SEMINARS FOR COUPLES & PARENTS
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Building Strong Families
Learn the six most common traits of strong families and how to build on the strengths your family already possesses. A fun, upbeat and informative presentation.
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Relationship Check-Up
Give the gift of a healthy relationship this Valentine's season! For anything to run well—cars, our bodies, and especially our relatoinships—we need to make sure they get regular check-ups and the ongoing maintenance they need.
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Step-Family 911
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Step-Families, Strong Families
Step-families are normal but they face many challenges that are unique. By learning skills to deal with these differences step-families increase their chances for success. Learn tips, ideas and principles that can help you create a strong family with confidence.
S.P.O.T (Step-Parentings of Tots/Teens) Support Group
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Multi-Family Households
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Families & Spiritual Wellness
An interfaith panel will offer their insights and answer questions regarding developing spiritually through our families and our families through our spirituality. |
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Pre-marital Workshop: Prepare for Your Marriage, Not Just Your Wedding
"Happily Ever After" is great, but what about the 10-year follow-up study? How do we make a great thing last, especially in the face of daunting divorce statistics? Learn effective ways of making the marriage you're going into the one you dream it will be.
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The Life-Long Marriage: Advice from the Real Experts
We can talk about it all we want—but here are the ones who have done it! A panel of elder couples in our community who have weathered 40+ years of marriage and made it work share their wisdom and humor about the committed marriage. The lessons they have to share are priceless. |
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Men, Relationships & Emotions
We all know that men and women deal with emotions, relationships and a lot of other things very differently. In this workshop we look at the often ignored and misunderstood aspects of men, how they relate and how important emotions are to men and women. We also discuss practical ways to integrate this information into our daily lives. |
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Parenting with Love & Logic
There's a lot of advice out there on how to raise your kids. As family therapists and family life educators we read and keep up on the latest and best parenting information in the field. Love and Logic is our personal favorite. It is practical, pretty easy to learn and really effective! For more info on Love and Logic contact us or check out The Love and Logic Institute.
Parenting Teens with Love & Logic
Parenting teens can seem about as easy as nailing Jello-O to the wall! But believe it or not there are some approaches that work better than others—better for both the teen and for the parents! So come and learn some practical approaches to add to your parenting toolkit. For more info on Love and Logic contact us or check out The Love and Logic Institute.
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Divorce Transitions
Divorce is difficult for everyone: you, your children, your family, your friends. There are so many old and new issues to deal with: conflict, grief, co-parenting, dating again, step-families and on and on. Knowledge truly is power. Come and learn some guiding principles that have helped thousands better navigate these difficult times. Divorce is hard enough as it is. Don't go it alone.
The State of Utah's Shared Parenting Course for Divorcing Parents
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The Divorce Orientation Class
Need to take one of these classes? Learn how and where here.
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The Holidays & Family Togetherness: Rockwell Dream or Griswald Nightmare?
Ahhh. The holidays! The best time of the year . . . and the most stressful. Why is that? Well, family is one reason. As much as we love them they sure can push our buttons . . . . Just think of all those personalities in one room. Oh boy! Come learn some time-tested and some innovative strategies for effectively dealing with the stresses of family togetherness over the holidays. We will discuss and share skills for dealing with Stress, Expectations, Anger, Conflict, In-laws, etc. so you can make this holiday season the most enjoyable in years. Give yourself the best gift this year—peace.
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Making a Good Marriage Great!
Anything valuable requires ongoing investing and reinvesting to maintain and improve its value. Our marriages are no different. Learn how to not only keep the good thing you've got from wearing out, but also how to make it even better. |
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Stress-Busting 101
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Successful Second Marriages: How to Really Live Happily Ever After
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Also available as a Distance Learning Package
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The Summer of Relationship AWESOMENESS!
