Getting the Love You Want™

About this event

Through guided practices, meaningful conversations, and supportive exercises, you’ll discover new ways to understand each other’s story and connect on a more intimate level.

By the end of the weekend, you’ll leave with fresh perspectives, practical tools you can bring into everyday life, and a renewed sense of energy and closeness to strengthen your bond. To ensure every couple feels truly seen, heard, and valued, enrollment is intentionally kept small, creating a meaningful and personalized experience. Held in person, this retreat provides a safe, inspiring, and distraction-free space where you can step away from the noise of daily life and focus fully on what matters most—your relationship.

Live, in-person, face-to-face in Metro DC!

This lively, experiential workshop will help you turn conflict into opportunities for healing and growth. You will explore some of your emotional history to understand its impact on your daily lives and gain compassion for your partner’s story. You will leave the weekend with fresh insights, new skills, energy and hope to restore the commitment and romance in your relationship.

Whether you are just starting out on your lifelong relationship journey, amid a committed and now ho-hum pattern, or at a crisis point…

THIS WORKSHOP WILL TRANSFORM THE WAY YOU CONNECT WITH YOUR PARTNER.

Experience the joy of conscious connection!

What to expect at a GETTING THE LOVE YOU WANT workshop:

• A new sense of the space between you and the quality of that connection

• Communication skills that will tend and nourish that space

• Understanding and empathy for your partner’s inner story

• Tools for repairing old wounds and conflicts

• A way to express your joyfully alive energy

• A vision for the dream you share for the relationship you are meant to have.

Using brief lectures, demonstrations, video, music, personal reflection, and private conversations between partners.

We create safety and privacy for couples to share and disclose to each other.

Sample Schedule:

Fri 6:30 pm-9 pm welcome and introduction to Imago

Sat/Sun 9-12:30 welcome, exercises, lectures, demo, and film clips

Sat/Sun 12:30-2:30 Lunch (some homework off-site)

Sat/Sun 2:30 6:00 pm review, exercises, lectures, demo, and film clips (Sat night Homework off-site)

About Hayley and David

Hayley is a licensed professional counselor. She is passionate about helping couples, and families experience healing, connection, and joy in their relationships. She holds an M.A. in Clinical Counseling from Northwestern University and is getting Polyvagal Informed, among other things. David brings experience in international diplomacy, community development, and executive coaching, skills he has honed as the President and CEO of a major national housing organization. Based on their experience, they bring empathy and hope to couples in a marital power struggle, couples looking to regain their passion, and couples wanting their relationship to benefit from an intentional connection. Hayley and David have been married for 10 years and have a blended family of 3 married sons, 2 daughters, 3 grandsons, a therapy dog named Annabelle and a little sister dog named Lilli-Bear.