Clarifications/ I NEED your help/ Workplace/ Secret Language/ High School & Marriage Week/Differences - 1/07

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- CLARIFICATIONS (I hope.....)
- POSTCARDS - SAVE THE DATES
- AIRLINE CONFERENCE DISCOUNTS
- WORKPLACE "BEST PRACTICES"
- THE SECRET LANGUAGE THAT'S SAVING MARRIAGES
- SUGGESTIONS FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT PEER EDUCATORS?
- VIVE LA DIFFERENCE
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- CLARIFICATIONS (I hope.....)

- You CAN hit reply to any INDIVIDUAL email I send you.  I will get it.

- It is only the emails from the LISTSERV to which you should not hit reply.
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me.  I love reading all comments.  I just can't forward them ALL to the
list. - diane  
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- POSTCARDS - SAVE THE DATES

Someone just asked me to send them a box of "save the date" postcards to
distribute. I have not yet printed them.  I'm trying a new strategy.  I'll
mail the conference brochures and THEN mail the postcards.  I want to see if
it works better to have brochures READY to download when people receive the
postcards.  In the past, I sent the postcards way in advance to "save the
dates" and people couldn't download the brochure when they received them.
This year I'll use the postcards to widen the scope - will send them to
1,000s of additional names to which we can't afford to mail the brochures.
Maybe I'm crazy, but it's fun to try new strategies.

IN THE MEANTIME, you can help. Some people still don't know when/where the
conference is. I know because I answer the phones. SO, PLEASE HELP by
downloading and distributing the Conference Flyers in your community, at
your office, at seminars, at your university. Download at:
http://www.smartmarriages.com/denver.flyer.pdf

And, yes, if you see your name on the flyer it DOES mean you're workshop has
been accepted and scheduled.  But, if you don't see your name, it does not
mean you will not be accepted. Just means I'm running out of space on the
flyer or that I've not gotten to it.   - diane

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- AIRLINE CONFERENCE DISCOUNTS
We're using United this year.  Better service into Denver than American,
whom we've used in past years.  I'm realize some of you want to earn miles
on American but they're not as good for Denver.  See back of conf flyer and
website for discount info and codes.
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- WORKPLACE "BEST PRACTICES"

Diane,
I'm excited about the growing interest in marriage education in business
settings. In December you asked for someone willing to catalog these
practices.  I volunteer!  Please ask people to send me experiences,
research, tools, programs that show how promoting relational health leads to
greater profitability and productivity or how they got a toe in the door.  I
will catalog this "best practices" information and make it available at our
workshop Marriage & Family Wellness: Corporate America's Business? (with
myself, Olson, Oliver, & Fray) in Denver.

Matthew Turvey,  PsyD
Director of Strategic Alliances
Life Innovations
mturvey at prepare-enrich.com

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- THE SECRET LANGUAGE THAT'S SAVING MARRIAGES

> Diane, 
> Here's some exciting Imago News that is an example of get marriage
> education info to the public. Women¹s World ran a ³Marriage Makeover² feature
> in their Jan 9 issue, with the title ³Learn the Secret Language That¹s Saving
> Marriages!²  The ³secret² language is Imago dialogue, developed by Harville
> Hendrix in his book ³Getting The Love You Want².  A young couple, heading for
> divorce, describes how the Imago process helped them reconnect. The easiest
> way to use Imago with couples is to buy the ³out of the box² DVD-based program
> ­ ³Through Conflict to Connection², together with the facilitator¹s guide for
> leading 3 one-hour sessions.  To purchase visit
> http://www.gettingtheloveyouwant.com/catalog/
> Tim Atkinson
> Executive Director
> Imago Relationships International
> ImagoRelationships.org

This is exciting and it's true that the media is our best hope for getting
the info "out there" where it's needed.  I am so excited that we'll have
Harville Hendrix and Imago co-founder Helen LaKelly Hunt at Smart Marriages
Denver teaching BOTH a pre and a post training Institutes and also offering
a MINI/TOOB breakout session on using IMAGO teach-out-of-the-box programs
with both secular and Church communities.  To see the dates for their
Training Institutes, visit: http://www.smartmarriages.com/institutes.html
- diane 
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- SUGGESTIONS FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT PEER EDUCATORS?

Greetings Diane and Happy New Year!!
 
As part of our HMI grant, the MATURE Project at Rockdale Medical Center has
hired 12 high school students as Peer Educators to drive all of our
community events.  I have been reading a lot of suggestions for publicizing
Marriage week.  However, I have not seen much in terms of what our high
school students could do and would be interested in doing.  Do you - or the
list - have any suggestions?
  
Phillippia Faust, RN
The Adolescent Health Education & Leadership Project (A-HELP)
The MATURE Project
Conyers, Georgia 
770 918-3439 Fax
ffaust at rockdale.org
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- VIVE LA DIFFERENCE
Here's a new quote I just added to the Marriage Quotes page:
http://www.smartmarriages.com/marriage.quotes.html

> What makes a relationship work is having things in common.
> What makes a relationship passionate are our differences.


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