Sept, Oct, Nov Courses and Training

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from: Smart Marriages

Here are Sept, October & Nov courses and training programs taken from  
the CMFCE web Directory.  There are many other programs that offer 
courses listed on the Directory at - 
www.smartmarriages.com/directory_browse.html - they just haven't listed 
specific dates.  Check with them for their schedules. 
 
Also, check the Headquarters offices of programs like Prep, Pairs, 
Couples Communication, Retrouvaille, PREPARE, etc which can give you a 
list of classes in your area or direct you to classes open to 
people from around the country. - diane sollee 
                                                                      
       
THE CENTER OF RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT (CORE) 
Learn essential skills to improve your relationship with your spouse, 
young children or adolescents. Or take the training and learn how to 
teach others to communicate effectively and have satisfying marriages and 
families. Courses for couples, for parents and children, and training for 
professionals, clergy and lay leaders all based on Relationship 
Enhancement(RE) skills. Teach the courses in your practice, congregation, 
or community.  **Schedule: Professional training workshops: Introduction 
to Relationship Enhancement With Couples Oct 23; with Families Nov 27; 
Child-Centered Play Oct 25; Child-Centered Family Relationship 
Enhancement-Filial Nov 6-$80/day; CE credits available.
Barry Ginsberg, PhD 
17 West State St 
Doylestown, Pennsylvania 18901 
215-3482424 
Email: bginzer at aol.com 
Web: www.enhancerelationships.com 

FAMILY WELLNESS ASSOCIATES 
George Doub, MFCC, MDiv and Flo Creighton, MPH, LCSW 
SURVIVAL SKILLS FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES is a unique 12 hour parenting 
education program that involves the whole family and teaches
practical, lifelong skills that strengthen and empower families. Laity, 
Ministers, Educators, and Mental Health Workers can train to present this
program that has reached over 150,000 families nationwide since 1981. See 
web site for training schedules and materials including interactive
workbooks (English, Spanish and Chinese), audio & video tapes. Instructor 
Training: Norfolk, Virginia, Sept 9-11,13,14; Seattle,
Washington, Oct 21-23,25,26; Clovis/Fresno, CA, Nov 4-6,18,19, 1999; San 
Jose, California, Jan 20-22,28,29, 2000. 
Box 66533 
Scotts Valley, California 95067-6533 
831-440-0279 
Email: families at familywellness.com 
Web:www.familywellness.com 

MARRIAGE ALIVE INTERNATIONAL, INC (MAI) 
Founders Claudia & David Arp, MSSW, offer skill-based, practical 
resources: books, videos, curricula and seminars for all stages of 
marriage -
engaged through empty nest - nationally and in Europe & as featued on TV 
& radio. Typical seminar is 6 hrs: Fri night-Sat morning or Sat 9-4.
Typical fee (set by sponsor) is $35-50 per couple including 
materials.Call MAI toll free or click on website below for details plus 
dating tips & free
weekly email Marriage Builder newsletter. **Schedule: Sept 8-11 AACC 
Conference Nashville, Tennessee; Sept 20-24 Toronto Canada; Oct
22-23 Brownwood, Texas; Nov 5-6 Richmond, Virginia 
Box 31408 
Knoxville, Tennessee 37930-1408 
Toll Free: 888-690-6667 (Info, orders & media interviews) 
Email: TheArps at marriagealive.com 
Website: http://www.marriagealive.com (Newest resources and current 
speaking schedule) 

PREP at NYU Child Study Center. (Prevention and Relationship Enhancement 
Program), Peter Fraenkel, PhD, Director. COUPLES: We
brought PREP to the East Coast! Two-Week (15 Hour) Intensive Courses, 
One-Day Skills Workshops. Learn to communicate, solve problems,
identify hidden issues, while maximizing fun, friendship, and sensuality! 
Featured in SELF, New York Magazine, Elle, Working Woman, London
Sunday Times, Good Day New York, Joan Hamburg Show, SWING, 
REDBOOK.**Two-Week Intensive (full 15 hr) PREP Workshops Sun
10am-6pm and two following Thursdays, 6-9pm & 6-9:30pm, $375 couple: Oct 
17, 21, & 28; 2000: Jan 23, 27 & Feb 3; March 19, 23, &
30; May 6, 11 & 18th. One-Day Skills Workshops: 10am-6pm, $160 per 
couple: Oct 10; Nov 14; 
NYU Medical Center 
550 First Avenue 
New York, New York 10016 
(212) 263 8664 (convenient to New Jersey and Connecticut - the tri-state 
area.) 
212-263-8664 
Email: peter.fraenkel at med.nyu.edu 

