intensive relationship retreatsPyrenees Retreats offers an intensive relationship retreat: a period of 3, 4 or
more days during which time we’ll work together for around 3 to 4 hours a day. Your retreat will look something like this: Day 1
60 minute introductory session dinner Day 2 breakfast 90 minute session lunch 90 minute session dinner Day 3 (and 4th/subsequent days)
as day 2 Last day breakfast 60 minute closing session lunch and endings It’s quite possible – and actually a very
good idea – to stay on at Grillou for another day or longer period after your retreat: to take some gentle time to process and assimilate, to be 'on holiday' and explore our lovely area, or just to take some space to stand and stare. | Being in relationship is not always simple or comfortable. Living closely with, or alongside, another person can throw up enormous challenge and illuminate questions or corners of ourselves we’d rather not confront. How to be who I truly am while staying in and deepening an emotional connection with you? What do I want from you, from the relationship and from life? What do you want? Who are you, really? And who am I? Speaking our truths to each other, being seen and heard and knowing we’ve been seen and heard; facing areas where we’re stuck, often in endlessly repeating patterns; saying the unsayable, and naming the elephant in the room; facing our uncertainty about how to go forward, whether to stay together, perhaps how to separate gracefully ….. all of this can be easier in the presence of a witness, one who stands outside the relationship and its immediate circles. Relationship counselling traditionally follows the ‘hour a week’ model – yet for some this can feel painfully slow, especially at the beginning when it can be hard to hold on to the impetus to explore and change without sliding back into well-worn routines. Over the 15 years I’ve been working as a therapist and counsellor I’ve come to believe that there are times when thinking, and working, outside the box can offer a more creative way forward than holding to traditional methods.   |
what can I expect on a relationship retreat?
I will work with you not as a disembodied expert, but as a partner and most importantly as a person. I will listen with deep respect and without judgment to both of you and to what connects you – your relationship – and will encourage you to do the same. We will begin where you are and focus on what makes each of you the unique person that you are and on what is already trying to change, be expressed and grow, always beginning from and returning to an awareness of the present moment.
A relationship retreat is not a workshop; you will be the only couple here. I won’t have goals for you, nor will I at any point take one side against the other. This is not about learning skills, being taught a particular method of relating to each other, or following a routine or programme. Every retreat, and every session, is different, just as every relationship is unique.
All sessions will include both of you; that way everything is clear and open, and you can learn more about each other by hearing the other speak.
If after your retreat you want to continue the process, I can help you find a compatible therapist close to where you live. During the period immediately following your retreat I’ll be happy to remain in contact with you by phone and/or email to work with any emerging issues. Confidentiality is of course assured before, during, and after your time here.
An intensive relationship retreat is open to any couple in committed relationship, whatever age or sexual orientation. It's not for everyone. But if you really want to deepen, move on, or find some new direction for a committed relationship and you’re open to taking a risk or two, then a period of exploration away from your day-to-day environment with all its familiar tangled webs can help you see more clearly the things that everyday life leaves blurred round the edges.
If you are considering booking, I’d strongly suggest finding out more about my approach to counselling and therapy at www.thepersoncentre.net.
A relationship retreat is not a workshop; you will be the only couple here. I won’t have goals for you, nor will I at any point take one side against the other. This is not about learning skills, being taught a particular method of relating to each other, or following a routine or programme. Every retreat, and every session, is different, just as every relationship is unique.
All sessions will include both of you; that way everything is clear and open, and you can learn more about each other by hearing the other speak.
If after your retreat you want to continue the process, I can help you find a compatible therapist close to where you live. During the period immediately following your retreat I’ll be happy to remain in contact with you by phone and/or email to work with any emerging issues. Confidentiality is of course assured before, during, and after your time here.
An intensive relationship retreat is open to any couple in committed relationship, whatever age or sexual orientation. It's not for everyone. But if you really want to deepen, move on, or find some new direction for a committed relationship and you’re open to taking a risk or two, then a period of exploration away from your day-to-day environment with all its familiar tangled webs can help you see more clearly the things that everyday life leaves blurred round the edges.
If you are considering booking, I’d strongly suggest finding out more about my approach to counselling and therapy at www.thepersoncentre.net.
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