Jonathan is the most prolific speaker I’ve ever met. How can one person know so much about so much? His synthesis of theory and research, practical information, laugh out loud humor and ancient wisdom all combine in a way that is fun and relatable. He’s amazing. All I can say is get him in front of your group now!”
—James Delany, Ph.D., husband and father
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Marriage Mastery
Featured Ongoing Events:
Marriage Mastery Group The Marriage Mastery Group is an ongoing group that combines support, education, coaching and accountability to its members. All are welcome and you can join at any time. Each group follows this format:
- Sharing of successes from the previous week;
- Presentation of new skills (ie., mini-workshops of many of the seminars below such as The Our Way Plan, Building Strong Families with ACCCTS, The GREAT Relationship Brand, Deep Listening Skills, Fair Fighting Rules and the 6-Step Time-Out Process that Really Works, and more);
- Group brainstorm for members seeking solutions;
- Individual assignments self-assigned to report back to group the following session.
This group meets every other week and is the perfect compliment to The Parenting Mastery Group that many people take concurrently as they run on alternating weeks from one another. Great Date Nights This unique and fun date night combines a cooking class and mini-relationship workshop all in one. Held in The Blue Lemon’s kitchen classroom by one of their superb chefs with the workshop presented by Jonathan Sherman, LMFT, Relationship Strategiest. Register here.
The following events can be booked anytime:
| Singles Work: “Attract the Best” Seminar “There are no good men/women out there” is a frequent lament I hear, yet every day I work with amazing people who are preparing themselves well by working hard to be the best person they can be—thus I have to disagree. They are not only “out there” they are in my office. So how to attract the best… (continue reading…) —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| Marriage Prep: Prepare for Your Marriage, Not Just Your Wedding “Happily Ever After” is great, but what about the 10-year follow-up study? How do we make a great thing last, especially in the face of daunting divorce statistics? Learn effective ways of making the marriage you’re going into the one you dream it will be. This workshop is held three times a year: In January, April and August |
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| Building Strong Families with “ACCCTS” Learn the six foundational behaviors of strong marriages and families and how to build on the strengths your family already possesses. This fun, upbeat, informative, and research-based approach Jonathan Sherman, LMFT, a licensed marriage and family therapist and relationship coach teaches the guiding principles and practical techniques for the six most common traits of strong, resilient families and marriages: Appreciation and Affection, Commitment, Creative Coping and Problem Solving, Time Together and Spiritual Wellness. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| Creating Your GREAT Relationship Brand: How Sound Business and Marketing Principles Can Strengthen Your Marriage and Family If everyone wants a GREAT relationship, why isn’t everyone getting one? Are they really that hard to come by? If so, do they need to be? There must be a better way… and there is. Come learn the strategies for creating a truly great, lasting and powerful relationship. This fun, upbeat and informative presentation looks at relationships from a very unique angle: the business and marketing world. The mindsets and skills learned in this workshop apply to marriage, parenting and even at work. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| The “Our Way” Marriage Plan: 10 Steps to Reducing Conflict and Increasing Harmony You wouldn’t try to build a house without carefully thought-out and skillfully drawn-up blueprints. You wouldn’t try to run a major business without a thorough business or marketing plan. Your football team wouldn’t try to take State without a well-practiced playbook. Yet, in our marriages the basic plan is “If we love each other enough it will just work out.” That’s nice thought. That isn’t a plan, folks. Thus the high conflict and failure rates in marriage. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| Husband Training 101 Darn those stubborn husbands! If only there were a tried and true method for getting husbands to behave! Okay, men aren’t dogs (really, we’re not!) and it’s not your job to “fix” us. However, there are many things that you can do to enhance your influence with your husband to get more of what you want from your husband and from your marriage. This workshop is taught by Jonathan Sherman, LMFT a licensed marriage and family therapist as well as a fully trained husband who’s still on his best behavior! (Good boy!)We’ll discuss basic training methods and show you how to get results where there haven’t been results before. As any good dog or horse trainer will tell you the bulk of the training is in training the trainer to interact more effectively with the one being trained. Women tend to be the relationship managers in most marriages. This doesn’t mean their husbands are less responsible to do their part, it just means they are often less aware. Husbands do want to be able to please their wives, but quite frankly they don’t know how. Further, their wives rarely know how to effectively motivate them to willingly do what the wife would like them to do. Any of this sound familiar? Then this workshop is for you. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| Relationship Fitness Check-Up Give the gift of a healthy relationship this Valentine’s season! For anything to run well—cars, our bodies, and especially our relatoinships—we need to make sure they get regular check-ups and the ongoing maintenance they need. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| The Life-Long Marriage: Advice from the Real Experts We can talk about it all we want—but here are the ones who have done it! A panel of elder couples in our community who have weathered 40+ years of marriage and made it work share their wisdom and humor about the committed marriage. The lessons they have to share are priceless.
