A Black Marriage Curriculum for Couples, Instructors, and Organizations By: Dr. Rozario L. Slack and Nisa Islam Muhamad

Summary:
Basic Training is an eight session marriage curriculum designed for couples to use in the comfort of their home, marriage educators working with couples, and facilitators in group sessions. The sessions are easy to understand and accompany the DVD of Dr. Slack and Nisa Muhammad. Basic Training was created to strengthen marriages by helping couples to understand the importance of marriage, helping them to develop a value for marriage and the need to put the marriage first, to communicate and resolve conflict better, understand the value of sex in a marriage, learn how to make the transition of combining families easier, ways to keep the F.I.R.E. burning, and the need to develop a plan of success for the marriage. We understand that everyone who uses this curriculum will not be married; in fact we strongly encourage couples that are considering marriage to use the curriculum.

Basic Training Sessions:
Session 1. Why Marriage? 13
Session 2. From I to We: The Sweetness of Surrender 21
Session 3. Communication: Getting your Message Across 29
Session 4. Making Marriage Work with Conflict Management 37
Session 5. Let’s Make Love 47
Session 6. Yours + Mine= Ours (optional session for blending families) 53
Session 7. Keep The F.I.R.E. Burning 63
Session 8. Forever and For Keeps 71