RETREAT WORKSHOPS

See the complete list of retreat workshops below​

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Cultivating Friendship and Fun in Your Marriage

This workshop helps couples strengthen their relationship by bringing more play, laughter, and meaningful connection into everyday life. Together we’ll explore how friendship fuels long-term commitment and how shared fun can reduce stress and improve communication. You’ll identify practical ways to protect quality time, create simple rituals, and build a supportive circle of couple friends who encourage your marriage. Leave with fresh ideas and easy next steps you can start using immediately.

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Married with Children

This workshop will address the real-life pressures that can pull a marriage off course during parenting seasons. by exploring practical ways to set healthy boundaries, stay united in decisions, and protect connection and communication at home. Also discuss navigating modern influences on kids and teens (internet/social media, music, dating, peer pressure), supporting children with special needs (including ADHD and autism), and approaching education and career pathways (trade school vs. college). You’ll leave with conversation starters and doable strategies for keeping your marriage the priority while still being fully present for your children—so your family can thrive from a strong foundation.

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Sex & Intimacy

This workshop helps couples strengthen the “oneness” of marriage by approaching sex and intimacy as a shared priority rooted in communication, respect, spiritual connection, and mutual care. Through guided conversation, practical activities, and honest discussion of often-avoided topics, couples will explore how intimacy extends beyond the physical to include emotional connection, relational needs, playfulness, and lifelong excitement in marriage.

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The Power of Prayer & Spiritual Intimacy

This workshop helps couples deepen emotional and spiritual intimacy by learning practical, approachable ways to pray with and for one another. Through interactive discussion, relatable examples, role-playing scenarios, and hands-on tools, couples will identify and overcome common barriers to praying together, regardless of their current level of spiritual experience. Participants will also explore how shared prayer can strengthen unity, and encourage mutual support.

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Communication and Conflict Resolution

This workshop equips couples to communicate with clarity, emotional safety, and mutual respect through the core framework of the Four Keys to Conflict Resolution. Grounded in mindset and emotional intelligence, the session helps couples recognize dominant personality patterns, strengthen healthy dialogue, manage conflict constructively, and use difficult conversations as opportunities to build intimacy and trust.

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Handling Stress & Life Changing Events (Loyalty & Love)

This workshop helps married couples face life’s inevitable transitions with teamwork, clarity, and resilience. We’ll explore how to talk through hard realities before they happen—parenting adult children, caring for aging parents, job or financial loss, and navigating chronic or critical illness. Couples will learn practical tools to communicate more effectively, set shared expectations, and make concrete plans for seasons of change. You’ll leave with guided conversation prompts and next steps to help you stay connected, support one another, and move forward together no matter what comes.

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Living a First-Class Life – Financial Security in Marriage

This interactive workshop equips couples to pursue financial security and purposeful legacy-building through the strategic framework of Dr. Carla’s book, The Five Pillars of a First-Class Life. Blending biblical financial principles, practical planning tools, real-world experience, and thoughtful discussion of the economic realities facing African American couples and families, couples will prayerfully clarify their shared vision, strengthen financial unity, align their resources with their values, and set intentional goals for the season ahead. Participants will leave with spiritual and practical next steps to navigate today’s economic and political terrain with wisdom, confidence, and trust in God’s authority over every future outcome.