Course Description

In today’s world, where the line between truth and deception is often blurred, navigating personal, work, and community life with skill and spiritual principles is more important than ever. By embracing truthfulness and cultivating personal integrity and authenticity, you can build healthier and more unified relationships. As you deepen your understanding of spiritual and ethical principles, you’ll be empowered to be more discerning about what you see and hear in the media, and contribute to thriving communities, marriages, and families.

Are you ready to discover the truth within yourself and the world around you? Join us for a transformative journey of authenticity, growth, and meaningful connection.

Course Content

    1. Please Introduce Yourself!

    2. Course Orientation

      FREE PREVIEW
    3. All Learners: Vital Note from Your Facilitators

      FREE PREVIEW
    4. Pending - Course Schedule/Zoom Link for Group Meetings

    5. Frequently Asked Questions

    6. Change Notes for the Course

    1. Unit 1 Learning Goals and Content

      FREE PREVIEW
    2. Using Consultation to Build Understanding and Make Unified Decisions

    1. Unit 2 Learning Goals and Content

    2. Unit 2: Accountability

    3. Unit 2: Perfectionism, Grace, and Forgiveness Essay

      FREE PREVIEW
    4. Unit 2: Be Kind to Yourself

    5. Unit 2: What Gems Are the Best Part of You

    1. Unit 3: Learning Goals and Content

    1. Please share your thoughts and experiences; Anything we can assist with?

    1. Unit 4: Learning Goals and Content

About this course

  • $75.00

Course Schedule and Meeting Times

The course begins Saturday, January 3, 2026, and it ends about February 14, 2026. A discussion group will meet weekly on Zoom on Saturdays for 2 hours, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. US Eastern time. Note: Time zones are complex. To check your time vs. the meeting time throughout the course, Time Zone conversions can be done using one of the tools below. (Put Miami or New York City in for the meeting time.)

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html

https://www.worldtimeserver.com/meeting-planner.aspx

Cost to Participate in the Course

This course invites you to commit time, effort, and money. We hope you can afford the cost of the course, as that helps cover the cost of the course platform and a small amount to the course facilitators for their service. However, we recognize that many factors could make it difficult to afford the fee. We do not want financial difficulties to prevent registration. If you cannot afford part or all of the fee, there are coupon codes available to reduce it. Please be specific with how much you can afford or how much discount you need. Prior course participants are eligible for a 75% discount.  Contact Susanne Alexander, course administrator, at [email protected] with your request for a coupon code.

The Course Will Help You:

  • Envision a Truthful Society: Reflect on the world you wish to create and explore how truthfulness and collaborative, unified consultations can guide you toward making progress in that vision.

  • Embrace Your True, Authentic Self: Discover the unique aspects of your identity and learn the power of authenticity in a world that often encourages facades. Share your genuine self to build deeper, more meaningful connections.

  • Think About Truth in Media: Assess ways to critically analyze current media, expand your ability to distinguish between truth and falsehood, and sharpen your thinking in an age of information overload.

  • Cultivate Truthfulness as a Superpower: Understand the significance of truthfulness, assess your own integrity, and explore practical strategies and tools to strengthen this essential virtue in your life.

  • Triumph Over Falsehoods and Lies: Delve into the nature of deception, learn how to spot its signs, and uncover effective strategies and tools to nurture truthfulness and transparency.

  • Build Unity in Close Relationships: Apply these insights to courtship, marriage, and family life, creating trust, open communication, and authentic, unified bonds.

Facilitators

Marie Gervais

Facilitator

Marie Gervais, PhD., is a Certified International ACC Coach, and a Certified Emotional Success Coach. Additionally, she has completed training in Internal Family Systems and Brainspotting moving toward certification. She uses emotional regulation, visualization, body sensation, and breathwork to help clients with workplace distress, career mapping, and removing emotional blocks to work. Marie has been a Bahá’í since 1979, serving as a Local Spiritual Assembly member since that time, and as Assistant to the Auxiliary Board for many years. Additionally, Marie is actively involved in the Institute process, works within a nucleus, and coordinates capacity building for neighborhood core activities, including training children’s class teachers, tutors, and Junior Youth animators. Within the context of marriage transformation, Marie, together with other Assembly-designated representatives, has coached many Bahá’í couples in challenged marriages and offered local and regional marriage workshops for all ages in Alberta, Canada. [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/leaderstraining/ https://shiftworkplace.com

Susanne M. Alexander

Relationship and Marriage Educator and Coach; Course Developer and Administrator

Hi, I’m Susanne M. Alexander, your course creator and companion on this learning journey. While I am a Relationship and Marriage Educator and Coach, I’ve also had a lot of experience. I’ve likely walked in your shoes. I’ve been single, dating, engaged, married, divorced, and widowed (currently married). I am a child, stepchild, sibling, step-sibling, parent, step-parent, grandparent, and step-grandparent. All of this has given me a diversity of experience to share! I meet with clients globally via the Internet for relationship preparation and navigating, marriage preparation, and couple relationship or marriage strengthening. I coordinate the faculty team and am the lead instructor here at Transformation Learning Center (www.transformationlearningcenter.com). My company is Marriage Transformation®, www.marriagetransformation.com, where I am President and also the author and publisher of numerous books. Books authored or coauthored include Couple Vitality, Creating Excellent Relationships, All-in-One Marriage Prep, Marriage Can Be Forever--Preparation Counts!, and Re-Vitalizing Our Marriage. I am certified by Prepare-Enrich to offer a research-based assessment to couples at any stage and accompany them through learning about themselves and their readiness for the next stage in their relationship (www.prepare-enrich.com) I'm also certified to offer the Character Foundations Assessment and have Completed Level 1 Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy. I'm a member of the National Alliance for Relationship and Marriage Education. Media and Writing Experience: Quoted as an expert in Upjourney.com, HerCampus.com, eHow.com, Washington Woman, Ladies Home Journal, Inc., and more. I'm also a journalist with a background in freelancing for Newsweek, SimpleMarriage, and many others. I have been creating and offering online relationship and marriage courses for over 10 years.

Phil L. Donihe

Facilitator

Philip L. (Phil) Donihe is a passionate leader, innovation expert, and systems specialist. He is certified to provide the Character Foundations Assessment™  and the Innovation Strengths Preference Indicator™. He uses these to assist individuals to understand their personal strengths, growth areas, and personalities. This self-knowledge increases self-respect and the ability to interact well in relationships of all types. Phil is also certified in Change Management. Phil has a background of 30+ years of diverse business management experience. As President of Innovekt®, he has developed leading-edge ways to empower clients to engage and manage their personal development, team formation, and new innovation initiatives. His unique approaches develop and place leaders and team members, liberate creativity, and provide visibility of efforts and successes. Phil's values are: integrity beyond question, service with excellence, and collaboration in creating “new”. He coaches both men and women with a specialty of working with men on their character, values, relationships, and fathering. Phil is married to Susanne M. Alexander and has a son, daughter, stepdaughter, sons-in-law, and grandchildren. He is an avid mountain biker and works out regularly in the gym. www.innovekt.com [email protected]