The Mission
The purpose of The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work couples retreat is to empower couples through tailored guidance and hands-on relationship building activities.
The focus is on enhancing emotional intelligence for each couple. This is done by guiding the couple through learning one another which fosters understanding and growth within the relationship.
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Couples will experience a transformative journey that strengthens their bond and deepens connection. Each couple will learn and practice exercises needed to build a lasting fulfilling partnership.
Why Should We Attend a Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work Couples Retreat?
Strengthen Your Friendship
Learn to build and maintain a foundation of fondness, admiration, and closeness.
Improve Communication
Develop skills to communicate and ensure that both partners feel heard and understood.
Manage Conflict
Learn techniques to constructively manage conflict in a way that that strengthens the relationship, rather than damaging it.
Deepen Emotional Intimacy
Foster a deep connection and created a shared sense of meaning and purpose.
Gain Practical, Research Based Tools
Leave the retreat with a toolkit of practical, evidence-based skills and insights to maintain your relationship's health over the long term.
What Are the Seven Principles?
Principle 1
Enhance Your Love Maps
Principle 2
Nurture Your Fondness and Admiration
Principle 3
Turn Toward Each Other Instead of Away
Principle 4
Let Your Partner Influence You
Principle 5
Solve Your Solvable Problems
Principle 6
Overcome Gridlock
Principle 7
Create Shared Meaning
Along with the trust and commitment pillars, these seven principles make up the Sound Relationship House. The blueprint for your relationship.
Are We Ready for a Couples Retreat?
The Seven Principles Couples Program is appropriate for couples contemplating engagement, pre-marital couples, for couples living together, and for couples who have been together or married for decades. Workshops are designed for couples of every age, ability, and orientation.
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Psychoeducational classes are not appropriate for all couples, including those with severe relationship distress, significant emotional or physical abuse, serious emotional or mental health problems, relationships where one or both partners are actively addicted to drugs or alcohol, and relationships with serious compulsive behavior with gambling, sexual acting out, and other disruptive behaviors.
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Should the presence of these situations be discovered during the retreat, a referral will be made for individual and/or couples counseling.
​Begin your journey toward a stronger, more fulfilling relationship today!
