Couples on the Path to Wholeness

Joyce & Barry Vissell

May 28-31 (Friday-Monday), 2010

“Walking the path of relationship deepens the soul’s capacity for compassion, the heart’s capacity fir embracing love, and helps us to understand love’s cycles of giving and receiving. The closer we come to another, the better we come to know ourselves.”
--- Light in the Mirror, by Barry and Joyce Vissell

To varying degrees, we all carry negative programming from our past, and there are loving and effective ways to transform this out-of-date behavior into a positive and vibrant celebration of connection. In Joyce and Barry’s workshop, you will learn a creative process to enable past hurts to heal, conflicts to be resolved, and trust to grow.

We hear consistently from couples that their retreats take them to new depths of love and commitment. In this workshop you will learn appreciation, healthy communication of feelings, the effects of using your partner as a mirror—working with positive as well as negative projections—understanding and respecting each other’s differences, resolving conflicts, healing past hurts, how to apologize (making amends), sexual wellness and happiness, and developing a true inner connection with your partner.

The workshop will also include exercises and practices for couples to do with each other, therapeutic coaching of each couple by Joyce and Barry, meditations and visualizations designed to deepen the love in the couple, and time for sharing after each practice.

Couples on the Path to Wholeness will be graced by original music by Scott Kalechstein. His lovely guitar, soothing singing, and spontaneous song creations address exactly what is happening in the workshop. This Memorial Day holiday workshop ends Monday at lunch and costs an additional $95.

Joyce Vissell is a nurse and Barry Vissell is a medical doctor and psychiatrist, but their main medicine is unconditional love. Ram Dass has called the Vissells “true bhaktis,” a couple who live the yoga of love and devotion. They have been deeply in love for 45 years, raised three children, and “walk their talk.” Since 1972 they have been counseling, healing, and teaching internationally and have written five books on relationship, family, and personal growth: The Shared Heart, Models of Love, Risk to be Healed, Light in the Mirror, and Meant To Be. They are co-founders and directors of the non-profit Shared Heart Foundation, dedicated to changing the world one heart at a time. Their visits here have been real love feasts, and we always welcome their presence.

“Of all the workshops for couples we’ve attended, Joyce and Barry’s is by far the best. We’ve gone to their workshops at Rowe six times, and each time we come home with more precious gems to enhance our relationship. By weaving powerful teachings, music, laughter, and tears, they provide a gentle and safe environment for growth, healing, and renewal.”
—Laura and Max Greendale, Rowe board members.