Why Real Essential | The Center for Relationship Education

Successful relationships take practice, too.

From the moment we are born, we start training for life. There’s sleep training, potty training, and even training wheels on our first bike. In school, teachers instruct us to master math and spelling drills and guide us through art and music lessons. In athletic pursuits, we receive specialized coaching and training to achieve our goals. All of us rely on mentorship and guidance to learn necessary skills as we become experts in our chosen professions, passions and hobbies.

Despite all this training, we fail to achieve one essential status of learning – one key element that can make a difference in life’s success. From childhood to old age everyone is expected to manufacture relationship skills entirely on their own. The Center for Relationship Education exists to change that.

The Center for Relationship Education is committed to bringing foundational relationship skills to people of all ages and walks of life, in order to create understanding and effective communication in schools, workplaces, and at home.

Where Success Starts.

The Center for Relationship Education’s REAL Essentials curricula can empower anyone to learn foundational relationship skills and transform the quality of connections every day. When leveraged as a key programming tool across a variety of social initiatives, REAL Essentials helps improve quality of life throughout the community. Curriculum materials provide the flexibility facilitators need to build their own customized programs and achieve organizational goals.

Life success starts with healthy relationships. Healthy relationships start with REAL Essentials.

Community

A high-functioning, communicative and collaborative culture unites communities and elevates the standard of living for everyone.

Family

Learning one another’s communication style and understanding other's motives and intentions helps families work together more productively, build stronger bonds, and fortify family foundations.

School

Relationship education that goes beyond academic curriculum empowers students to succeed at school, at home and well into their future lives.

Work

Providing actionable tools for communication, collaboration and understanding builds a strong and productive work culture and comfortable work environment.

Finances

Strong relationships at home and at work foster transparency, creativity and collaboration, promoting success on a personal and material level.

Health

Healthy relationships = healthy life. Strong relationships lower stress and anxiety, foster mental health, and improve physical wellbeing.

How we build healthy
relationships together.

The Center for Relationship Education’s dedication to activity-based experiences has led to a unique educational curriculum that is REAL Essentials. By pairing facilitator training with certification – CRE offers relationship skills to more audiences with proven results that last.

Activity-Based

REAL Essentials is designed with engaging, memorable activites, ensuring all program participants stay involved and have an enjoyable time while learning. Each activity helps participants digest and recall critical concepts that enhance interpersonal connections.

Scalable

CRE's train-the-trainer certification model enables organizations to leverage internal resources while scaling relationship education to a greater level. This creates a sustainable training culture by empowering participants with the tools to routinely integrate relationship education.

Flexible

CRE’s modular curricula are designed to easily be customized to suit specific needs for grant programs, community social initiatives, schools and workplaces. Pick and choose which modules are most appropriate for your organization’s goals.

Proven Effective

Curriculum content is research aligned and was created on the foundation of five evidenced-based learning theories. The real proof is in the results. Thousands of REAL Essentials participants have shared their personal stories of impact.

Get Certified in REAL Essentials

Earn your certification in a curriculum proven to develop relationship skills and enhance interpersonal connections.

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Why REAL Essentials?

Successful relationships take practice, too.

The Center for Relationship Education is committed to bringing foundational relationship skills to people of all ages and walks of life, in order to create understanding and effective communication in schools, workplaces, and at home.