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Virtual Instructor Trainings

Virtual Instructor Trainings

$ 625.00

SERVICE MEMBERS AND CIVILIANS ARE ALL INVITED TO TAKE ONE OR ALL OF THESE COURSES.

If you were previously certified in PICK, LINKS, Our Home Runs, or R&R-- then it is REQUIRED that you re-certify in the new 9.0 version of that course (see below descriptions of the PICK 9.0, LINKS 9.0, Our Home Runs 9.0, and R&R 9.0).

For Army Chaplaincy if funding is through TTI please email info@lovethinks.com for registration information.

PLEASE EMAIL INFO@LOVETHINKS.COM WITH THE FOLLOWING INFO FOR PERSON BEING CERTIFIED:

1) First & Last name;

2) Personal (not work or military) email;

3) Ship-to address for certification materials (S/H (ground) included ONLY for contiguous U.S.);

4) Best cell/contact number. 


Dr. John Van Epp will train and certify all FOUR programs in live zoom trainings. 

Dates:   all trainings run from 1030-1730 (EST) 

If you would like to attend a combination of training courses, just add them all to the cart.

TRAINING DATES:

PICK INSTRUCTOR VIRTUAL TRAINING DATES: 2024 Dec 2-3; 2025 Feb 10-11; Mar 10-11; Apr 16-17; May 14-15; June 10-11; July 10-11; Aug 12-13

OUR HOME RUNS INSTRUCTOR VIRTUAL TRAINING DATES: 2024 Dec 4; 2025 Feb 12; Mar 5; Apr 1; May 5; June 6; July 14; Aug 8

R&R INSTRUCTOR VIRTUAL TRAINING DATES: 2024 Dec 5-6; 2025 Feb 3-4; Mar 3-4; Apr 2-3; May 6-7; June 4-5; July 8-9; Aug 6-7

COUPLE LINKS INSTRUCTOR VIRTUAL TRAINING DATES: 2025 Feb 5-6; Mar 6-7; Apr 14-15; May 12-13; June 12-13; July 1-2; Aug 14-15

 COURSE DETAILS: * S/H included in pricing for only contiguous U.S.--additional S/H costs may be required for destinations outside of contiguous U.S.

COURSE: PICK 9.0

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This is the instructor certification training for the PICK course (aka, How to Avoid Falling for a Jerk/Jerkette) that teaches a plan for building safe and healthy relationships with the Relationship Attachment Model (RAM), and the skills needed to develop and discern five key areas of character and relationship potential. Singles explore the impact of their family upbringing, the maturity of their consciences and crucial skills for meaningful communication and conflict resolution. They learn three areas of compatibility and how to evaluate their relationship scripts. They gain a plan for building trust, mutual reliance, forming commitments, and pacing their physical involvement in romantic relationships. If certified prior to 9.0 version, recertification required for upgrade to 9.0 which includes upgraded lesson plans. In 2024, 9.0 certified instructors will also gain access to nine (9) NEW video plug-n-play Target Topic Courses for half or single day events based on PICK, LINKS, and Our Home Runs content.

 COURSE COMPONENTS THAT ARE INCLUDED

  • Instructor Certification Packet and S/H* ($429 value)

    • New PICK 9.0 Instructor Manual

      • Lesson Plans

      • Sample Workbook

      • Lesson Plan 2-page Overviews

      • Research Summaries

    • Mini-RAM

    • Trifold RAM Chart

    • How to Avoid Falling in Love with a Jerk book (Author John Van Epp, Ph.D.)

  • Instructor Platform

    • LINKS 9.0 Instructor Platform includes new power points with new and engaging video clips of Dr. John Van Epp and Dr. Morgan Cutlip teaching main sections of the LINKS course.
    • Lesson Plan 2-page Summaries
    • Instructor Video Course
    • Additional Instructor resources

    COURSE: Couple LINKS 9.0
    COURSE DESCRIPTION
    This is the instructor certification training for Couple LINKS course (Lasting Intimacy through Nurturing, Knowledge & Skills) that teaches a plan for maintaining a close and fulfilling relationship with the Relationship Attachment Model (RAM), and the skills needed to stay in the know, maintain a safe trust, mutually meet each other’s needs, stay strong in commitment, and grow in a fulfilling sex life. Couples learn a RAM plan for how to talk through the most important areas of their relationship with regular couple meetings (Huddles). If certified prior to 9.0 version, recertification required for upgrade to 9.0 which includes upgraded lesson plans. In 2024, 9.0 certified instructors will also gain access to nine (9) NEW video plug-n-play Target Topic Courses for half or single day events based on PICK, LINKS, and Our Home Runs content.

