgrounds. &nbsp;These weekends are very popular, and fill up well in advance, so we strongly suggest signing up two to three months before the weekend you would like to attend. &nbsp;</div> http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=86 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0213547Z <p>Mastering the Mysteries of Love class gives couples experiences in deep intimacy–even in the heart of conflict–while teaching them tools to make problem solutions LAST. During the program couples work through core problems via extended couple dialogues. At the end of the course they have worked out 3-5 problems and have learned how to put and keep honesty, compassion, empathy and trust in their relationship. Evidence Based The Relationship Enhancement&#174; Program has over 35 years of research behind it with 27 studies of effectiveness. It has been shown to be effective when there are serious problems, such as infidelity, chemical dependency, or mental illness</p>Class in both Korean &amp; English http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=548 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0213547Z This innovative, research-based curriculum helps teens understand the challenges that arise in early relationships, develop healthy dating practices, self-regulate intense emotions and cultivate life skills. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=542 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0213547Z Family Dynamics' educational and entertaining eight-week course changes lives. Dynamic Marriage produces tangible results for three powerful reasons: the wise insights of Dr. Harley (writer of His Needs Her Needs) and Joe Beam (writer of Becoming One: Emotionally, Spiritually, and Sexually), combined with the dynamic delivery system of Family Dynamics. The eight weeks of work gives couples time to learn how to stop damaging behaviors in their marriage, deal with conflict, and learn to meet each other’s emotional needs. Couples Learn How your Love Bank affects your relationship What your most important emotional needs are How to identify and meet each other’s most important needs Why most marriages don't survive perpetual Love Busters How affairs begin, how they can be stopped, and how love can be restored Why people commit to or abandon a relationship How to build compatibility How to maintain a mutually fulfilling relationship http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=206 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0213547Z The Difference RE Makes Relationship Enhancement? Programs give couples experiences in deep intimacy?even in the heart of conflict?while teaching them tools to make problem solutions LAST. During the program couples work through core problems via extended couple dialogues. At the end of the course they have worked out 3-5 problems and have learned how to put and keep honesty, compassion, empathy and trust in their relationship. Evidence Based The Relationship Enhancement? Program has over 35 years of research behind it with 27 studies of effectiveness. It has been shown to be effective when there are serious problems, such as infidelity, chemical dependency, or mental illness<br> http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=309 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0213547Z In this workshop, we discuss the top 5 tips to a achieving and maintaining a healthy marriage. We also focus on root causes to marriage issues and offer practical and biblical suggestions to establishing (or improving) a solid marriage relationship. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=546 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0213547Z This curriculum teaches you skills in how to understand your mate, express yourself,Discuss problems without eruptions or interruptions, help each other make your relationship skills, solve problems so both sides win, and change your relationship from the inside out. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=535 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0213547Z Class for married couples http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=553 2008-08-28T01:54:12.03698Z Six week workshop for couples preparing to marry.<br> http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=525 2008-08-28T01:54:12.03698Z Up to a year long arrangement with an experienced couple.&nbsp; Meet monthly with an assigned mentor couple.&nbsp; Willingness to be transparent to your Mentor couple.<br> http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=526 2008-08-28T01:54:12.03698Z Love U2: Relationship Smarts PLUS offers 13 activity-based lessons to guide teens in building healthy relationships and making wise choices. Covers topics such as maturity, values clarification and peer pressure, attractions and infatuation, building blocks for positive relationships, identify and future orientation, how to gauge relationship health, the low-risk relationship strategy, principles of smart relationships, the nature of true intimacy and a realistic concept of love, and breaking up. Also features cutting edge date violence prevention material, communication/conflict skills, and a unique approach to pregnancy prevention that educates about the needs of children. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=551 2008-08-28T01:54:12.03698Z <p> RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT SKILLS PROGRAM</p><p>10 skills that can help you change ordinary conversations and the problems that divide you into heart to heart talks that feel good and really solve your problems. During the program you will learn the 10 RE skills, solve 3 problems, and identify 10 practices to nurture your marriage every day.