Our Couples Retreat is a fully private, tailored experience just and with the two of you and two expert coaches guiding you through a personalised relationship journey. This experience will be beyond "Fixing Problems": we'll focus on personal growth, emotional renewal and creating a shared vision for your future as a couple.

Retreat Date(s)

Our Couples Retreat is open the whole year through on demand. After you contact us, we'll find a date that works best for you both. The pricing on this retreat is for you as a couple. This is NOT a group retreat.

Itinerary

We focus directly and immediately on the needs of you as a couple that are not being met. Over this 4 day retreat, you will receive roughly 20 hours of intensive coaching with two experienced life coaches. In addition, you may choose options for a single or couple’s massage, dining out and taking walks to have time to allow the coaching process to absorb and re-inspiration to happen! You will also spend time to reflect, write, create, dream, and listen to the voice of your heart. There are so many quiet and cozy places in or around town to take breaks. You will start seeing your life and yourself through a new lens, get ideas about what steps you might take next, get to know each other in different ways. “You will discover who you’ve become to yourself and each other in this relationship”. “To grow into our largest best selves, we must be able to claim our own lives. We must sort out what we truly desire and then go for it.” Mary Pipher said it beautifully – this is why we all came here! Let’s go for it. At Coaching to Connection we offer brief, intensive retreats to help you, and your partner move through your stuck habits to a more mutually meaningful and enjoyable relationship. Take charge and change direction to prevent irreparable relationship consequences in the future. Learn new skills for breaking through old patterns that have held you back from breaking the mold you’re in. Showing up with a willingness to make changes is where your retreat journey begins! Your own future is what needs your attention now, and this is the place and the time to reveal and reflect. We love this special, exciting, challenging, and spiritual time in people’s lives the most—it’s time to grow! Together, we will board the “submarine” and dive deeply into the places where the answers are waiting to be heard and transformed. Our days together will be filled with a unique and varied coaching process that is always in the moment and always tailor-made for both of you and each of you individually. We follow and stimulate the needs and mood of each unique couple as it serves each of you as a partner. Being in a committed partnership of any kind is a long term project. That’s a long time- what are you going to do? Who do you want to become? How do you feel about your own life, changing, developing, aging? All of these needs, wants, dreams for both partners feed into the identity of “ the couple.” Three beings must be served: me, you & us. So, get started and let’s sort out your relationship puzzle together!

What's Included

Pre and post retreat zoom call Daily schedule personalized to your needs About 20 hours of life-coaching​/​counselling with two experienced coaches Course Manual – personal notes, inspiration, personalised exercises Reduced rate post retreat support on zoom or in-person Resources for further research and support Welcome drink during our first check-in meeting with you Water, tea, coffee, and healthy snacks served throughout the day Free parking available onsite Wifi connection, though we encourage digital detoxing to maximize your experience.

What's Not Included

Flights costs Travel insurance, we highly recommend you to have one Accommodation Meals Airport transfer Additional activities not included in the itinerary

Food (if applicable)

We are food lovers! We know and love the best health food places in town, and during your retreat days, we invite you to explore fresh, regional, mostly organic food. Water, tea, and coffee, as well as healthy snacks like fruit and nuts, are included in your booking. Your dietary wants and needs, whether you are vegetarian, vegan, GF, or have other dietary preferences, are in good hands in McMinnville.

How to get there (if applicable)

Book your flight to Portland International Airport (PDX). Unless you rent a car, we can arrange to pick you up at Portland International Airport (PDX) for 100$ (one-way) and for 200$ (two-way). There is also shuttle transportation available.

Past Reviews (optional)

Sherrie & Wade from Oregon, "Spend 3 Days and Change Your Marriage -- You're Worth It!" We have been married for 10 years and are looking at the next chapter of our lives... retirement for the husband, more years of work for the wife, what does life look like for him, her, us? We were looking for an immersive experience because we felt that would provide a better outcome than just one-hour sessions at a time with a typical therapist, and we were right! We looked at various options out there for weekend retreats, and we wanted something that was a getaway, but was not some big fancy vacation with flights and the stress of travel. Having the ability to stay in a tiny house in the quaint town of McMinnville was perfect. We were able to treat ourselves to massages and nice dinners without a lot of effort. It was relaxing and allowed us to focus on what was most important - US! Really knowing very little about the "process" going in, this experience exceeded our expectations. Susan and Sandy tailored the experience to us, listening very carefully, and adjusting the content to match exactly what we needed. We had the opportunity to dig into each of our lives to explore who we were, who we are, and who we are becoming, both as an individual and a couple. We had a safe space to take turns exploring our life history, and seeing how we show up today with it. There was the right combination of feeling safe yet challenged to see each of our roles and how they create dynamics, both wanted and unwanted, in our relationship. We spent 3 days and it took all of that time to unravel things and come up with a blueprint for our relationship going forward. This is not a Cosmo Quiz, folks!! We felt it was important to give a review because as we came across this retreat, we saw mostly reviews from women rather than couples. When we had our Zoom call with Susan & Sandy, we trusted that it was the right forum for us, yet we really had nothing to tell us why we felt this was going to work as well as it did. We are here to tell you -- they do GREAT work with couples! There were some things in my mind going in where I thought, "I hope we will get to talk about X." We covered it all! Communication, intimacy, SEX, our adult children, money, how we do ​/​ don't give each other attention, our retirement vision, etc. We have our blueprint hanging on the back of our kitchen door to remind us of our commitments to each other as part of this process. We are already recommending it to other couple friends of ours.