Benzingstraße 5, Schliersee-Neuhaus, Germany
Up to 2 in group
Flexible Dates
About this Retreat
Monika works as individual and couples coach and therapist. She is trained in Internal Family System Therapy (IFS), Intimacy From Inside Out (IFIO) couple therapy, Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), Somatic Coaching, Systemic Constellations and other modalities. She is also a certified healing practitioner and classical homeopath.
Monika has been married for 28 year and has raised 3 children,
Jens is a transformational coach, trauma therapist, and workshop facilitator. His work integrates trauma therapy (IFS, NARM), somatic and energy practices (Mobius, Sevenoaks), life coaching (Newfield), relational and couples work (TRI, IFIO), leadership and systems change (McKinsey, Harvard), Theory U and Social Presencing (Presencing Institute), wilderness rites of passage (Wilderness Reflections), and contemplative wisdom traditions (Thomas Hübl, Academy of Inner Science). Jens weaves these threads into immersive healing experiences that invite body, mind, heart, soul, and nature into deeper connection, integration, and transformation.
Earlier in his life, Jens was a Senior Partner and Dean of Leadership Development at McKinsey & Company, where he co-founded the firm’s sustainability and international development practices.
Jens has been married for 28 years and has raised 3 children with his wife Monika.
Details of this retreat
From Couple to Couple – A Transformative Couples Retreat
Join Monika and Jens for an intimate and deeply personalized couples retreat at their private home and workshop space at the foot of the Bavarian Alps. This retreat offers a safe, spacious, and healing environment for couples ready to deepen connection, repair relational wounds, and craft a meaningful shared vision.
With over 28 years of marriage, three children, and a rich journey through love, conflict, and transformation, Monika and Jens bring the lived wisdom of their own partnership into this work. As certified couples therapists and individual coaches, they guide couples not as distant experts, but as a couple who has walked the path – offering both professional skill and personal resonance.
What You’ll Experience
Tailored Support for Your Unique Relationship
This retreat is designed around your specific needs as a couple. Through individual attention and couple-focused guidance, we meet you where you are – whether you're seeking to strengthen what’s already good, or heal deep pain and misalignment.
Core Themes We Explore Together:
* Transparent Communication: Speak from your vulnerability, express needs and boundaries clearly, and learn to listen without defense.
* Relational Intelligence: Grow skills in expressing desires, managing conflict, setting limits, and understanding each other’s emotional maps.
* Trauma-Informed Healing: Gently explore relational wounds and break patterns rooted in past pain, including love and sex addiction.
* Reimagining Gender & Roles: Deconstruct limiting socialized roles and move toward a self-authored, co-created vision of masculinity, femininity, and partnership.
* Creating a Shared Future: Define a joint vision for the next chapter of your life, craft a couple’s charter, and anchor it in daily practices.
* Navigating Life’s Realities: Openly address challenges around parenting, money, work-life balance, shared responsibilities, and more.
* Rebuilding Intimacy: Understand blocks to closeness, rediscover erotic connection, and learn how to make the first move – again and again.
Our Approach
We weave together a rich mix of therapeutic and creative modalities including:
* IFIO (Intimacy from the Inside Out – IFS-based couples therapy)
* Transparent Communication
* Family Constellation & Social Presencing Theatre
* Somatic & Energy Healing
* Contemplative Practices & Movement
* Creative Expression through Art and Poetry
All in service of restoring trust, opening hearts, and nurturing a vibrant and resilient “we.”
Extend and Continue the Journey
If desired, couples can extend the duration of the retreat and add more days. Also, couples can continue the work through ongoing coaching (online or in person) with Monika and Jens following the retreat.