“Jonathan is the most prolific speaker I've ever met. How can one person know so much about so much? His synthesis of theory and research, practical information, laugh-out-loud humor, and ancient wisdom all combine in a fun and relatable way. He's amazing. All I can say is get him in front of your group now!"
—James Delany, Ph.D., business owner, husband, and father

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“I met you at a large seminar for women. The class was full. At the beginning of the seminar, I remember thinking this would just be another generalized talk, filled with simplistic Band-Aid type of useless advice. It wasn’t. You helped me through a bad time. That was 13 years ago, and I have long since admired you. Thank you for being you. For being real. For being empathetic. For being the fantastic person you are with a gift you're willing to share.”
—Cate H., wife, mother, professional

“The core in my rope is relationships—relationships that are solid and loving. That’s why we have invited Jonathan Sherman to come and be a part of our Speakers Series because relationships are the core of our lives. I’ve heard Jonathan Sherman now four times, and he’s a stand-up comedian! Oh, in real-life he’s a marriage and family therapist, but he is a stand-up comedian. He is so funny! In a disarming and charming way, he will help you laugh into building stronger relationships. The “ACCCTS” that he teaches in his Building Strong Families course is the core of how I understand relationships—The Acts of Love. If you are rooted in those acts, your relationships will be strong. This is important, important work.”
—Reverend Janet Forbes, St. Luke’s United Methodist Church

“Jonathan is amazing! He’s funny, and his strategies are real-life practical.”
—Amanda Davis, HR Director

MANY more testimonials and reviews here…

Popular Relationship Seminars

1. Marriage Mastery
2. Parent Training
3. Self-Mastery

Other Relationship Trainings

4. Corporate Trainings: Emotional Intelligence, Culture, & Leadership
5. Professional Conferences & Clinical Trainings
6. School Trainings
7. Clergy Trainings

Communication: The DEEP Listening Solution
"We don't communicate" is the most common concern that couples bring to me. The truth is: You cannot not communicate. Everything we do or don't do communicates something. What they mean, of course, is, "We don't communicate well, positively or effectively." Too often people are taught only surface communication skills (ie., "I" statements) that don't ever seem to actually work nor do they get to the CORE of the issue. This communication training by-passes the typical cliched communication skills by focusing on THE communication skill that is rarely taught: DEEP Listening.

Speaking Manglish & Womanese: Bridging the Gender Gap
Don't Understand Him or Her?

We were raised in the same culture speaking the same language, right? Nope. While men and women are indeed from the same planet they experience the same world as distinctly different as if they came from their own unique cultures and spoke their own nuanced and complex languages.In this fun, upbeat, informative, and research-based approach Jonathan Sherman, LMFT, licensed marriage and family therapist and relationship strategist teaches you and your partner how to understand and use men's and women's differences as benefits vs. deficits. FULL DETAILS >>

Believe or not BOTH men AND women are easy to understand—once you learn their languages and honor their culture. Come learn how to do both.

Marriage Prep: The “OUR WAY” Marriage Plan

Prepare for Your Marriage, Not Just Your Wedding. "Happily Ever After" is great, but what about the 10-year follow-up study? How do we make a great thing last, especially in the face of daunting divorce statistics? Learn effective ways of making the marriage you're going into the one you dream it will be.

The "Our Way" Marriage Plan: 10 Steps to Reducing Conflict and Increasing Harmony
You wouldn't try to build a house without carefully thought-out and skillfully drawn-up blueprints. You wouldn't try to run a major business without a thorough business or marketing plan. Your football team wouldn't try to take State without a well-practiced playbook. Yet, in our marriages, the basic plan is "If we love each other enough, it will just work out." That's a nice thought. That isn't a plan, folks. Thus the high conflict and failure rates in marriage.