RELATIONSHIP (RE) ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM 
Bernard Guerney, Director 
Award-winning research proves RE to be exceptionally effective. Couples 
learn 9 sets of skills designed to: increase mutual understanding and
emotional responsiveness; resolve conflicts and problems; establish new, 
more satisfying patterns of personal and interactive behaviors, and to 
also
enhance relationships with children and co-workers. There is no pressure 
to participate in group discussions, and skill-coaching is always private.
Weekend group or one-couple instruction can be scheduled, and a 
phone-coached, home-study program is available, as is leadership training 
for lay
persons or professionals. **Relationship Enhancement Training in 
Bethesda, MD, schedule:Couples Weekend: $350 per couple: Sept 18-19;
Oct 16-17; Nov 20-21 Leaders Training: Oct 1-2, $245 pp. 
4400 East-West Hwy. 
Bethesda, Maryland 20904-4501 
301-986-1479 
Toll free - 800-432-6454 
Email: niremd at nire.org 
Web:www.nire.org 

Michele Baldwin, PhD, PAIRS Master Teacher and Trainer 
And DeWitt Baldwin MD, teach PAIRS (Practical Application of Intimate 
Relationship Skills) as preventive maintenance for good relationships
and divorce prevention for relationships that are faltering. For couples 
and singles at any stage. PAIRS Semester Course: Begins Nov 12 (One
week-end a month for 7 months). A one-day introductory workshop will be 
held on Sat Oct 2.  Consultations available. 
1550 North Lake Shore Drive, #18G 
Chicago, Illinois 60610 
312-337-0506 
Email: mabaldwin at aol.com 
Web: www.pairs.com/chicago.htm 

Rick Brown,TM Getting the Love You Want: Workshops for Couples 
Rick Brown, Executive Director of the Imago Institute (founded by 
Harville Hendrix, PhD), offers this intensive two-day workshop for 
married and
unmarried couples to rediscover joy and spiritual potential while using 
their relationship for personal change and growth. Brown has appeared on
Oprah where he demonstrated his expertise at creating intimacy in even 
the most difficult relationships, and is in demand as a speaker 
nationally and
internationally. **Workshop schedule: Clinical Training:  Oct 4-7; 
Washington, DC, Sept 15-18, Nov 10-13, Jan 12-15. Getting the Love
You Want: Workshops for Couples: Sept 25-26 Washington, DC, Oct 16-17 
Orlando, Florida, Nov 20-21 Washington, DC 
800-729-1121 
Email: rickimago at aol.com 
Web: www.imagotherapy.com (for schedule of courses taught around the 
world) 

Rita DeMaria, PhD, PAIRS Master Teacher 
The Relationship Center: dedicated to enhancing relationships: Divorce 
Prevention; Premarital Education, Relationship Assessment; Marriage
Education, and Enrichment. Licensed Mars & Venus Center. Offering PAIRS, 
PREPARE/ENRICH, PARTNERS (ABA High School
Curriculum), NEW THIS FALL:  StepFamily Education. 
**Schedule: FREE PAIRS Previews: Sept 9, Sept 15,  7:30 - 9pm; PAIRS 
First Couples Seminar:  Thurs Sept 19 - Nov 4;PAIRS Semester Course Tues 
evenings, Begins Oct 2 ($1,495/pp, $2,990/couple); MARS & VENUS Improving
Communications 1 day Workshop $129/pp, $229/couple; Getting the Love You 
Want Seminar, Sept 25 & 26, Nov 20 & 21, $300/pp. 
Box 738/921 Bethlehem Pike 
Spring House, Pennsylvania 19477 (serving the Philidelphia area) 
215-643-7659 
Toll free - 800-997-2477 
Email: PHLPAIRS at AOL.com 
WEB: www.marriagedoctor.com 

