Marriage Ed Training in Kentucky| Mastering the Magic | Our Family Wizard | Bumped Bumper Sticker - 11/29/07

Fri Nov 30 01:21:19 EST 2007

- MARRIAGE EDUCATION TRAINING, KENTUCKY FEB 8-9, 2008 - PRACTICALLY FREE!!
- MASTERING THE MAGIC OF LOVE
- OUR FAMILY WIZARD
- BUMPER STICKER GETS BUMPED

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- MARRIAGE EDUCATION TRAINING, KENTUCKY FEB 8-9, 2008 - PRACTICALLY FREE!!

Here's a very productive way to celebrate Marriage Week - train Marriage
Educators in your community! The Bluegrass Healthy Marriage Initiative put
some of their federal grant money to excellent use to subsidize trainings in
their community AND - big tah dah!- they've also opened this affordable,
subsidized training opportunity to everyone/anyone.  Register early, this is
practically free and is sure to sell out!!  - diane

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The 2008 Central Kentucky Marriage Conference kicks-off National Marriage
Week with an opportunity to be trained and certified to lead some of the
nation's top marriage and relationship skills programs. Ideal for service
professionals, clergy, grant staff, and community volunteers seeking
training in relationship education models. The conference features training
by Steven Stosny: Love Without Hurt; Mary Ortwein: Mastering the Magic of
Love Relationship Enhancement; Rosario Slack and Nisa Mohammed: Basic
Training for Couples; James Rayburn: PREPARE/ENRICH; and Karl Babb:
FOCCUS/REFOCCUS.  Thurs, Feb 7, there will be a pre-conference institute for
Extension Agents to learn how to implement successful couple and marital
programs for youth and adults only $25. On Fri Feb 8th, a Celebration of
Marriage Banquet, features Steven Stosny as the keynote speaker ($40pp/$75
per couple).

Early conference registration is only $100 for both days or $75 for one day
which includes breakfast and lunch each day AND all program leader
materials!! Conference Location: Embassy Suites, Lexington, KY
Accomodations: $109 per night.

For more information about the conference or about the Bluegrass Healthy
Marriage Initiative: http://www.bluegrassmarriage.org/ and click on the KY
Marriage Conference tab, or call us at 859.257.5527. Please pass this along
to anyone you feel would be interested in this exciting training
opportunity.

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- MASTERING THE MAGIC OF LOVE
Here's an endorsement from one of the true masters of the field, Barry
Ginsberg, for the new Mastering the Magic of Love program. Coming from him,
a master RE teacher, it's quite an endorsement. This is the program included
above in the Kentucky training and it is also being offered in a three-day
training institute in San Francisco:

> 103 Three Days - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, June 30, July 1 & 2
> Mastering the Magic of Love & Love¹s Cradle
> Mary Ortwein, MS
> Qualify to teach three programs: the original Classic RE plus two new
> simplified programs, Mastering the Magic of Love, and Love's Cradle (for
> couples with an infant). Plus add-on special focus seminars. Ideal for
> low-income, community or church based. Spanish version available. $150 spouse
> discount. Click for more information: http://www.smartmarriages.com/re.html

Diane, 
I know you love "reports from the field" about the new programs so want to
share my excitement about my experience teaching Mary Ortwein's new
Mastering the Magic (MML) of Love an adaptation of the Relationship
Enhancement program.  I just taught an introductory 4-session version of the
program and twenty couples signed up! Their response was more than positive.
A lot of the emphasis was on each couple taking responsibility to practice
the activities on their own. Homework was discussed at the beginning of each
session. At the end, couples had a variety of handouts to use for continued
practice. I have a follow-up session next Tuesday to reinforce the learning
and practice and I also plan to follow up with components from the program.
I offered the same fee ($25 per session, $75 for the series) whether both
partners or only one of them attended. I think that improved their interest
and encouraged the attendance of both partners most of the time. My
conclusion: it's a winner and so rich with information and activities that
it could enhance any marital education program.

Barry Ginsberg, PhD
The Center of Relationship Enhancement (CORE)

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- OUR FAMILY WIZARD

> Hi Diane, 
> At the Atlanta Smart Marriages conference a young couple had a booth promoting
> a software program they designed to help divorced/separated couples manage
> such things as calendars, custody arrangements etc.
>     Do you have the website?  I have an interested client.  Thanks,
> Judy Johnsen

That would be http://www.ourfamilywizard.com  - so many people loved it.

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- BUMPER STICKER GETS BUMPED
> Diane, Someone ran into the back of our car a few weeks ago and we just got
> our car back from the collision repair shop MINUS THE SMARTMARRIAGES BUMPER
> STICKER! Could we get a new one? The car looks naked without it. BTW,
> our geologist daughter has borrowed the car and driven it to construction
> sites. The drillers are a pretty rough crowd, but interestingly, want to be
> married and claim that they have a hard time finding women who want to settle
> down and have kids. Anyway it definitely has started conversations she never
> would have had without the smartmarriages message.
> Steve and Kathy 

I will send bumper stickers, and I know what you mean. I had four plumbers
here for past few days (replacing my steam heat boiler that rusted out -
very exciting.).  They were late 20s/early thirties and all from miserable
broken homes....and all of the firm belief that marriage kills love.  They
saw the bumper stickers on my car and did seem truly curious, though I'm not
sure I convinced them that marriage is better than cohabitation which they
seemed to think was the only route that made any sense.

If anyone else wants bumper stickers, just let me know.   -d

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