Getting
Closer and Staying Together
A Couples Retreat-- Relationship Enrichment Weekend
Sponsored and led by Mary Ellen and Greg Psaltis
Why a Couples Retreat?
- Share time with other committed couples
- Leave mail, bills, phone and children at home
- Focus your attention on your relationship
- Recall intimacy and identify values
- Planning for what you want in your lives
- All meals are planned and prepared for you!
What's in the Program?
- Values clarification processes
- Future planning— 5 and 10 year plans
- Asking for what you want without fear
- Effective listening skills
- Conflict and how to deal with it
- Sharing of quiet time together
- Intimacy and recalling what your spouse really means to you
- Specific exercises for hands-on learning
- Handouts and reading lists are provided
About the Program
- Brief lectures will be given to the group as a whole
- Exercises are done privately as couples
- Group sharing encouraged, but not required during the program
- Dinner seating will be assigned
- Break times are planned in the program to insure quiet time
- Evening exercises are included
- Limited to 20 couples
About the Instructors
Mary
Ellen and Greg Psaltis were married in 1991. By attending many workshops
and programs and by processing issues with each other, both have continued
to grow healthy selves and healthy relationships. They have three children,
two from Greg's previous marriage. Both have professional lives and outside
interests but continue to value and invest time in their relationship. They
remain committed to maintaining what they have built and developing what they
haven't yet experienced. Their particular interests are physical fitness,
skiing, camping, bicycling and travel.
About the Location
The Rainbow
Lodge Retreat Center
North Bend, Washington
(approximately 30 miles east of Seattle)
The entry and.....
the setting for the Rainbow Lodge Retreat Center.....
the lovely setting
for this special weekend of relationship enrichment for couples.
About the Lodge
- All meals are provided by cooks at the Retreat Center
- Bathrooms are shared
- Wooded and mountain trails are on site
- Rooms are private, some with queen beds and others with single
beds that may be pushed together
- Some rooms have a loft, (which is up a ladder) with double mattress
- Handicapped-accessible with bathroom
Tuition
- Tuition for the program is $495 per couple
- This includes room, all six meals and the program
- A $50 deposit will hold your space, first-come, first served basis
- Balance of tuition is due one month prior to Retreat date
- Payment in full three months prior to the Retreat receives $50
off
Dates
For 2007,
the Retreat is scheduled for the weekend of August 17-19.
Checkin
is on Friday evening and the program ends with lunch on Sunday.
Registration
Form
To register
for the next Couples Retreat click on the
Registration
Form link above
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