Committed Couples Facilitator S Guide

Marriage in the Lord: Forming Couples for a Sacramental Marriage provides marriage ministers with fully prepared formation sessions in order to facilitate discussion with engaged couples preparing to be married in the Catholic Church in a dynamic and meaningful way.

Do you desire a greater connection? Want to live for what's great but occasionally find yourself settling for what's good? In New Habits of Living, Greg and Julie unpack 10 powerful principles to help you live into the marriage you've always desired. They share insights to help you celebrate life more fully and reclaim margin and connection in your everyday living. If you want to replenish as a couple together, join as this study helps you truly celebrate one another physically, intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually, as God intended, and unpack 10 principles to welcome New Habits of Living!This Guide provides leaders with a six or ten-week curriculum to facilitate a connection for the couples they lead.

The Marriage Score Facilitator Guidebook helps couples stay engaged by inviting them into a process that is designed to be shared as couples working alongside other couples. Facilitator couples serve as tour guides with other couples by working through simple and straightforward weekly T.I.P.'s that are biblically based and scientifically sound. Couples can expect to experience real, lasting transformation no matter where they are at in their relationship journey. Pre-engaged, engaged, married, even divorced and strained couples will benefit from the Marriage Score small group experience. The Marriage Score Guidebook is designed to work in tandem with the Marriage Score mobile app available on the iOS and android App Store.

Are you feeling alone or embarrassed to ask questions as you date and plan to marry? Do you wish your wedding gifts included a How To Manual? Want help to co-create a successful marriage? Let the Marriage Begin! A practical guide to getting married and surviving your first year is your how-to manual to help you understand the phases people do not realize exist in dating, planning the wedding, the honeymoon and the first year. Learn to avoid common pitfalls, handle crises and nurture your love for one another. Top Ten secrets for success include:  Who really catches and who gets caught?  Topics you absolutely must discuss together  Practical tips for planning the wedding  What are your mission, vision, purpose statements for your marriage?  What NOT to tell your family and friends  Who IS this other person?!  Improving communication  Win-win finances  What behavior is non-negotiable?  What the dance in the mirror tells you about yourself

OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! With this updated edition of their award-winning book, Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott help you launch lifelong love like never before. This is more than a book--it's an experience, especially when you use the his/her workbooks filled with more than 40 fun exercises. Get ready for deeper intimacy with the best friend you'll ever have. Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts, which has been translated into more than 15 languages, is the most widely used marriage prep tool in the world. Why? Because it will help you . . . Uncover the misbeliefs of marriage Learn to communicate with instant understanding Discover the secret to resolving conflict Master the skills of money management Get your sex life off to a great start A compelling video, featuring real-life couples, is available, and with this updated edition, Les and Leslie unveil the game-changing SYMBIS Assessment. Now you can discover how to leverage your personalities for a love that lasts a lifetime. Make your marriage everything it is meant to be. Save your marriage--before (and after) it starts.

This book is the most practical clinical guide on Acceptance and Commit ment Therapy (ACT said as one word, not as initials) yet available. It is designed to show how the ACT model and techniques apply to various disorders, settings, and delivery options. The authors of these chapters are experts in applying ACT in these various areas, and it is intriguing how the same core principles of ACT are given a nip here and a tuck there to fit it to so many issues. The purpose of this book, in part, is to emboldened researchers and clinicians to begin to apply ACT wherever it seems to fit. The chapters in the book demonstrate that ACT may be a useful treat ment approach for a very wide range of clinical problems. Already there are controlled data in many of these areas, and soon that database will be much larger. The theory underlying ACT (Relational Frame Theory or "RFT"-and yes, here you say the initials) makes a powerful claim: psy chopathology is, to a significant degree, built into human language. Fur ther, it suggests ways to diminish destructive language-based functions and ways of augmenting helpful ones. To the extent that this model is cor rect, ACT should apply to a very wide variety of behavioral issues because of the centrality of language and cognition in human functioning.

This manual is intended for facilitators who wish to host study groups based on the Student Manual. The content is identical to the Student Manual, but includes additional discussion points, statistics, homework assignments and activities. Teachers Manual: That is the introduction from the Manual Dear Teachers, youth pastors and leaders Preface by the Author Products Information page about other products Additional section for facilitators from The Systemwide Training • Education Workgroup (STEW) of the University of California. • Teaching Methods • Literacy Levels • Learning Styles • The Cone of Learning • Experience • Training Materials • Using PowerPoint • Using Flip Charts Introduction (LESSON 1) Why is the family unit so important? What does the Bible say? "God created male and female..." Research agrees Your innate desire to be valued The greatest example Discussion points Preparing For Partnership (LESSON 2) • Whose standard do you maintain? The world's or God's? • Look to God's Word for guidelines • The family unit is at risk • What if I don't marry? Am I incomplete? • A solid foundation is key • You have twelve minutes... Insight about physical attraction (LESSON 3) • Scriptures and discussion points (LESSON 4) • Entering into marriage (LESSON 5) • Basic principles • Key conversations (LESSON 6) • Should we have children and why? • Why is marriage a good idea? • Practical tips and ideas for a good family life (LESSON 7) Open Questions (LESSON 8) Space for notes