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Valentine's All Year Mini-Retreat:
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Husband Training 101
As any good dog or horse trainer will tell you the bulk of the training is in training the trainer to interact more effectively with the one being trained. Women tend to be the relationship managers in most marriages. This doesn't mean their husbands are less responsible to do their part, it just means they are often less aware. Husbands do want to be able to please their wives, but quite frankly they don't know how. Further, their wives rarely know how to effectively motivate them to willingly do what the wife would like them to do. Any of this sound familiar? Then this workshop is for you. |
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Empty Nesters: Skills for the Second-half of Marriage
In the second half of marriage, couples often need to to reinvent their marriage, to make mid-course adjustments, and to reconnect with one another in a more meaningful way. This workshop addresses eight challenges couples at this stage face and the methods to overcome them. |
| SEMINARS FOR PROFESSIONALS |
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Building Strong Familes: A Strength-based Family-Life Education Model
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An Ounce of Prevention: Marketing Family Strengths by Taking Best Practices to the People
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The Great Groups Grab Bag: The Top Ten Group Activities to Grab Participants Attention
Developed with Wade Milne, LCSW, of Logos Consulting. Together he and I are "known" (to each other at least!) to have a good time in group and to be effective in engaging court-ordered youth and adults into thoughtful discussions, silliness and laughter. These are the top ten (the amount that can be taught in a brief presentation) activities we've found to be most effective in engaging clients who tend to "resist" treatment.
Also available: The Great Groups Grab Bag Field Book: 101 Trench-Tested Activities to Grab Participants Attention. $24.95
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Working with Married Couples in Therapy
Not every therapist that works with couples fully understands the dynamics of couples work and as a result can inadvertantly be working against their own and their client's goals. Unless you've been trained as a marriage and family therapist in graduate school or have had extensive post-graduate training in couples work, chances are there's a lot you and your couples are missing out on. Many of my clients have come to me simply because they've had ineffective counseling with previous therapists. Learn the Top 10 Strategies and Mindsets for effectively working with married couples in therapy. |
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All in the Family—Working with Families and Systems: Family Therapy Training and Techniques
A lot of therapists have reported to me that they love individual therapy but get intimidated by family therapy as it seems to chaotic. This workshop teaches you how to shift your mindset and apporach so you can ride the seeming chaos and discover the fun and wisdom of family work. |
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Balance as Power
The only realy power we can have with others is when we develop our own internal balance. This fun, interactive and experiential workshop is filled with practical strategies you can not only use in your own life but can easily integrate into working with youth and adult groups. |
| SEMINARS FOR CORPORATIONS & ORGANIZATIONS |
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Building Strong Teams | Building Strong Leaders
It's all relationships follks. It's only the words that change as we transition from family-life to work-life. Both realms are organizations of different people working as a system to produce various outcomes. At work it's money. At home it's happiness. At both, hopefully, it's also about creating meaning. The workplace requires strong leaders and strong teams that can cohesively work together to create incredible outcomes that build people in the process. |
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The Leadership Academy: Emotionally Intelligent Solutions
I conduct these and many other trainings via PeopleSmarts where I am their Director of Traning & Development
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SEMINARS FOR CLERGY & FAITH GROUPS
Also, any of the seminars for couples and parents above are enjoyed in the faith setting. |
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Building Strong Marriages | Building Strong Families: Marriage Weekend
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Pastoral Counseling and Professional Therapy: A Spiritual Collaboration for Change
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Pornography: Problems and Solutions
Pornography has been aptly termed "the drug of the new millenium." This workshop dilineates the scope of the problem but more importantly practical approaches and solutions to the problem that you can implement in your home, and in the lives of those you love and serve. Learn more... |
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Sexual Abuse: Understanding, Responding to, Preventing
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| SEMINARS FOR EDUCATORS & SCHOOLS |
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Study SMARTER! Not Harder: Strategies for Effective Learning
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Be the Answer: Solutions to Bullying
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WORKING the System: Motivating and Strategizing with Teens to Achieve the Better Outcomes THEY Want
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Child Development and Attachment Disorder: What's "Normal" and What's Not
If you work with kids then knowing what's "normal" and what's not can make ALL the difference. |
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How Parental Discord Affects Children
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Teaching with Love and Logic—Teacher Training
Get better discipline with greater willilngness. Period. If you are familiar with Parenting with Love and Logic, this utilizes the same core approach tailored to the needs of teachers in a classroom setting. |
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