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
Sleeping Lady Retreat Center
Leavenworth, Washington
(approximately 2 1/2 hours east of
Seattle)
The setting for the resort with the "sleeping lady" mountain
peaks
Chairs outside one of the individual units at Sleeping Lady
Retreat Center
About the Retreat
Center
- All meals are provided by cooks at the Retreat
Center
- Wooded and mountain trails are on site
- Rooms are private, some with queen beds
- Some rooms have a loft, (which is up a ladder)
- Handicapped-accessible with bathroom
- Outdoor swimming pool available to all
- Center is set along Icicle Creek
- Organic garden is on site and source of meals
Tuition
- Tuition for the program is $1250 per couple
- This includes room, all six meals and the
program
- A $250 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
2013, the Retreat is scheduled for the weekend of June
7-9.
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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