Ready for Love
Ready for Love is a 16 hour program that combines the 10 RE skills with experiential learning activities around qualities of good relationships, boundaries, emotional safety, and the biology of love. It targets two groups of adults: those who are single?not in a serious relationship, and those who are solo?who are coming to marriage education alone, even though they may be married. Ready for Love is a presentation of the RE skills as a path to great relationships. It teaches participants how to use the skills any time, any where?and by using the skills to have great relationships.
When people learn the skills individually, dialogues tend to not take as long. Some of the dialogue time from Mastering the Mysteries of Love is replaced in Ready for Love with experiential activities that explore and present information around the following concepts:
- What Makes a Good Relationship?
- What Do You Want in a Relationship?
- When You Want Others to Change
Leaders pick three of these topics, depending on the interests of the participants:
- Fishbowl Discussion of Trust
- Effects of Adult Relationships on Children
- Men, Women, and Marriage: A Fishbowl Discussion
"Ready for Love" is a workshop for singles and solos,designed to improve communication in solving problems and learning how to resolve conflict in a healthy and productive manner.
Singles are defined here as those who are not in a committed couple relationship,but they hope to be in one in the future. They may be dating,but not committed. They may be recovering from a failed relationship.They may be college students considering love and marriage for the future. Solos are those who are attending a skills relationship class alone.
They may be married or in a committed relationship,but their partner won't or can't attend the class. They may be individuals who want to learn the skills,but who, because of age or choice,don't see themselves as ever being in a couple relationship. They are learning and practicing the skills "solo",all on their own.