About the course
Adapted from a book. Rebuilt for your room.
The Short List Reunion Course takes the stories, research and tools from A Divorced Dad's Playbook for the Still-Married and rebuilds them for fathers who just finished a fatherhood program. Nobody in the room needs to read the book.
The session
The book
What carries over from the book
Same stories, research and tools. A different room.
1·The stories
Real moments from a father's life, told plainly, so the room has something concrete to react to instead of a lecture.
2·The research
Each session names the study behind it, so program directors and facilitators can see where every idea comes from.
3·The tools
Small, specific things to try this week. In the course, each one ends as a line on his Short List.
What changed for the room
Written for your fathers, not the book's readers.
For fathers in your program
While the book talks to married people, the sessions talk to dads in your program, whatever their situation, and the relationship sessions are about the adult he's raising a kid with.
Nothing to read
No book to buy and no homework. Everything happens in the session.
Built to stand alone
A man can come once. Nothing assumes he was there last month.
In your program's shape
Welcome, middle and close, so your facilitators run it the way they already run sessions.
The author
A Divorced Dad's Playbook for the Still-Married (Playbook Press, 2026). The book is for anyone still married. See the book
David Levin
David Levin is a divorced dad who learned all of this the hard way. He spent his career turning messy situations into playbooks that companies could actually follow. This one comes with a story, not just tools. He lives in Connecticut. This is his first book.
A Divorced Dad's Playbook for the Still-Married (Playbook Press, 2026). The book is for anyone still married. See the book
