118 One Day - Thursday, July 8
A Growing Marriage & The Five Love Languages
Gary Chapman, PhD - $50 spouse discount

Attend the Gary Chapman A Growing Marriage Seminar to learn from and emulate the master.  This is the seminar Dr Chapman presents to communities and congregations around the world.

You will leave equipped to teach the Growing Marriage seminar or his classic The Five Languages of Love - both are easy-to-teach DVD-based programs that deliver his practical advice to help couples break unhealthy patterns and choose to develop a God-honoring, happy marriage. Both programs include topics like communication differences, dealing with criticism, understanding your own and your partner's love languages, and making sex mutually fulfilling. 

 
Who Should Attend:
Counselors, therapists, clergy, chaplains, family life educators.  However, you do not need to be a degreed or licensed professional to teach the course. In fact, Dr Chapman will spend time on how lay leaders/lay educators can use these seminars to create thriving marrige and family ministries in their churches.

Even if you have no intention of becoming an instructor, attend to strengthen your own marrige or relationship – to create the relationship of your dreams.  Couples at any stage from engaged to long-married are warmly welcomed to attend – as are singles or those who are single-again– learn what to look for in a strong marriage and how to keep a marriage growing. Couples and singles will have a highly enjoyable time while learning – Dr. Chapman is known for delivering Biblical advice with a healthy dose of laughter.

Although the day will be Christian focused, non-Christians are welcomed to attend. The Five Love Languages book has been adapted for Jewish and other faith-traditions.

What you will receive: 
Institute attendees will receive a 33% discount towards the purchase of the A Growing Marriage Seminar – for $99 instead of the usual $150.The seminar kit includes 5 hour-long DVDs and a Listening Guide.  Once you buy the kit, you can teach the course on an ongoing basis, with no need to purchase additional couple materials.  You have permission to xerox the Listening Guide and use them with couples to stregthen marriages in your church or community – in perpetuity. The course can be taught in any format that fits your setting as a one or two-day retreat or in 5 segments – one night a week for five weeks, etc. 

The Five Love Languages programs will also be available at the Institute for the regular price of $150.  The DVD includes two 30-minute and five 15-minute segments. 

About Gary Chapman:
Dr. Gary Chapman is a world renowned marriage therapist, speaker, and author. He speaks extensively throughout the U.S. and internationally on marriage, family, and relationships. The government of Singapore invited him to present his marriage seminar there and the Chaplain’s Office of NATO issued a special invitation for Dr. Chapman to speak to the NATO forces in Germany. Other engagements have taken him to England, Africa, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Mexico and Hong Kong. Sales exceeding 5 million copies earned him the Platinum Book Award from the Evangelical Publishers Association for The Five Love Languages, which has been on the NY Times best sellers list for two years has been translated into over thirty-eight languages. Twenty-seven other books and five video series are also among his publications. On the home front, Dr. Chapman is Senior Associate Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He and his wife, Karolyn, have two adult children and two grandchildren.

If you are not able to make it to Smart Marriages, visit Dr Chapman's website to find a seminar near you or to host a seminar, to bring Dr. Chapman to your church, community, agency or conference.  Click for a complete seminar schedule and for information on his books, radio program, free email newslist, or to contact Dr. Chapman:
http://www.garychapman.org/

This institute is part of the week-long Smart Marriages conference.

Register for the Institute and the Conference: Click for Information on Conference Details, to download a conference brochure, REGISTER ONLINE, hotel & travel information & discounts, etc.