Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Dynamic Marriage


Sharon and I made a trip to Portland over the first weekend in March to take a facilitator training class for a marriage enrichment course called Dynamic Marriage. We just received our certification in the mail yesterday so I thought I would make mention of it in my blog. We'd like to offer this to couples right away but we're very busy with other commitments right now and we want to spend more time with Brendon during his last few months at home. So, we are tentatively offering our first course sometime in the Sept./Oct. timeframe pending approval from our church leadership.

The Dynamic Marriage course is a fantastic program. It's highly interactive and involves a considerable commitment of time but we anticipate that it will be a major blessing for any couple's marriage. It’s an 8’ish week course with a pre-session and 8 classes. Each couple will be expected to devote around 1 hour per day to homework so it is designed for those who are serious about their marriages. The course utilizes a self-directed learning approach with facilitative leadership. One thing I really liked about the course is that it is based on two bestselling marriage books by Dr. Willard Harley that I have found to be some of the best marriage material available. Sharon and I gave a very short 90 minute overview during one of our Marriage on Purpose events a few years ago and received a lot of good feedback from the couples in attendance.

Be sure to let us know if this is something that would interest you. We are really excited about it. We got to go through a sampling of it during our training and even that small amount was very rewarding for us.

Blessings,
Greg

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