Participant materials and videos for Love’s Cradle and Mastering the Magic of Love are available in Spanish.

Love’s Cradle: Building Strong Families Through Relationship Enhancement Couple Pack

The Couple Pack contains all the participant materials needed for the core 10 sessions of the Love’s Cradle Program which mixes RE skills with issues around becoming new parents. This includes 4 page elaborations on each RE skill and 20 handouts for couple practice activities around RE and new parenting. Individual packs are in a folder. Larger orders (12 or more) are packaged in the order used in the program rather than collated to make use easier for group leaders. You may choose to provide couples a 3 ring binder for materials. Use one Couple Pack per couple.

Couple Pack:

Love’s Cradle Supplemental Session Handouts

Participant handouts for all of the supplemental modules (Building Trust, The Meaning of Marriage, Talking About Finances, Complex Family Relationships) are also available in Spanish Includes 40 handouts, many of them double sided. Spanish handouts for individual modules are also available. Contact mary@skillswork.org for specifics.

Mastering the Magic of Love: An Easy-Reading Relationship Enhancement Program for Couples Couple Pack

The Couple Pack contains all the participant materials needed for the Mastering the Magic program. This includes 4 page elaborations on each RE skill and 20 handouts for couple practice activities. Individual packs are in a folder. Larger orders (12 or more) are packaged in the order used in the program rather than collated to make use easier for group leaders. You may choose to provide couples a 3 ring binder for materials. Use one Couple Pack per couple.

Couple Pack:

Instructional Video to Accompany Love’s Cradle and Mastering the Magic of Love

This 65 minute video provides examples of RE skills and dialogues with an African-American and a Caucasian Couple. Combined with either of the RE Dialogue Demonstration Videos, you will have video demonstrations for all the RE skills except Generalization and Maintenance. Contents include:

• The Difference Skills Make: Unskilled (Dan and Gail)
• The Difference Skills Make: Skilled (Dan and Gail)
• The Difference Skills Make: Unskilled (Jason and Nicole)
• The Difference Skills Make: Skilled (Jason and Nicole)
• Sample Dialogue for Discussion Skill: What It Means to Be a Couple (Jason and Nicole)
• Sample Dialogue: Parenting Stresses and Stretches (Jason and Nicole)
• Sample Dialogue: Parenting Stresses and Stretches (Dan and Gail)
• Name That Feeling (For deeper empathy practice)
• Coaching Skill
• Conflict Management: Decide to Use Skills
• Conflict Management: Use Coaching Skills
• Conflict Management: Show Understanding Until Your Partner Calms Down
• Conflict Management: Stop Talking
• Conflict Management: Talk Again When Ready

RE Dialogue Demonstrations: Working Ordinary Problems Through with Jason and Nicole

This 96 minute video shows a Caucasian couple discussing several ordinary problems using RE skills. It is an excellent tool for demonstrating dialogue and problem solving and for couples to take home to help them improve their own dialogues.

Contents include:

• Extended Family Relationships: Problem Discussion
• Sharing Home Responsibilities: Problem Discussion
• Sharing Home Responsibilities: Coming to an Agreement
• Sharing Home Responsibilities: Working Out the Details
• Continued Complaints: Deepening the Dialogue

RE Dialogue Demonstrations: Escape from Baby-Mama Drama with Dan and Gail

In this 78 minute video an African-American couple work through a single, difficult problem: the stress on their relationship caused by “ex’s.” As they work out a creative solution the complexities of the problem are demonstrated while they use RE skills.

Contents include:

• Problem Discussion
• Coming to Agreement
• Working Out the Details
• Follow-up with Self-Change and Helping Others Change Skills
• Practice of How to Change the Habit

Package Deal: All 3 Videos

Get all three English videos in DVD or VHS format at a $20 savings. With all three you will have a variety of examples to meet the needs of your group members.