Live Your Best Life in Love… A Marriage Encounter Weekend can help you do just that!

The Weekend is a couple enrichment experience that focuses on a simple but powerful communication strategy. It’s designed to make your relationship a priority, more intimate and more joyful.
  • Restore your intimacy and joy.
  • Rekindle your romance.
  • Renew your commitment to each other.
  • Reconnect and improve your communication skills.​
  • Realize that you are not alone and that other couples experience similar feelings, needs, challenges and hopes.
This Weekend can be transformational! Past participants have said, “This was the BEST thing we ever did for our marriage. We wish we’d gone to it years ago!”

​The Marriage Encounter Journey
Marriage Encounter invites you on a journey… one that will help you improve your knowledge, understanding and acceptance of each other. It can deepen and strengthen your love, leading to a richer, more intimate and joyful life together. Over the course of the Weekend, husbands and wives focus solely on one another, away from their children and away from distractions and tensions of their everyday life.
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​Who is Marriage Encounter for?
It is for couples of any age. Those who have been married only a few months to couples married over 50 years and it is also for those who have chosen to remarry. It is basically for all husbands and wives who value their marriage and have a desire to make it even better.​​​

​​Sound Positive?
It is positive! It’s aimed at building and enhancing a relationship, not in tearing it down and starting over. You will discover a refreshing approach to communication that provides an opportunity for growth. Couples have described it as ‘the 48 hours that changed their lives.’
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​Is the Weekend open to couples of any faith?
Edmonton Anglican Marriage Encounter hosts this Weekend but it is open to couples of all denominations as well as those without a church affiliation or religious perspective. A Common Protestant Outline (CPO) is used throughout the Weekend,  which is applicable to any married husband and wife.​
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​Does the Weekend have a lasting effect on your journey together?
Marriage Encounter does not end with the Weekend.  The communication tools you acquire can easily be used to continue your growth and further enhance your marriage. If interested, there is also an opportunity to be part of the Marriage Encounter Community, which supports and connects encountered couples.
"Breathing is to the body what communication is to a marriage. Without breath we die; without communication, a marriage dies.”
 Dr. Gary Chapman, author The Five Love Languages

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"​The best thing you can do for your children...
  is to love your spouse."
​Choose the experience that works for you:
  • Retreat Weekend Experiences are held in a hotel or other venue and begins on a Friday evening continuing all day Saturday and culminating on Sunday afternoon. Sleeping accommodations and meals are provided. We ask participants to arrange care for their family members and pets for the duration of the experience.
  • Virtual Weekend Experiences (live via ZOOM) follow the same schedule as a three day Retreat Weekend experience but the live presentations are attended from home, using ZOOM video conference software. The Weekend will consist of ZOOM presentations and time off ZOOM for private written responses and couple discussion.
  • Virtual 3RE - "Restore Rekindle Renew" is the same weekend experience except all topics/presentations are divided into 6 weekly sessions, 2-3 hours in length, with one follow-up session afterwards.  An M.E. couple facilitates each session which includes video presentations followed by private writing and discussion between each registered couple in their home. This is a great alternative to couples who do not want to or cannot commit to an entire weekend experience.  

Upcoming Weekend and 3RE - "Restore Rekindle Renew" Experiences

Friday evening to Sunday afternoon
  • June 4-6, 2021, Virtual Weekend (live via ZOOM)
  • November 5-7, 2021, Edmonton Retreat Weekend
  • November 4-6, 2022, Edmonton Retreat Weekend
  • November 3-5, 2023, Edmonton Retreat Weekend
Virtual 3RE - "Restore Rekindle Renew" experience
  • Six weekly sessions from 12:00 pm to 2:30 pm (MST) on Sundays beginning September 19th, 2021.

​Registration for the June  4-6, 2021 Virtual Weekend (live via ZOOM)

  • Early Bird: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 – $80.00 fee and free-will offering*
  • Deadline: Wednesday, May 26, 2021 – $100.00 fee and free-will offering*
  • Registration is closed.
  • For more information please contact Jay Thygesen & Bruce Ramage (780) 484-2482 / marriageencounter.ea@gmail.com​​

Registration for the Virtual 3RE - "Restore Rekindle Renew" six weekly sessions beginning September 19th, 2021

  • Early Bird: Monday August 30, 2021 – $80.00 fee and free-will offering*
  • Deadline: Monday, September 6, 2021 – $100.00 fee and free-will offering*
  • Register online here.
  • For more information please contact  Heather & Garry Tansem at (780) 974-8087 / marriageencounter.ea@gmail.com

Registration for the November 5-7, 2021 Edmonton Retreat Weekend

  • Early Bird: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 – $80.00 fee and free-will offering*
  • Deadline: Friday, October 22, 2021 – $100.00 fee and free-will offering*
  • Register online here.
  • Your registration fee is refundable if you cancel by October 6th, 2021 or if the Weekend needs to be cancelled due to COVID restrictions.
  • For more information please contact Jay Thygesen & Bruce Ramage (780) 4842482 / marriageencounter.ea@gmail.com​​
*Apart from the registration fee, your Weekend is given to you as a gift, paid for by previous attendees. Near the end of your Weekend the full cost is explained & you will be given the opportunity to make an anonymous donation to future Weekends & ‘pay it forward.’ A Virtual Weekend is less expensive than a Retreat Weekend because there are no costs for accommodations, and meals. However, there will still be costs for the printing and delivery of the materials you will need for the Weekend sessions, for our advertising and promotion, etc.
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Location of Retreat Weekends

Providence Renewal Centre
3005 119 Street NW, Edmonton, AB, T6J 5R5
Note: The Anglican Diocese of Edmonton is a partner of Edmonton Anglican Marriage Encounter (EAME). All denominations are welcome, as well as those without a church affiliation or religious perspective. The Edmonton Anglican Marriage Encounter Weekend is offered under licence from Worldwide Marriage Encounter® and uses the Common Protestant Outline (CPO).