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Main Sessions
#1: Navigating Emotional Patterns
This session focused on understanding the territory of emotions. Our emotional climate creates patterns and cycles in our marriages. These patterns can either strengthen us or lead us to areas of disconnect and hurt. In this session and its subsequent discussion, we learned how to identify these patterns in our marriages and how to shift them into areas of strength.
#2: Growing Spiritual Union as a Couple
Our spiritual union as a couple serves as the foundation of our marriage. In this morning session, we reviewed activities designed to create focus and intimacy in several areas of our spiritual life.
#3: Reparative Communication
Conflict is inevitable in marriage. But healthy dialogue through differences can actually help deepen a marriage relationship. This session and its subsequent workshop focused on applying simple yet profound communication principles to our marriages and gave participants an opportunity to learn and practice skills which help navigate difficult conversations.
#4: Emotional & Physical Intimacy
God’s design for marital sexuality includes both emotional connection and physical responsiveness. However, busy lives, stress, and skewed messages from the world can get in the way of experiencing the full blessing he desires for us in this area. This presentation and discussion focused on four practical ways couples can deepen their emotional intimacy while enhancing sexual fulfillment.
#5: Nurturing Lasting Joy in Your Marriage
Joy in marriage is a powerful bonding agent. This Sunday morning session walked through several simple, practical, and yet profound ways in which joy can be nurtured in our marriages each day. These simple, nurturing ways can become a powerful legacy for marriage relationships as well as an example for those around us.
