The weekend is filled with great workshops, seminars and special events. For each retreat we bring in special presenters from around the country so we may offer the newest thinking and techniqes to improve couples communication. Our educational staff is well versed in traditional teachings as well as being exposed to a wide variety of both eastern and western philosophies.

Typical Daily Schedule:

• 9:00-10:00am Breakfast
• 10:00-1:00 Morning Workshops
• 1:00-2:30 Lunch
• 2:30-6:00 Afternoon Workshops
• 6:00-8:00 Dinner
• 8:00-9:00 Special Interest Groups
• 9:00-1:00am Evening Social Event

Workshops:

Our workshops help build your relationship. Throughout our many sessions you will be exposed to new concepts that will help you:

• Experience commitment and freedom as complements, not opposites
• Communicate in ways that create intimacy, rather than distance
• See how vulnerability and intimacy open the doors to sexuality
• Fan the flames of romance
• Learn to receive each other's experience, instead of reacting to it
• Look for the good intentions in each other
• See your life ... and your relationship through new eyes
• Explore a spiritual awakening
  

You never hear ... "I want a divorce - my partner understands me."

At the deepest level, most coupled individuals do not feel understood by their partner. Promises of honesty and love begin to fade when we express genuine feelings that our partner perceives as criticism. Criticism begets criticism, and soon the fear of escalation leads to stuffing feelings and "walking on eggshells." And although having children brings us together, raising them takes away the time we need to unravel our feelings. The result: We remain legally married but psychologically divorced. We develop a "minimum-security-prison marriage" that looks too much like our parents' and not enough like our promises.

Odyssey Retreat workshops will give you the skills you need to break through this downward cycle and begin to live again ... together.

Social Events

Each evening we host fun social events that allow you to mix and mingle with others at the retreat, dance, eat, or take a quiet walk by the lake and sit by the bonfire. This is your time to explore all the concepts you learned during the day or to simply relax sit back and laugh with each other.