LESSONS IN INTIMACY 
Turn your relationship into a Love Affair! Fulfill your heart's yearning 
for union, through Tantra, Tai Chi, Massage and Meditation. Tune-up
your sex connection. Workshops for couples or singles in romantic 
locations. ** Schedule: Private, personalized weekend or week-long
retreats. Workshops in Siesta Key, Florida: Sept 3-6, Oct 8-10, Nov 19-21 
941-346-1024 (9 am - 9 pm EST) 
Richard and Diana Daffner 
Email: daffner at home.com 
Web: http://members.home.net/tantra

Mentoring Love and Company 
This Philadelphia team of Imago Institute faculty provide monthly weekend 
seminars for couples: The basic "Getting the Love You Want" and
the advanced "Return to Romance Weekends." Sunny Shulkin, LCSW, Mark 
Shulkin, MD and their daughter, Nedra Fetterman, PhD
help couples & families who, though in struggle or in impasse, want to 
flourish.  Intensive basic and advanced 
 trainings also offered. Deepen your personal and/or professional 
understanding of relationship. 
**Course Schedule in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Basic Getting the Love 
You Want Couples Weekend: Oct 23-24, Nov 20-21. 
610-667-7645 
Email: sunnyis at home.com 
Web:www:mentoringlove.com

Jean Reeves, MEd, MFT 
PAIRS Leader - A unique way to INVEST in your MARRIAGE, ... MARRIAGE 
INSURANCE...Offering PAIRS Programs : One day, Two
Day (Passage to Intimacy), PAIRS FIRST, Semester Course, and PAIRS for 
Schools.  **Class Schedule: If You Really Loved Me (one
day): Nov 14, $110 PP 12:30 - 6pm; PAIRS Passage to Intimacy Weekend: 
Sept 25 & 26, $225pp, 12- 6pm. PAIRS FIRST 8 wks 7 -
10pm, $425pp; PAIRS for PEERS. 
TOGETHER 
Box 735 
Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania 19437 (Philadelphia Area) 
215-646-0553 
Email: jean at pairs.org 
WEB: www.pairs.com/jeanreeves 

Relationship Enrichment Center 
Susan Townsend, PhD, Director A comprehensive relationship center which 
offers seminars and workshops for individuals and couples who
want to enrich the interpersonal relationships in their lives. Couples 
and individuals at any stage of relationship can improve their 
relationship health
by learning and practicing new behaviors and skills. Also: PAIRS for 
Schools, parenting, step-parenting; cardiac rehab stress management and
corporate communication workshops. **Courses include:  Passage To 
Intimacy 8 Weeks - Oct 4 - Nov 22  Mons 7 - 9pm, $250 per person/$500 per 
couple; PAIRS First - Sept 16 - Nov 11 Tues, 6:30 - 8:30pm, $550 per 
couple; PAIRS Semester Course- Oct 5 - Nov 23 Tues 7 - 10 pm, plus one 
weekend each month, $ 725 per person/$1425 per couple; Positive 
Parenting- Sept 27 - Nov 15 Mons 7-9 pm, $110 per person/$220 per couple; 
Hot Monogamy-Oct 9 & 10 $200 per
person/400 per couple 
210 W. Pennsylvania Avenue #700 
Towson, Maryland 21204 
410-825-2332 
Email: relationshipenrich at ttc1.com 
Web: www.relationenrich.com 

Allan Rohlfs, LPC, MDiv 
PREP couple workshops, PET for parents, LET for managers, and Nonviolent 
Communication for schools, organizations, anyone. PREP workshops in 
Chicago and the Quad Cities. Individual instruction available. I 
personally use these skills in all my relationships. **Couples PREP
workshops: Chicago, Quad Cities (Moline, Rock Island, Illinois and 
Davenport, Bettendorf, Iowa); Oct 23, Oct 2 8:30am - 4pm, $110/couple. 
Nonviolent Communication Class: Chicago, Oct 5 - Nov 7, $190/person 
3743 N. Drake 
Chicago, Illinois 60618 
773/478-6264 
Email: Allanrohlf at aol.com 

