Offering renewed hope and reconnection

for hurting marriages

LIMITED SEATING: 10 couples only!

Participants: who should attend an Intensive

This Intensive is for couples who feel emotionally disconnected and distant with each other, or for couples who are in despair because they don’t know how to make their relationship better.

  • It could be they are barely interacting with each other, at least not in meaningful ways; they are simply living parallel lives, feeling like roommates, and not sure how to be close again.

  • It could be they find themselves in a perpetual negative interactional pattern, plagued by unresolved issues and reacting with criticism and blame or defensiveness and withdrawal; they seem stuck and can’t stop fighting.

Some couples attend the Intensive feeling dissatisfied with their “okay” marriage and wanting more, and they leave with a better understanding of what caused their mediocrity, a handful of strategies and tools to improve their marriage, and feeling more connected with each other.

If ANY of this describes your relationship, then this Intensive is designed just for you!

Please NOTE: this intensive is NOT for couples where:

  • One or both spouses are actively abusive – meaning any kind of physical or sexual abuse that is currently happening in the marriage.

  • One or both spouses have an active addiction – “addiction” refers to any kind of behavior (use of drugs, alcohol, porn, sex, etc.) that is destructive to the person and the marriage and persistent, despite negative consequences – “active” means the compulsive behavior is currently happening and the perpetrating spouse is not in treatment or not making any effort to end that behavior.

  • One or both spouses are actively engaged in an affair relationship – meaning they have not severed their relationship with their affair partner and are unwilling or undecided to do so.

    If any of these things apply to your marriage, then your marriage needs a higher level of care than this Intensive provides, preferably with a trained therapist/specialist who can provide one-on-one counseling.

effectiveness: why an intensive is transformational

Intensives have a high success rate of providing a transformative experience for troubled marriages because:

  • they provide the urgent, expert professional care needed to avoid further damage or prevent a marital breakdown (i.e., “intensive care”)!

  • they give your marriage the undivided attention it needs - away from all of life’s distractions and demands - to help you achieve a speedy recovery!

  • they are cost and time effective, as they pack 15+ hours of therapeutic work into a weekend experience, comparable to 3-6 months of weekly marriage counseling!

Intensives have proven to be more effective than just doing traditional marriage counseling alone – as they are a catalyst for lasting relational change and can turbo-charge any counseling process!

Outcomes: what you can expect to receive from an Intensive

The Intensive will provide you with the insights, practical strategies and skills, and action steps to propel your marriage to a good place! You will leave the weekend Intensive with:

  • a clearer perspective on how aligning your marriage with God’s plans and purposes will not only revive your marriage but also impact your family - for generations to come!

  • new and effective ways to communicate so both of you feel heard and understood by each other!

  • an awareness of things that you have never seen before or realized which are affecting your relationship – creating a compassionate response to one another!

  • a deeper understanding of each other’s real needs in the marriage – and practical ways to meet those needs!

  • insights on the triggers that unleash hurtful reactions and propel you into a cycle of disconnection – and how to engage with each other differently!

  • proven strategies to resolve conflicts – including perpetual problems, once and for all!

  • a renewed sense of emotional closeness and connection – giving you hope for a better future together!

Experiences: what makes this Intensive unique from others

Les & Rhonda share from their nearly 40 years of personal experiences in growing their own marriage and their professional experiences in helping others find healing and restoration for their marriage. They offer Biblically-based principles and research-based best practices for developing a meaningful, life-long relationship. The foundation to all of their presentations is their personal conviction that God designed marriage to be a sacred, lifelong covenant between a man and a woman.

The Morrison’s presentations are mostly didactic (workshop-style), but they also blend in humor, multi-media, storytelling, and informal Q&A chats. During the Intensive, couples engage in on-site activities and dialogues in the privacy of their own hotel room, following live demonstrations and/or thorough explanations. Every couple leaves the Intensive with a CARE Plan: a customized action plan for sustaining their renewed connection – along with a follow-up zoom session with Les!