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Retreats & Workshops

Pit Stop

Designed for the couple who needs a little revamping in their marriage.  We employ different exercises and tools to help with...

 

Restoring what may have been neglected,

 Reconnecting  what may have been disconnected, and

Recharging with renewed strength. 

Sessions:

  • Examining Expectations - Learn about the unspoken rules we bring into our relationships

  • Expressing - Learn how to express your needs and how to understand your spouse's needs.

  • Emotional Response - Learn the dos and don'ts of how we respond to one another.

  • Empathy - Learn the cure for emotional reactions.

  • Engage & Encourage - Learn how to show your spouse you value and appreciate them.

Checkpoint

Designed for the couple who may have gotten off course. Perhaps busyness, life demands or neglect have gotten in the way and stolen their purpose and drive. We employ exercises and tools to help couples with...

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Identifying where they've been,

Figuring out where they are, and

Knowing where they're going.

Sessions:

  • Intentional Awareness - Gain an understanding of each partner's responses, and why they matter.

  • Roadblocks - Learn about the consistent obstacles, specific to each couples marriage, that keep them from a fulfilling and emotionally safe marriage.

  • Navigational Tools - Learn how to employ the best GPS for marriage and understand what it means to follow it.

  • Rearview - Gain an understanding of where each spouse has been that has led them to where they are.

  • Back on the Road- Learn how to put in place a specific destination for a continued marriage journey.

Launching couple work through utilizing a customized, strengths-oriented assessment and complementary skill-building exercises. 

The Prepare & Enrich assessment helps us gain a comprehensive view of the couple's relationship to help them to know where to start and to enable us to focus time on what they specifically need.

Sessions:

  • Can be offered in small group or large group format

  • Are tailored for couples based on the stage of their relationship (i.e. Pre-marital, Recently Married, and Couples desiring enrichment)

  • All couples take a Computer Based Assessment which customizes for their stage of relationship and family conditions (i.e. Blended Family)

  • Deepen the bond a couple has with a personalized snap shot of their relationship. 

  • Builds valuable core couple competencies.

  • Uses the objective results from the couple assessment to illuminate a more clear understanding of themselves and their relationship while developing confidence and relationship skills.

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Go Off-Roading
(Build Your Own)

Since you know what you are looking for best, we are more than happy to create a workshop or retreat that meets your specific needs.  We are able to guide couples through most situations including:

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  • Communication

  • Conflict Resolution

  • Empathy Building

  • Forgiveness

  • Understanding and building Assertiveness

  • Core Relational Patterns

  • Prepare-Enrich Assessment Group Sessions

  • L.O.V.E. through Conflict

  • 1 Corinthians 13 Kind of Loving

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  • Understanding Defensive Weapons

  • Relational Types and Interactions

  • Why We Have the Same Fights

  • Building Win/Win Scenarios

  • Being a Team Mindset

  • Vow Renewals

  • Building Trust

  • Becoming Accessible, Responsive, and Engaged