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| Men, Relationships & Emotions We all know that men and women deal with emotions, relationships and a lot of other things very differently. In this workshop we look at the often ignored and misunderstood aspects of men, how they relate and how important emotions are to men and women. We also discuss practical ways to integrate this information into our daily lives. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| Making a Good Marriage Great! Anything valuable requires ongoing investing and reinvesting to maintain and improve its value. Our marriages are no different. Learn how to not only keep the good thing you’ve got from wearing out, but also how to make it even better. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| Valentine’s All Year Mini-Retreat Learn how to make romance fun, easy and practical throughout the entire year. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| Successful Second Marriages: How to Really Live Happily Ever After Beat the odds. Second marriages have a higher divorce rate than first marriages, but that’s in large part because people don’t learn the key dynamics unique to second marriages than can make or break the deal. This workshop will prepare you to make this one not only stick, but make it worth sticking. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| Empty Nesters: Skills for the Second-half of Marriage In the second half of marriage, couples often need to to reinvent their marriage, to make mid-course adjustments, and to reconnect with one another in a more meaningful way. This workshop addresses eight challenges couples at this stage face and the methods to overcome them.Finding Contentment: What Do We Do As Empty Nesters?Ahhh… the kids have flown the coop and we now have the house and ourselves to each other…. Was that a “Yikes!” or a “Yay!” I heard? Come learn how the wonderful opportunities and unique challenges of the second half of marriage can be met with wisdom and skill. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| “Animal Training for Humans: How to Use Dog, Horse and Dolphin Training Techniques in Your Parenting and Partnering!“ This is a fun and highly practical one using the principles of behavior modification that I have been using for years in my practice with youth and couples. Learn how to stop feeding the fire of what you DON’T want and how to start watering what you DO want to grow! —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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Parent Training
Featured Ongoing Events:
The Parent Mastery Group The Parent Mastery Group is an ongoing group that combines support, education, coaching and accountability to its members. All are welcome and you can join at any time. Each group follows this format:
- Sharing of successes from the previous week;
- Presentation of new skills (ie., mini-workshops of many of the seminars below such as Parenting with Love and Logic, How to Talk to Teens about the Tough Stuff, Snap 1-2-3, Discipline vs. Punishment, and more);
- Group brainstorm for members seeking solutions;
- Individual assignments self-assigned to report back to group the following session.
This group meets every other week and is the perfect compliment to The Marriage Mastery Group that many people take concurrently as they run on alternating weeks from one another.
The following events can be booked anytime:
| Building Strong Families with “ACCCTS” Learn the six foundational behaviors of strong marriages and families and how to build on the strengths your family already possesses. This fun, upbeat, informative, and research-based approach Jonathan Sherman, LMFT, a licensed marriage and family therapist and relationship coach teaches the guiding principles and practical techniques for the six most common traits of strong, resilient families and marriages: Appreciation and Affection, Commitment, Creative Coping and Problem Solving, Time Together and Spiritual Wellness. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| Parenting with Love and Logic There’s a lot of advice out there on how to raise your kids. As family therapists and family life educators we read and keep up on the latest and best parenting information in the field. Love and Logic is our personal favorite. It is practical, pretty easy to learn and really effective!Parenting Teens with Love & Logic Parenting teens can seem about as easy as nailing Jell-O to the wall! But believe it or not there are some approaches that work better than others—better for both the teen and for the parents! So come and learn some practical approaches to add to your parenting toolkit. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| StepFamily 911: Secrets for Building a Less Contentious, More Harmonious StepFamily Step-families are normal but they face many challenges that are unique. By learning skills to deal with these differences step-families increase their chances for success. Learn tips, ideas and principles that can help you create a strong family with confidence. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| How to Talk to Teens About the Tough Stuff The tough stuff (“sex, drugs and rock and roll” as well as media, porn and peers) can be hard for parents to talk about and for teens to open up about with their parents and/or the responsible adults in their lives. Too often topics about parenting teens centers on discipline and consequences. However, one of the most effective ways to help teens prevent or overcome problems is… (continue reading…) —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| Keep Your Kids Safe Online The Internet is fantastic for kids… and dangerous, too. In this workshop you will learn:
