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The Four Gifts of Love® Facilitator Training Class
This is a Level Three (L3) class. It is intended for couples who would like to be facilitators of the Four Gifts of Love® Class, using the corresponding companion videos, participant's guide, and facilitator's guide. It's recommended that couples read the Summary of Basic Concepts before starting this class.
Each lesson will require about 3-4 hours to complete. The lessons build onto each other—creating a strong knowledge base and helping couples integrate that knowledge into their daily lives.
Here’s a review of each building block:
Lesson 1
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Introduces the Four Gifts of Love®
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Identifies the Love Bank—and how couples make deposits into and avoid making withdrawal from each other’s accounts
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Discusses the difference between romantic love and caring love
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Identifies the effect of receiving the Four Gifts of Love in marriage
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Discusses the importance of fulfilling promises to care, protect, and give time and honesty— putting the Four Gifts of Love into action
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Identifies the effect of receiving the Four Gifts of Love in a relationship with God
Lesson 2
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Introduces the concept of emotional needs in marriage
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Reviews the ten most important emotional needs in marriage
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Provides spouses with an opportunity to identify their own emotional needs
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Discusses the importance of listening and responding in a thoughtful marital relationship and in a relationship with God
Lesson 3
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Provides couples with an opportunity to share their emotional needs with each other
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Provides couples with the opportunity to give the Gift of Care by meeting each other’s most important emotional needs
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Reviews three areas of God’s will and provides an opportunity to incorporate these areas into daily lifestyle—giving God the Gift of Care
Lesson 4
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Reviews how to give and receive the Gift of Protection
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Identifies behaviors—called love busters—that destroy love
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Provides couples with the opportunity to identify love busters in their relationship
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Reviews the Policy of Joint Agreement
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Reviews four guidelines for negotiation to help couples find mutually agreeable solutions to problems or disagreements
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Reviews the Gift of Protection with God and a Christian’s version of the Policy of Joint Agreement
Lesson 5
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Provides couples with an opportunity to share the love busters in their relationship
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Provides couples with an opportunity to give the Gift of Protection by avoiding love busters in their relationship
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Presents the Gift of Honesty
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Reviews the Five Parts of Honesty
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Provides couples with an opportunity to practice honesty with each other
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Reviews the Gift of Honesty with God
Lesson 6
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Presents the Policy of Undivided Attention
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Explains the need for couples to spend at least 15 hours a week for undivided attention with each other
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Provides recommendations for how to schedule time for undivided attention
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Provides couples with an opportunity to fine-tune their promise-fulfilling plans to give the Gift of Care and the Gift of Protection
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Reviews the Marital Promise
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Offers parting words of advice
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Reviews the Promise to God
This class will be available by invitation only by May 2018.