These great relationships do not simply happen. They require the development of specific skills, the presence of loving role models who can teach you those skills, and the opportunity to practice the skills in a safe environment, with the on-going support of your faith community.

Through 20 years of rigorous study, Glenn and Gwen Pickering, founders of the Advanced Relationship Training (A.R.T.) Center, have discovered the precise obstacles that interfere with your relationships, the specific knowledge and skills it will take for you to overcome those obstacles, and the most effective ways in which to teach you those simple, yet powerful, skills.

Truly, these events will change your life.

Learning The Truth

The brief (1-2 hour), yet intensely educational, seminar will open your eyes to the truth about how TAG impacts you and your relationship. This fun, challenging, and insightful seminar will provide you with both the sure hope that there is a proven path to deepening your marriage and the life-changing tools that will get you started on that path.  In the Learning the Truth seminar you will learn:

• How the game of TAG is played
• How TAG can destroy even a God-centered marriage
• How to quickly recognize the different versions of the game
• How you can start breaking out of the game and create the life you truly want.

The seminar is led by Dr. Glenn and Gwen Pickering, the founders of the ART Center, the co-authors of Playing TAG, and a truly amazing couple.  Glenn is a United Methodist deacon and former psychologist whose unique experiences and keen observations have helped him to understand relationships in a way no one else ever has.  Gwen is a teacher, counselor, author, and seminar leader whose charismatic teaching style has delighted audiences for years. Together, their profound teachings, unique exercises, and gentle humor will transform the way you think, relate, and worship.

To find out how you could have Glenn and Gwen lead such an event at your church, click here.

Living the Truth

Glenn and Gwen know that, until your heart is right, you could learn all of the communication techniques in the world and your marriage still would not be right. First, your mind and your heart must be transformed.  THEN the techniques matter.

Transformation begins the instant you can look at your partner and honestly say:

“I am precious to God and you are precious to me.”

So, in order for your relationship to be right, you first must know that you are precious.

It is not enough to believe, think, or say that you are precious.

You must KNOW it.

And you must know that your partner is precious to you.

That’s why each LTT week-end is designed to be a powerful experience of these fundamental truths.

When you attend an LTT event, you will know that you are precious to our God.

And you will know that your partner is precious to you.

THEN you both will WANT to live that out – to use the powerful skills that we will teach you.

And your lives will be changed.  Forever.

People who have attended their seminar have called it:

• “an overwhelmingly positive experience.”
• “unlike any retreat I have ever attended”
• “absolutely transformational”
• “fun, exciting, eye-opening, and incredibly useful”

Mastering the Truth

This intensive four-day training is designed for people who wish to master the ART Center principles to the point where they could begin to teach those principles to others.  The experience begins with the Living the Truth workshop, followed by two additional days of intensive training, featuring advanced communication skills, the revelation of the Personal Fable that drives the game of TAG for you, the world’s most powerful mutual decision-making strategy, amazing transformations in areas such as money and sex, and the opportunity to practice your new skills under the very close personal supervision of Dr. Glenn and Gwen Pickering.

This personalized, hands-on, intimate event will change your life and your marriage forever.  And in the process of learning how to create a truly TAG-free relationship, you will also learn how to teach those same skills to others, so that they too might be transformed.  This is our calling; if you believe that it might be yours, as well, we would invite you to register for the Mastering The Truth training event by clicking the button below.

May God bless your ministry.

Personalized Coaching

Individualized education and support from our teachers (including Glenn and Gwen Pickering) is available to you, either before or after you attend an ART Center event. If you want to learn more about this option, please contact us by clicking on the link below.