Cheryl Kirking
Cheryl Kirking, Author and Certified Personality Trainer

The Personality Puzzle: Understanding Others by Understanding Yourself
This entertaining, fast-paced workshop will help you identify your own personality types and those of others in your lives--most importantly, your spouse. You will learn how to identify and work on weaknesses and maximize strengths, and build stronger relationships through improved communication.  Each participant will receive a useful personality profile. You will gain a deeper appreciation of the uniqueness and value of each personality's "puzzle piece"  and our  God-given gifts.


Mike McKinley

Our Promise….Enjoying One Step at a Time
An energetic, interactive, fast-paced, humorous power conversation will look at "What Will We Do Better". Discussions will include how can  we overcome boredom, how can we make our relationship more exciting and fun, and how do we correct that in our marriage.


Dawn Schalow MS

Is Your L.A.U.G.H.-Full or L.A.U.G.H. – Empty
Laughter matters to your physical, emotional, and spiritual health.  Life can be very stressful but living it doesn’t have to be. Learn the five inspiring and life changing principles of L.A.U.G.H. – Full living and how to incorporate them into your life.

Tom Jadin

Reaching New Heights without Climbing the Walls!
Let’s face it, the best tool we have at work or at home is ourselves. This presentation takes a lighthearted, yet practical look at how we can keep that tool motivated, well, and sane!

Only The Strong Survive!
Why do some people seem to go through change, hassles, and tough times better than others? This presentation takes a look at those differences and how we can make ourselves “hardier.”


Alan Prahl, Education Manager, FISA

50 Ways to Save in 50 minutes
Is money stressing you out? Just 5 years ago gas was as low as $1.50 a gallon. Times and prices have changed! Learn simple steps you can take to stretch your money, reduce expenses, and still have a comfortable life.

Budgeting and Communication Secrets for Couples
This workshop will feature a quick summary of some of today's financial challenges. (If people have a sense that there are more financial challenges today they are right). Each spouse brings their own emotions, knowledge and financial habits to the relationship and with the many demands on our income, good communication and cooperation are essential. Sure opposites attract and that's OK! But, how to move from a gazillion dreams you can't afford to agreeing on and saving for the dreams you can afford will be addressed in some simple, automatic saving tools that work. 


Justin Bangert

Working Through Marriage’s Conflicts by Putting on Your “Marriage C.A.P.” (Care, Aware, and Prayer)
This informative, yet interactive workshop will highlight the three essential ingredients that every marriage must have in order to navigate through the conflicts, trails, and tribulations which the journey of marriage brings to us all.

Building a Spiritual House for Marriage
Based on the work of pioneering marriage research expert John Gottman’s Sound Marital House Theory., this workshop compares the critical components of a strong marriage, and translates the same blueprint for incorporating essential, yet practical ways to build a foundation for experiencing, worshipping and embracing God as the focal point of your marriage.

Biography
Justin Bangert is a marriage and family therapist working at the Center for Christian Counseling in Madison, WI. He has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Wisconsin Stout. Currently residing with his wife in Sauk City, WI, Justin was born and raised in Green Bay, in a family with a strong connection to the Marriage Encounter organization. Justin has a deep passion for working with couples, and is devoted to helping others bring harmony and satisfaction into their marriages, as well as deepen their interpersonal and spiritual connections.