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Marriage Underdogs
Did you and your spouse overcome and defy the odds of divorce to make your marriage work? If your marriage took a hit and you made it through a rocky season, then you are Marriage Underdogs!
Chris and his wife Shauntay met over 18 years ago, when they were both broke college students and their families were completely against their relationship. Despite having a baby while attending two colleges three hours apart, they still managed to WIN at marriage!
In this inspiring program, Chris will take you and your partner down a journey of reflection, introspection, and connection as you work through your own personal marriage underdog story.
Audience Members Will…
Master the art of forgiveness and overcoming setbacks
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Develop clear boundaries and expectations
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Manage relationship assets, liabilities, weaknesses and threats
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Gain communication skills designed to create win/win outcomes
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Marriage Underdogs is designed to be offered in a retreat or workshop setting for married, engaged, dating, or cohabitating couples.
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​Finding Your Relationship Fix
Repairing Personal and Professional Relationships
You can’t take past words or actions back, but you can learn from your mistakes, and show up better next time in your relationships. Most of the issues you have with your spouse, friends, and co-workers started off as small miscommunications that went unprocessed.
As an expert marriage counselor, conflict resolution specialist, and mediator, Chris will teach you and your team how to move past all types of relationship conflicts.
Audience Members Will…
Uncover the four feelings required to building healthy relationships
Gain tools designed to help you repair fragile or
damaged relationships
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Develop the skills you need to effectively have “the hard” conversations
Prevent small issues or misunderstands from
becoming BIG problems
Perfect for:
Employee Retention
Team Building
Student/Staff Orientations
Positive Masculinity
Qualities like being strong, brave, ambitious, a good provider, protector, and leader are all positive traits of solid men which typically are associated with healthy masculinity.
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However, in an effort to combat intimate partner violence (IPV), masculinity has been given a bad name. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that one in three women in their lifetime will be a victim of IPV. This has prompted feminist groups to unfortunately paint masculinity as an identifiable trait of an abuser which is not true for all men who present as masculine. ​
Audience Members Will…
Debunk the myth that ALL masculinity is toxic
Explore how to use masculine energy to protect and provide
Prevent domestic violence and abusive behaviors
Discover healthy ways to express difficult emotions like anger
Perfect for:
Manhood/Fatherhood
Violence Prevention
Sports Teams/Fraternities
​Expecting the Expected
Managing Beliefs, Mastering Thoughts, and Measuring Emotions
Emotions are great servants but poor masters, and that’s why it takes work to learn how to rewire your thoughts and beliefs. Your life experiences and family of origins passed down to you from caretakers are the foundational blocks that define the root causes for most of your actions.
After you learn how to control your beliefs, thoughts, and emotions, you will then be able to “expect the expected” positive outcomes you will manifest into your life and work teams.
Audience Members Will…
Develop strategies to overcome “thinking errors” such as mindreading and blame
Gain techniques to master your thoughts and emotions
Install accountability without using fear or intimidation
Perfect for:
Leadership Development
Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
Mental Health