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See our calendar for specific dates and times.
Weekly FREE Classes:
FREE Class Introduction: Tuesdays from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
The Third Option: Every Wednesday night, 7 to 9 p.m., FREE. Are you struggling in your marriage? Come with or without your spouse and receive HOPE.
For either class - just show up, or call M.P. at 949-752-2888. Location: 3020 W. Harvard St., Santa Ana.
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 for life with your baby; 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 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 classes. For more information, call M.P. at 949-752-2888 or email M.P.
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    Summit of Your Potential & Journey to Love, English & Espanol
    Release the past and build the relationship and professional life of your dreams. Whether divorced, widowed, ending a relationship, or exploring a relationship... success rests on making wise choices. Define what you really want in life, a partner, and a relationship. Write your own story—past, present and future—through a journal type workbook and supportive group setting. See our calendar for upcoming classes. For more information, call M.P. at 949-752-2888 or email M.P.
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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. It takes "ordinary" relationships to "extraordinary". An activity-based class for couples at any stage of relationship or marriage, this will help you develop deeper intimacy, affection, acceptance and trust with your partner. You'll learn to discuss and problem solve so that both partners are satisfied with the results.
    See our calendar for upcoming classes. For more information, call M.P. at 949-752-2888 or email M.P.
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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. Learn research-validated communication and conflict resolution skills with the most up-to-date, recommended guidelines for successful stepfamilies. Classes include exercises and games, with time to tailor concepts to your unique family.
    See our calendar for upcoming classes. For more information, call M.P. at 949-752-2888 or email M.P.
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    Ready for Love for Singles & Solos (RFL)
    This one-day class for singles provides the secrets to building positive relationships. 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 learn 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 classes. For more information, call M.P. at 949-752-2888 or email M.P.
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    PAIRS Relationship Mastery
    PAIRS essential tool box for enhanced communication, empathy, problem solving, and emotional connection. Discover skills that have helped thousands create and sustain successful relationships that are an ongoing source of love, pleasure, and happiness. Classes meet in a private group setting, with brief lectures followed by interactive exercises that teach easy-to-use relationship building tools.
    See our calendar for upcoming classes. For more information, call M.P. at 949-752-2888 or email M.P.
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    Coaching Skills Training for MML and RE
    Learn coaching skills in RE/MML. For more information, call M.P. at 949-752-2888 or email M.P. See our calendar for upcoming and current classes and trainings. FREE for volunteer coaches.
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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 classes and trainings. For more information, call M.P. at 949-752-2888 or email M.P.
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    Mastering the Mysteries of Love (MML) Leader Training
    Completion of this two-day training qualifies you to lead MML classes. Prerequisite: You must have completed the 16-hour MML class. You can arrange for your faith-based or community organization to have the training or you can attend at our training center. We’ll work with you to meet your community's relationship and marriage education needs; we’ll work with your budget as well. For more information, call M.P. at 949-752-2888. See our calendar for upcoming classes and trainings.
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    Mastering the Mysteries of Stepfamilies (MMS) Leader Training
    MMS training for program leaders and therapists. Nancy Landrum, MMS author, presents a 2-day training featuring the MMS activities that bring the skills of RE plus information from research on successful stepfamilies. For more information, call M.P. at 949-752-2888. See our calendar for upcoming classes and trainings.
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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 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 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 RE/MML skills (in lieu of this class a therapist may attend an RE/MML class with their spouse). (Day 2) Put RE/MML skills into practice in therapy through coaching and using the experiential model (this will be followed by an "intern" time of 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 learn in-depth coaching skills.
    For more information, call M.P. 949-725-3366 or email M.P. 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 information and registration, call M.P. at 949-725-3366 or email M.P. See our calendar for upcoming trainings.
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    RRF offers these programs
  • Relationship Enhancement (RE) the most extensively researched marriage education program currently available. Training provided.
  • Mastering the Mysteries of Love (MML - based on the RE program). For couples in all stages of relationship and marriage. Provides skills for developing intimacy, trust, and communication, and for solving conflict with win-win results. Classes and training provided.
  • Mastering the Mysteries of Stepfamilies (MMS). Stepfamilies have many more stresses than first families. MMS offers skills 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. Couples build trust, address conflicts, and become closer. 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.
  • PAIRS Relationship Mastery (PAIRS) provides skills that have helped thousands create and sustain successful relationships. Classes use interactive exercises to teach relationship building tools.
  • 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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