TOOBS "Teach Out of the Box" - MINI "Training" workshop format
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Thursday Workshops, July 3, 10–11:30am
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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.
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The Power of Two – TOOB
Susan Heitler, PhD
Most couples have issues they disagree on again and again.
Some suggest just accepting the differences. This approach
aims higher and helps couples bring ALL their conflicts to win-win.
206
Journey to Love for “Singles Again” – TOOB
MP Wylie, PhD
Whether divorced, widowed, or ending a long relationship,
success rests on making wise choices throughout 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.
209
Active Parenting in Stepfamilies – TOOB
Michael Popkin, PhD, Elizabeth Einstein, MA
Teach the 5 keys to effective stepparenting, how to
handle the predictable challenges that include loss,
loyalty, & discipline, and how these proven skills will
strengthen the marital bond.
210
Active Military Life & Resiliency – TOOB
Kelly Simpson, MA, Janie Illing, MA
Created in collaboration with military communities, this
skills-based program addresses the challenges of
reintegration for singles and couples and provides
resilience building tools.
211
PREPARE to Last – TOOB
David Olson, PhD, Peter Larson, PhD
Learn how to help premarital and newlywed couples laugh,
learn & grow! Easy-to-use, entertaining, DVD-based program
includes an online Couple Checkup.
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The Marriage Course - TOOB
Nicky & Sila Lee
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”. Based on the famed Alpha course.
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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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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
ed program.
307
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.
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Smart Steps for Stepfamilies – TOOB
Francesca Adler-Baeder, 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.
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Money Habitudes: The Last Taboo – TOOB
Syble Solomon, MEd
Use a unique card deck to give couples life-changing
insights into their hidden attitudes about money. Teach
groups, use with individual couples, or add to any marriage program.
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.
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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.
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Friday Workshops, July 4, 10–11:30am
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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.
407
Internet Sex Addiction – TOOB
Mark Laaser, PhD, MDiv
Porn, the #1 seller on the internet, has become extremely
damaging to marriage. Learn to recognize the symptoms
and to prevent and help overcome addiction to internet sex.
411
Children in the Middle – TOOB
Don Gordon, PhD
Use this award-winning online divorce education program to
maximize community divorce prevention efforts. Plus how
to recruit parents in failing marriages and form partnerships
with pastors, schools, physicians.
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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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For Better and For Ever: Mentor Training – TOOB
Rev 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),
Covenant (secular), and Protestant editions.
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Friday Workshops, July 4, 2:30–4pm
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The Marriage Preparation Course – TOOB
Nicky & Sila Lee
Learn to teach the course and also to recruit & train mentor
couples so that the program basically runs itself. Practical,
5-session, DVD-dinner format, inventory, and mentor-couple based.
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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.
509
WAIT Training: All About ME (Marriage Education) – TOOB
Shelly Donahue
Teach teens to have the best sex by waiting and preparing
for marriage. A love, character, relationship, marriage prep
curriculum for high schools. 43 states and abroad, non-sectarian.
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Active Parenting Makes Strong Marriages – TOOB
Michael Popkin, PhD, Merrilie 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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Marriage Mentoring: 12 Conversations – TOOB
Ed Gray, EdD
Mentoring is easy! Learn the 4 basic approaches. Teach
the narrative, story-telling model and organize a mentoring
program for your church, community, military, or Spanish mentors.
515
Money Education Program – FOOB
Bill Bailey, PhD, Sharon Burns, PhD, CPA, Rebecca Wiggins
Learn how to help couples improve their financial well
being by learning about money. This grant-funded program
provides FREE web-based training and resources for use
in your community.
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Caring for My Family – FOOB
Dawn Contreras, PhD, Holly Lacina
This FREE skill-based program helps low-resource,
unmarried expectant and new parents set goals and
assess what’s best for them and their child regarding
marriage or ongoing father involvement.
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Saturday Workshops, July 5, 10-11:30am
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LoveU2 – TOOB
Marline Pearson, MA
Use stories, activities, and PREP skills to teach teens
the crucial connections between marriage, fatherhood,
and child well-being. Give them good reasons to postpone
childbearing. Outcome studies.