Twogether, Inc. 
Meg Haycraft, LCSW, PAIRS Master Teacher, and Dan Haycraft, MD, provide 
PAIRS workshops; Relationship Assessments; and Private
Skills Coaching Packages by telephone or "in person" appointments. These 
services are ideal for couples and individuals whose relationship needs
an immediate intervention or are wishing to strengthen an already "good" 
relationship.  GIFT CERTIFICATES AVAILABLE FOR ALL
SERVICES!! **Schedule: Pairs Passage to Intimacy (2 day) : Oct 16 & 17. 
$250 pp, $449 per couple, Chicago;  Passionate Play one-day 
workshop--10am-6pm Nov. 20, 1999 in Chicago $129 per person/ $250 per 
couple. 
2809 Central Street 
Evanston, Illinois  60201 
847-475-7135 (phone & fax) 
EMail: MegLuvLife @AOL.com 
                                                                          
                                                                          
        
THE DIVORCE BUSTING CENTER 
Michele Weiner-Davis, MSW, Director.  If divorce is not the answer, what 
is?  FOR COUPLES: Weiner-Davis trains couples to achieve quick
relationship change based on her best-selling book, Divorce Busting.  Her 
one-day, skill-building, Keeping Love Alive Workshop for
couples/individuals is effective even if only one spouse participates.  
Phone consultations, books, tapes. FOR PROFESSIONALS: Weiner-Davis'
seminars include Divorce Busting: Solution-Oriented Brief Work with 
Couples, Keeping Love Alive Singlehandedly, and advanced workshops. 
Keeping Love Alive and Divorce Busting Home-Study Courses available on 
audiotape (8 CEUs each.) **SCHEDULE: Keeping Love Alive Oct
2; In 2000: Jan 15; Mar 11; Sept 23, Palatine, Ilinois (O'Hare airport). 
Box 197 
Woodstock, Illinois 60098  (Chicago and suburbs) 
815-337-8000 
Toll free - 800-664-2435 (800-6-Michele) or 815-337-8000 
Email: DBusting at aol.com 
Web: www.divorcebusting.com 

TRAIN WITH PAT LOVE, EdD: Courses for trainers, educators, couples and 
individuals. 
Hot Monogamy:(5 days) Learn to teach the course and expand your practice 
- use the name, no franchise fees. Couples and individuals also invited
to attend to deepen their knowledge of passion and intimacy. **Training 
schedule in Austin unless noted: Imago Basic Training and Advanced
Courses-Pat, an Imago Master Trainer, offers a wide curriculum for 
understanding and improving love relationships.  Imago Training;
Imago Relationship Education; Hot Monogamy Presenter Training: Sept 
24-27; Basic Clinical Training (12 days).  Grief, Loss, Transition
Seminar: Oct 1-2. 
6705 Hwy 290 West, # 502-291 
Austin, Texas 78735 
512-891-0610 
Email: pat at patlove.com 
www.patlove.com 

PAIRS FOR LIFE: PAIRS FOR LOVE 
Developed by Lori Gordon, PhD 
Remove barriers to love and pleasure. Develop Emotional Literacy on 
behalf of a lasting, passionate partnership.. PAIRS shows us how to 
create 
extraordinary relationships through weekend and four-day intensives, as 
well as the hallmark semester course.  PAIRS has taught thousands to
create 
relationships that are full with love, pleasure and happiness.  
"Practical, usable ways to accomplish joy in relationships." 
**Upcoming Dates: Nationally-sponsored seminars take place in Fort 
Lauderdale, Florida.  Mention SmartMarriages for a 5% discount on
any PAIRS experience. PAIRS First: Sept 30- Oct 3; PAIRS for LIFE 
PARTNERS; PAIRS Semester Course: Begins Sept 24 (Meets One
Weekend Monthly for Seven Months) 
Toll-free: 888-PAIRS 4U (888- 724-7748) ext 22 
Email National Office: request at pairs.com 
Web:www.pairs.com/directory.htm - click to find a PAIRS class in your 
area 

