Active
Relationships Course Descriptions
Programs
for Everyday People who
love a GREAT life! Texts
are in English and two are in Spanish (Active
Marriages and Best Best Practices, Communication, Money)!
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Active
Choices for
Healthy, Happy Relationships (8-12 hours of class
time)
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Activas para Relaciones Felices y Saludables
This class is an 8-12 hour seminar including
practical exercises from the fields of marriage education, relationship
skills, and conflict resolution. Goals for this class include helping
couples to identify values and beliefs, learn how to communicate
respectfully with each other, and develop pathways to a lasting
friendship, built on teamwork and life-long love and closeness.
Active Choices comes from years of research and firsthand experience
with tools that work best with individuals and couples. Take a
moment to read about current research on our programs from Baylor
University.
Active Choices for Healthy, Happy Relationships
includes ALL of the Administration for Children and Families
(ACF) “required” and “advised” key
content areas. The six “required” key content areas
of the DHHS/ Administration for Children and Families (ACF) “Marriage
Education Requirements” include the following:
- Commitment to healthy marriage (for current or future relationship)
- Communication
- Conflict resolution
- Beliefs about marriage or family
- Benefits of marriage
- Qualities of healthy relationships and healthy marriages
Active Choices also meets criteria of Texas House Bills 2683 for
engaged couples’ education, and 2176, Section 28.002 Education
Code to provide information to address;
*relationships skills, including money management, communication
skills, and marriage preparation
*parenting skills and responsibilities
*child support and other legal rights
*responsibilities that come with parenthood
*skills relating to the prevention of family violence
(Specifically for High Schools: See Active
Relationships for Young Adults)
Content Description
Here is a sampling of the topics covered in the Active Choices
curriculum:
-Values and Beliefs
-Family, Parenting
-Communication and Respectful Problem Solving
-Commitment and Approach to Challenging Times
-Managing Emotions
-Finances
-Keeping Romance Alive
Program Format
Active Choices can be taught in 3 different formats depending on
your audience/organizational needs. Sample Agendas and Suggestions
are provided in trainings and training material.
Email: contact@activerelationships.com to
set up a professional training for your organization or attend
the Pre-Conference certification training for Active Relationships:
#107 2-day institute at the SMART MARRIAGES national conference
in Denver, CO June 27-28, 2007. Register for the conference training
at www.SmartMarriages.com/institutes.html
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The Mastery Series
Active
Communication for Greater
Connection and Happiness-
A
two-day weekend seminar (or a 16-hour
program)
Communicacion
Activa
Active Communication is 16 hours of class
time that may be taught in segments or on two days for eight
hours.
This workshop is best known for teaching powerful communication
and conflict resolution skills/tools that promote team work,
respect, joy and intimacy. This is a great event for both dating
and engaged couples as well as as long time married partners,
(since the skills taught are the fundamentals for all couples
to learn).
You can learn behaviors that create love and sustain pleasurable
emotions (even if you think you had it once and believe you have
lost it forever). Discover a sense of bonding and connection,
and how this can keep your relationship a source of pleasure.
You can learn skills to safely address concerns and enhance your
relationship because issues can actually be solved! Develop a
deeper understanding of yourself and your partner. Speak up for
your wants as well as hear your partner, perhaps for the first
time. Learn skills for confiding and empathy!
Participants
often say this format is far more fun and practical than "counseling" (although
both seminars and private counseling have unique benefits).
Men tend to especially enjoy this workshop because it is logical,
structured, has a foreseeable endpoint and because it is not
shame or blame oriented.
The
curriculum includes:
· understanding
the mechanism of love and emotion
· identifying
repetitive behaviors exhibited under stress that sabotage needs
being met
· increasing
communication skills, speaking and listening
· delineating
tactics that cause resentment vs. those that are respectful and
cause successful connection
· conflict
resolution skills
· identifying
cognitive distortions ("You should know...")
· understanding
of the brain/emotional memory, physiology of triggers
· identifying
emotional hot buttons that distress you and your partner, making
effective plans to manage them
· how
to sustain forward progress and intimacy
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Active
Romance and Intimacy -
Romance Activo
e Intimidad
Active
Romance is
a full weekend (Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) for
the purpose of delineating myths and for understanding expectations.
Learning what is normal for
males and females and helping partners understand one another.
It is amazing how unspoken issues, that are therefore not resolved,
can begin to erode a perfectly wonderful relationship.
Romance and intimacy, when in the dating stage, are catalysts for
all kinds of goodwill. When romance and intimacy fall away due to
normal hectic life stressors, goodwill begins to decline without
either partner necessarily knowing why. Robotic functioning gives
way to distant feelings and then often results in couples feeling
that they don't love each other anymore. Making sure that the romance
and intimacy are well cared for in a relationship is essential to
the relationship's vitality. Yet most couples of the U.S. states,
in their fast pace, innocently let this aspect fall away.
