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: Building Strong Families Through Relationship Enhancement Complete Program Leader’s Guide

The Love’s Cradle Complete Program Leader’s Guide includes all 22 two-hour sessions of the Love’s Cradle Program as used in the Building Strong Families project in Texas. This includes the initial eight two-hour sessions that combine training in RE skills with discussion of issues around new parenting, the supplemental curriculum for Building Trust, the Meaning of Marriage, Talking About Finances, and Complex Family Relationships, and two sessions of advanced RE skills. Written in an out-of-the-box format in 22 two-hour sessions, each segment includes an “At-a-Glance” overview, list of materials, behavioral learning objectives, planning notes, detailed explanations of each concept, directions for each activity, estimated time for each activity, and a copy of each handout used. The Leader’s Guide also includes special guides for coaching couples, handling home assignments, and schedules for program variations. The “Blue Pages” for each RE concept include additional information about each RE skill which new leaders can study to develop their own way of explaining each skill. Comes in a 3-ring binder. Approximately 580 pages.

$115.00

Love’s Cradle: Building Strong Families Through Relationship Enhancement Core RE/Adjustment to Parenthood Leader’s Guide

This Leader’s Guide includes out-of-the-box instructions for the 10 sessions of the program which combine instruction in RE skills with experiential activities to help participants work through issues surrounding new parenthood: maintaining a couple identity, stresses and stretches of parenting, supporting each other, and dialogues which solve a couple-chosen significant issue around adjusting to parenthood. A special section provides supplemental information for leaders to develop their personal explanations of RE skills. Approximately 300 pages.

$35.00

Love’s Cradle Leader’s Guide, Part Two with Experiential Activities Curriculum on Trust, Marriage, Finances, and Complex Family Relationships by Pamela Wilson, Carolyn Wiseheart, and Mary Ortwein with Akilah Thomas, Reuben Lawrence, and Rosalind Jackson.

This second portion of Love’s Cradle includes the combination of the Curriculum developed by a group of experts under the direction of Pamela Wilson with RE oriented couple dialogues and special activities.

$35.00

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 Deals:

Get the Instructional video and either Demonstration video for $65 (DVD or VHS format)

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.

Mastering the Magic of Love and Love’s Cradle Learning Aids

Powerpoint Presentation

The Powerpoint Presentation includes colorful slides for each segment of each RE skill. The Powerpoint presentation enables you to keep your group members attention focused on you, rather than on pieces of paper while you explain and discussion the ten RE skills.

Overheads

Colorful overheads of each of the Powerpoint slides present each RE skill. Appropriate for programs that do not have a powerpoint projector.

Expression Skill Practice Cards $7.00

Set of 30 practice cards to help participants learn each aspect of Expression skill. Situation is on one side with examples of good expression on the other.