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Smart Relationship Courses

The Essential Skills: Learn, Review, Practice
With Dr. David Sanford
Combination Online Lessons & Teleclasses

What's New

Next Smart Relationship Course:
Working on Your Relationship Alone
7/26/2009 - 9/13/2009

The Options Session:
Exploring your situation with Dr. Sanford – 30 mins. of options & perspectives. Details.

Free Teleclass:
Teleclasses resume in the fall. Watch for announcements.

Check out Dr. David Sanford's blog, couplesupport.com

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Five Steps to a Successful Relationship
A Dr. Sanford "skills and practice" course.
Details, course outline and signup.

Smart Relationship Courses
Course Procedure

  • The Smart Relationship Courses rotate - one course available at a time.
  • The lessons for the available course appear online one week apart. Previous lessons remain online until the course period is finished, which occurs two weeks after the final lesson is posted. (So a six-lesson course is open for seven weeks.)
  • You may enroll in a course at any time that it is open.
  • However, each course has an enrollment limit – generally 15 people. If you don't succeed in enrolling because the limit has been reached, you can either wait for this course to be offered again or enroll in another course that will open soon.
    When you enroll in a Smart Relationship Course, we will email you the password that gives you access to that course's lessons as they appear.
  • Think of the course that you are taking as a workbook or an exercise manual – meant for use, for experimentation, for practice – not just for reading. Each course is loaded with exercises, activities and action tips. Try out as many as possible. Do so long enough and often enough to see if they work for you and your relationship. Then continue using the ones that do after the course is finished.
  • Remember: When you behave differently, you change and the relationship changes.
  • We encourage you to download the lessons. Make sure to do so while the course is still open.
  • Each Smart Relationship Course includes two teleclasses – a 30-minute class about a week before the first lesson appears and a 90-minute class during or immediately after the final class.
  • The first is an informational class intended to orient you to the lessons that are coming. The second, longer, class is for processing your experience using the approaches presented in the course. The second class is the more truly interactive of the two classes.
  • If you have not taken a teleclass before, it is a class over the telephone. Each person enrolled in the course receives an email giving the date and time for the class, as well as the phone number to dial and the participant access code to the virtual "room" where the class is being held.
  • While the teleclass itself is free or included in the cost of the course, your phone call is not free. Your phone company will charge you their customary rate for the call.
  • I want to have the Smart Relationship Courses be "growing courses" in the sense that each time the course is offered, it includes useful new input from the people who have previously taken the course.
  • We invite you to write us at the end of a course. Send us your recipes for success – both approaches from the course that worked for you (give us the details, please) and other approaches not included in the course that you have tried with success. We will take the most useful and add them to the course the next time around.
  • Please also give us feedback on the course – what worked and what didn't, what you would keep, take out, and add. We will happily give you a 15% discount on the next course that you take in appreciation for your success recipes and course feedback.

David Sanford

 

   
 
 

 

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