HOPE Weekends use Dr. Richard Marks’ Enriched Relationships process. HOPE Weekends are not counseling or therapy, but an educational process that effects change. They are however, very therapeutic. Those who attend these weekends must agree to attend the whole weekend and agree to operate with goodwill and respect. Ill will and disrespect undermine healthy relationships and do not build connections. HOPE Weekends are also attended by premarital couples and by others who seek to enrich their relationship. And very important to remember, HOPE Weekends are cheaper than a divorce and long term, much more meaningful!
What?
A 3 day professionally/pastorally guided relationship skills marriage weekend in how to restore and sustain a connected relationship.
Who?
For any couple who is experiencing marital distress and/or need help in communication, problem solving, and skills for reconnecting to each other and sustaining an intimate relationship.
Where?
Click the “workshops” tab to see upcoming dates and events.

Soul Healing Love – If you are dating, engaged, desiring help or just marriage enrichment you can learn how to heal the past hurts that are getting in the way of your present relationships. Also learn how to reconcile differences, resolve conflict, enhance empathy and foster forgiveness. If you are a professional or lay counselor you can learn the soul healing love model while working on your own relationship.
Don and Angie Power offer the 15 hour couples intensive workshops this weekend workshop that helps couples go deep into their past, learn about their childhood soul wounds, and how they affect their marriage today. The Powers unpack the tenets of the Soul Healing Love Model and teach 10 practical easy-to-learn exercises, tools, and techniques designed to help you gain awareness, enhance empathy, foster forgiveness, and communicate more deeply than you have before.
While there will be other couples present, this is not a group event that requires you share with others about your personal issues. Your confidentiality will be respected and protected.

We are also trained in offering the extremely popular Mark Gungor Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage. Mark’s entertaining illustrations are so hilarious and original that you’ll be sharing them with all your friends. His humor makes his teaching enjoyable, effective and memorable, helping spouses remember these insights and immediately put them to work.

The Tale of Two Brains – laugh til you hurt as Mark explains what he calls “the laws of relational physics” – how men and women are wired differently and why.

The #1 Key to Incredible Sex – this is it…the “yo momma” session you’ve been waiting for. Mark goes through the five steps couples need to know to experience incredible, mind blowing, married sex…don’t miss it!

The Flag Page® – through a tool called the Flag Page®, Mark is able to show husbands and wives a new way to discover what makes their spouse tick.

How to Stay Married and Not Kill Your Spouse – through this session, viewers will discover the power of forgiveness in their marriage…or what Mark likes to call, “The Reset Button.

Date Night: Is a fun one night interactive marriage workshop centered around fun, food, and connecting with your partner. Throughout the evening, one of our marriage couples will be introducing various communication tools, connection techniques, and fun interactive inter-play that allows couples to grow together, and receive immediate coaching that will allow them to introduce into their everyday lives.

B4U- Breakthrough 4 U is a relationship workshop geared towards people who want to get breakthrough in their relationships. It doesn’t matter if you are single or have been married for forty years, this workshop well give you tools on communication, healthy boundaries, setting goals, understanding your needs, and taking ownership for creating healthy relationships around you. Created by Don and Angie Power, this interactive workshop is a fun filled interactive weekend that introduces tools for everyday application. See you there!

Adventures In Marriage (A.I.M.): Our A.I.M. workshop teaches people how to love better. Most couples do not know “how” to be married. Our marriage programs help couples discover how to meet one another’s needs, communicate, resolve conflicts, express anger, avoid dirty fighting, and understand how their personality styles impact relationships for better or worse. Fun, practical, and easy to learn, our programs for married couples are appropriate for married couples at any age or stage. These proven programs are better described as “experiences” designed to reach couples across the spectrum – from happy and highly motivated to struggling and highly stressed. Come learn how to create the marriage you have always wanted with the spouse you already have! This workshop has also been featured and utilized by special ops couples and our military families.

CHERISH: “Most marriages survive by gritting teeth and holding on. But marriages can and will not only survive but thrive when husbands and wives learn to cherish one another.”
Author Gary Thomas shows that although there are a countless number of marriages consisting of two people just going through the motions, there are real ways this pattern can be reversed: when husbands and wives learn to cherish one another in proven, loving, and everyday actions and words.
Through personal stories and real world examples, Thomas proves what husbands and wives can begin doing today to turn their marriage around—even a marriage marred by neglect and disrespect.
So how do you cherish your spouse? Our workshop facilitators will show you how going out of your way to notice them, appreciate them, honor them, encourage them, and hold them close to your heart will bring hope, light, and life into your marriage.