This weekend seminar promotes the notion that most of us have the
best of intentions and simply lose track of one another. It also
encourages the establishment or re-establishment of habits that minister
to each person's physical and emotional well-being.
This weekend does not promote romance beyond any person's comfort
zone and is fun and light-hearted as well as oriented toward all
partners' desire for privacy. It is a lecture format, enjoyable,
enlightening and allows free time for partners to explore new learnings
privately at their own discretion! It has been a highlight event
that couples continue to rave about years later--not to be missed!
Come, learn, enjoy yourselves! Find your love again (without casting
stones at one another) or if you still have an abundance of it, learn
what to do to ensure its preservation and growth!
Recent Quotes from participants of Active Romance &
Intimacy:
"This seminar
should be strongly recommended, if not required for all newly married
couples." H.S. (maie married 40+ yeears!)
"This
seminar was critical for our relationship although I didn't realize
the impact it would have at the beginning of the seminar. I am very
grateful that we came."
(female)
"Intimacy
from every angle." (female)
"A very valuable seminar for
couples desring more."
(male)
"I was skeptical coming to this session,
but it has been wonderful...Highlighted the importance of the connectedness,
emotion etc. of intimacy..." (male)
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Active
Money Personalities/Managing the differences and making cents!
Personalidades
Financieras Activas
Active
Money Personalities...is a 16-hour (but can be shorter) workshop that seeks to help participants
learn about themselves and their ways of thinking as well as how
those ways of thinking are relative in the world.
Participants will get a look at the varying
ways people view money and hopefully, with a sense of humor and
greater perspective, understand how they fit in the "grand scheme." Participants
will learn their own money personality type as well as the strengths
and growth areas of that type. Couples learn a common language
and communication tools to discuss differences in a safe and respectful
manner. Time will be allowed for couples to actively practice skills
on real-life issues in varying financial areas of their relationship.
Coaching by the leader is available to maintain the positive atmosphere
required to successfully navigate difficult issues. This seminar
involves fun, humor, light heartedness and practical work on behalf
of participants to promote a feeling of having truly accomplished
valuable progress as intimate partners who are a team.
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Active Living to make love last ...
Tradiciones Activas
Active
Living to make love last is a
one day seminar (or can be run in weekly segments for building
couple behaviors that are fun and build intimacy, both physical
and emotional, for a smart, passionate, enjoyable and lasting
relationship.
Research suggests that couples/families who have daily and other
consistent traditions are far more likely to have successful, lasting
relationships. Traditions can be enjoyed in many ways that most of
us don't even think about. It doesn't mean rigidity. It means bonding
and connection.
This seminar seeks to set up the ideas to allow
you to think "outside
the box" to create easy, fun traditions that ensure the bonds
that initially connect you to others are maintained and enhanced
over the years rather than lost to neglect. Intentionality matters
just as much at home as it does at work. Just think how it would
be in business if there was "pomp and circumstance" in
the formation of the business, but after that, no intention to keep
systems running! Being intentional to keep love alive is absolutely
necessary to maintain the chemistry, camaraderie, sense-of-adventure
and the sharing of each other's worlds.
This seminar also examines common goals and the mission of each
couple as they see it, making it more likely that they can continue
to achieve their couple's and individual aspirations for a great
life! Set your life up for relational success and fulfillment. You
don't want to look back later in life and say you could have, but
just didn't. Take care of yourself and your needs and protect your
family-by creating the glue that fosters those connections!
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About the MASTERY SERIES...
The Active Relationships Mastery Series
is a modular continuum of four weekend seminars. Each of the four
workshops can be taught separately as a module or run in a series
of modules meant to take participants from communication and conflict
resolution skills through the cooperative skills required to manage
financial issues. (The number one rated cause of arguments is "money.")
Next the series takes you through the tools to sustain or enhance
intimacy, both emotional and physical, and finally to the "how
to's" of creating traditions and behaviors that keep love alive
for a lifetime. The series contain 60 hours of valuable tools and
experience, over period of seven months. Research suggests that couples
do best (sustain learning over time) when support is ongoing. The
Mastery Series allows enough time and support for participants to
achieve and maintain enhanced skills and connection with their partner.
Make a great, passionate and lasting partnership! The Mastery Series
is a tremendous investment in you future well-being and signing up
for the series offers a significant savings over signing up for seminars
separately.
The Mastery Series includes the following
seminars:
Active
Communication!
Active
Romance and Intimacy!
Active
Money Personalities!
Active
Living to make love last
Please
contact Kelly Simpson, (founder/trainer) to design a program
for your specific Armed Forces needs. (toll free 877.724.7789).
We welcome the opportunity to create unique programs. |
