ONE-DAY FORMAT
Saturday
8:30am      Doors Open
9:00           Communication and Conflict
10:10         Coffee Break 
10:30         Building Intimacy: The Accepting Heart
11:30         Lunch (on your own)
12:30pm   Seven Secrets to a Great Sex Life
1:30           Break
1:45           How to Stay Together - For Better AND For Worse
2:45           Question & Answer
3:00           Conference Concludes

TWO-DAY FORMAT
Friday       
7:00pm    Communication and Conflict
8:10pm    Break
8:30pm    Building Intimacy: The Accepting Heart
9:30pm    Dismissed

Saturday
9:00am    Seven Secrets to a Great Sex Life
10:00am  Break
10:20am  How to Stay Together - For Better AND For Worse
11:20am  Question & Answer
11:30am  Conclusion

Topic Descriptions:

Communication and Conflict
The ability to talk to one another in a positive, heart-felt and non-threatening manner may be the most important skills a couple can learn to strengthen their marriage. This session includes a presentation of the different ways men and women approach communication, as well as their unique emotional needs. Understanding healthy and unhealthy anger and finding solutions to problems that work for both of you is the final piece of building strong communication skills.

Building Intimacy: The Accepting Heart
The greatest need that a couple has is to open their hearts to each other. This session will explore how and why we close our hearts and the issues that creates. It also focuses on the life-changing experience of connecting heart to heart at a level of emotional intimacy many couples may have never known. The result is two hearts connected who know the true meaning of what it is to give and receive love freely.

Seven Secrets to a Great Sex Life
This session presents the popular myths of our culture and how they can work against finding sexual fulfillment in marriage. The positive Biblical view of sexual fulfillment in marriage is presented and along with an understanding of the temptations and dangers that can destroy intimacy. Pratical suggestions are offered how both partners can work to better understand and meet the needs of their lifelong partner.

How to Stay Together - For Better AND For Worse
A look at the intriguing story of Jacob and Leah, a marriage that by all accounts should not have happened, but proved ultimately to be very much in the plan of God. Despite all the difficulties of their early years of marriage, a remarkable transformation takes place in Jacob and Leah. This session secures the vital role of softening your heart toward one another in marriage, daily inviting the power and presence of God into your relationship, and staying true to your promises for a lifetime. Jacob and Leah kept their vows, and as a result of God's amazing plan for marriage, they impacted the world for all time.

Question and Answer
This time of answering questions taken from the audience has often proven to be one of the highlights of each conference!