2 Day Online "No Blame, No Shame" Intensive Couples Retreat
Online Private Marriage Counseling Retreat
If you’ve landed on this page, you know that you’ve worked hard to create what you have in your life - ESPECIALLY your marriage! You’re not ready to give up on it and you’re committed to fixing it. For that to happen, you’re going to need more than once-a-week couples counseling sessions. You need a bootcamp style couples therapy in an intensive retreat setting. The Marriage Restoration Project's signature couples retreat combines intensive relationship therapy while teaching the imago communication method and technique. Experience an Imago Relationship therapy retreat that can also be done online from the comfort of your home.
Meet the instructors
Rabbi Shlomo
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Highlights
- 2-day online intensive couples retreat
- 6 hours per day, plus eight 90-minute follow-up sessions after the retreat
- Online sessions are held over Skype or Zoom
- Live sessions' time zone: Pikesville, Maryland (EST, UTC -5, changes to EDT, UTC -4 on March 13, 2022)
- Retreat uses Imago Relationship Therapy to improve communication and create an environment where each partner can actually talk about the important things and be heard
2 days with instruction
Group size: Maximum of 2 participants
Program
Tools required
To participate in the online sessions, you will need a reliable internet connection and Skype or Zoom account.
How the retreat works
There will be six hours of therapy per day (with an hour lunch break) with Rabbi Shlomo Slatkin, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and Certified Imago Relationship Therapist or another Imago therapist. They will spend the time working one-on-one with you and your spouse.
Couples undergo therapy using a calm, clear, safe no-blame, no shame communication process that infuses new life and hope into a marriage in 2 days by cutting down on the fighting, the reactivity, the tense eggshell-like atmosphere you’ve been experiencing, and creating an environment where you can actually talk about the important things and be heard.
Timing of sessions
The Marriage Restoration Project is based in Pikesville, Maryland (EST, UTC -5. EDT, UTC -4 starts March 13, 2022). The Marriage Restoration Project team will schedule the sessions on two consecutive days that are mutually agreed upon.
Retreat information
2-day No Blame, No Shame Marriage Restoration Retreat is for you if you want to:
- Finally become deeply heard by your spouse through a process that feels truly safe
- Unburden yourself from your emotional baggage that you bring to the relationship through breaking free of old relationship patterns
- Transform the way you feel and react to your spouse by shedding those aggravating triggers that your spouse seems to provoke in you
- Comfortably talk safely about any issue in your relationship and remain connected
- Finally feel loved (maybe even for the first time ever!) by discovering your personal love language and living it out to the fullest
- Accelerate positive behavioral changes in your spouse in ways you never thought of before
- Achieve your relationship goals through a done-for-you plan
- Satisfy your needs for physical and emotional connection
- Learn how to ask for what you want and get the love you want instead of being a victim
- Remove negativity, retaliation, reactivity, anger, and blame through our formula for detoxing your marriage
- Heal the crushing effects of infidelity and make amends
- Infuse new energy and love into your relationship
- Establish new rituals for re-romanticizing your relationship
- Shift the negative energy in 5 minutes or less
- Recommit to your most important and intimate relationship
- Understand how to move forward and leave your old marriage behind forging a new path together that is sustainable for the long haul
- Become more conscious about your role, knowing that your marriage is the greatest opportunity for your personal growth, within the context of a relationship with the person that loves you the most
How Imago Relationship Therapy works
Not all therapists are focused on creating an environment that feels “safe” between the two of you. You know this if you’ve ever gone to counseling and you left angrier with each other than before, resulting in your partner refusing to ever come back! What is lacking for you in your marriage is that feeling of safety. Trust. Being heard without judgment and criticism.
If you can make your partner feel comfortable enough to share, a whole new realm of possibility will open up for you. That means listening to them without criticizing, without blaming, without shaming them; but deeply hearing what they say with no blame or shame.
Start communication habits at home
Consistent communication that doesn’t include any BLAME or SHAME is critical to restoring love, preserving the marriage that you’ve worked so hard to build. Are you wanting that? No doubt if you’re here, you are wishing that this is how you could communicate! Then you wouldn’t even need to think about separation or divorce! When people feel safe around each other they no longer need to act out of survival mode. There is no power struggle. Everything you’ve seen with your spouse up until now has most likely been them behaving the way they do because they feel unsafe.
And the same goes for your behavior.
If your spouse…
deeply heard your needs
supported you in every way
challenged you to be the best you could be
gave you everything you had hoped and dreamed you could get from the most important relationship of your life
Would you be happy?
Would you be calm?
Would your life flow?
Would you feel at ease?
You would. And it would be because of the safe environment that your home would have.