PAIRS  FOUR-DAY CERTIFICATION TRAINING - Teach Couples to Create 
Extraordinary Relationships 
Developed by Lori Gordon, PhD 
PAIRS is a nationally acclaimed, innovative, integrative experiential 
program for couples and individuals in any stage of relationship. PAIRS
develops Emotional Literacy and often brings about change that years of 
therapy could not. Virginia Satir said: "PAIRS works because it offers
practical, usable ways to accomplish joy in relationships." CEUs 
available. Spouses and significant others are encouraged to participate. 
**1999
TRAINING SCHEDULE: PAIRS 4 Day CERTIFICATION TRAINING for professionals, 
clergy or lay leaders. $695.00 (spouse or partner
$200). Upcoming Dates: Sept 30- Oct 3.  Trainings take place in Fort 
Lauderdale, Florida 
Mention SmartMarriages for a 5% discount. 
PAIRS International, Inc. 
318 Indian Trace, Suite 158 
Weston, Florida 33326 (Ft. Lauderdale area) 
Toll free: 888-724-7748 or (954) 389-7565 ext 22 
Email: training at pairs.org 
Web: www.pairs.com/Training/index.html -(click here to find a training 
program) 

PREP:THE PREVENTION & RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM 
Howard Markman, PhD, Scott Stanley, PhD, Directors 
Based on over twenty years of empirical research, PREP is a comprehensive 
premarital/marital program which teaches couples essential skills for
maintaining a lasting love: how to communicate effectively, work as a 
team to solve problems, manage conflicts without damaging closeness, and
preserve and enhance love, commitment and friendship. PREP has extensive 
experience in training mental health professionals and clergy in both
civilian and military settings to conduct PREP Workshops and/or utilize 
the concepts in their practice. To order PREP's free-standing materials
--Fighting for Your Marriage books and tapes -- contact us or your 
bookstore.**Trainings in Denver, Colorado unless noted: PREP
Instructor Training:  Sept 27-29 (Okinawa, Japan); Advanced Instructor 
Training: Sept 30-Oct 1 (Yokosuka, Japan); Christian PREP
Instructor Training: Oct 21-23; Couples Workshops - per couple: Sept 18. 
303-759-9931 
800-366-0166 
Email: PREPINC at AOL.com 
WEB: http://www.prepinc.com 

Bill Coffin, MA, MEd 
Marriage Preparation and Couples Courses, including the Prevention and 
Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP), Christian PREP
(CPREP), PREPARE/ENRICH, FOCCUS, Relationship Enhancement (RE), Couple 
Communication, and Building Family
Strengths for couples and groups. Will do house calls in DC Metro area. 
CPREP 4 Thurs eves beg 30 Sept; PREP 1 day Oct 2 
1006 Cannon Rd 
Silver Spring, Maryland 20904 
301-384-0042 (H) 
703-695-9708(O) 
Email: N15e at BUPERS.Navy.Mil 

GreatPAIRS in Northern Virginia 
Kathleen Young, PhD, and her husband, Alan, teach PAIRS (Practical 
Application of Intimate Relationship Skills) as preventive maintenance for
good relationships and divorce prevention for relationships that are 
faltering. For couples and singles at any stage of relationship. Visa & 
Master. 
**Schedule: PAIRS First, 8 nights for 8 consecutive weeks, course dates 
begin Sept 18, Jan 26, April 5, $585 couple, $300 individual. 
Passage to Intimacy Weekends, Oct 9-10, Feb 12-13, May 27-28, $450 per 
couple, $250 individual.  Advance registration required, early
registration discount. 
5803 Hall Street 
Burke, Virginia 
703-451-5632 
Email: GreatPAIRS at aol.com 
Web: http://members.aol/greatpairs/home.htm 




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