    COURSE COMPONENTS THAT ARE INCLUDED

    • Instructor Certification Packet and S/H* ($429 value)

      • New LINKS 9.0 Instructor Manual

        • Lesson Plans

        • Sample Workbook

        • Lesson Plan 2-page Overviews

        • Research Summaries

      • Mini-RAM

      • Trifold RAM Chart

      • Becoming Better Together book (Author Dr. John Van Epp)  

    • Instructor Platform

      • LINKS 9.0 Instructor Platform includes new power points with new and engaging video clips of Dr. John Van Epp and Dr. Morgan Cutlip teaching main sections of the LINKS course.

      •  Lesson Plan 2-page Summaries

      • Instructor Video Course

      • Additional Instructor resources

    COURSE: Our Home Runs for families 9.0 

    COURSE DESCRIPTION

    This is the instructor certification training for Our Home Runs for families (OHR). OHR engages both parents and their kids in a skills-based programs built around a sports theme in which the skills essential for healthy relationships between parents and their children are compared to building and maintaining strong team relationships with positive coaching skills. The sports comparisons make the activities and concepts very concrete and fun. The course has five sessions and each session develops one of five dynamic bonds or connections that occur in relationships represented by the evidenced-based Relationship Attachment Model (RAM): Maintaining good communication to stay in the KNOW; creating secure structures that build strong TRUST; understanding the needs and wants to mutually RELY; reviewing priorities and support to practice COMMITMENT; engaging in positive, loving and affectionate TOUCH. If certified prior to 9.0 version, recertification required for upgrade to 9.0 which includes upgraded lesson plans. In 2024, 9.0 certified instructors will also gain access to nine (9) NEW video plug-n-play Target Topic Courses for half or single day events based on PICK, LINKS, and Our Home Runs content.

    COURSE COMPONENTS THAT ARE INCLUDED

    • Instructor Certification Packet and S/H* ($429 value)

      • Instructor Manual for Our Home Runs 

        • Lesson Plans

        • Sample Workbook

        • Lesson Plan 2-page Overviews

        • Research Summaries

      • Mini-RAM

      • Trifold RAM Chart

      • Baseball bag, foam bat, foam ball, pennant

    • Instructor Platform

    • Our Home Runs (families)

    • The Our Home Runs power point.

    • Lesson Plan 2-page Summaries
    • Instructor Video Course

    COURSE: Ready & Resilient (R&R) for the Fight Spiritual Fitness Training 9.0

    COURSE DESCRIPTION

    This is the instructor certification training for the course Ready & Resilient (R&R) for the Fight Spiritual Fitness Training. R&R is an evidence-based and non-religious course (pluralistic) that helps participants strengthen their spiritual fitness by integrating their transcendent values and beliefs into three domains of life: 1) situational domain: how they make meaning of their circumstances; 2) personal domain: how they regulate their emotions, actions, and reactions; and the 3) relational domain: how they build and sustain close and cohesive relationships. Participants are highly interactive with large and small group discussions, group activities, and skill-based exercises. Research conducted on this course has shown that individuals increased their spiritual fitness skills and were able to better manage and cope with challenging experiences. Specifically, participants learn skills that have been demonstrated to enhance resilience and spiritual readiness, and are protective against suicidal ideation, depression, and PTSD symptomatology. These skills include ways to improve emotional regulation, increase social support, practice mindfulness, engage in cognitive reframing, and utilize healthy coping skills. If certified prior to 9.0 version, recertification required for upgrade to 9.0 which includes upgraded lesson plans. 