Why get intensive couples counseling?
Your marriage can become joyful again without the hassle of months of therapy to determine whether or not you even WANT to stay together. You don’t have time for that! You’re busy!
You can stop the resentment, distrust, and lingering doubts that you have about your partner.
It is possible to know with confidence and certainty that whatever decision you make it’s the right one.
What if you’re not sure that your marriage can even BE saved?
Part of the intensive experience is for you to learn about YOURSELF- you own relationship history, your past unmet needs, your ability to communicate and be successful in ALL areas of your life. This is something that all partners need regardless of their spouse’s desire to change.
Even if your partner doesn’t change or it looks like you still desire to consciously uncouple, you are always going to have to be in communication with your spouse especially if you have children. Your ability to communicate and go through life consciously is critical to your success in life!
Day one: Restoring Hope – 6 hours to open up your eyes to the realization that your marriage has the potential to be different
- “Personal relationship history” – Explore your personal relationship history through written exercises that will open up your eyes to your relationship stumbling blocks.
- “Why you chose your spouse” – Learn about the missing parts of yourself and know how to reclaim them.
- “Relationship frustration” – Experience deep healing around a difficult issue with your spouse using the Imago Dialogue practice which is a safe and comfortable way to communicate.
- “Intentional dialogue” – Put a new tool in your toolbox for dealing with all of life’s challenges and difficult relationships.
- “Identification of the 3 relationship stages” – Explore the secret agenda of relationships and “diagnose” which stage of relationship you are in and how that is currently affecting your marriage and what to do about it.
Day two: Hope becomes reality – 6 hours to turn your hope for your new relationship into reality
- “Living Gratefully” – Harness the power of gratitude, naturally flourishing into becoming a more successful and appreciative person.
- “Dream Up Your Relationship Vision”– Craft a vision that you can successfully live out for your new future together.
- “Action Plan for Getting Your Needs Met” – Discover what makes you feel cared for and loved and develop a plan to get those needs met.
- “Receive the Love that Your Partner is Sending You” – Diagnose your love language, learning how to use your love language and the love language of others more effectively to get and to give the love that you want.
- “Flooding” – Shift the negative energy in a 5-minute process.
After the retreat: 8 (90-minute) follow-up sessions to integrate what you learned in the initial 2-day retreat (in-person or Skype)
Your 2 Day No Blame, No Shame Marriage Restoration Retreat was amazing but you worry about things going back to the same old same old. You now have newfound hope for your relationship. You learned great skills. But what happens when life gets back to “normal”? You’ll want to make sure that you get the greatest long-term results from this retreat.
The best way to integrate is to have follow-ups that provide accountability until your skills are firmly grounded in your day-to-day life. The Marriage Restoration Project is here for you every step of the way to work towards your long-term relationship success. You’ll want a solution to backsliding and the best prevention for falling back into bad habits. These eight sessions are the best way to keep up your new hope and progress.
Homework
Private member site that consists of a self-guided core curriculum of 5 modules that lead you through a step-by-step process towards learning how to be married in the best way possible. Each module contains an audio component for on-the-go listening, slide decks for at-a-glance summary, video presentations, transcripts for easy reading, and worksheets for implementation. Includes The Marriage Restoration Project's best-selling book The 5 Step Action Plan to a Healthy and Happy Marriage and the movie where you can see hands-on how to apply what you learned.
Think of this marriage intensives as a private getaway where you and your spouse have the opportunity to work exclusively with The Marriage Restoration Project for six hours a day.
Unlike a marriage workshop where you participate in a group setting with other couples, the retreat will give the privacy you need to deal with some of the most painful and personal issues you are facing in your relationship.
The Marriage Restoration Project's mission is to save marriages so it is in their best interest that you succeed. You can with their guidance and your commitment.
Note
Even though the therapist is a rabbi, religion is not incorporated in sessions unless requested by the couple. The Marriage Restoration Project practices Imago Relationship Therapy and their counseling is not faith-based. With that said, they do have traditional values in promoting strong marriages and they do believe in working to keep a couple together when possible.
Instructors
Rabbi Shlomo Slatkin
Rabbi Shlomo Slatkin is a licensed clinical professional counselor and certified imago relationship therapist.
Location
This couple's therapy retreat is held online. The Marriage Restoration Project is based in Pikesville, Maryland (EST, UTC -5, changes to EDT, UTC -4 on March 13, 2022) and they will live-stream the classes via Zoom or Skype which you can participate from the comfort of your home by just using your phone or computer.
What's included
- 6 hours of online therapy per day
- 8 90-minnute follow-up counseling sessions after the retreat
What's not included
- Accommodation
- Food
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 100% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
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