Marble Retreat offers eight carefully designed days of group and individual Christian counseling for no more than eight people. Each
person has three one-hour sessions of individual counseling as well as twenty-seven hours of group counseling with highly qualified
Christian counselors. Initial hours are spent in assessing your history and needs. Based on issues identified, subsequent counseling is
designed to deal with those concerns.
Each retreat pursues three basic goals:
- Allow each participant to safely unburden the hurts and pressures of life and ministry.
- Assist each person to understand herself/himself more completely (interpersonally, intrapersonally and spiritually) as their life patterns have developed.
- Encourage and enable development of new levels of self-acceptance as well as more effective relational skills. This often includes evaluation of expectations, reordering of priorities, improving communication skills and bringing balance into life.
Our program is modeled after the Intensive Psychotherapy Center at the Mayo Clinics, Rochester, MN, as an alternative to months of conventional weekly counseling. It offers the added benefit of focused work with like-minded colleagues (fellow clergy and/or Christians).
If you are married, we insist on spousal participation. We also ask that you be in a place of readiness for the tough work of self-disclosure and self-awareness. To further enhance the experience we ask that you totally suspend your ministry responsibilities (including sermon or teaching preparations) for the duration of your session.
The entire range of clergy and other Christians come to Marble Retreat Christian Counseling each year for healing of old hurts and finding new beginnings for their shattered vision. Retreat guests come from many denominational, ethnic and geographic backgrounds with one unifying bond -- they recognize the need for God's restoring touch for their broken spirits. Committed Christian counselors wait to help them find new insights and more effective coping skills.