National Guard Offers Marriage Enrichment Retreat to Deployed Soldiers Returning Home

PREVENTION AND RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM (PREP) Marriage Enrichment Workshop


The New Jersey National Guard Family Programs staff and your Chaplains have teamed up to offer you a truly out-standing program known as “PREP”. This program has proven so effective in recent years that it has been featured on 20/20, 48 Hours, Oprah, and in many articles of the printed media.

PREP offers a fresh approach. It is basic and straightforward. The workshop and the materials teach couples the skills they need to nurture a lasting love. Couples spend most of their time in special discussions or practicing skills. Key topics include expectations, commitment, fun, forgiveness, friendship, feeling understood, and sensuality.

PREP is NOT therapy, and is unlike anything to which you have been exposed. No encounter group or sharing of personal concerns, no dry psychobabble…simply thrilling insights into a more loving, growth filled relationship! PREP begins with teaching effective communication skills, and then addresses problem resolution strategies that work, how to discover the hidden issues in every relationship, and then move into forgiveness, fun, friendship and sensuality.

Our first Enrichment Workshop will be held at the Hyatt in Princeton, New Jersey. Check in at the hotel will be Friday night April 22 between 7:00 and 9:00 PM. The workshop will be held on Saturday 23 April and conclude at Noon on Sunday 24 April. Please see attached sheet for the listing of other Marriage Enrichment Workshops scheduled with the dates and locations you may choose from.

All spouses will be on ITO’s (Invitational Travel Orders) and soldiers attending will be in SUTA status for the weekend. Dress for the weekend is business casual for soldier and spouse. This weekend will be at virtually no cost to you since your hotel room and meals have been contracted at the hotel. At the conclusion of the weekend, you will complete your Travel Voucher for your reimbursement for mileage.

Attached you will find a registration form, information sheet, and workshop dates & locations. If you have any questions or need any further information please call the Family Program Office at 609-562-0668 or 609-562-0739.

Sincerely
Ralph W. Cwieka
CW4, NJARNG
Family Program Director