Building Strong Families with "ACCCTS"
Learn the six foundational behaviors of strong marriages and families and how to build on the strengths your family already possesses. This fun, upbeat, informative, and research-based approach Jonathan Sherman, LMFT, a licensed marriage and family therapist and relationship coach teaches the guiding principles and practical techniques for the six most common traits of strong, resilient families and marriages: Appreciation and Affection, Commitment, Creative Coping and Problem Solving, Time Together and Spiritual Wellness.

Creating Your GREAT Relationship Brand: How Sound Business and Marketing Principles Can Strengthen Your Marriage and Family
If everyone wants a GREAT relationship, why isn’t everyone getting one? Are they really that hard to come by? If so, do they need to be? There must be a better way... and there is. Come learn the strategies for creating a truly great, lasting and powerful relationship. This fun, upbeat and informative presentation looks at relationships from a very unique angle: the business and marketing world. The mindsets and skills learned in this workshop apply to marriage, parenting and even at work.

Animal Training for Humans: How to Use Dog, Horse, and Dolphin Training Techniques in Your Parenting and Partnering!
Animal training for humans? Yeah, believe it or not the methods animal trainers use are much more humane, respectful, and EFFECTIVE than how we humans interact (train) with each other. So yes, I do want you to treat your children like dogs! ;-) This is a fun and highly practical class using the principles and psychology of behavior modification that I have been using for years in my practice with youth and couples. Learn how horse, dolphin and dog trainers shape behavior and how their methods directly relate to how to better parent your kids and partner with your partner. Great lessons for creating change in humans (ie., "shaping behavior"). 

Learn how to stop feeding the fire of what you DON'T want and how to start watering what you DO want to grow!

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(Originally called "Husband Training 101”)
Darn those stubborn husbands! If only there were a tried and true method for getting husbands to behave! Okay, men aren't dogs (really, we're not!), and it's not your job to "fix" us. However, there are many things that you can do to enhance your influence with your husband to get more of what you want from your husband and from your marriage. This workshop is taught by Jonathan Sherman, LMFT, a licensed marriage and family therapist, as well as a fully trained husband who's still on his best behavior! (Good boy!)We'll discuss basic training methods and show you how to get results where there haven't been results before. As any good dog or horse trainer will tell you the bulk of the training is in training the trainer to interact more effectively with the one being trained. Women tend to be the relationship managers in most marriages. This doesn't mean their husbands are less responsible for doing their part; it just means they are often less aware. Husbands do want to be able to please their wives, but quite frankly, they don't know how. Further, their wives rarely know how to effectively motivate them to willingly do what the wife would like them to do. Does any of this sound familiar? Then this workshop is for you.

Love & Intimacy
Sexuality, intimacy, closeness, and connection are glorified in the movies as magical, easy, and natural. Yet in real-life relationships, intimacy is often found to be confusing, frustrating, mystifying, and a source of conflict. In this fun, upbeat, and informative presentation, we will explore ways to de-mystify intimacy, stop fighting about it, and discover how to use it to draw much closer to one another.

Relationship Fitness Check-Up
Give the gift of a healthy relationship this Valentine's season! For anything to run well—cars, our bodies, and especially our relationships—we need to make sure they get regular check-ups and the ongoing maintenance they need.

The Life-Long Marriage: Advice from the Real Experts
We can talk about it all we want—but here are the ones who have done it! A panel of elder couples in our community who have weathered 40+ years of marriage and made it work share their wisdom and humor about the committed marriage. The lessons they have to share are priceless.

Men, Relationships & Emotions
We all know that men and women deal with emotions, relationships, and many other things very differently. In this workshop, we look at the often ignored and misunderstood aspects of men, how they relate and how important emotions are to men and women. We also discuss practical ways to integrate this information into our daily lives.

Making a Good Marriage Great!
Anything valuable requires ongoing investing and reinvesting to maintain and improve its value. Our marriages are no different. Learn how to not only keep the good thing you've got from wearing out, but also how to make it even better.

Valentine's All Year Mini-Retreat
Learn how to make romance fun, easy and practical throughout the entire year. 

