The
Experience

The Worldwide Marriage Encounter experience is primarily a space for you to pause, reflect, and reconnect privately. Once you choose one of our weekends, you’re in for a truly enriching experience! Take a moment to read below and see how our weekends have impacted other couples. If you have any questions or would like to schedule a consultation to learn more, feel free to contact us. We have approximately 40 weekends available this year, and we’d love to help you find the perfect one for you!
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RECONNECT AND REFLECT: The Worldwide Marriage Encounter experience is primarily a space for you to pause, reflect, and reconnect privately.

The experience allows you to create a dialogue with each other and with God, to create a higher and broader understanding of what it means to be married.

While faith is a powerful part of this process, the focus of the Marriage Encounter experience is on the ups and downs of married life.

Married couples of any denomination, mixed-faith, or without religious affiliation are welcome!

Faithful to the Roman Catholic Church’s definition that marriage is a covenant that exists between one man and one woman, any reference to “marriage” or “couple” made by Worldwide Marriage Encounter is in this context.

DISCOVER, COMMUNICATE, AND GROW:There’s no group discussion.

Over the course of the experience, three couples and a priest provide new tools, using examples from their own lives, to help couples work through common themes we can all relate to, such as:

Exploring our personality styles
Appreciating our differences
Listening in a new way
Communicating intimately
Addressing difficult topics
Discovering God’s desire for our marriage
Continuing the journey
Learn to become the best version of yourselves together!
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FLEXIBLE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER EXPERIENCES TO FIT YOUR BUSY SCHEDULESeveral experience formats are available to help fit the needs of busy schedules.

The Worldwide Marriage Encounter experience, traditionally offered over a weekend, is now available in other formats to provide more options that may better fit busy schedules.

Weekend (Residential) Experiences typically are held in a hotel or retreat house and may begin on a Friday evening or a Saturday morning, continuing all day Saturday and culminating on Sunday afternoon. Sleeping accommodations and meals are provided. We ask participants to arrange care for their family members and pets for the duration of the experience.


Non-Residential Weekend Experiences can be held in a parish hall or in the premises of a school. No sleeping accommodations are provided, but meals are served. Non-residential experiences may likewise start Friday evening or Saturday morning, ending on Sunday afternoon.

Restore, Rekindle, Renew Experiences are the same Marriage Encounter experience offered in seven sessions of 2-3 hours each. These are typically weeknight meetings
held at a parish or school premises. Local organizers will determine the day and time of the sessions.

Virtual Weekend Experiences follow the same schedule of a two or three- day weekend experience but are attended from home, using video conference software. Participants receive materials by regular mail and are offered a training session to familiarize with the software prior to the
experience.

Virtual Restore, Rekindle, Renew Experiences follow the 2-3 hour sessions of the 3RE format, but connecting from home using video conferencing software. These are typically seven virtual meetings. Local organizers will determine the day and time of the sessions.
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FLEXIBLE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER OPTIONSSeveral experience formats are available to help fit the needs of busy schedules.

The Worldwide Marriage Encounter experience, traditionally offered over a weekend, is now available in other formats to provide more options that may better fit busy schedules.

Weekend (Residential) Experiences typically are held in a hotel or retreat house and may begin on a Friday evening or a Saturday morning, continuing all day Saturday and culminating on Sunday afternoon. Sleeping accommodations and meals are provided. We ask participants to arrange care for their family members and pets for the duration of the experience.


Non-Residential Weekend Experiences can be held in a parish hall or in the premises of a school. No sleeping accommodations are provided, but meals are served. Non-residential experiences may likewise start Friday evening or Saturday morning, ending on Sunday afternoon.

Restore, Rekindle, Renew Experiences are the same Marriage Encounter experience offered in seven sessions of 2-3 hours each. These are typically weeknight meetings
held at a parish or school premises. Local organizers will determine the day and time of the sessions.

Virtual Weekend Experiences follow the same schedule of a two or three- day weekend experience but are attended from home, using video conference software. Participants receive materials by regular mail and are offered a training session to familiarize with the software prior to the
experience.

