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Marriage Encounter
The objective of a Worldwide Marriage
Encounter Weekend is to improve communication between husband and wife and to
provide more insight into what prevents married couples from communicating more
effectively. The weekend also gives the couple a greater understanding of their
Sacrament of Matrimony and how it affects others. The weekend has helped
thousands of couples all over the world since its inception in 1968. This
heartwarming experience builds on the love you have for each other. It provides
an opportunity for you to focus on your relationship and for you to explore new
ways to love and care for each other.
Unique
Experience
The Worldwide Marriage
Encounter Weekend experience teaches a unique method of
communication. It is for couples with good marriages
who want to enrich their relationship. The weekend is a
very private experience, there is no group sharing.
This life-giving experience is for all couples, whether
you have been married a year or 50 years or more.
Weekend
Flow
The weekend starts on Friday
night at a local hotel and ends at 4:00 PM on Sunday
afternoon. The format of the weekend is a presentation
by one of the three Presenting Teams and a Priest. The
presentations are shared experiences of the Presenting
Couples and the Priest and how they use this
communication technique and how it helps them
communicate more effectively. The presentations are
exciting, meaningful and easy to relate to. At the end
of every presentation a question is given to reflect on
as it relates to your own relationship. There are no
right or wrong answers, the questions are posed in a way
to help discover more about yourselves and each other.
Each presentation is built on the other and the
communication technique, called Dialogue, is used
throughout the weekend, so that by the end of the
weekend it becomes natural and easy for you to use.
Key
Topics
Some of the key topics
covered are the importance of feelings in our day-to-day
communication and getting to know more about ourselves,
our personality styles and our behaviors and how they
affect our communication and relationship. Other
presentations include how we were subtly trained by what
we saw in the marriages of our parents and other members
of our family and how, because of this training, we came
into our own marriage with many expectations. When
these expectations are not met we become disappointed in
our disappointment we tend to compensate by getting
involved in other activities, which lessens the time we
have for each other. You will learn about areas in your
marriage that many often avoid, which, over time, cause
more distance in your relationship. There is a
presentation on listening and how to identify obstacles
to listening and how to listen with your hearts. You
will learn what God wants for us in our relationship and
what the true meaning of our Sacrament of Matrimony is.
There is a talk about the importance of trust in your
relationship and how to understand the depth of your
love for one another. To help keep your relationship a
priority, you will be given five tools on the weekend.
These five tools help integrate all that you learn on
the weekend into your everyday lives.
You deserve
to experience a weekend that you will treasure the rest
of your lives. Join the thousands all over the world
that have experienced Worldwide Marriage Encounter.
Please sign up today for the
wonderful and enlightening experience of a Worldwide
Marriage Encounter Weekend!
For a list of dates and to
register on-line, go to
http://jaxwwme.com/ or call 800-923-WWME (9963) |