Start Valentine's Day right!
Join me and other great couples for “Valentine’s All Year” the Saturday before Valentine’s Day from 9:00 a.m. to noon. Kick-off your Valentine's Day in this fun, upbeat and informative mini-retreat learn how to be more mindful and attentive of your relationship throughout the year. What better gift to give each other than to commit to enhancing your marriage by learning skills that will continue throughout the year to reinforce your love for each other. Give the best gifts: the gifts of knowledge, commitment, appreciation, communication, and time together.

Valentine’s Day all year?
Why not? Why not take all the time, attentiveness, thoughtfulness, and planning that goes into Valentine’s Day and spread it throughout the whole year? Sounds good, yes, but is it really practical?

Guiding principle: Practical romance.
Yes. Not only is it practical, it also simply makes a lot of sense. Valentine’s all year does not need to be flowers and dining out every day. It is about splurging with our attention and with our commitments for one another. Practical romance is all about showering one’s spouse with simple, fun, deep, profound, silly, and meaningful words and deeds on a regular and consistent basis and not just once a year. Valentine’s all year is not a fluffy, superficial approach to romance. At this point in my life, I only have time for real, practical, solid approaches that simply work.

Guiding principle: Don’t just wish, want or hope. Decide.
To get great relationship results we must have a clear, identifiable mechanism for carrying it out throughout the year. By learning the guiding principles and practical techniques of creating great relationships we can unlearn what isn’t working and learn what does work. These great relationship principles then become the vehicle that will carry us to our destination.

To accomplish this we cannot continue the ineffective practice of thinking that just because we really want, wish or hope for something bad enough that we will get it. That is not enough for this type of work. We have to decide and then have a clear plan of how we are going to implement it in our relationships. That is the whole point of the Valentine’s All Year concept. It is designed to be not only a mindset but also a series of specific exercises to jump start you into having possibly one of the best years of your marriage. It is designed to help you transform your relationship into what you always wanted it to be but didn’t know-how. This is what real romance is all about. Not just a few days out of the year where we really focus on the relationship. But every day. All year.

Practical technique: Adopt the mindset and start the work.
I encourage you to adopt the Valentine’s All Year mindset as a means to really learn how to appreciate each other, how to deeply commit to each other, and how to communicate what is essential to each other. It takes a lot of willingness, attentiveness, time, thoughtfulness, mindfulness, and practice. In short, it takes a lot of work. The return on the investment, however, is huge and way worth it.

How can you apply the mindset? One way is to simply start by making a list of 52 things you can do for your spouse this year to express your love and commitment to him or her. If that sounds like a lot, just start with a list of ten. Once you start the ideas will continue to flow. Work on it until you have identified the list of 52. If you get stuck, call or email me and I’ll be happy to give you a few great ideas. Once you have made your list begin implementing one idea each week for the next year until next Valentine’s Day and just see how things have improved.

Date: TBA

Included:

• Valentine's All Year Workbook full of articles, worksheets, ideas, and inspiring quotes.

• Two Seminars: 3 hours of instruction, discussion, exercises, etc. See full details below.

SCHEDULE

Welcome and Registration
8:30 - 9:00 AM
Continental breakfast

Seminar 1: Daily Romance Guiding Principles
9:00 - 10:25 AM

• The Three Love Domains
• Practical Romance
• Creating Your OWn Relationship 'Logoscape'

Break
10:25 - 10:35 AM

Seminar 2: Daily Romance Practical Techniques
10:35 AM - 12:00 PM

• Daily Romance
• Seven Ways to Make Your Marriage Last
• The Six Keys for a Strong Marriage

Empty Nesters: Skills for the Second-half of Marriage
In the second half of marriage, couples often need to to reinvent their marriage, to make mid-course adjustments, and to reconnect with one another in a more meaningful way. This workshop addresses eight challenges couples at this stage face and the methods to overcome them.Finding Contentment: What Do We Do As Empty Nesters? Ahhh... the kids have flown the coop and we now have the house and ourselves to each other.... Was that a "Yikes!" or a "Yay!" I heard? Come learn how the wonderful opportunities and unique challenges of the second half of marriage can be met with wisdom and skill.