</p><br><br><br> http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=558 2008-08-28T01:54:12.03698Z RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=559 2008-08-28T01:54:12.03698Z Whether divorced, widowed, ending a relationship, or exploring relationship success—it all rests on making wise choices throughout the dating process. Define what you really want in a partner and relationship. Write your own love story—past, present and future—through a journal type workbook. Attract your compatible partner and heal past relationships. $45 includes J2L Workbook Call for more information 949-725-3366 Register online at www.USrelationships.org http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=523 2008-08-28T01:54:12.03698Z <p>The Retrouvaille Program consists of a weekend experience combined with a series of 6-12 post-weekend sessions over 3 months. It provides the tools to help put your marriage in order again. The main emphasis of the program is on communication in marriage between husband and wife. It will give you the opportunity to rediscover each other and examine your lives together in a new and positive way.</p> http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=379 2008-08-28T01:54:12.03698Z The Retrouvaille Program consists of a weekend experience combined with a series of 6-12 post-weekend sessions over 3 months. It provides the tools to help put your marriage in order again. The main emphasis of the program is on communication in marriage between husband and wife. It will give you the opportunity to rediscover each other and examine your lives together in a new and positive way. <p>&nbsp;</p> http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=432 2008-08-28T01:54:12.03698Z The Retrouvaille Program consists of a weekend experience combined with a series of 6-12 post-weekend sessions over 3 months. It provides the tools to help put your marriage in order again. The main emphasis of the program is on communication in marriage between husband and wife. It will give you the opportunity to rediscover each other and examine your lives together in a new and positive way. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=433 2008-08-28T01:54:12.03698Z Reconnect and reclaim the spark,and creativity in your marriage or relationship through 10 intentional, memory-making dates. Short meetings and videos at the beginning of each date suggest a new relationship-centered topic to focus on throughout the evening. What fun, you are on a date by yourselves for a couple of hours. This proven approach to relationship growth will help you communicate better. resolve conflicts, and balance your busy lifestyle. Childcare provided by church staff. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=518 2008-08-28T01:54:12.03698Z Couples communication and relationship enhancement program. 8 Fridays from 7-9 pm, starting Sept. 12. Fun, supportive group teaching and also plenty of time for couples to relate one-to-one. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=556 2008-08-28T01:54:12.03698Z This workshop is based on the best selling book by Dr. Harville Hendrix, titled "Getting the Love You Want." Dr. Hendrix has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show 16 times, and she calls him the "Greatest relationship therapist in the world." Couples can benefit from this workshop for a number of reasons: you are new to one another and want to keep the sizzle alive, you are comfortable but wondering where the fun and energy have gone, you are feeling trapped by a repetitive cycle of arguments and longing to connect without conflict, or you are near break-up and wondering if your relationship can survive. Come and experience what 1000s of couples worldwide have experienced--a weekend jam-packed with new information, demonstrations, communication practice, private time with your partner and FUN--all culminating in a deeper understanding of the connection that brought you together and proven methods for repairing the rifts you are now experiencing. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=456 2008-08-28T01:54:12.03698Z A skills-based class for engaged and married couples that helps couples to grow close together and build healthy communication and conflict resolution skills. Resolve problems, understand with more clarity where your partner is coming from. Grow close together! http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=473 2008-08-28T01:54:12.03698Z Utilizes ordinary vocabulary and step-by-step directions to teach 10 core communication skills. Gives couples ability to experience deep intimacy even in the midst of conflict and to make solutions last. Coaches help couples use and master new skills during the course. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=295 2008-08-28T01:54:12.03698Z Selecting A partner is one of the most important choices a person makes in life. A poor partner choice can lead to years of unhappiness. In this class you'll learn what it takes to form a loving, lasting relationship and how to recognize it in others. At the end of the class you will be able to predict what a partner will be like in marriage, keep balance in a growing relationship and master the five dynamics that create attachment in relationships. This fun-filled class helps you overcome biology, nerves and awkward situations to develop a dating approach to find the right person for you. Don't leave one of the most important choices you will make in your life to chance. Learn what to look for in yourself so you can identify individuals who are capable of being a suitable mate to you. Pick a Partner using emotional intelligence. Register today, Call (916) 635-6810. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=501 2008-08-28T01:54:12.03698Z Remember dating? It’s just you and your partner being together in a favorate place, alone. Here’s how it works. You come to a designated location where the program is hosted. Watch a fifteen minute video on the relationship-centered topic of the evening. Then, go out on a date with a ready-made conversation topic. Best of all, in most locations child-care is provided. You enjoy two hours together, talk about a subject that interests you, and go home together. Then, remember to put next week’s date on your calendar . Where to go on your date? Well, that is pretty much up to you. You’ll want to consider a place where you can be with each other and have the degree of privacy that you require. Some couples choose to go out to eat. Others, take a walk or go for coffee. It’s your call. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=547 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0526053Z Designed for use with the book 10 Great Dates to Energize Your Marriage as the participant’s guide, here is everything you need to launch your group (or just the two of you) on your great dates. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=545 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0526053Z Teenagers and Grandparents are encouraged to participate in this Family Enrichment Series.&nbsp; Includes workbook and evening meal.&nbsp; Childcare is available.&nbsp; Scholarships available.<br> http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=533 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0526053Z Marriage Maintenance is a ten-week course designed to give married couples tools to improve the “oneness” in their marriages. The goal is to foster a partnership of mutual love and commitment as God intended marriage to be. <br><br>&nbsp;A free overview will be held on Wednesday, September 10 from 7:00-8:00 p.m. in NC110 http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=529 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0526053Z A relationship enhancement class for engaged and married couples that teaches skills to help couples grow closer and sustain a healthy marriage. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=242 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0526053Z Pick A Partner teaches skills on how to "grow a relationship" and how to determine if this person you want to marry. Skills are taught that, if followed, can avoid alot of emotional pain. First we overview the RAM (Relationship Attachment Model) that explains the importance of building safe relationships while knowing what to look for in a dating partner. Next, we develop the five key areas to explore in a partner in order to have an accurate understanding of what that person would be like in a long-term relationship. This is referred to as "head knowledge" in the RAM. Lastly we explain the "heart knowledge" of RAM-the dynamics of trust, reliance, commitment, and sexual touch. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=514 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0526053Z You may remember how the Beatles sang, "All you need is love", Emerson Eggerichs, of Love &amp; Respect, completely disagrees. "Five out of ten marriages today are ending in divorce because love alone is not enough. Yes, love is vital, especially for the wife, but what we have missed is the husband's need for respect. This Love and Respect message is about how the wife can fulfill her need to be loved by giving her husband what he needs--respect. And the husband can fulfill his need to be respected by giving his wife what she needs--love. Does this always work? No. But if one is married to a person of good will, I would bet the farm that it would work!" http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=343 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0526053Z Empowering Couples is based on the book by Dr. David Olsen and incorporates the well respected ENRICH couple concepts. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=317 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0526053Z Five critical components are necessary for a successful, vibrant relationship. Michigan-based psychologist Dr. Linda Hertel Dykstra has based her more than thirty year private practice on teaching these skills. The five basics speak to those who hope to marry as well as those already married, assessing the strengths and the growing edges of primary relationships. A copy (per couple/single) of Dr. Dykstra's book, MARRIAGE OWNER'S MANUAL, will be available to attendees. Advance registration is $25 per person, after September 14 the cost is $30 per person. Advance notification of the need for child care would be appreciated. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=476 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0526053Z A marriage encounter weekend may be just what you need to put the spark back in your marriage. It provides couples an opportunity to spend quality time focused on each other, teaches valuable tools for improving your communication, and helps bring God into your marriage. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=416 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0526053Z <p>The Retrouvaille Program consists of a weekend experience combined with a series of 6-12 post-weekend sessions over 3 months. It provides the tools to help put your marriage in order again. The main emphasis of the program is on communication in marriage between husband and wife. It will give you the opportunity to rediscover each other and examine your lives together in a new and positive way.</p> http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=369 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0526053Z Young men and women (ages 18-30) come together to discuss how they can better decisions to make in their relationship choices--ones that lead to engagement/marital commitments. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=554 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0526053Z Young men and women (ages 18-30) come together to discuss how they can better decisions to make in their relationship choices--ones that lead to engagement/marital commitments. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=555 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0526053Z This innovative, research-based curriculum helps teens understand the challenges that arise in early relationships, develop healthy dating practices, self-regulate intense emotions and cultivate life skills. Engaging, interactive, ready-to-teach lessons show teens: how positive relationships develop, effective ways to communicate, how to spot destructive patterns, to deal with emotions, and other essential healthy interpersonal skills. Content also integrates material from the highly-respected PREP &#174; program. This 17-lesson course helps teens understand early relationships - and helps establish a strong foundation for later life. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=538 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0526053Z The Healthy Marriage Program consists of eight 3 hour classes, from 9:00 AM to 12 PM every Saturday for six weeks with a different topic each week; when one class finishes another starts. The focus is on strengthening your marriage through marriage education. Additional information can be found on our website http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=478 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0526053Z A skills-based class for engaged and married couples that helps couples to grow close together and build healthy communication and conflict resolution skills. Resolve problems, understand with more clarity where your partner is coming from. Grow close together! http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=337 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0526053Z The Difference RE Makes Relationship Enhancement? Programs give couples experiences in deep intimacy?even in the heart of conflict?while teaching them tools to make problem solutions LAST. During the program couples work through core problems via extended couple dialogues. At the end of the course they have worked out 3-5 problems and have learned how to put and keep honesty, compassion, empathy and trust in their relationship. Evidence Based The Relationship Enhancement? Program has over 35 years of research behind it with 27 studies of effectiveness. It has been shown to be effective when there are serious problems, such as infidelity, chemical dependency, or mental illness. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=310 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0526053Z The Difference RE Makes Relationship Enhancement&#174; Programs give couples experiences in deep intimacy–even in the heart of conflict–while teaching them tools to make problem solutions LAST. During the program couples work through core problems via extended couple dialogues. At the end of the course they have worked out 3-5 problems and have learned how to put and keep honesty, compassion, empathy and trust in their relationship. Evidence Based The Relationship Enhancement&#174; Program has over 35 years of research behind it with 27 studies of effectiveness. It has been shown to be effective when there are serious problems, such as infidelity, chemical dependency, or mental illness. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=280 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0682306Z <p>Remember back to your dating days—the excitement you felt? Now you can reclaim that same spark, connection, and creativity in your marriage through ten intentional, memory-making dates. This proven approach to relationship growth is low-key, purposeful, effective, easy, and fun , and will help you </p> <p>* Communicate better<br>* Process anger and resolve conflicts<br> * Develop spiritual intimacy<br> * Appreciate your differences<br> * Balance busy lifestyles<br> * And much more!</p> http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=550 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0682306Z MML provides the secrets to lasting love. This class is designed to help you reconnect. This is for couples at any stage of a relationship or marriage. It's a fun, hands-on activity based class that will help you fine-tune important skills such as showing understanding, discussion and expression skills. By the end of the course, couples learn how to keep honesty, compassion, empathy, and trust in their relationship. They learn how to develop affection and communication, and how to solve conflicts and problems so that both partners are satisfied with the results. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=522 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0682306Z How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk or Jerkette You’ll learn what it takes to form a loving, lasting relationship and how to recognize it in others. At the end of the day you will be able to predict what a partner will be like in marriage, keep balance in a growing relationship and master the five dynamics that create attachment in relationships. This fun- filled class helps you overcome biology, nerves and awkward situations to develop a dating approach to find the right person for you. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=347 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0682306Z Prior&nbsp;to&nbsp;nationwide&nbsp;availability,&nbsp;SPARKS&nbsp;is&nbsp;offering&nbsp;its&nbsp;first-ever&nbsp;pilot&nbsp;program&nbsp;here&nbsp;at EV Free.&nbsp;Five&nbsp;years&nbsp;in&nbsp;development, SPARKS is a future-focused enrichment resource utilizing trained couple-coaches for every two couples. Drawing upon successful coaching strategies used in corporate leadership development, SPARKS takes couples from passivity to passion for their marriage. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=530 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0682306Z Mastering the Mysteries of Love (MML) is an updated version of the nationally-recognized “Relationship Enhancement” program. This eight-week communication skills program will teach you to “speak the truth in love” as you practice ten skills that will transform your relationship by changing how you listen, talk, problem-solve, and work together. In class you will be practicing these skills privately with your partner using issues from your own relationship. This class is beneficial for healthy or hurting couples (from seriously dating to lengthy marriages). Come for a free preview of MML (and learn a fun, new skill!) on Sunday, September 7 from 10-11:00 a.m. at Ev. Free Church of Fullerton, in NC-200, rooms 130-31. Classes are held on Tuesday evenings from September 23-November 11, 7-9:00 p.m. in the Fireside Room. Childcare is not provided. Call Lisa Fukumoto at 714.257.4316 for more information, or sign up