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| What Is A Marriage Encounter? | |||||||||||||||||||||
| The basic objective of a Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend is to improve the communication between husband and wife and to provide more insight into what prevents married couples from communicating more effectively. The Weekend also gives the couple a greater understanding as to what their Sacrament of Matrimony is and how it affects others. The Weekend has helped thousands of couples all over the world since its inception in 1968. This heartwarming experience builds on the love you have for each other. It provides an opportunity for you to focus on your realtionship and for you to explore ways to love and care for each other. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Unique Experience | |||||||||||||||||||||
| The Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend experience teaches a unique method of communication. It is for couples with good marriages who want to enrich their relationship. The Weekend is a very private experience, there is no group sharing. This life-giving experience is for all couples whether you have been married a year or 50 years or more. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weekend Flow | |||||||||||||||||||||
| The Weekend starts on a Friday night at a local hotel and ends at 4:00 PM on Sunday afternoon. The format of the Weekned is a presentation by one of the three Presenting Teams and a Priest. The presentations are shared experiences of the Presenting Couples and the Priest as to how they use this communication technique and how it helps them communicate more effectively. The presentations are exciting, meaningful, and relatable. At the end of every presentation, a question is given to reflect on as it relates to your own relationship. There are no right or wrong answers, the questions are posed in a way to help discover more about yourselves and each other. Each presentation is built on the other and the communication technique, called Dialogue, is used throughout the Weekend, so that by the end of the Weekend it becomes natural and easy for you to use. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Key Topics | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Some of the key topics covered are the importance of feelings in our day-to-day communication and getting to know more about ourselves, our personality styles and our behaviors and how they affect our communication and relationship. Other presentations include how we were subtly trained by what we saw in the marriages of our parents and other members of our family. And because ofthis training, came into our marriage with many expectations. When these expectations are not met we become disappointed and in our disappointment we tend to compensate by getting involved in other activities, which lessens the time we have for each other. You will learn about areas in your marrriage that many often avoid, which, over time, causes more distance in your relationship. There is a presentation on listening and how to identify obstacles to listening and how to listen with your hearts. You will learn what God wants for us in our relationship and what the true meaning of our Sacrament of Matrimony is. There is a talk about the importance of trust in your relationship and how to understand the depth of your love for one another. To help keep your relationship a priority, you will be given 5 tools on the Weekend. These five tools help integrate all that you learn on the Weekend into your everyday lives. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| What Does A Weekend Cost? | |||||||||||||||||||||
| A $50.00 NON-REFUNDABLE Registration Fee confirms your registration. At the end of the weekend, each couple is given a blank envelope and asked to make a donation. NO ONE is ever refused the opportunity to make a weekend because of the lack of funds. You deserve to experience a Weekend that you will treasure the rest of your lives. Call 904-249-7171 or go to the registration page to make a reservation. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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