Animal Training for Humans: How to Use Dog, Horse and Dolphin Training Techniques in Your Parenting!
Jonathan Sherman, LMFT, is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist who specializes in training parents how to effectively discipline their children while building a closer relationship as a family at the same time. This fun and highly practical workshop uses the principles of behavior modification from both the human and animal kingdoms that Jonathan has been using for over 20 years in his practice with youth and their parents. You’ll never look at parenting the same way again.

Parenting Tips from the Trenches Parent Training Course

Parenting with Love and Logic
There's a lot of advice out there on how to raise your kids. As family therapists and family life educators we read and keep up on the latest and best parenting information in the field. Love and Logic is our personal favorite. It is practical, pretty easy to learn and really effective!

Parenting Teens with Love & Logic
Parenting teens can seem about as easy as nailing Jell-O to the wall! But believe it or not there are some approaches that work better than others—better for both the teen and for the parents! So come and learn some practical approaches to add to your parenting toolkit.

How to Talk to Teens About the Tough Stuff

From the event coordinator: "I just wanted to say thank you and let you know how much I appreciate your willingness to come and share your expertise with us. This is such a great topic and I know those in attendance benefited greatly."
—Stephanie Jones, , CHES Utah County Healthy Lifestyles Utah County Health Department

Description

The tough stuff ("sex, drugs and rock and roll" as well as media, porn and peers) can be hard for parents to talk about and for teens to open up about with their parents and/or the responsible adults in their lives. Too often topics about parenting teens centers on discipline and consequences. However, one of the most effective ways to help teens prevent or overcome problems is to know how to relate with them in a meaningful way that opens them to be able to talk naturally to adults. More often than not, though, well-meaning parents and other adults engage with teens in a way that unintentionally alienates them further. Teens then end up sharing less and unfortunately rely only on their own counsel or that of their peers. This limits them from the great store of wisdom and experience of those who've been on the planet a few more turns around the sun than they have. Rather than focus on each of these "tough stuff" subjects which you can learn about ad infinitum online, this presentation teaches you how to approach and talk to teens in a way that allows you to address any subject.

This training covers:

• Being Encouragers, Believers and Hopemongers: Critics and Naysayers Be Gone!

  • Practice: specific phrasing ("You'll get it" sentence series)

  • Avoiding "Parental Freak-Out Mode";

  • The Biology of Shutting Down and Opening Up: Why yelling, anger and lectures don't work;

  • Creating space;

    • Geting comfortable with discomfort;

    • Creating space like a therapist does;

    • How to use drawing out language;

    • How to use open body language;

    • Join-Up: Meet them where they are;

      • Example: Monty Roberts

      • Practices: (Music, "boring", etc)

      • Discipline = Relationship Building + Consequences

      • Normalizing and validating vs. pathologizing and projecting;

        • Practice: The simple validating and normalizing sentence you can't say too often.

        • Acceptance and Change: The crucial dialectic;

        • Individuation and separation is normal. Rebellion is not;

        • The 5:1 Ratio

        • Respect: Don't try to change gray matter.

        • Respect: Given or earned?

        • The Pursue/Withdraw DynamicEncouraging Failure

        • Topics covered subject to change based on time and audience needs.

Included in the presentation:

• Pre-questionnaire to participants to get their questions and concerns regarding the topic so the presenation is customized vs. "canned."

• Handout Packet including the above information

• Article: FAQs for Creating a GREAT Relationship with Your Teen

• Article: Say "Nay" to Naysayers: Learning from Famous "Failures"

• Online Related Resources and Media Clips

Parenting with LCD: Raising Resilient Children as a Community of Faith



StepFamily Success: Secrets for Building a Less Contentious, More Harmonious StepFamily
Step-families are normal but they face many challenges that are unique. By learning skills to deal with these differences step-families increase their chances for success. Learn tips, ideas and principles that can help you create a strong family with confidence.

