Hey Fresno! Grow your marriage, renew your vows, and make history!

WORLD CLASS MARRIAGE WORKSHOP

[& a Guinness World Record Breaking Vow Renewal Ceremony]

Fresno Convention Center
Valdez Hall
Saturday, August 1, 2009
8:30 am to 5:30 pm

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at RelationshipEvents.com

“To have World Class Marriage Workshop come to Fresno is an incredible opportunity for couples to attend a premier marriage strengthening event. I am very excited to work with other local marriage groups to bring this seminar to the Greater Fresno area.”
Ron McLain, Executive Director
Healthy Marriage Coalition of Fresno/Madera County

Create the Relationship You Always Wanted with the Partner You Already Have!

The World Class Marriage Workshop combines fun and interaction with personal privacy and safety.

Learn the 16 Pillars of World Class Marriage – how to increase behaviors that nurture a relationship and avoid those that damage it. World Class Marriage

Workshop topics include:

• Using Power Listening
• Changing Behaviors, Not Your Partner
• Giving Caring the Way It Matters
• Handling Hot Topics – Sex & Money
• Growing Together
• Forging a Bond
• Nurturing the Honeymoon
• …and much more!

The Workshop is based on the book World Class Marriage: How to Create the Relationship You Always Wanted with the Partner You Already Have by internationally acclaimed authors and relationship trainers, Patty Howell, Ed.M., and Ralph Jones. Howell and Jones have been married for 30 years.

Don’t Miss This Fantastic Day!
Grow your marriage, renew your vows, and make history!

More Information or to Register:

• Call 559.322.0533
• Go to RelationshipEvents.com
• Visit any Ticketmaster Outlet
• Convention Center Box Office

Pricing:

• Early Bird Discount (deadline July 27): $38 per couple

• Regular/Walk-in Price (after July 27): $48 per couple

• Complimentary Registration: For newly unemployed workers and spouse (go to website for details)

What to Expect:

• A day of fun activities and engaging teaching by internationally renowned marriage experts.
• Catered lunch by Pardini’s
• Receive World Class Marriage books and Participant Workbooks
• Marriage stimulus package of savings from local eateries and merchants
• and a special ceremony to renew your vows and break a world record*

*We will attempt to break a Guinness World Record for the number of married couples renewing their vows in a single meeting. Join us (with a photocopy of your actual marriage certificate)!

What Others are Saying about World Class Marriage:

“…a very fulfilling experience. I feel as though we have gained extremely valuable information and tools to nurture our relationship.”

“I was not looking forward to it, but I’m glad I went…we both grew as a  couple.”

“…the skills we learned in this workshop fixed our relationship problems and gave us confidence that we can have a successful marriage.”

“Excellent workshop tailored to couples.”

“I liked that we had a lot of interaction with our spouse…and it wasn’t just listening to trainers.”

“I really enjoyed the mix of listening, individual, group and couple  interactions…the combination of activities was engaging and enjoyable.“

Having a great marriage is within your reach…World Class Marriage will help you get there!

Four organizations are co-sponsoring the day-long event! (California Healthy Marriages Coalition, Healthy Marriage Coalition of Fresno/Madera County, Stanislaus County Healthy Marriage Coalition, and Saints Healthy Marriage Project)

“Couples in our area are going to really like what they will learn at World Class Marriage. Couples will love how the principles and skills help take their relationship to the next level!”
Jim Reyes, Executive Director
Central California Latino Healthy Marriage Coalition

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at RelationshipEvents.com

Couple Builds Their Marriage & Wins $1,100 to Build Their Home

CHMC VP Patty Howell presents Karen and Tim Jobe with $1,100 prize

 

Married for 36 years, Karen and Tim Jobe stepped in to the World Class Marriage workshop in San Diego hoping to gain insights that would provide new direction for their struggling marriage.  They walked out with the insights they had hoped for, plus a cash prize of $1,100 at Home Depot!

 

Offered in partnership by the San Diego North County Latino Marriage and Family Resource Center and the California Healthy Marriages Coalition, the workshop teaches “16 Pillars” of a World Class Marriage, which are built upon the foundation of empathy, acceptance, and genuineness.  The course covers the skills of empathic listening, non-blameful confrontation, win-win conflict resolution, plus skills for avoiding blame, handling hot topics, love languages, and commitment.

 

According to Karen, before taking World Class Marriage, the couple’s 36-year long marriage had fallen upon hard times.  “When we went to that workshop,” she says, “I was ready to walk out.  I was committed to the relationship, but I just did not know what direction to go next.” 

 

By the end of the two-day workshop, the Jobes had new hope for their relationship and had learned skills to make good on that hope.  “It amazed me how quickly we could go from feeling completely hopeless to feeling like we had the key to moving on with our marriage and making the effort to make it work.  Taking this class helped us to know that if we really want to have a great marriage, we can do it!” says Karen. 

 

The Jobes credit the World Class Marriage workshop with improving their communication skills and giving the pair a newfound sense of clarity, direction and purpose for their relationship.  Learning better communication skills has helped the Jobes to feel more comfortable speaking up about their feelings without the fear of causing painful conflict.  They even posted the “Defective Communication Tools” handout from the class in their home, saying, “Having it there helps us to realize when we’re using harmful communication patterns, and also allows us to use humor when that happens, because we can go to the list and catch ourselves.” 

 

What really impressed this couple about World Class Marriage was the “universality of what was presented.”  According to the Jobes, the skills taught in the class are valuable to any couple, “whether you are someone like us who had been married for 36 years, or 20 years, just married, or engaged.  [We] wish a class like this would have been available earlier in our marriage.” 

 

In addition to learning the skills to better succeed in their marriage, the Jobes also entered into a prize drawing by completing Outcome Evaluation surveys for the California Healthy Marriages Coalition (CHMC).  CHMC’s Outcome Evaluation study is the first broad, statewide evaluation of Marriage Education programs, and studies the comparative effectiveness of different programs.  The Jobes chose their $1,100 Home Depot gift certificate from four available prizes.  Other prize options include $1,000 cash, $1,100 at Walmart, or a 43” High-Definition TV.