Healthy Marriages Grand Rapids - Marriage Mentoring

Marriage Mentoring: 12 Conversations for a Healthy Happy Marriage

thoutstra — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:46:48 -0400

Available at Pine Rest Family Institute

Yes

Description

A breakthrough, innovative, proactive program that brings marriage mentoring into the lives of everyday couples who have much to learn from one another. It is elegantly simple--and powerful for building communities and churches that value marriage. Guided yet informal conversations allow couples to share their wisdom and encouragement with one another through the stories of their marriages. The leadership training kit with DVD instruction makes this an ideal marriage mentoring program for faith-based or secular settings to teach right out of the box. A milltary version is available.

For more information check out the website www.12conversations.com

Marriage Mentoring: 12 Conversations for a Healthy Happy Marriage

thoutstra — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:41:39 -0400

Author

Dr. Ed Gray, LMFT

Abstract

Available at Pine Rest Family Institute

Yes

Description

For more information check out the website www.12conversations.com

Marriage Mentoring: 12 Conversations for a Healthy, Happy Marriage

thoutstra — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:24:08 -0400

Description

A breakthrough, innovative, proactive program that brings marriage mentoring
into the lives of everyday couples who have much to learn from one another. It
is elegantly simple--and powerful for building communities and churches that
value marriage. Guided yet informal conversations allow couples to share their
wisdom and encouragement with one another through the stories of their marriages.
The leadership training kit with DVD instruction makes this an ideal marriage
mentoring program for faith-based or secular settings to teach right out of the box.
A military version is available.

URL

www.12Conversations.com

Mentoring for Dating Couples: Twelve Conversations for Building Strong Marriages

thoutstra — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:10:42 -0400

Description

Based upon the popluar story telling model of Marriage Mentoring: 12 Conversations, Mentoring for Dating Couples nurtures the relationship of seriously dating couples or those couple who are engaged to be married. Coauthors, Dr. Ed Gray of Harding University Graduate School and Susan Giboney of Pepperdine University, developed his resource to help couples grow solid, lasting relationships.

URL

www.12Conversations.com

Family Wellness Training

bchaffer — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:09:02 -0400

Start: 2008-02-26 08:00

End: 2008-02-29 17:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-5

Description

Family Wellness is a four-day, 36 hour training workshop that provides certification for facilitators to assist families in today's society. It is designed for educators, ministers, mental health professionals, social workers, employee assistance workers, therapists, and others interested in assisting families.

By completing this training, you will certified to teach “Survival Skills Healthy Families,” a 12-hour Family Wellness program presented to large groups of families and individuals in a series of six, two-hour sessions. “Survival Skills for Healthy Families” is a quickly learned and easily adapted program which has proven effective in a variety of communities, cultures, and languages. Over 1,500 trained facilitators have presented this course to more than 400,000 families world-wide in the past eighteen years. It is a proven model for teaching skills, enhancing healthy family interactions, and investing family members in each other and their community. Put tools in the hands of families. You will be able to work with groups of individuals and families and give them the skills, support, and practice to build on their existing healthy patterns and add new ways of living and working together. The course, which was developed in 1980, represents two interests: the need for new tools and supports to handle the challenges in our present society, and to utilize these tools in a readily available and effective program for families of all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. A strength-based workshop, each of the six sessions is organized around practical guidelines for healthy family interactions, which are demonstrated and then practiced with the participants.

The sessions include:

Parents in Healthy Families
Children in Healthy Families
Adults Working Together in Families: Adult Relationships
As Children Grow - Change in Healthy Families
Solving Family Problems
Sex, Drugs, and You - Passing on Your Values to Your Children

Contact Name

Pine Rest Family Institute

Cost

$750.00 per person (scholarships available)

Telephone

800.968.0544 or locally 616.831.2622

URL

Notes

Register

Marriage Alive

admin — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:16:03 -0400

Description

Marriage Alive is an organization that provides national seminars. This site provides information on on-line learning opportunities to equip couples working through congregations and other communities to transform marriage and family relationships.

URL

www.marriagealive.org

Marriage Savers

admin — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:15:36 -0400

Description

Marriage Savers is a national organization with a proven strategy to help churches train mentoring couples to help other couples avoid bad marriages, prepare couples for a life-long marriage, or strengthen existing marriages. Founded by Michael and Harriet McManus.

URL

www.marriagesavers.com

Mentoring Live

admin — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:15:05 -0400

Description

Based out of Philadelphia, a team of professionals have joined forces to revolutionalize the way relationships are supported and transformed. Site contains workshop information, training and therapy opportunities.

URL

www.mentoringlive.com

Real Relationships

admin — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:14:36 -0400

Description

This is Les and Leslie Parrott's official website listing their speaking schedules, other marriage related links, an extensive bookstore and more.

URL

www.realrelationships.com

Mentoring Engaged Couples Curriculum Kit: Building Marriages That Love a Lifetime

admin — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:13:52 -0400

Available at Pine Rest Family Institute

Description

This video curriculum is designed to help churches start a marriage-mentoring program by providing the tools for recruitment, screening and training of mentoring couples. Leader's and Participant's Guides are available separately.