Divorce Transitions
Divorce is difficult for everyone: you, your children, your family, your friends. There are so many old and new issues to deal with: conflict, grief, co-parenting, dating again, step-families and on and on. Knowledge truly is power. Come and learn some guiding principles that have helped thousands better navigate these difficult times. Divorce is hard enough as it is. Don't go it alone.

Successful Second Marriages: How to Really Live Happily Ever After
Beat the odds. Second marriages have a higher divorce rate than first marriages, but that's in large part because people don't learn the key dynamics unique to second marriages than can make or break the deal. This workshop will prepare you to make this one not only stick, but make it worth sticking.

Internet Safety: Keep Your Kids Safe Online
The Internet is fantastic for kids... and dangerous, too. In this workshop you will learn:

• Online safety guidelines for parents

• Basic rules of online safety for teens

• Kid's rules for online safety

• How to tell when children spend too much time on the computer

• How to know what your children are doing online

• How to set and enforce your rules and limits.

• Family and Kids Contracts for Online Safety

Alternative Solutions to Managing ADHD
Balanced alternative solutions besides medication to managing ADHD, including lifestyle, skill development, health and wellness and more. All strategies are practical and doable. This is a fun, upbeat and informative workshop. “Jonathan’s Attention Dynamic Skills Grab-Bag” is included with 125 tips and strategies in five headings: Mind, Body, Mood, Structure, Social.

Co-parenting: Helping the Kids through Divorce and Step-family Life.
Key concepts and practical strategies for helping your kids and yourself through the difficult transition of divorce through effective co-parenting. Special attention will be given to working with a difficult, toxic or narcissistic ex-spouse who refuses to co-parent. For 11 years he taught the State of Utah's Divorce Parenting Education Class and since 1994 Jonathan has been counseling children, adults, couples and families through all stages and transitions of family life. 

Families & Spiritual Wellness
An interfaith panel offer their insights and answer questions regarding developing spiritually through our families and our families through our spirituality.

Busting Holiday Stress
(Formerly called "The Holidays & Family Togetherness: Rockwell Dream or Griswald Nightmare?")
Ahhh. The holidays! The best time of the year . . . and the most stressful. Why is that? Well, family is one reason. As much as we love them they sure can push our buttons . . . . Just tink of all those personalities in one room. Oh boy! Come learn some time-tested and some innovative strategies for effectively dealing with the stresses of family togetherness over the holidays. We will discuss and share skills for dealing with Stress, Expectations, Anger, Conflict, In-laws, etc. so you can make this holiday season the most enjoyable in years. Give yourself the best gift this year—peace.

Body Language: What You Need to Know About Non-verbal Communication
Most of our communication (a whopping 93%!) is nonverbal and yet we get very little training in this most important and influential aspect of relating to one another. Join Jonathan Sherman, LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Relationship Strategist, and Speaker) in this fun, memorable, and highly practical workshop where you will learn how to leverage the power of body language, tone, and other non-verbals in all of your relationships (professionally and personally) for the mutual benefit of you and those you influence. In this workshop you will learn: the power of joining (mimesis), the two levels of communication, how to craft your body language choices as carefully as you do your word choices, how intention trumps technique, stage presence, body language clustering, universals and gender differences, and much more.

New Year, TRUE You! (Owning Self & Banishing Fear)
“New Year, TRUE You” is a workshop I often give at the beginning of each year because I’m sick and tired of the “New Year, New You” barrage of ads, articles, and products promising a “new you!” we all receive, as if YOU aren’t good enough. I despise the “New you!” phrase—there’s nothing wrong with the core of you, only the junk behaviors and mindsets you’ve picked up along the way. The secret to happiness isn’t becoming a “new” or “better” you; it’s becoming true to who you really are—the TRUE you! A lot of people don’t know how to do that, or don’t even believe their true self is any good to begin with. In this real, down-to-earth, practical (and usually pretty funny) presentation, we flee the comparison trap, dump the junk that never was you, and learn the mindsets and behaviors to be MORE you—authentically you. No fluffy motivational hype—just clear, practical ways to shed what doesn’t fit and bring out the awesome, real you that’s been there all along.

