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    Staying One: Leader’s Guide: How to Avoid a Make-Believe Marriage
    Staying One: Leader’s Guide: How to Avoid a Make-Believe Marriage
    Staying One: Leader’s Guide: How to Avoid a Make-Believe Marriage
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    Staying One: Leader’s Guide: How to Avoid a Make-Believe Marriage

    By Clinton W. McLemore and Anna M. McLemore

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    Marriage is the most demanding and potentially rewarding relationship for many adults. Learning to navigate its challenges can be difficult. Staying One is a practical guide that not only teaches the spiritual what and why of marriage but also provides advice and practice in the how. Intended to save readers from the pain of learning the hard way, it illustrates and explains biblically sound approaches to building a healthy and fulfilling marriage that lasts. These include things married people should and shouldn't say to each other.
     
    Staying One will prove useful to pastors in their pre-marital counseling and to the couples they are ministering. It will serve as powerful source material for marriage enrichment workshops, retreats focused on marriage, and church-based growth groups and adult education classes. The book will prove of special interest to engaged couples, newlyweds, those wanting to revitalize their marriages, and married people on the brink of divorce. A key feature is that each chapter concludes with a response from the author's wife, reflecting a woman's point of view.
     
    We also offer a Workbook for use in completing the twenty hands-on activities contained in Staying One, as well as a comprehensive Leader's Guide for those facilitating workshops based on the book.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCascade Books
    Release dateFeb 21, 2017
    ISBN9781498295529
    Staying One: Leader’s Guide: How to Avoid a Make-Believe Marriage
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    Clinton W. McLemore

    Clinton W. McLemore is an organizational psychologist and President and Founder of Relational Dynamics, Inc.

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      Staying One - Clinton W. McLemore

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      Leader’s Guide

      for Workshops Based on

      Staying One

      How to Avoid a Make-Believe Marriage

      Clinton W. McLemore

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      Staying One

      How to Avoid a Make-Believe Marriage: Leader’s Guide

      Copyright © 2017 Clinton W. McLemore. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.

      Cascade Books

      An Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers

      199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3

      Eugene, OR 97401

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      paperback isbn: 978-1-4982-9551-2

      hardcover isbn: 978-1-5326-1172-8

      ebook isbn: 978-1-4982-9552-9

      Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

      Names: McLemore, Clinton W. | McLemore, Anna M.

      Title: Staying one : how to avoid a make-believe marriage: leader’s guide / Clinton W. McLemore with Anna M. McLemore.

      Description: Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017

      Identifiers: isbn 978-1-4982-9551-2 (paperback) | isbn 978-1-5326-1172-8 (hardcover) | isbn 978-1-4982-9552-9 (ebook)

      Subjects: LCSH: Marriage—Religious aspects—Christianity. | Married people—Psychology. | Married people—Conduct of life.

      Classification: BV835 M252 2017 (print) | BV835 (ebook)

      Manufactured in the U.S.A. May 15, 2017

      Scripture quotations marked (ESV) are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations marked (NIV) are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com The NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.™

      Table of Contents

      Title Page
      Workshop Leader’s Guide

      Workshop Leader’s Guide

      Staying One

      Introduction: Thank you for choosing to lead a workshop based on Staying One: How to Avoid a Make-Believe Marriage. This guide is intended to help you do this by decreasing the amount of preparation time you’ll need and by providing you with a script from which you can choose what to include, what to leave out, and what to say differently.

      It is important to encourage participants in the workshop to read Staying One ahead of time, and at various places in the workshop, they will need to refer to it.

      It’s also important that each person have his or her own Workbook. These booklets provide an easy and efficient way for participants to write down and save their answers to the exercises and to make notes on what their spouses say.

      As much as you can, use examples from your own life to illustrate key points. Just be sure that such examples are brief, well-organized, and carefully chosen. Make sure that each example crisply demonstrates what you’re trying to get across.

      I emphasize in the book how communication is about connecting. Speaking from experience is often the best way to connect. Sharing personally has the additional benefit of encouraging candor in participants.

      It is important to rehearse ahead of time what you’re going to share. This will help you move along quickly and thereby keep the primary focus on your audience.

      You may be able to complete the entire workshop in one day, although to do this you will either have to move along briskly or omit some sections, perhaps the ones marked optional. As the workshop progresses, there are more and more exercises for participants to complete. It is designed to move from acquiring information to improving skills.

      It’s a good idea to announce a five- to six-minute break after the first forty to forty-five minutes, and thereafter to take additional short breaks every two hours or so. I’ve found that if I announce to an audience that we’re going to take a six-minute break, it usually takes at least ten minutes to get everyone seated and to resume.

      Throughout this Guide, you will find sentences and paragraphs you can use to lead the workshop. These are the indented paragraphs. Feel free to use your own words if doing that feels more natural. After the symbol [TIP], you will find suggestions and reminders that may assist you as the facilitator and presenter. These are for you and are

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