Take a Class!
Before learning to drive, you must learn basic skills. The same
can be said for anything that you want to do successfully – including being a first
time dad or newly married.
Right from the Start and our community partners offer a wide array of classes designed
to equip you with the skills necessary to build healthy relationships, right from
the start.
In a review of over 100 studies on the impact of Marriage Education, researchers
found clear evidence that Marriage Education programs work—to reduce conflict, improve
communication, increase parenting skills, increase stability, and enhance marital
happiness.
Preparing for Marriage:
A class for engaged couples
Get your marriage off to a great beginning, right from the start! Learn the essential
skills to help you build a strong foundation for a lasting marriage. Couples living
in Georgia who complete this class will qualify for a discount on their marriage
license.
You’ll Learn:
• Effective communication skills
• Conflict management
• Appropriate expectations
• Financial responsibility
• And much more!
Class Schedule:
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Date:
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Monday Nights, September 13, 20 & 27, 2010
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Time:
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Registration: 5:30 – 6:00 p.m. ; Class: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
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Location:
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Pastoral Institute Counseling Center Classroom
2022 15th Ave., Columbus, GA
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Cost:
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$35 per couple
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Preparing for Marriage: Train the Trainer
for Clergy
In an effort to encourage and be supportive of local ministers
in their pre-marriage preparation for couples, this training is designed to be a
refresher class on Pre-Marriage Preparation. Participants
will receive basic materials, ideal for application to ones own denominational format
and requirements. Facilitators for the training are
Fran Magoni, Director of Right from the Start and John Adams, Director of the
Ministry Resource Center
of the Pastoral Institute
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
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Address communication and conflict patterns in relationships.
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Review family strengths and obstacles couples often take
with them (from the Family of Origin) into their marriage.
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Discuss how establishing new family traditions are necessary
concerns for a new marriage relationship.
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Present tools for addressing money issues and sexuality
within the context of a new marriage.
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Identify roles, goals and strategies for long-term nurturing
of the marriage relationship.
When: Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Where: Pastoral Institute Community Room, 2022 15th Avenue, Columbus, GA 31901
Cost: There is no cost for
this training, but participants must pre-register to attend.
Lunch will be provided.
To reserve your place, please email
or fax your name, congregation, address, city, state, zip, phone and email to Judy
Talley at jjtalley@pilink.org, fax 706-646-6430.
For more information or questions,
contact Judy at 706-649-6507 ext. 1204.
Registration Deadline:
Friday, October 22, 2010
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Co-sponsored by Right from the Start and the
D.A. & Elizabeth Turner Ministry Resource Center
of the Pastoral Institute.
Playing Nice in the Sandbox
is a research-based approach to teaching
healthy and effective communication skills in the workplace.
This workshop
will give co-workers the skills needed to:
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Work more efficiently and successfully
as a team.
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Resolve conflict without damaging
relationships.
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Preserve and enhance a friendly work
environment.
The net-net result of strong relationships
in a working environment is a more stable, more productive and more satisfied workforce.
What the research
says:
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Employees who work in an environment
with predominantly healthy relationships are happier and therefore more productive
and less likely to leave; both of these factors have a direct positive impact on
a company’s bottom line.
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In what has become known as the “spillover
effect,” healthy relationships at work facilitate healthy relationships at home;
negative relationships at work facilitate negative relationships at home. Skills
learned have a positive impact both at work and at home which, again, increases
company health.
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Healthy relationship and good conflict
resolution skills can be learned. That is what this workshop is all about.
Participants will:
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Learn new techniques for results-oriented
communication.
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Identify the four most common sources
of conflict that damage all relationships.
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Learn to recognize the problem behind
the problem.
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Discover how expectations drive our
life either in a positive or negative direction.
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Learn a 3-step approach to delivering
feedback that’s specific, non-accusatory and gets results.
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Determine the most effective and
ineffective approaches to communicate with others.
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Understand the critical role appreciation has in the workplace.
The material presented in this workshop
is based on the research-based and highly popular relationship education curriculum,
PREP, which has been tailored for the corporate audience.
For more information on Playing
Nice in the Sandbox, or to schedule a workshop, contact Fran Magoni at 706-649-6507,
ext. 1210 or fmagoni@pilink.org
Prepare/Enrich – Individual Premarital Counseling
Individual Premarital Counseling is also available
utilizing Prepare/Enrich, a customized coupled assessment completed online that
identifies a couple's strength and growth areas. Based on a couple's assessment
results, a trained facilitator provides 4-8 feedback sessions in which the facilitator
helps the couple discuss and understand their results as they are taught proven
relationship skills.