Mindful Mood Mastery: Making Peace with Strong Emotions

Stress-Busting: Mastering Stress, Anxiety, and Other Strong Emotions
I'd love to share these 10 powerful stress-busters with your group.

Mastering Anger: Anger Management Skills that Really Work

Solutions to Depression

Pornography: Problems and Solutions
Pornography has been aptly termed "the drug of the new millennium." This workshop delineates the scope of the problem but, more importantly, practical approaches and solutions to the problem that you can implement in your home and in the lives of those you love and serve. This workshop is frequently hosted by church groups and is offered in a spiritually sensitive manner that incorporates spiritual principles as well as the best research and evidence-based practices.

Building Strong Teams | Building Strong Leaders with A-Triple C-T-S
It's all relationships, folks. It's only the words that change as we transition from family-life to work-life. Both realms are organizations of different people working as a system towards a common goal. At work, it's money. At home, it's happiness. At both, hopefully, it's also about creating meaning. The workplace requires strong leaders and strong teams that can cohesively work together to create incredible outcomes that build people in the process.

Smart Communication Skills for Building a Successful Workplace Culture
Learn The Four Culture Keys to help your team create a workplace culture they want to return to: one with high morale and low turnover. The Four Culture Keys help: 

• Improve effective and assertive communication vs. passive aggressiveness,

• Improved conflict resolution,

• Increase respect vs. gossiping,

• Improve team-building and disrupt cliques,

• Improve morale and appreciation,

• Motivate your team.

Body Language: What You Need to Know About Non-Verbal Communication
Most of our communication (a whopping 93%!) is nonverbal and yet we get very little training in this most important and influential aspect of relating to one another. Join Jonathan Sherman, LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Relationship Strategist, and Speaker) in this fun, memorable, and highly practical workshop where you will learn how to leverage the power of body language, tone, and other non-verbals in all of your relationships (professionally and personally) for the mutual benefit of you and those you influence. In this workshop you will learn: 

• The power of joining (mimesis),

• The two levels of communication,

• How to craft your body language choices as carefully as you do your word choices,

• How intention trumps technique,

• Stage presence, body language clustering,

• Universals and gender differences, and much more.

Leadership Academy and Organizational Development
Jonathan partners with Five Degrees Consulting to provide state-of-the-art management consulting based in emotional intelligence solutions that bring the latest and greatest of human technology to the workplace to engage employees, solve communication problems, and develop leaders.

Emotional Intelligence: The “Street Smarts” of Success

The Science of Happiness

The 5 Dysfunctions of Teams

Coaching for Crucial Conversations & Confrontations

Stress Management for Managers

The Smart Art of Providing Superior Customer Service with Difficult People

Seizing Innovation: Leaving the Fear of Change Behind (based on Who Moved My Cheese)

WORKING the System: Motivating and Strategizing with "Resistant" Teens to Achieve the Better Outcomes THEY Want
Systems, whether they be school, family or legal systems, can seem impossible for teens to successfully navigate. These systems can seem especially hard to figure out when teens feel their only options are comply or rebel—neither option being what they really want. Teaching teens how to strategically “work the system” empowers them to actually achieve the better goals they want: And they do want to succeed, many just don’t know how. The Working the System seminar teaches your people how to reach and teach the “unreachable” and “unteachable”.This seminar has been taught to health care professionals (doctors, nurses, aides), behavioral health professionals (psychologists, social workers, family therapists and counselors), Guardian ad Litem attorneys, CASA workers, teachers and parents.

Description:
Too often teens, and those who work with them, in the system feel at odds with each other and unintentionally end up engaging in fruitless power struggle after power struggle with each other. These power struggles work counter-productive to the goals we want for them as well as the goals they want for themselves. The presenter, Jonathan Sherman, LMFT, is a "tactical relationship strategist", speaker and trainer who works as a private consultant to courts, schools, and corporations. He was the former Youth Substance Abuse Coordinator for Valley Mental Health and has worked with youth and adults in the addiction and forensic populations for 20 years.