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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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Hot Monogamy – TOOB
Pat Love, EdD, Kathleen McFadden, CLE
The death of passion often heralds the end of a marriage.
Proven techniques help couples restore this vital energy.
Pragmatic strategies presented with humor and clinical savvy.
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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 and reclaim the territory.
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Foundations for Marriage – TOOB
Tim Gardner, MA, DMin
This comprehensive, affordable, faith-based, lively, DVD
program has everything you need to prepare couples for
satisfying life-long marriage including the new BUILD couple assessment.
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Saturday Workshops, July 5, 12:45-2:15pm
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10 Great Dates – TOOB
Claudia and David Arp, MSW
Teach this proven, widely-used program in your
church and community. Combines fun with marriage
skills and opens the door for other programs. Bonus:
new Latino version!
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African American Marriage Enrichment – TOOB
Lorraine Blackman, PhD
Learn tips for teaching this program that addresses
the specific issues facing African American couples.
Perfect for church, school, community, and private
practice settings.
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Learning Sobriety Together – FOOB
William Fals-Stewart, PhD, Gary Birchler, PhD
This program works with couples together – the drug/alcohol
abuser and spouse – to improve communication skills, build
cohesion, and both promote and maintain sobriety.
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The Marriage Garden – FOOB
Wallace Goddard, PhD, James Marshall, PhD
Easy to teach, innovative, flexible, FREE (!) and based on
new discoveries in positive psychology and Appreciative Inquiry.
Includes commitment, nurture, and communication activities.
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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!
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Life Puzzle: A Coaching Model – TOOB
Ann Kramer, EdS, Bridget Brennan, MA
Help couples tackle seemingly insurmountable, chronic
problems by defining their Self - their own shape and edges,
and then put the pieces together for a true and lasting intimacy.
Smart Marriage & Family Expo® - Seminars Saturday July 5, 2008, 4 – 5:30pm ______________________ 804
How To Avoid Marrying A Jerk – TOOB
John Van Epp, PhD
Great marriages begin long before the wedding.
Learn what singles (and parents) should know about
the 5 keys to successful mate-selection, and how to
avoid the "love is blind" attachment-syndrome.
Singles, or single again.
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The First Dance: Wedding Planning - TOOB
Bill Doherty, PhD, Elizabeth Thomas
Engaged couples often face complex, conflicted couple
and family dynamics. Learn how to plan a “family-systems”
wedding that will lay a solid foundation for life-long marriage." 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 so crucial to the success of any remarriage.
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These TOOB/Teach Out of the Box Programs are being offered in Keynote and Banquet Sessions:
The Five Love Languages - Gary Chapman - Fri morning Keynote Through fun-filled presentations before a live audience, Chapman helps you identify
your personal love language and the love language of your spouse. He provides practical
suggestions for enriching your marriage by practicing each other's love languages.
The Ultimate Relationship Program - Saturday Afternoon Keynote
Cloé Madanes, HDL - use the code "CMFCE" for a special Smart Marriages discount.
Use this easy-to-teach DVD-based program to help even the most troubled
couples understand their core needs and master eight essential skills to develop
trust, rekindle passion, break barriers, align goals, and design a compelling future.
Ideal for clinical, coaching, or educational settings, or for couples to use on their own.
TOOB/Teach Out of the Box programs are being offered in Institutes.
CONNECTIONS, Essential Disciplines and The Art of Loving Well
Char Kamper, MA, Stephen Judah, PhD, Nancy McLaren, MAT
Learn tips for teaching three of the most widely used, research-validated
relationship and marriage education programs for grades 7-12
in schools and youth groups.
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.
Marriage LINKS
John Van Epp, PhD
With the LINKS (Lasting Intimacy through Nurturance, Knowledge and Skills)
learn to teach the Relationship Attachment Model (RAM) for marital
maintenance of intimacy, trust, sexual satisfaction, forgiveness and mutuality.
Techniques and tools for teaching groups in churches, schools & on bases.
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