When and Where:

Friday, November 10 - Saturday, November 11

Friday, November 10: 5pm - 9pm

Check-in starts at 4:30pm, dinner is provided.

Saturday, November 11: 9am - 4pm

Lunch provided.

Location

Kona Coffee Farm Weddings, Kailua Kona, HI

About the Retreat:

This two-day intensive marriage workshop is based off the work of world-renowned marriage researcher and New York Times best seller, John Gottman, on leading predictors and prevention of divorce. The 7 Principles For Making Marriage Work Couples Workshop was designed to provide marital partners with practical tools to enhance and improve their relationship while understanding the research base from which the tools are derived. Studies have shown that this workshop improves couples friendship and the quality of sex, romance, and passion in their relationship and helps couples have more constructive conflict discussion. Couples will walk away with proven tools on how to:

- Improve their friendship, fondness and admiration towards one another

- Enhance romance and intimacy

- Manage conflict constructively

- Gain skills to address perpetual and solvable problems

- Create shared meaning

- Maintain gains throughout a lifetime

Investing in this retreat is investing in your marriage. Not only will you walk away with a new set of tools to improve your marriage but research says using these tools early and often will significantly decrease divorce and marital dissatisfaction in the future. If you have been interested in changing your marital cycles and reconnecting with your partner this is for you. There is no better time to set you and your family up for marital success than right now.

Investing in your marriage is an investment you will never regret and it is the greatest gift you can leave to your children. Take your marriage from good to great. Your children and their children will thank you for it.

* You will not be asked to share in any group settings throughout this retreat. This time is for you and your spouse.

This marriage retreat is for:

- Premarital couples

- Newly weds to seniors

- Those who wish to enhance their marriage

- Those needing better conflict management tools

- Those wanting to know how to avoid divorce

Couples we recommend do not attend:

- Couples in severe relationship distress

- Couples experiencing emotional abuse or domestic violence within the relationship

- Active addictions within the relationship (gambling, drugs, alcohol, sexual... etc)

- Couples with an ongoing or unaddressed affair

- Serious mental health problems in one or both partners

If any of these are present in your relationship it does not mean there is no hope for your marriage, however Traditional Marriage therapy would be a better environment for you to work on your marriage.

About the presenters:

Stephanie and Regan are best friends and attribute much of their deep friendship and affection towards one another to the principles they have personally learned through the 7 principles for making marriage work. Stephanie is a licensed marriage and family therapist and has been working with couples to better their marriage for over 10 years through Kona Couples Counseling LLC. Reagan is an elementary school principal and ordained minister. Together, they desire to inspire couples to invest in their marriage and family. They are excited to share what has held them together in their personal relationship and what they’ve seen in many other marriages, and the proven research that’s behind it. Reagan and Stephanie have both been trained as 7 Principles for Making Marriage Work leaders through the Gottman Institute.

What is included:

- Psycho educational content and couples exercises

- Couples guide workbooks

- Lunch provided on Saturday, 11/11

- This is not group therapy and you will not be asked to share your personal marriage with anyone

Lodging information:

This is a two-day event, however, overnight lodging is not included in your registration.