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THE STORY OF US

A COUPLES INTENSIVE

A couples intensive for couples healing their relationship after betrayal

Friday April 12th – Sunday April 14th 2024

Please Note: Spaces are limited to 6 Couples and the cost is $2000 USD

This weekend intensive, created and tailored for couples past the initial crisis stage of betrayal recovery, will offer you a chance to reflect on your journey as a couple.

In a supportive and healing environment, alongside other couples, you will be offered opportunities to engage your “Story of Us” by looking back at the past, acknowledging the present and re-visioning for the future.

All activities will offer opportunities for you to engage with topics such as grief, intimacy and meaning making in ways that feel safe, achievable and realistic to you while also seeking to advance your healing and connection.

By the end of the weekend you will have participated in opportunities to grieve the losses betrayal has created for your relationship, acknowledge (and even celebrate) the growth and healing that has already taken place while becoming aware of what still needs attention, connect over a vision for your future life together and make meaning from your story.

We hope that this weekend will offer couples an opportunity to really move from “my story and your story” to “The Story of Us”.

The full cost for this weekend intensive is $2000 USD. 

Please direct any enquiries to: [email protected]

LOCATION

Retreat House Spiritual Center is based in Richardson, Texas. It offers plenty of contemplative space both inside and outside for us to meet as a group and have break out spaces. 

Whilst this is a Spiritual Center, the content of our intensive will as always be accessible to those of all faiths and none. 

Richardson is on the outer edges of Dallas, Texas and the nearest airport is Dallas/FortWorth.

SCHEDULE

Friday April 12th – Sunday April 14th 2024

Each day at the intensive will start at 9am and will include tailored couples connection exercises and group processing time. Full use of the facilities is included which includes access to the labyrinth and patio.

Please note accommodation and catering are NOT included in the cost of this intensive. 

Full schedule issued on arrival.

Meet the Team

Cat Etherington is the Director of Recovery for Naked Truth Project, she lives in Durham in the North East of England and is married with two daughters. Cat is a certified professional life coach and integrative counselling practitioner, working with individuals and couples impacted by problematic sexual behaviour and betrayal. Cat was the first ever European practitioner to be certified by the Association of Partners of Sex Addicts Trauma Specialists (APSATS) and now serves on their Board of Directors. With personal experience of both addiction and betrayal, Cat has unique insight into the journey of recovery and healing.

Cindy Bajema is the Head of Recovery for Naked Truth Project. She’s a a certified APSATS Partner Coach (ICF/ACC, CPC), Certified Empathy Specialist (CES), and a certified Trauma Informed Coach (TIC) who integrates multiple integrative and somatic disciplines in her work with individuals and couples. Specialized training with Carol Juergensen-Sheets (ERCEM), Dr. Jake Porter (CRC®) and the Gottman Method inform her work with couples. She brings valuable life experience of families with addiction, along with a deep heart of compassion to her work.

Fran Hopwood lives in North Wales, with her daughters and grandchildren nearby who help keep her young and active! She is a Certified Professional Coach, Brave Hearts Mentor and Certified Partner Coach with APSATS. With a long history in the education sector, Fran made the switch to personal coaching after walking her own healing journey for several years. Fran has taken additional trainings with A Door of Hope and knows, first-hand, the challenges of healing after betrayal, offering both personal and professional insight for overcoming them.

Scroll across for feedback from other NT Retreats...

"Really well grounded and knowledgable facilitators who created and held a safe space for us alongside the well considered program. Huge amounts of empathy, care and thoughtfulness were demonstrated by all the team who did an amazing job."

"The program was well thought out, yet the facilitators were flexible enough to figure out what we as a group needed and make some programming shifts when necessary. The level of extraordinary skill and care from the facilitators was the true value of this program. I left feeling seen, heard, and renewed as an individual partner, and as a couple looking ahead."

"Trust (the process). The word 'trust', until recently, had to carry a trigger warning. However, experiencing such a profound sense of safety within an actual living and breathing organism of such a gentle and caring community seems to have resurrected something that I'd lost - trust (and belief) in self."

"I felt so seen, like I mattered, this work of repair is serious and important. I experienced such freedom and invitation to my voice being important over the weekend that I left more confident and empowered."

Join Us!

Places are allocated on a 'first come, first served' basis. The earlier you book, the more payment installments we can offer!
(Full price of the intensive is $2000 USD)

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