Objectives: In this workshop, you will learn key mindsets and practical strategies to:

1. Understand what "normal" is for teens so you can work within their frame instead of fighting against it;

2. Know how to help teens do better in school;

3. Handle home and friend challenges better;

4. Take greater control of their strong emotions by learning from "the masters"; and

5. Leverage their natural desire to think logically and "out-smart" the system.

In short, you'll learn how to help the teens you work with learn how to "work the system" to their benefit, and in a way they resonate with, instead of getting sucked further into the system.

Body Language: What You Need to Know About Non-Verbal Communication
Most of our communication (a whopping 93%!) is nonverbal and yet we get very little training in this most important and influential aspect of relating to one another. Join Jonathan Sherman, LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Relationship Strategist, and Speaker) in this fun, memorable, and highly practical workshop where you will learn how to leverage the power of body language, tone, and other non-verbals in all of your relationships (professionally and personally) for the mutual benefit of you and those you influence. In this workshop you will learn: 

• The power of joining (mimesis),

• The two levels of communication,

• How to craft your body language choices as carefully as you do your word choices,

• How intention trumps technique,

• Stage presence, body language clustering,

• Universals and gender differences, and much more.

Smart Communication Skills for Building a Successful Workplace Culture
Learn The Four Culture Keys to help your team create a workplace culture they want to return to: one with high morale and low turnover. The Four Culture Keys help: 

• Improve effective and assertive communication vs. passive aggressiveness,

• Improved conflict resolution,

• Increase respect vs. gossiping,

• Improve team-building and disrupt cliques,

• Improve morale and appreciation,

• Motivate your team.

Mastering Stress & Other Strong Emotions: Cooling Burnout for Professionals
Whether you are seeking skills to cool professional burn-out, bring balance to your personal and family life, or to more effectively help your clients, this workshop is packed with real-life practical strategies you can begin using today. Come and learn the "Top Stress-Busting Tips from the Trenches" that Jonathan Sherman's clients around the country have used to "Transform stress into success!" Jonathan's Stress-Busters are based only in the best research- and evidence-based approaches combined with real life practical experience so that you walk away from this workshop with the strategies and mindsets that really work. In this workshop, you will:

• Understand the neuroscience and physiology of stress as the foundation for approaching stress management;

• Learn powerful, in-the-moment techniques (including Jonathan's list of 299 "stress-busters"), that are easily taught to clients, for reducing stress and improving resilience in the “heat of the battle”;

• Practice skills which help reduce the impact of stress and anxiety and improve overall well-being.

• Learn how to identify, understand the core messages, and use the generally unknown positive aspects of anxiety, depression and anger.

Thriving in Private Practice

Alternative Solutions to Managing ADHD
Balanced alternative solutions besides medication to managing ADHD, including lifestyle, skill development, health and wellness and more. All strategies are practical and doable. This is a fun, upbeat and informative workshop. “Jonathan’s Attention Dynamic Skills Grab-Bag” is included with 125 tips and strategies in five headings: Mind, Body, Mood, Structure, Social.

Building Strong Families: A Strength-based Family-Life Education Model
Through a wellness-based approach participants will learn the six most common traits of strong, resilient families: Appreciation, Commitment, Creative Coping and Problem Solving, Time Together and Spiritual Wellness. This fun, upbeat and informative research-based presentation has been presented to a wide-range of community groups, church groups, clinical (mental health and substance abuse) and professional populations. This presentation provides information and ideas that professionals can utilize in their own lives, with their clients and in the community. This workshop has been an effective means of combating the stigma of mental health by exposing community members to a licensed mental health professional in a non-threatening, upbeat milieu. 

