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  • Bringing Baby Home
  • Journey to Love (Singles & Singles-Again)—English & Espanol
  • Mastering the Mysteries of Love (Couples)—English & Espanol
  • Mastering the Mysteries of Stepfamilies
  • Ready for Love (Singles & Solos)
  • Payment for Trainings and Materials:
  • Coaching Skills for MML and RE
  • Ready for Love (RFL) Leader Training
  • Mastering the Mysteries of Love (MML) Leader Training
  • Mastering the Mysteries of Stepfamilies (MMS) Leader Training
  • The Journey to Love Leader's Guide: Implement the Program
  • Therapist Training: Put RE/MML Skills into Practice in Therapy
  • Bringing Baby Home (BBH) Certification Training

  • Bringing Baby Home (BBH)
    A workshop for pregnant couples and parents of infants and toddlers. Prepare yourself for life with your baby and discover how to be the best parenting team possible. In a supportive environment with a trained facilitator, learn how to (1) stay connected with your partner, (2) strengthen your friendship, intimacy and conflict regulation skills, (3) interact with your baby in a positive way, (4) keep both parents involved, and (5) deal with conflict successfully. See our calendar for upcoming and current classes. Scholarships and reduced rates available upon request. For more information, call M.P. or Angela at 949-752-2888 or email M.P.
    $55 per couple (at the door $65)
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    Journey to Love (for Singles & Singles-Again) English & Espanol
    Whether divorced, widowed, ending a relationship, or exploring a relationship... success rests on making wise choices throughout the dating process. Define what you really want in life, a partner, and relationship. Write your own love story—past, present and future—through a journal type workbook and supportive group setting.
    See our calendar for upcoming and current classes. Scholarships and reduced rates available upon request. For more information, call M.P. or Angela at 949-752-2888 or email M.P.
    $55 per person, workbook included ($65 at the door)
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    Mastering the Mysteries of Love (MML)—English & Espanol
    MML provides the secrets to lasting love and a deeper connection with your partner. This is for couples at any stage of a relationship or marriage. It's a fun, hands-on, activity based class that will assist you in developing deeper intimacy, affection, acceptance and trust with your partner. Also, you'll learn to discuss and problem solve so that both partners are satisfied with the results.
    See our calendar for upcoming and current classes. Scholarships and reduced rates available upon request. For more information, call M.P. or Angela at 949-752-2888 or email M.P.
    $30 per person
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    $35 per couple
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    Mastering the Mysteries of Stepfamilies (MMS)
    Stepfamily couples! Learn to communicate respectfully, make agreements you can keep, and rediscover your love for one another! MMS is adapted from the popular Mastering the Mysteries of Love curriculum for use with stepfamilies. Learn research-validated communication and conflict resolution skills with the most up-to-date, recommended guidelines that help stepfamilies be successful. Classes include a variety of teaching methods, exercises and games with time to work out applications of the concepts to your unique family.
    See our calendar for upcoming and current classes. Scholarships and reduced rates available upon request. For more information, call M.P. or Angela at 949-752-2888 or email M.P.
    $55 per couple (at the door $65)
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    Ready for Love for Singles & Solos (RFL)
    This one-day class for singles, provides the secrets to building positive relationships and creating lasting love. By the end of the day, you'll be on your way to winning people over, learning how to develop intimacy with a significant partner, and forming better communication with your boss, co-workers, family, and friends. You'll also learn about boundaries for emotional safety and how to problem solve the "sticky situations" of life in such as way that both sides win.
    See our calendar for upcoming and current classes. Scholarships and reduced rates available upon request. For more information, call M.P. or Angela at 949-752-2888 or email M.P.
    $30 per person (at the door $40)
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    Coaching Skills Training for MML and RE
    Learn new coaching skills in RE/MML for trained leaders only. For more information, call M.P. or Angela at 949-752-2888 or email M.P. See our calendar for upcoming and current classes and trainings.
    $30 per person (at the door $40)
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    Ready for Love (RFL) Leader Training
    This one-day training will certify you to teach the RFL Program to singles and to individuals attending without their partners. Prerequisite: You must have attended (1) the full series of the MML program and (2) the MML Leader's Training. See our calendar for upcoming and current classes and trainings. For more information, call M.P. or Angela at 949-752-2888 or email M.P.
