Ready to Level Up Your Marriage?
Most couples don't need another conference, another date night, or another weekend filled with lectures. What they need is time — time to slow down, reconnect, and reflect on where they are, where they may be drifting, and where they want to go together.
The Woods Haven Couples Intensive was created for couples who already have a good marriage but want to build something even stronger.
Hosted by Verdun & Vanessa Woods
This intimate experience is limited to just a few carefully selected couples and combines the best elements of a coaching intensive, hospitality experience, and luxury getaway. Each Intensive is hosted in a thoughtfully chosen private setting — often a beautiful waterfront home — designed to create a distraction-free environment where you can step away from the demands of everyday life and focus on what matters most: your relationship.
Tailored to You, Not a Template
Unlike traditional marriage events, the Woods Haven Couples Intensive is highly personalized. Before you ever arrive, you'll complete a series of assessments and a Hospitality Guide that allow your experience to be shaped around your unique strengths, challenges, preferences, and goals.
It starts with our Hospitality Guide — where you'll share the personal and practical details that help us care for you well, from your preferences to the story of your relationship. From there, you'll complete the Complacency Risk Assessment, helping us understand where comfort may have quietly settled into your marriage. Finally, the T.H.R.I.V.E.S. Self-Assessment gives us a full picture across all seven pillars of a thriving marriage.
Every detail of your time with us is intentionally designed around what we learn — from personalized welcome touches to meaningful keepsakes, Verdun and Vanessa strive to ensure that every couple feels seen, valued, and cared for.
Decades of Wisdom. One Proven Framework.
Throughout your time together, you'll participate in guided conversations, practical exercises, private reflection, and facilitated experiences designed to deepen connection, improve communication, and strengthen long-term relational health — all in a relaxed, welcoming atmosphere with plenty of room to laugh, reflect, celebrate, and reconnect.
The experience is built upon the proven T.H.R.I.V.E.S. Framework, developed through more than four decades of marriage coaching and relationship ministry. Rather than focusing solely on crisis intervention, the Intensive helps healthy couples identify where complacency may be setting in — and equips them with practical tools to strengthen their marriage before problems emerge.
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