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OUR VISION FOR HOPE WEEKEND
IS SIMPLE

We want to transform good marriages into great marriages, and we want troubled marriages to be healed and restored so more children will grow up in happier, healthier homes.

 

One of the many “lessons learned” from doing relationship and marriage education work since 1998 is that most couples don’t know HOW to build and sustain a healthy marriage.  Nobody ever taught us the critical skills needed for a life-long marriage.

 

We ask you to block out three days of your life and go “all in” to get the breakthrough you desperately want and need from a Hope Weekend experience.  If you cannot commit to the entire three days, please do not sign up.  The stakes are too high for your marriage and family to walk into this experience half-hearted.  

 

Hope Weekends provide specific, practical, attainable skills to help couples:

 

  •  Reconnect and develop/restore trust

  • Promote a greater sense of "Us" and oneness 

  •  Experience deeper levels of intimacy, knowledge, and understanding of one another

  •   Learn the essential relationship skills required to develop, maintain, and sustain a deeply bonded and connected relationship

  •  Strengthen your core communication skills 

  •  Learn proven conflict resolution skills that work through problems without tearing one another apart

  •  Develop emotional regulation and increased EQ (Emotional Intelligence)

  •  Heal from accumulated relational pain

Did you know the average cost of a divorce is over $30,000?

Our Hope Weekend, comparatively, costs only $1,499 per couple (does not include food or lodging) and for more than 20 years we have an over 80% success rate in turning the most troubled marriages around (including those who have already started divorce proceedings).

IS DIVORCE THE BEST OPTION?

Relationship Service in Tallahassee, Jacksonville, and Orlando, FL

REGISTER FOR A HOPE WEEKEND

LOCATIONS FOR HOPE WEEKEND

Click on any staff member to email them about your Hope Weekend questions
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JIMMY CASH
(Tallahassee)

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ORLANDO
JACKSONVILLE
TALLAHASSEE
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DOUG STEPHENS
(Jacksonville)

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KRISTI CORLEY
(Orlando)

​321-696-3962

kristi@livethelife.org

FLEXIBLE PAYMENT OPTIONS

Your marriage is worth the investment, and we want to make taking the next step easier.

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Our flexible payment plan allows you to spread the cost of Hope Weekend over six manageable monthly payments of just $250, instead of paying the full registration amount upfront.

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Don't let the cost stand in the way of investing in your relationship. Take the next step toward healing, rebuilding trust, and creating a stronger, healthier marriage together.

Best Value

Hope Weekend Assistance

$250

250

Every month

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With our flexible payment plan, you can secure your path toward a stronger, healthier marriage with 6 monthly payments of $250, rather than paying the full $1,500 upfront.

Valid for 6 months

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“The course changed a 29-year marriage of confusion, hurt, silence, and missed opportunities into a vibrant relationship of pleasure and trust that thrives on change and growth.”

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-SHAWN

LISTEN TO REAL HOPE WEEKEND STORIES

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DO YOU NEED US TO COME TO YOU?

A Marriage Intensive, as the name implies, pairs a trained pastoral counselor or relationship coach with one couple for two or three full days of exploration, education, and skills development. As a couple learns new tools for communication, intimacy building, and conflict resolution those skills are put into immediate use to build the lasting marriage both desire.

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Traditional Marriage Therapy has about a 35% rate of success in restoring and healing marriages. Marriage Intensives, on the other hand, succeed with 85% of couples who complete the experience. While traditional counseling takes months, a Marriage Intensive over two to three days can clear obstacles and develop relational skills with immediate results.

This Skills-based approach recognizes that there are basic emotional and relational needs common to all human beings. Relationships can be torn apart by past hurts and brokenness as well as by unmet emotional needs in the present. Using the best tools of psychological and behavioral research, our Marriage Intensive Pastoral Counselors help clients identify past hurts, unmet emotional needs, and self-defeating behavioral patterns which may be hindering personal growth and relational health. The goal of Skills Based Counseling is to assist couples in discovering new ways of thinking and behaving that will help them develop a healthy and satisfying marriage

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DOUG STEPHENS

is a Pastoral Counselor and conducts Marriage Intensives. For details on costs and scheduling, contact:

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doug@livethelife.org

(850) 766-4424

Live the Life does not offer long term clinical therapy services. 
Individuals or couples needing these services will be referred to appropriate licensed clinicians.
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STATE HEADQUARTERS

2252 Killearn Center Blvd, Suite 100

Tallahassee, FL 32309

850-668-3700
info@livethelife.org

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