Our Relationship Experts & Partners
We have partnerships with world-class relationship and family experts and an experienced network of professionals that share Celebrate Forever’s philosophy of building healthy individuals, couples, families and communities.
The Smalley Institute
For more than 30 years the Smalley Institute has produced practical resources to help people build better relationships. Founder Gary Smalley is one of the country’s most well known authors and speakers on relationships. He is the author and coauthor of over 60 best-selling, award-winning books along with several popular films and videos, which have sold over 12 million copies. Gary, and his wife Norma, continue to produce and create resources, conduct relationship coaching, research and speak at conferences across the country.
ER 4 LOVE
Continuing the legacy of the Smalley Institute, Michael and Amy Smalley have created and authored their own best-selling books and videos. Together they founded the ER4LOVE Center and intensive program for hurting couples. Currently there are eight ER4LOVE Centers in cities across the United States with plans to open more each year.
Professional Memberships
NARME is the national expert on strengthening marriages, families,and children through research-based educational programs. The National Association for Relationship and Marriage Education’s (NARME) mission is to mobilize allies across America to provide education for healthy marriages, responsible fathers, and strong families. We are the only entity of its kind that exists to educate and build capacity for the best demonstrated practices in the field of relationship and marriage education as it relates to the providers of marriage, parenting, fatherhood, and positive youth development services.
AACC is committed to assisting Christian counselors, the entire “community of care,” licensed professionals, pastors, and lay church members with little or no formal training. It is our intention to equip clinical, pastoral, and lay care-givers with biblical truth and psychosocial insights that minister to hurting persons and helps them move to personal wholeness, interpersonal competence, mental stability, and spiritual maturity.