Learning objectives: Through the demonstration and presentation of a community-based wellness workshop model participants will: 

1. Learn the six most common traits of strong, resilient families with a brief introduction to the supporting research.

2. Learn how to easily recall these traits as well as ways to practically apply them with clients.

3. Gain suggestions for teaching these traits to client families and using them in their agencies (i.e., integrating into therapy, psychoeducation, group therapy, psychoeducational classes, etc.).

4. Gain ideas for implementing these concepts in their own community (i.e., offering as a workshop as community outreach, prevention service, etc).

An Ounce of Prevention: Marketing Family Strengths by Taking Best Practices to the People
Learn how to develop your own Relationship Wellness Series to market your practice.

Too often we as clinicians wait for individuals and families to access therapy at the point of crisis. Via example of the presenter’s own Relationship Wellness Series™ (RWS) a model is presented for how individual practitioners and organizations can actively “get the word out” about developing good mental health through developing healthy relationships. The RWS is presented to the community as a valuable community service where useful, practical information is given in no-strings-attached stand-alone workshops. This model could be adapted well to various organizational and individual needs, skills and interests. This model has proved effective in achieving its three main objectives: 1. Provide a valuable community service as a way to “give back”, 2. Function as a means for developing “good will” marketing for practice development and 3. Reduce the barrier of stigma around mental health issues by exposing participants to a licensed mental health professional and/or organization in a non-threatening venue.

Learning objectives: Through the demonstration and presentation of a community-based workshop series participants will 

• Learn how to implement similar programs in their own communities. 
  Be exposed to several examples of sample workshops such as: “Building Strong Families,” “The Life-Long Marriage: Elder Couple Panel Discussion,” “Step-families, Strong Families,” “Stress-busting 101,” “Divorce Transitions,” “Making a Good Marriage Great,” and parenting workshops. 
  Gain suggestions for developing, marketing and teaching their own wellness-based workshops in their own communities.

Be the Answer: Solutions to Bullying
Jonathan Sherman, LMFT, conducts school interventions and assemblies called "Be the Answer: Solutions to Bullying" based in the nonviolent resistance movements of Gandhi and MLK, Jr as well as current research-based approaches and is focused on rallying the numerous bystanders who too often just... well, stand by. Very powerful.  "Be the Answer" provides real solutions to the bullying problem. Based on the Olweus Bullying Prevention Project, TAB-S, and incorporating the teachings of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King,Jr. “Be the Answer: Solutions to Bullying” is a comprehensive, dynamic and systemic intervention program designed to integrate into your school’s existing policies. Further, "Be the Answer: Solutions to Bullying"provides practical approaches kids actually relate to and will use as it empowers them to stand up for themselves and others in Peacefully Powerful ways. "Be the Answer" is a perfect tie-in to Red Ribbon Week and curricula on MLK, Jr. Available as a stand-alone assembly or as a school-wide prevention and intervention program for students, faculty and parents. 

Strengthening Marriage: Clergy Training

Clergy are often the first-responders to their members' mental, emotional and relational needs. This presentation will provide clergy with tools to enrich relationships and strengthen marriages that will better help them help their members. This fun, upbeat and highly practical presentation is a clergy favorite. This presentation has been culled from what my interviews with clergy of many faiths (LDS, Methodist, Jewish, Catholic, Unitarian, Non-denominational Christian, Lutheran, etc.) have reported they have most needed in their ministries.

This training will cover the positive attributes of relationships and how these positive tools can not only enrich healthy relationships but can help fix problem relationships:

• Re-order Thinking from Prevention vs. Cure: Marriage Prep

• The Deep Listening Validation Chain

• The Trust Equation

• The Intimacy Equation

• The Six Most Common Traits of Strong Families: ACCCTS

• The Four Relationship Poisons and Their Antidotes

• The 5:1 "Magic" Ratio

• The 5 Marriage Styles

• The "Our Way" Plan

• Many more available resources available to them and their members

• Topics covered subject to change based on time and audience needs.

Eval Results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1flZtYGrGnyrFtxVv87IAyP8KlGFv4fmRfqy5lkcV_t0/edit?usp=sharing