online at http://www.evfreefullerton.com/grow/marriage http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=534 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0682306Z The Marriage Boot Camp is a 4 day intensive course designed to help couples resolve marriage difficulties. Couples that have attended the boot camp are raving about how it has changed their lives and saved their marriages. This is a Relationship Boot Camp. The name is given because it is a boot camp for healing. Counselors that have attended the relationship boot camp claim it is worth about two years of relationship therapy. The camp is made up of life games, exercises and interaction to make healing possible. There are no long boring lectures. You learn more about you, by playing the marriage life games. It is an experiential program. The camp is designed for all relationships, married, engaged or seriously dating. The camp is for marriage preparation, relationship enrichment or distressed relationships. Don't delay give yourself the gift of relationship. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=463 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0682306Z The Difference RE Makes Relationship Enhancement? Programs give couples experiences in deep intimacy?even in the heart of conflict?while teaching them tools to make problem solutions LAST. During the program couples work through core problems via extended couple dialogues. At the end of the course they have worked out 3-5 problems and have learned how to put and keep honesty, compassion, empathy and trust in their relationship. Evidence Based The Relationship Enhancement? Program has over 35 years of research behind it with 27 studies of effectiveness. It has been shown to be effective when there are serious problems, such as infidelity, chemical dependency, or mental illness http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=517 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0682306Z Marriage Encounter is a wonderful weekend getaway for married couples of any faith expression. In this weekend the couples focus on themselves and their relationship and learn a new form of communication. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=417 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0682306Z Marriage Encounter is a wonderful weekend getaway for married couples of any faith expression. In this weekend the couples focus on themselves and their relationship and learn a new form of communication. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=418 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0682306Z Marriage Encounter is a weekend experience aimed at deepening and enriching marriages and is designed to help married couples communicate more intimately with one another http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=419 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0682306Z <div>Engaged Encounter is an investment in the future - a weekend experience in which an atmosphere is created that enables each couple to concentrate exclusively on one another while free of the pressures and interruptions of daily life. However, this weekend is not a recreational retreat. It is a program designed to give each couple an opportunity to discuss honestly with each other, in a face-to-face manner, their strengths and weaknesses, desires, ambitions, goals, their attitudes about money, sex, family, their role in the church and in society. Through a series of ideas presented by teams of married couples and a priest, the engaged couples are stimulated to dialogue privately on all aspects of married life, always from the viewpoint of their own relationship. Couples are given the opportunity to question, examine and deepen their relationship with each other. Through a series of writing and sharing exercises the couples are challenged to explore many aspects of their relationship in a much deeper, more honest way than they may have before. Personal reflection and dialogue are the main emphasis of the weekend, with the exception of meals and a few group activities interspersed. &nbsp;Although the weekend was designed primarily for couples planning to be married in the Catholic Church, it is open to all couples of any faith. It has been found to be both beneficial and supporting of couples from differing faith backgrounds. &nbsp;These weekends are very popular, and fill up well in advance, so we strongly suggest signing up two to three months before the weekend you would like to attend. &nbsp;</div> http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=87 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0682306Z A skills-based class for engaged and married couples that helps couples to grow close together and build healthy communication and conflict resolution skills. Resolve problems, understand with more clarity where your partner is coming from. Grow close together! http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=474 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0682306Z The program presents a set of simple and practical concepts for keeping your head and your heart in balance while searching for a mate. If you already have a significant other the curriculum emphasizes the need to prioritize marriage responsibilities, create marriage mission statements, and minimize the potential for relationship abuse, and strengthen problem solving and relationship-building skills selection. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=537 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0682306Z Many of the dynamics of a remarriage are unique and this workshop is open to couples already remarried or considering remarriage. Topics include blending families, step-parenting, couple expectations, co-parenting, communication, conflict resolution, step-parent/step-child development, finances (#2 reason for step-family breakup), legal issues, and more in this ten-week class. Developed and led by several step-families, this workshop is unique in Southern California<br><br>Opptional personality/relational assessments not included in class price.