What you would be delivering

A ten-week divorce recovery seminar, created by Dr. Bruce Fisher in 1975 and delivered internationally to hundreds of thousands of participants since. It is built on nineteen Rebuilding Blocks — the sequence Fisher identified through decades of running the program with divorcing people.

The curriculum was revised and updated by Will Limon, MSW, who worked directly with Dr. Fisher and personally delivered the program for more than twenty years.

The format

• Ten weekly sessions, typically three hours, one evening a week
• Thirty to fifty students per class
• Most facilitators run four classes a year — one per quarter
• A monthly ninety-minute introduction session as the front door
• One-to-one coaching available to students who want more support

What an established program looks like

Boulder, Colorado is the original. Dr. Fisher lived there and built the program in his own town before taking it worldwide. It is now run by Bob Manthy, LPCC, as part-time work with one part-time administrative assistant.

Boulder County population 327,000. Revenue averages roughly $10,000 a month across the year.

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Who you would be serving

You do not have to guess. We publish adjustment data from more than five thousand people entering divorce recovery, and Boulder's own student population matches it closely.

National figures from Fisher Divorce Adjustment Scale assessments, 2023–2026. See the Divorce Recovery Index.

This is not a young-couples market. Your students will mostly be people in long marriages that ended without their choosing, still in the middle of the process.

Does the program work?

We measure it, and we publish the result including its limits.

Among students with a verified before-and-after assessment, adjustment improved by a median of 84 points on the 500-point Fisher scale over roughly twelve weeks. People who took the same assessment twice without doing a program improved by 14 points — and a third of them scored lower than they had the first time.

The typical student moved from the 49th percentile to the 84th.

That matters commercially as well as clinically. You will be delivering something with published outcome data behind it, in a market where almost nobody else has any. Full figures and limitations are on the evidence.

Territory

Certified facilitators receive exclusive rights to deliver the seminar in their area. You become the divorce recovery program for that region — the one therapists refer to, the one attorneys mention, the one people hear about from a friend.

How areas are sized

By population, not by map. An area has to contain enough divorcing people to fill your classes without you competing against a neighbouring facilitator for the same students.

That means the geography varies enormously. New York City could support a couple of dozen facilitators without any of them running short of students. Fort Collins, Colorado supports one. Both are fair territories, because both give the facilitator the same thing: a market that is theirs.

The point is not how many square miles you get. It is that you are the only one.

In practice the boundary gets drawn in conversation. You tell us where you live and work, and we look at what population that covers, what is already allocated nearby, and what would give you a viable practice. Some areas are already taken. Confirming yours is available is part of the application conversation.

Who we accept

Our free training is open to anyone. Facilitator licensing is not.

You will be the face of this program in your community, and a poorly run class damages the method's reputation as well as your own. So we vet applicants on several measures, and at minimum we look for:

• An ICF-accredited coaching credential, or
• Certified Divorce Coach certification

Licensed mental health professionals are strongly encouraged to apply.