• Love relationships more important than financial success or career satisfaction recent survey of Americans and Canadians shows.     • Our transitory society greatly increases the need for secure, primary relationship new study says.     • People in secure, satisfying primary relationships tend to be healthier, happier, more successful, and have longer lives.

RELATIONSHIP SEMINARS FOR SINGLES
Single Gay Men – April 4-5, 2009
Choosing the right partner is life’s most important decision – one best not left to chance.

If you're single, you may be gun-shy from your previous experiences, having had a hard time with relationships so far. You may be starting for the first time. Or you may be starting over because of life's unexpected twists and turns. You may fear getting involved with the wrong people and you may be afraid of getting hurt again. Your experience is common. In this workshop we help you gain a clearer understanding of relationships, a better understanding of yourself, and a better understanding of your history so dating and mating is less a "crap shoot" and becomes more satisfying and successful.

Learn more about the upcoming relationship workshops for single people >>

These workshops are intended to help you learn to:

• be attracted to more appropriate partners
• eliminate wrong people sooner
• identify and overcome what has kept you single
• predict the outcome of a relationship
• make sense of your dating problems
• explore new places and ways for meeting more appropriate people
• avoid making the same mistakes again

Singles Relationship Workshop in September 2005

COUPLES
Gays and Lesbians – May 30-31, 2009
In our transitory society, the need for a secure primary relationship is enhanced, and our bonding and attachment skills are challenged by societal attitudes and personal experiences.

All couples do well during easy times, but the measure of successful couples is how well they get through the inevitable hard times. Perhaps you’d like better ways to work through the recurring hard spots. Maybe you’d like your partner to understand you better, or you’d like to better understand your partner. Usually a clearer, kinder, more accurate understanding of your self and your partner will improve the mood in your relationship, and will give you a much better chance for getting the love and happiness you want.

These seminars are useful to new couples who want to ensure the on-going success of their relationship; for couples who’ve been together a while and would like to enhance and/or “sparkup” the relationship a little; and for couples who are really struggling.

Most couples leave these seminars with:

• Improved communication skills
• Reduced frustration and blame
• Specific skills for increasing happiness
• Deeper understanding of the recurring struggles
• Increased compassion for themselves and their partners
• Increased optimism
• Improved skills for working through the hard times
• Better skills for getting what they want
• Skills for restoring and increasing romance

Tony Carroll, LCSW, a specialist in relationships, Has helped hundreds of single people and couples find lasting love relationships and richer, fuller, happier lives. He has studied with a number of the outstanding relationship experts including Pat Love, EdD; Joyce Buckner, PhD; John Gottman, PhD; Harville Hendrix, PhD; David and Jill Scharff, MD; and David Schnarch, PhD, Les Greenberg, PhD; Sue Johnson, EdD, to name a few. In addition to the academic study, his clinical work has provided a wealth of experience. These workshops can help you as a single person in your quest for the right partner. The couples’ seminars can help you build a stronger, more satisfying relationship with your partner.

What clients say:

“We owe you our marriage – it’s happy now.” – Couple

“We met at one of your singles workshops and we’ve been living happily together in Syracuse for six years .” – Gay Couple

“I feared it (Singles workshop) would be a bunch of relationship loosers, but they were really nice guys looking for the same thing. Very, very, worth the time!” – Single man

“The whole issue of being gay and what this means was also very clarifying for many of us. The weekend was great!” – Gay man

“Thanks again for the fine work and hospitality at the Single Gay Men's workshop.” – Single gay man

“My confidence is much better, and this attracts others. If you have been out of the dating pool, or in it but not finding love, I encourage you to invest in Tony's workshop soon!”