<br> http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=531 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0682306Z This ten-week class is for seriously dating and engaged couples considering first-time marriage. You will do some personality-matching, skill-building in communication and conflict resolution, go through your finances, explore roles and expectations, understand the influence of family of origin on your relationship, and refine your sexual and emotional intimacy needs. Includes all materials, evaluations, books, and weekly breakfast brunch before class. Each couple will have a successful marriage-loving, coaching couple assigned to them in the class. <p>Free preview on September 21 in the fireside room, 10:20-10:45 a.m., between the Encounter services.</p> http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=532 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0682306Z Yes, you can have a better marriage! Marriage 911 11-week class offers tools to help married and separated couples have a better marriage--even with an unwilling spouse. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=541 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0838559Z Marriage Encounter is a weekend experience aimed at deepening and enriching marriages and is designed to help married couples communicate more intimately with one another http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=446 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0838559Z <div>Engaged Encounter is an investment in the future - a weekend experience in which an atmosphere is created that enables each couple to concentrate exclusively on one another while free of the pressures and interruptions of daily life. However, this weekend is not a recreational retreat. It is a program designed to give each couple an opportunity to discuss honestly with each other, in a face-to-face manner, their strengths and weaknesses, desires, ambitions, goals, their attitudes about money, sex, family, their role in the church and in society. Through a series of ideas presented by teams of married couples and a priest, the engaged couples are stimulated to dialogue privately on all aspects of married life, always from the viewpoint of their own relationship. Couples are given the opportunity to question, examine and deepen their relationship with each other. Through a series of writing and sharing exercises the couples are challenged to explore many aspects of their relationship in a much deeper, more honest way than they may have before. Personal reflection and dialogue are the main emphasis of the weekend, with the exception of meals and a few group activities interspersed. &nbsp;Although the weekend was designed primarily for couples planning to be married in the Catholic Church, it is open to all couples of any faith. It has been found to be both beneficial and supporting of couples from differing faith backgrounds. &nbsp;These weekends are very popular, and fill up well in advance, so we strongly suggest signing up two to three months before the weekend you would like to attend. &nbsp;</div> http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=89 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0838559Z Join us for a catered dinner, a fun and enlightening marriage message and a chance to meet other couples.&nbsp; Childcare available.&nbsp; Call for more information or to register.<br> http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=524 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0838559Z How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk or Jerkette You’ll learn what it takes to form a loving, lasting relationship and how to recognize it in others. At the end of the day you will be able to predict what a partner will be like in marriage, keep balance in a growing relationship and master the five dynamics that create attachment in relationships. This fun- filled class helps you overcome biology, nerves and awkward situations to develop a dating approach to find the right person for you. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=348 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0838559Z A four weeks series for families needing a tune-up on some of the basics needed to have a more healthy marriage and family.<br> http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=527 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0838559Z Reconnect and reclaim the spark and creativity in your marriage or relationship through 10 intentional, memory-making dates. Short meetings and videos at the beginning of each date suggest a new relationship-centered topic to focus on throughout your date. What fun, you are on a date of your choosing wherever you would like it to be for a couple of hours. This proven approach to relationship growth will help you communicate better. resolve conflicts, and balance your busy lifestyle. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=539 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0838559Z Reconnect and reclaim the spark and creativity in your marriage or relationship through 10 intentional, memory-making dates. Short meetings and videos at the beginning of each date suggest a new relationship-centered topic to focus on throughout your date. What fun, you are on a date of your choosing wherever you would like it to be for a couple of hours. This proven approach to relationship growth will help you communicate better. resolve conflicts, and balance your busy lifestyle. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=540 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0838559Z <b>Episcopal Marriage Encounter invites you on a journey - a deepening of couple love. The Weekend format is especially designed to allow a husband and wife to pause awhile and focus on each other. Every now and then we all need to examine our lives and directions to determine if we are going where we want to go. An Episcopal Marriage Encounter Weekend offers a couple just such an opportunity.