IntimacyMoons

IntimacyMoons Couples Retreats - Valentine's Day 2022

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Deepen intimacy, re-ignite passion, feel alive

An IntimacyMoon is the only vacation on the market where you can truly take your vacation home with you. We empower couples to achieve something money can’t buy: feeling joyfully alive and passionately connected in their life & relationship.

IntimacyMoons Couples Retreats provide you with the essential tools to deepen intimacy on every level possible. You and your partner will have the opportunity to learn how to safely and effectively navigate life’s challenges together while building lasting and satisfying intimacy.

IntimacyMoons provides couples with a clear and evidence-based framework to understand the individual emotional needs that underpin behaviour, which creates enormous clarity and clears the path to healing and authentic connection.

Set against the backdrop of Barbados’ world-famous The Crane Resort, this is the ideal vacation experience to get away from it all, relax in the sun, and reconnect with you partner this Valentine's Day on an IntimacyMoon.

Intimacymoons couples retreat experience includes

• Welcome Reception Dinner

• 60 minute couples massage

• Nine (9) hours total - 3hrs daily - of in-person group coaching over the course of 3 days with Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and Certified Sexuality Educator, Marissa Nelson.

• Small groups - Maximum 15 couples

• All workshop materials & manuals

• Light snacks and refreshments during workshop times

• Extra Surprises!

The result is rapid, life-changing transformation and clarity that you can keep.

Package does not include travel and accommodation, though we strongly recommend staying at The Crane Resort for maximum benefit.

RETREAT AGENDA

ARRIVAL DAY

Welcome reception dinner at Italian Restaurant D'Onofrios for all of Intimacymoons couples.

DAY 1

CONFLICT & COMMUNICATION

Couples will be tasked to understand their underlying needs when dealing with conflict and communication. Each couple is given a set of questions that help facilitate conversation about how they believe they handle conflict, and what areas could use growth and attention. Practical tools and guidelines are given to guide couples as to how to communicate their needs more affectively and in a way their partner can hear them.

My belief is that communication is a lifelong skill that couples always need to work at and fine tune. Elements like building emotional safety, and learning how to effectively get your point across with out shutting down, over shouting or getting defensive really adds to relationship health and satisfaction - tools that everyone will walk away with.

DAY 2

SEXUAL INTIMACY & COMMUNICATION

Sex is more than just intimacy, and intimacy is more that just the act of sex. It is important to understand the values, beliefs and feelings that may get in the way of physical connection, and transcending those messages to truly embrace sexual agency individually and within the relationship.

This retreat will help couples explore and talk about their own sexual templates, and get the chance to dive deep into their own erotic desires, fantasies, longings and beliefs about different aspects of sexuality. We will also cover sexual communication, and have heart to heart discussions on how to treat the most common sexual concerns couples may have.

DAY 3

VISION & EXPECTATION OF MARRIAGE/RELATIONSHIP

The union of marriage is an amazing journey, but after you walk down the aisle that's when the real work begins. Through self reflective exercises and conversations, couples will have a deeper understanding of what their expectations of marriage really are, from gender role expectations, children, finances, career aspirations and more.

You will gain clarity about their individual and relationship goals, learn how to negotiate and collaborate on the differences, and dream together by creating a vision of their marriage and the road ahead.

LEARNING TO LET GO

Perhaps one of the most powerful experiences couples can have during this retreat. Often times people move into the next stage of their relationship but still bring along the baggage and wounds from the past, whether from past relationships, family or previous wounds.

This letting go process has couples confront the issues that are still present for them that may be hard to let go, but that are standing in the way of deeper connection and joy. By starting the process of healing, couples can then move forward in freedom, allowing a renewed version of the relationship to emerge that can promote a healthier and more prosperous union.

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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Marissa Nelson is the Master Therapist and Facilitator of IntimacyMoons. Marissa is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT) by the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (AAMFT) and a Certified Sex Therapist (CST) and Certified Sexuality Educator (CSE) by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT).

Marissa has helped hundreds of couples to rediscover lasting connection while overcoming all of life’s challenges together.

Her extensive clinical knowledge of couples’ issues yet accessible and contemporary style makes couples and sex therapy conversational, warm and fun.

An internationally recognized expert, she is the creator of IntimacyMoons Couples Retreats, rated by Women’s Health and Bustle Magazines as one of the top couples retreats worldwide.

She has also been frequently featured in over 100 national and international media publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Global News Canada, CNN Health, Glamour, Latina and Black Enterprise.