    COURSE COMPONENTS THAT ARE INCLUDED

    • Instructor Certification Packet and S/H* ($429 value)

      • Instructor Manual for R&R for the Fight

        • Lesson Plans

        • Sample Workbook

        • Lesson Plan 2-page Overviews

        • Research Summaries

      • Mini-RAM

      • Trifold RAM Chart

    • Instructor Platform

    • R&R Instructor Research and Supplemental Materials

    • The R&R power point.

    • Lesson Plan 2-page Summaries
    • Instructor Video Course

    COURSE: Home Runs Dads (also, Home Run Parents)

    COURSE DESCRIPTION

    Home Run Dads is a fatherhood, skills-based program built around a sports theme in which the skills and relatinship virtues essential for healthy relationships between a father and his children are compared to building and maintaining strong team relationships with positive coaching skills. The sports comparisons make the activities and concepts very concrete and fun. There is a PARENT VERSION (Home Run Parents) included in this training and if all parents are in a class then there are Home Run Parent workbooks that can be purchased and can be used as only workbook or with others who are using the Home Run Dads workbooks.

    The course has five sessions and each session develops one of five dynamic bonds or connections that occur in relationships represented by the evidenced-based Relationship Attachment Model (RAM) and are summarized below (the capitalized words are the five relationship connections represented in the RAM).

    KNOW: Fathers learn and practice positive communication skills that keep them “in the know” with their kids, and they begin a detailed “stat sheet” on each of their children describing their goals and involvement based on that child’s unique strengths, interests, needs, developmental characteristics, responsibilities, and skills.

    TRUST: Fathers learn ways to encourage attitudes of respect and trust through a “game plan” that identifies and implements their core values, promotes consistent structures for their children, and practices respectful and mutually engaging strategies for handling conflicts, discipline, and follow-up discussions.

    RELY: Fathers form practical and balanced plans for cooperative co-parenting, and for meaningful involvement with each child congruent with the ways that their children rely on them for their physical, emotional, social and educational needs. They make tickets for their kids for “hall of fame” activities that they want to do together.

    COMMIT: Fathers explore their own childhood experiences with a father or caregiver and identify ways they want to repeat and revise these experiences in their own identity and relationships with their children; they design a team pennant that has the names and “motto” of their family; they examine the balance of their life commitments with how they commit their time and involvement with their children.

    TOUCH: Fathers explore and discuss ways they affirm their love, affirmations and appreciation for their children through physical interactions and affectionate touch.  

    LEARNING OBJECTIVES

    1. Fathers learn a simple but comprehensive picture of the key connections in their relationships with their children that need to be regularly strengthened so that they can have a concrete plan for building and maintaining positive relationships with each of their children. A practical "Stat Sheet" is filled out for each of their child(ren) throughout the course and emphasizes an understanding the individual differences between their kids.
    2. Skills and Relationship Virtues that are essential to the ongoing strength and resilience of these father-child relationship connections are taught, explored in small and large group discussions, and practiced in various activities and exercises. These skills include positive communication, identifying each child’s specific emotional, mental, social and educational developmental needs, defining values for fathers to practice and instill in their children, cultivating strategies for respectful negotiations and discipline, exploring consistent and healthy structures for their children, identifying enjoyable and meaningful activities they can participate in with each child, maintaining a healthy balance between life commitments and involvement with their children, and facilitating positive expressions of appreciation and affirmation for their children.
    3. Provide a practical, easy-to-follow five-step format for engaging in regular meetings with their children that emphasize positive appreciation, respect, forgiveness, mutual exploration of interests and involvement, and goal setting for meaningful togetherness.

     In 2024, 9.0 certified instructors will also gain access to nine (9) NEW video plug-n-play Target Topic Courses for half or single day events based on PICK, LINKS, and Home Runs content.

    COURSE COMPONENTS THAT ARE INCLUDED

    • Instructor Certification Packet and S/H* ($429 value)

      • Instructor Manual for Our Home Runs 

        • Lesson Plans

        • Sample Workbook

        • Lesson Plan 2-page Overviews

        • Research Summaries

      • Mini-RAM

      • Trifold RAM Chart

      • Baseball bag, foam bat, foam ball, pennant

    • Instructor Platform

    • Home Runs

    • The Home Run Dads or Parents power points.

    • Lesson Plan 2-page Summaries
    • Instructor Video Course for review

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