Virtual Restore, Rekindle, Renew Experiences follow the 2-3 hour sessions of the 3RE format, but connecting from home using video conferencing software. These are typically seven virtual meetings. Local organizers will determine the day and time of the sessions.
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A major survey spanning 20 years of WWME experiences and 4,000 responses, rated the program as “highly effective” with immediate and long-term positive effects for 9 out of 10 couples, according to the National Institute for the Family in Washington, DC.
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The WeekendDecember

At Worldwide Marriage Encounter, Region 14 has over 40 experiences scheduled for this year. Ask in your city for the upcoming dates. We look forward to seeing you!

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Attract what ytou want in life by eliminating the energy drains and adding in new, healthy energy sources.

EVENT LOCATIONNew dates to be
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Attract what ytou want in life by eliminating the energy drains and adding in new, healthy energy sources.

EVENT LOCATIONNew dates to be
announced soon.

If you want to attract new things into your life, you need to free up space for them.

EVENT LOCATIONNew dates to be
announced soon.

Finding work you love is satisfying; start making the necessary transitions so that you do what you love to do.

EVENT LOCATIONNew dates to be
announced soon.

Envision your ideal life and set goals to create your best year yet! You’ll discard old goals...

what
couples say

I had heard great things of Celeste's coaching and work

“We had been married for ten years when we went. . . .We became much better parents because of it.”

Barbara W.

 

I’ve had a lot of great life changes since I’ve started the Coach Yourself to Success Online program such as I’ve been able to get rid of alot of stuff that I don’t need …. I’ve donated a lot of things and have sold things at my local used book store as well as on Craig’s list. I’m using the money to buy an IPAD. Something I wouldn’t normally splurge on myself.

Since I’ve made more room in my life, I’m receiving an additional $500 per month that was unexpected. I’ve lost 25 lbs., and many more changes. I really enjoy the weekly call-ins Coaching Hours. I’m on week 30 now and always look forward to see what the new assignment will be.

PEGGY TIDWELL
Business Owner
Scottsdale, AZ

First, I gained some real value from the program—mostly it was in helping me become unstuck in a few key areas. Like you said, it seemed almost like magic. I didn’t push anything or struggle, rather I just eased up and changed my viewpoint and then things shifted. For example, for a long time I’ve been bothered by all the clutter my very sweet and dear husband leaves around the house. I just accepted it as my lot in life to constantly need to move this stuff around as I need an orderly environment (my #1 emotional need as it turns out) and he doesn’t. But over the past nine weeks I realized that I was being proprietary about our space. Most all the space in the house is taken up with my stuff. We had very few places where his stuff could live, and no permanent home equalled constant clutter.

This summer we eliminated a guest room and turned it into an office for my husband. He treated himself to a new computer with huge monitor and killer sound system, and even though it is not yet furnished, he is enjoying spending time there and viola, we have a place for a lot of his stuff. It wasn’t hard to do this and we are both much happier on this issue as a result. Also now in general I am more open to moving things around or even stowing my stuff in the basement if he feels he needs more space. I just don’t feel as attached to it as I always have.

There’s a saying that it is pure folly to try to change another person, the only person you can change is yourself, and I discovered through the class that as I just quietly changed myself it caused people around me to follow my example, which was really neat too. And you’re right, men respond really well to declarative sentences vs. questions. I am doing that now with great results.

GEORGE MIDWELL
Participant
Dublin, OH

I have suggested this book to every woman I know (and some men), married or single. The style is appealing, empowering, and again, completely engaging.

LAKESHIA RIVERS
Irvine, California

1.5 years after reading your book Coach Yourself To Success: and a small stint in your coaching program, I started my own conflict management business. Thanks for inspiring me.

Warm regards,
BRUCE LEGGERS

The clutter is gone (home, work, mind!) and that’s made it easier to make decisions I trust — no more wasting time second-guessing. I embarked on a new professional journey I didn’t have the confidence to try until now. My communication is (becoming) precise and clear. Boundary work, needs assessment – BIG areas of change, and relatively simple. Everything — personal and professional — seems to be in flow.

Talane, thank you so much for providing this opportunity. I’ve been using your book on-off for about two years. I wasn’t prepared to invest in personal coaching yet, so this class was a great bridge/introduction. I came into this course extremely open and prepared for change and I carry that same openness to my new career and expect I will do personal coaching within the year!

Warm thanks,
MARYLIN BRODEUR

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