Couples will:
- Explore strength and growth areas
- Strengthen communication skills
- Identify and manage major stressors
- Resolve conflict using the Ten Step Model
- Develop a more balanced relationship
- Explore family of origin issues
- Discuss financial planning and budgeting
- Establish personal, couple and family goals
- Understand and appreciate personality differences
For more information or to schedule an appointment,
please call the Pastoral Institute at (706) 659-6500.
How to Avoid Falling for a Jerk or Jerkette
Instructors: Lauren Mescon & Kelli Parker
Follow your heart without losing your mind. Learn to find the “one” by recognizing
subtle, hidden signs of future problems, judging your partner’s true personality,
and focusing on your emotional health so you’re not the jerk or jerkette. Everyone
deserves a shot at true love, so make your journey less heartbreaking by weeding
out the ones not worthy of your time first.
Dates: Thursday Oct. 14, Oct. 21, Oct. 28 and Nov.
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Time: 6-8 p.m.
Location: Columbus State University
4225
University Avenue
Columbus,
GA 31907
Cost: $39.00
If you would like to schedule a No-Jerk class for your organization, give us a call
at 706.649.6507, ext. 1210 or email
rightfromthestart@pilink.org.
Faith-based and secular programs available.
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Boot Camp for New Dads
A class for about to be dads
This is for men only! No women over two feet tall allowed.
We will discuss the challenges new fathers face like uncontrollable crying (from
baby and mom), in-laws and living on little or no sleep.
In partnership with Columbus Regional Healthcare System
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Date:
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August 28, 2010 (Saturday)
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Time:
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9 a.m. – 12 noon
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Location:
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One Baby Education Place – Main Street Village
Main Street Village Shopping Center, Building #10, 6298 Veterans Parkway; Columbus,
GA 31907
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Cost:
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$30
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Or call 706-660-6421 to register by phone.
Upcoming class dates & times: (4th Saturday of each month) 9 a.m. – 12 noon
September 25, 2010
Connections - Healthy dating relationships for teens
This seminar teaches middle and high school teens skills essential for success in
their dating relationships. This information is taught in a fun and interactive
environment including games and role-playing.
Teens will learn practical skills such as:
• Self-understanding
• How relationships work
• Dating and breaking up
• Dealing with problems
• Effective communication and
• What to expect from dating and marriage.
Teens will walk away from the Connections class with a greater understanding of
themselves and the knowledge to make wise and healthy decisions.
If you would like to schedule a Connections class at an area school, youth group
or youth organization, give us a call at 706.649.6507, ext. 1210 or email
rightfromthestart@pilink.org.
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Survival Skills
for Healthy Families
Learn the skills and patterns that consistently show up in healthy families.
Survival Skills is a fun and interactive program in which parents and children learn
new ways of living and working together. Each of the sessions is organized around
practical guidelines for healthy family interactions—building on the positive, healthy
habits that exist within a family.
The concerns for single parent and step families will be included.
This program is built on three main skills: to speak, to listen, to cooperate.
Topics covered include:
• Parents in Healthy Families
• Children in Healthy Families
• Adult Relationships-Couples in Healthy Families
• As Children Grow-Change in Healthy Families
• Solving Family Problems
We encourage the whole family (over 8 years of age) to attend including any other
people in the household such as grandparents and other family members having involvement
with your family.
If you would like to schedule a Survival Skills class for your organization, give
us a call at 706.649.6507, ext. 1210 or email
rightfromthestart@pilink.org. Faith-based and secular programs available.
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Wait Training (Why Am I Tempted)
This seminar teaches youth (ages 12-18) the reasons, skills and support to choose
abstinence from sexual activity until marriage—providing medically accurate, researched-based,
culturally relevant information to teens at a critical time in their development.
Teens will be able to:
• Understand the negative consequences of risk behaviors.
• Recognize, value and seek the benefits of abstinence as a critical strategy for
the development of life-long healthy relationships.
• Understand the effects drug & alcohol use on increased vulnerability to sexual
advances.
• Dream of a happy home life and future.
• Develop necessary skills to strategically pursue and achieve those dreams.
W.A.I.T. Training for teens and workshops for parents of teens are available through
our community partner Abstinence to Leadership. If you would like to schedule a
class at an area school, youth group or youth organization, contact Carmen Overton
at coverton@newhorizonscsb.org
or 706.571.9474.
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