</b> http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=162 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0838559Z Stronger marriages build stronger communities.&nbsp; The PREPARE/ENRICH Program enables counselors to identify a couple's specific strength and growth areas, teach them communication and conflict resolution skills, and help them resolve key relationship issues http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=438 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0838559Z Marriage Encounter is a weekend experience aimed at deepening and enriching marriages and is designed to help married couples communicate more intimately with one another http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=420 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0838559Z <p>The Retrouvaille Program consists of a weekend experience combined with a series of 6-12 post-weekend sessions over 3 months. It provides the tools to help put your marriage in order again. The main emphasis of the program is on communication in marriage between husband and wife. It will give you the opportunity to rediscover each other and examine your lives together in a new and positive way.</p> http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=375 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0838559Z <p>The Retrouvaille Program consists of a weekend experience combined with a series of 6-12 post-weekend sessions over 3 months. It provides the tools to help put your marriage in order again. The main emphasis of the program is on communication in marriage between husband and wife. It will give you the opportunity to rediscover each other and examine your lives together in a new and positive way.</p> http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=382 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0838559Z A Friday night, all day Saturday training that equips MML class graduates to be trained to be presenters of the MML program. Must attend an MML class first. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=557 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0838559Z Utilizes ordinary vocabulary and step-by-step directions to teach 10 core communication skills. Gives couples ability to experience deep intimacy even in the midst of conflict and to make solutions last. Coaches help couples use and master new skills during the course. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=296 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0838559Z Utilizes ordinary vocabulary and step-by-step directions to teach 10 core communication skills. Gives couples ability to experience deep intimacy even in the midst of conflict and to make solutions last. Coaches help couples use and master new skills during the course. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=475 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0838559Z Relationship Enhancement&#174; for Couples helps couples to give each other the Gift of Love by learning skills which make love comfortable, generous, healing, and joyful. Founded on values of honesty and compassion, RE enables each partner to fully express what is most important and use that expression to resolve conflict and build love. It may help you: 1) Speak in ways that will help your partner want to cooperate 2) Express understanding in ways that help each other communicate from your deepest, best selves. 3) Discuss issues and conflicts in ways that lead to solutions you both can feel good about 4) Find and express the positives that are part of every conflict 5) Use conflict to grow closer 6) Work out the details of agreements so issues resolved today are lived out tomorrow and next month 7) Use skills to transform over time both your couple relationship and your relationships with children, co-workers, and friends. http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=515 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0994812Z Stronger marriages build stronger communities.&nbsp; The PREPARE/ENRICH Program enables counselors to identify a couple's specific strength and growth areas, teach them communication and conflict resolution skills, and help them resolve key relationship issues http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=439 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0994812Z <p>The Retrouvaille Program consists of a weekend experience combined with a series of 6-12 post-weekend sessions over 3 months. It provides the tools to help put your marriage in order again. The main emphasis of the program is on communication in marriage between husband and wife. It will give you the opportunity to rediscover each other and examine your lives together in a new and positive way.</p> http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=377 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0994812Z <p>The Retrouvaille Program consists of a weekend experience combined with a series of 6-12 post-weekend sessions over 3 months. It provides the tools to help put your marriage in order again. The main emphasis of the program is on communication in marriage between husband and wife. It will give you the opportunity to rediscover each other and examine your lives together in a new and positive way.</p> http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=378 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0994812Z Marriage Encounter is a weekend experience aimed at deepening and enriching marriages and is designed to help married couples communicate more intimately with one another http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=421 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0994812Z Marriage Encounter is a weekend experience aimed at deepening and enriching marriages and is designed to help married couples communicate more intimately with one another http://www.camarriage.com/classes/detail.ashx?eid=422 2008-08-28T01:54:12.0994812Z The Retrouvaille Program consists of a weekend experience combined with a series of 6-12 post-weekend sessions over 3 months. It provides the tools to help put your marriage in order again. The main emphasis of the program is on communicatio