Weekend for couples: "Revitalizing love"

Love requires care and time. Drawing on the Word of God and Nonviolent Communication, this weekend will offer pathways to revitalize love within a couple.

Nurturing love begins in our inner garden, strengthening self-love as the foundation of love in the relationship. It also takes courage to embrace our vulnerability and express our needs, rather than waiting for our partner to guess them, and learning to decode our partner's needs behind silence, criticism, or complaints…

Nonviolent Communication (NVC) offers us keys to finding our way back to a nourishing understanding. Practical exercises as a couple will be offered alongside short theoretical input. The place of gratitude and forgiveness will also be explored.

Date: November 6, 7:00 PM to November 8, 5:00 PM

Teachings, workshops, prayer, silence...

Speakers: Father Patrick Sempere and Pascale Molho, physician and certified NVC practitioner.

Pascale Molho is a physician and certified trainer in Nonviolent Communication (NVC). She has been training and accompanying diverse audiences for over 30 years, and is particularly dedicated to the complementarity of NVC with the Christian faith. She leads retreats on the spiritual foundations of NVC in connection with Christian spirituality, and workshops titled "Living the good news of the Gospel with NVC" within the diocese of Angoulême.

Father Patrick Sempere is a priest of the community of the Cœur de Jésus de Bassac.

Full board.

Getting to the abbey:

By car: a large parking lot within the abbey is available to retreatants

By train: Jarnac Charente station (6km away), we can arrange to pick you up

Please note: at this time, there is no elevator to access the rooms.