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| Alternative Solutions to Managing ADHD Balanced alternative solutions besides medication to managing ADHD, including lifestyle, skill development, health and wellness and more. All strategies are practical and doable. This is a fun, upbeat and informative workshop. “Jonathan’s Attention Dynamic Skills Grab-Bag” is included with 125 tips and strategies in five headings: Mind, Body, Mood, Structure, Social. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| Families & Spiritual Wellness An interfaith panel offer their insights and answer questions regarding developing spiritually through our families and our families through our spirituality. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| Divorce Transitions Divorce is difficult for everyone: you, your children, your family, your friends. There are so many old and new issues to deal with: conflict, grief, co-parenting, dating again, step-families and on and on. Knowledge truly is power. Come and learn some guiding principles that have helped thousands better navigate these difficult times. Divorce is hard enough as it is. Don’t go it alone. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| Busting Holiday Stress (Formerly called “The Holidays & Family Togetherness: Rockwell Dream or Griswald Nightmare?”) Ahhh. The holidays! The best time of the year . . . and the most stressful. Why is that? Well, family is one reason. As much as we love them they sure can push our buttons . . . . Just think of all those personalities in one room. Oh boy! Come learn some time-tested and some innovative strategies for effectively dealing with the stresses of family togetherness over the holidays. We will discuss and share skills for dealing with Stress, Expectations, Anger, Conflict, In-laws, etc. so you can make this holiday season the most enjoyable in years. Give yourself the best gift this year—peace. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| “Shaping Behavior: How to Use Dog and Dolphin Training Techniques in Your Parenting and Partnering!“ This is a fun and highly practical one using the principles of behavior modification that I have been using for years in my practice with youth and couples. Learn how to stop feeding the fire of what you DON’T want and how to start watering what you DO want to grow! —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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Self-Mastery
| TRUEYou: Owning Self and Banishing Fear Flee the comparison trap. Don’t try to be a “new” or “better” you—simplify by learning how to just be more you the way you REALLY are. Learn how to shed the junk that never was you and how to be more authentically you. In this presentation you will learn what mindsets and behaviors will help you shed the junk that never was you and practical ways how to bring out more of the real you.New Year, TRUE You Same workshop given at the beginning of each new year. Every year, you hear some show, article or product promising “New Year, New You.” I despise that phrase because there’s nothing wrong with the core of you, only the “junk” behaviors or mindsets you’ve picked up along the way. Instead I advocate: “New Year, TRUE You.” Dump the junk that never was you and instead work at being MORE you, authentically YOU this year. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| Stress-Busting: Mastering Stress, Anxiety and Other Strong Emotions
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| Mastering Anger: Anger Management Skills that Really Work
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| Solutions to Depression
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| Pornography: Problems and Solutions Pornography has been aptly termed “the drug of the new millenium.” This workshop delineates the scope of the problem but more importantly practical approaches and solutions to the problem that you can implement in your home, and in the lives of those you love and serve. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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Professional Conferences & Clinical Trainings
Looking for a dynamic, entertaining, memorable and content-rich presenter for your conference keynote and/or breakout sessions? Jonathan is a sought-after speaker to behavioral health professionals on the following topics.
| Thriving in Private Practice
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| Guy-Friendly™ Therapy—[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— | |
| WORKING the System: Motivating and Strategizing with “Resistant” Teens to Achieve the Better Outcomes THEY Want Systems, whether they be school, family or legal systems, can seem impossible for teens to successfully navigate. These systems can seem especially hard to figure out when they feel their only options are comply or rebel—neither option being what the teen really wants. Teaching them how to strategically “work the system” empowers them to actually achieve the better goals they want. And they do want to succeed. Many just don’t know how. The Working the System seminar teaches your people how to reach and teach the “unreachable” and “unteachable”.This seminar has been taught to mental health professionals (psychologists, social workers, family therapists and counselors), Guardian ad Litem attorneys, CASA workers, teachers and parents. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| Alternative Solutions to Managing ADHD Balanced alternative solutions besides medication to managing ADHD, including lifestyle, skill development, health and wellness and more. All strategies are practical and doable. This is a fun, upbeat and informative workshop. “Jonathan’s Attention Dynamic Skills Grab-Bag” is included with 125 tips and strategies in five headings: Mind, Body, Mood, Structure, Social. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| Busting Stress and Cooling Burn-Out for the Professional
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| Building Strong Familes: A Strength-based Family-Life Education Model
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| An Ounce of Prevention: Marketing Family Strengths by Taking Best Practices to the People Learn how to develop your own Relationship Wellness Series to market your practice. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| Working with Married Couples in Therapy Not every therapist that works with couples fully understands the dynamics of couples work and as a result can inadvertantly be working against their own and their client’s goals. Unless you’ve been trained as a marriage and family therapist in graduate school or have had extensive post-graduate training in couples work, chances are there’s a lot you and your couples are missing out on. Many of my clients have come to me simply because they’ve had ineffective counseling with previous therapists. Learn the Top 10 Strategies and Mindsets for effectively working with married couples in therapy. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| All in the Family—Working with Families and Systems: Family Therapy Training and TechniquesA lot of therapists have reported to me that they love individual therapy but get intimidated by family therapy as it seems to chaotic. This workshop teaches you how to shift your mindset and apporach so you can ride the seeming chaos and discover the fun and wisdom of family work. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| Balance as Power The only realy power we can have with others is when we develop our own internal balance. This fun, interactive and experiential workshop is filled with practical strategies you can not only use in your own life but can easily integrate into working with youth and adult groups. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| Mindfulness and Strong Emotion Mastery with Today’s Teacher: Master Yoda
