"Empowering people to create happy, lasting, character-based marriages"

• For unmarried individuals or couples (age 18/19-29) - "Creating Relationship Excellence" and including either Becoming an Excellent Person or Becoming Character Partners
• For unmarried individuals (ages 18/19 and up) - "Preparing for a Bahá’í-Based Marriage" focused on marriage preparation using Marriage Can Be Forever--Preparation Counts!
• For engaged or married couples - "Creating a Pure Gold Marriage" using Pure Gold: Encouraging Character Qualities in Marriage
• Can be half a day for one audience and half a day for another (but be realistic about how much can be done in 2-3 hours); ideally it would be a full day for each audience
• Note: Presentations for youth (ages 15-18) - please access materials for communities to use located on http://www.bahairelationships.com/learning.htm
• Include guidance from the Bahá’í Writings and current guidance from the Universal House of Justice; content often includes key focus topics of friendship skills, character (rectitude of conduct), and chastity and links the skills needed for relationships/marriage with those needed for community-building
• Include elements of marriage education that are the practical application of the Bahá’í teachings; a document on the potential correlation between principles of the 5-Year plans and relationships and marriage can be accessed here.
• Require half-day minimum; longer preferred
• Are available on a wide variety of topics. See Presentations and Workshops for additional topic suggestions; If you wish to have a more general workshop with outreach beyond the Bahá’í community and more interfaith and secular content, please request this.
• Note: If I am in the area for a few days, some communities may also wish to have me offer a fireside as a travel teacher on the topic of marriage (no charge; there may be the cost of a handout to cover)

• Sponsorship by a Spiritual Assembly or other Bahá’í institution
• Transportation costs paid (unless I'm already in the area - see below)
• A place to stay (it's fine if it's in a home) and food
• A presenter's fee of $300/day; this is a minimum amount; for communities willing to charge participants for attending or who can afford more, an additional amount is helpful
• Payment for photocopies and books (1 handout and 1 book per person or couple)
• Contact person for coordination of details and review of handouts
• Local handling of registrations; minimum registration of 8 people
• Local assistance with identifying people to co-facilitate or assist with facilitating small group discussions so that there is an expansion of human resources available on this topic; assistance with inviting married couples to participate on a panel for full-day unmarried individual sessions
• Local setting of registration costs
• Space enough for all participants to meet for discussions and for small groups to spread out or for couples to work privately on topics; can be a large home, Bahá’í Center, or rented facility
• Willingness for the Assembly and the community to engage in other relationship and marriage-strengthening activities in the months and years after the workshop, such as devotionals on marriage or Feasts on the theme of marriage; monthly gatherings studying chapters of the book, educational meetings with engaged couples; deepenings on Baha'i marriage laws (Note: Many preplanned materials are on www.bahaimarriage.NET)... I'm willing to help guide this process... A document to assist you is Facilitating Marriage Education as Institutions.

Note: I am sometimes in the geographic areas listed below visiting family; therefore, transportation costs may be reduced or eliminated. Communities that are driving distance from Cleveland, Ohio will be charged for mileage.

• Preferably at least 6 weeks advance booking
• Now booking for 2nd half 2011 and 1st half of 2012
• Some locations not available at some times of the year where the weather makes travel very difficult