    $95 per person, materials included (at the door $110)
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    Mastering the Mysteries of Love (MML) Leader Training
    This training is exclusively for those who have been through a prior MML training or have attended the MML classes. The two-day training may be arranged for your faith-based or community organization, or can be held at our training center. This is an updated version of MML and will qualify those completing the two days to lead MML classes. We'll work with you to meet the relationship and marriage education needs for your community; we'll work with your budget as well. For more information, call Dr. M.P. or Angela at 949-752-2888. See our calendar for upcoming and current classes and trainings.
    Individuals $185
    (at the door $200)
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    Couples $350
    (at the door $375)
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    Mastering the Mysteries of Stepfamilies (MMS) Leader Training
    Training for program leaders and therapists in MMS for therapy or program settings. Nancy Landrum, MMS author, presents a 2-day training featuring the special MMS activities that bring the skills of RE plus information from research on successful stepfamilies. For more information, call Dr. M.P. or Angela at 949-752-2888. See our calendar for upcoming and current classes and trainings.
    Individuals $185
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    Couples $335
    (at the door $375)
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    The Journey to Love Leader's Guide: To Implement the Program
    This guide is for leaders facilitating Journey to Love groups, as well as counselors and coaches working with singles. It provides suggested answers for class exercises, curriculum for presenting the program, and guidelines to use for each section. With the leader's guide, you have a Teach-Out-of-the-Box (TOOB) program, and all you need for facilitating a group or class in the Journey to Love program.
    Click here to purchase the guide.
    For more information, call M.P. at 949-725-3366 or email M.P.
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    Therapist Training: Putting RE/MML Skills into Practice in Therapy
    Designed for licensed mental health therapists and those in accredited programs working toward obtaining their license who agree (1) to help couples use RE/MML skills in their therapy sessions and (2) to be listed as a referral in the MML-Affiliated Therapists Directory in California Healthy Marriage Coalition and in RRF's website. The training consists of two levels and the opportunity to receive CEUs:
    Level I: (Day 1) Learn the RE/MML skills (in lieu of this class a therapist may attend an RE/MML class with their spouse). (Day 2) Put the RE/MML skills into practice in therapy through coaching and using the experiential model (this will be followed by an "intern" time of approximately 60 to 90 days to apply RE/MML skills and to coach couples using the skills before moving to Level II).
    Level II: (Day 3) Apply the skills with crisis couples and learning in-depth coaching skills.
    For more information, call Dr. M.P. 949-725-3366 or Brett Williams, MFT at 714-662-3322. You can also email M.P. or Brett. See our calendar for upcoming classes and trainings.
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    Bringing Baby Home (BBH) Certification Training
    A 3-day training authorizing professionals (such as educators, nurses, social workers, clergy, and therapists) to teach pregnant and parenting couples the relationship skills essential for successful transition to parenthood. For more information and to register, contact Dr. M.P. by phone 949-725-3366 or by email. See our calendar for upcoming trainings.
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    CLASS FLYERS
    Upcoming Classes - English
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    RRF offers these programs
  • Relationship Enhancement (RE) is the most extensively researched marriage education program currently available. Training provided.
  • Mastering the Mysteries of Love (MML). Based on the RE program, MML is for couples in all stages of relationship and marriage. It provides skills for developing intimacy, affection, trust, and communication, and for solving conflict and problems with win-win results. Classes and training provided.
  • Mastering the Mysteries of Stepfamilies (MMS). Stepfamilies have many more stresses on their well-being than first families. MMS offers skills and guidelines to support couples in building and maintaining a successful step-marriage and stepfamily. Classes and training provided.
  • Love's Cradle (LC), an add-on to the MML program, is for expectant parents and parents of infants and toddlers. It helps build trust, address possible conflicts, and bring closeness for the couple. Training provided.
  • Ready for Love (RFL) for singles is based on the RE/MML programs. RFL helps singles in all their relationships and provides skills for building lasting love with a significant partner. Classes and training provided.
  • Bringing Baby Home (BBH) teaches pregnant and parenting couples the relationship skills essential for successful transition to parenthood. Classes and training provided.
  • Journey to Love (J2L), a 10-week program, helps singles and singles-again explore previous relationships, heal from the past (including domestic violence), set safe boundaries for the future, and prepare for attracting a compatible partner and lasting love. Classes and training provided.
  • FOCCUS is a self-diagnostic pre-marital inventory to help engaged couples learn more about themselves and their relationship. Training provided.


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  • Co-funding for this project is provided by the United States Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, Grant #9OFR0058. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families.
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