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| The Great Groups Grab Bag: The Top Ten Group Activities to Grab Participants Attention Developed with Wade Milne, LCSW, of Logos Consulting. Together he and I are known to have a good time in group and to be effective in engaging court-ordered youth and adults into thoughtful discussions, silliness and laughter. These are the top ten (the amount that can be taught in a brief presentation) activities we’ve found to be most effective in engaging clients who tend to “resist” treatment. Also available: The Great Groups Grab Bag Field Book: 101 Trench-Tested Activities to Grab Participants Attention. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| Child Development & Attachment Disorder: What’s “Normal” and What’s Not If you work with kids then knowing what’s “normal” and not can make ALL the difference. I have given this training several times to The State of Utah’s Guardian ad Litem’s and CASA’s Office. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| How Parental Discord Affects Children This workshop is gleaned from teaching The State of Utah’s Divorce Orientation and Shared Parenting Course for 11 years along with my years of specializing in divorce issues as a marriage and family therapist and working with hundreds of children and teens an therapy. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| Motivational Interviewing asdfasdfa —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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School Assemblies & Teacher Trainings
| Be the Answer: Solutions to Bullying Jonathan Sherman, LMFT, conducts school —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| Teaching with Love and Logic This fun, upbeat and highly effective workshop on Classroom Behavior Management incorporates the best of the Love and Logic model along with and the Top 20 Kids/Teens models Teaching with Love and Logic—Teacher Training Get better discipline with greater willilngness. Period. If you are familiar with Parenting with Love and Logic, this utilizes the same core approach tailored to the needs of teachers in a classroom setting.Peaceful and powerful classroom management solutions utilizing the Teaching with Love and Logic and Top 20 Teaching models. Teachers love these models because they work and make their work easier and their teaching experience more pleasant. This translates into less burn-out, turn-over and greater morale. Perfect for in-services and teacher-training days. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| Study SMARTER! Not Harder: Strategies for Effective Learning Neuroscience-based learning strategies that get more smarts out of kids in less time. This assembly can ease your students frustration with studying in a way that both motivates and encourages their efforts. Great as an in-service for teachers as a “train the trainer” so teachers can teach their students these skills. Also, great as a parent night or school-wide assembly. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— Solutions for Your Parents Raising Emotionally Intelligent Teens… and Parents
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Corporations: GREAT Relationships at Work
| Building Strong Teams | Building Strong Leaders It’s all relationships folks. It’s only the words that change as we transition from family-life to work-life. Both realms are organizations of different people working as a system to produce various outcomes. At work it’s money. At home it’s happiness. At both, hopefully, it’s also about creating meaning. The workplace requires strong leaders and strong teams that can cohesively work together to create incredible outcomes that build people in the process. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| Stress Management for Managers
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| Leadership Academy and Organizational Development Jonathan partners with Five Degrees Consulting to provide state of the art management consulting based in emotional intelligence solutions that bring the latest and greatest of human technology to workplace to engage employees, solve communication problems and develop leaders. —[ Book Jonathan to offer this presentation to your group ]— |
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| Geocaching Team Session Explore team dynamics and team-building via the world-wide treasure hunt called geocaching.
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Clergy & Faith Group (i.e., churches, synagogues, etc) Trainings
| Strengthening Marriage: Clergy Training
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| Professional Therapy and Pastoral Counseling: A partnership for spiritual, emotional and relational healing Pastoral Counseling and Professional Therapy: A Spiritual Collaboration for Change
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| Sexual Abuse: Understanding, Responding, Preventing | |
| Pornography: Problems and Solutions | |
| Building Strong Marriages | Building Strong Families: Marriage Weekend | |
| Any of the other topics listed above that are relevant and/or of interest to your group.Custom Topics Jonathan’s expertise, background and training provides him with a broad range of experience from which to draw from. As such, he is able to develop custom topics to suit the training needs of your group. Just contact him at jonathan@MarriageEnvy.com for details. |
Get the Remote Learning Package For those who can’t attend or live elsewhere, contact me about purchasing a Remote Learning Package which includes:
- A full mp3 audio of the presentation,
- A full written transcript.
- All handout and resource materials.
