Weekend Experience

Retrouvaille begins with a weekend experience in which couples are helped to re-establish communication and to gain new insights into themselves as individuals and as a couple.

Weekends are typically held at a local hotel. This part of the program is presented by three couples and a priest or minister team. The presenting team has experienced disillusionment, pain, anger, and conflict in their own lives and offer hope as they share their personal struggles of reconciliation and healing. Retrouvaille presenters are not trained counselors, but couples that share their personal stories.

You will find courage and strength in the realization that you are not alone in your struggle. 

You will not be asked to share your problems with anyone else. However, you will be encouraged to put the past behind you and to look beyond the hurt and pain, in order to rediscover each other in a new and positive way. 

The weekend is not a spiritual retreat, not a marriage encounter or marriage seminar. Although it does have characteristics of each of these, the weekend offers so much more. The team presents a technique of communication that enables you to take a good look at many areas of your relationship. The team does not provide marriage advice, but does provide practical tools and a living example of how using these tools will improve your marriage. They will share how they were able to benefit from these techniques themselves. After each presentation, you will have a chance for reflection and discussion in complete privacy with your spouse.