Gifted with the ability to bring joy to your heart and a smile to your face, Dr. Greg Smalley combines insightful, practical and passionate teaching that has great application to marriages, families, and other relationships as well as to individual growth.
Dr. Smalley's passion is to help people obtain the knowledge and skills to build healthy, satisfying, and lifelong marriages where both people become conformed to the image of the Lord.
Greg earned his doctorate degree in clinical psychology from Rosemead School of Psychology at Biola University in Southern California. He also holds two masters degrees. One is in counseling psychology from Denver Seminary and one is in clinical psychology from Rosemead School of Psychology.
Greg is the Director of Marriage Ministries for the Center for Relationship Enrichment on the campus of John Brown University. He is also an assistant professor of marriage and family studies at John Brown University.
He has appeared on both television and radio programs, including Focus on the Family and Hour of Power. He is the author or co-author of nine books including Before You Plan Your Wedding, Plan Your Marriage; The DNA of Relationships for Couples; The Marriage You've Always Dreamed Of; The DNA of Relationships; The DNA of Parent and Teen Relationships; Men’s Relational Toolbox; Life Lines: Communicating with Your Teen; Winning Your Wife Back; and Winning Your Husband Back.
Greg, his wife Erin, two daughters, Taylor and Maddy, and son, Garrison live in Siloam Springs, Arkansas.
~Speaking Topics~
The Heart of Marriage – Our heart is the wellspring of life and relationships. “Guarding our heart” means that we learn how to take great care of our heart and to keep our heart open to God and others.
The Safest Place on Earth – The goal for every couple should be to learn practical steps to create a marriage that feels like the safest place on earth.
The Fear Dance – Every person, single or married gets stuck in a very frustrating relationship dance when people push our emotional "buttons".
Personal Responsibility – To have a healthy and passionate marriage, people must learn how to take personal responsibility when their emotional buttons get pushed and how to get their heart back open.
Caring for Your Heart - Your ability to feel emotionally safe in relationships depends more on your ability to keep your heart open and full of God’s love because you can’t give what you don’t have.
Caring for your Mate’s Heart – Instead of judging how people feel, we have an opportunity to “care” for our mate’s heart by using Heart Talk. Heart Talk allows you to listen, understand, validate, and care about each other’s hearts—their emotions and feelings.
Relational Responsibility - When we act like teammates, we remember that the only possible outcome in our marriage is that we will either "win" together or we will "lose" together. The key is to find solutions that feel good to both people.
~Other Topics~
Discovering Your Love Language
The Power of Negative Thinking
True Romance
Are You Expecting? (relational expectations)
The Gift of Honor
The Value of Personality Differences
When Anger Hits Home
The Heart of Parenting
Since Dr. Smalley has such a wide range of clinical, writing and speaking experience, he is able to customize a speaking event for any audience type (i.e., singles, dating, engaged, marriage, family, and parenting.)
~What others say~
“My son Greg has been one of my main mentors over the past six years. From his research team he assembled several years ago, he discovered six wonderful truths about restoring marriages and how to keep a good marriage thriving. He presents these truths in a highly organized and humorous fashion so that audiences are enthralled by his style of speaking. I get to the opportunity to hear him speak frequently and every group that invites him to share is always excited and anxious to bring him back. He's not only a great dad, but a very loving husband. I guarantee that you will not be disappointed after you hear him speak."
Dr. Gary Smalley
“Greg will take your marriage to a destination you’ve only dreamed possible. His seminars are filled with powerful and practical insights.”
Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott
“Greg provides insights and tools so that couples can take conflicts and change them into steps of growth. Greg will help equip you to make your good marriage better or your struggling marriage to soar. If you apply just 10 percent of what Greg shares, you’ll benefit for the rest of your lives together!”
– Dennis Rainey, president of FamilyLife and host of FamilyLife Today
"Greg is enriching people everywhere with an insightful blend of biblical truth and practical wisdom with a humorous style that makes him easy to listen to and captivates attention."
- Seminar Attendee
"Greg helped rebuild my marriage! My wife and I had a decent marriage but I couldn't figure out why we had these ruts that we could never seem to climb out of. After attending his marriage seminar, my wife and I were able to break out of the dance we’d been stuck in for years. A couple months back my wife said to me. "It has been so easy to love you lately". That was a first! Thanks for being such blessing to me."
- Youth pastor in Northern Michigan
"At his seminar, Greg said something that changed my life. He mentioned that if he could give only one piece of advice about marriage it would be to create a marriage that feels like the safest place on earth. That has been my focus and my prayer since that day. I wanted to let you know that this past year has been one of tremendous growth for me personally and for us as a couple. We are so excited about the work that God is doing in our hearts. Thank you for your faithfulness...your ministry made a difference in my marriage."
- Seminar Attendee
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