From Couple to Couple
A transformative private couples retreat at our home and workshop space at the foot of the Bavarian Alps. A safe, spacious and healing environment for couples ready to deepen connection, repair relational wounds and craft a meaningful shared vision.
Not distant experts, but a couple who has walked the path
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.
- A personalised program tailored to your needs, based on briefing calls
- Two intensive couples therapy and coaching sessions a day, 6–8 hours in total
- Daily meditation and movement practice
- Stay in our private luxury mountain chalet
- Spa with sauna, pool, gym, cold bath and pond
- Home-cooked vegan and vegetarian meals
- Outdoor coaching walks, if you like
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.
Transparent communication
Speak from your vulnerability, express needs and boundaries clearly, and learn to listen without defence.
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 socialised 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.
Extend and continue
Add more days if you wish, and continue the work afterwards through ongoing coaching with us, online or in person.
A rich mix of therapeutic and creative modalities
All in service of restoring trust, opening hearts, and nurturing a vibrant and resilient “we”.
- 08:00
- Morning practice: movement and meditation
- 09:00
- Breakfast
- 10:00
- Morning couples session
- 13:00
- Lunch and a break or walk
- 15:00
- Afternoon couples session
- 18:00
- Relaxation and spa
- 19:00
- Dinner
The schedule is approximate and may change.
Monika & Jens Riese
Monika Riese
Monika is trained in IFS, IFIO, NLP, somatic coaching and systemic constellations. She is also a certified healing practitioner (Heilpraktikerin) and classical homeopath.
Dr. Jens Riese
Jens works with trauma therapy (IFS, NARM), somatic and energy practice, life coaching and couples work, and is a certified IFS-based couple therapist. He was previously a Senior Partner and Dean of Leadership Development at McKinsey.
A private luxury chalet at the foot of the Alps
The retreat is hosted in our private chalet, with a spa, sauna, swimming pool, gym, ice bath, natural pond and a beautiful garden. The chalet is certified "passive energy plus": it produces more energy than it consumes.
Schliersee is a beautiful traditional village, with iconic peaks like Brecherspitz and Wendelstein directly accessible from the chalet, beautiful forests, and the lakes Schliersee and Spitzingsee. It is reachable by train within an hour from Munich centre or Munich Airport.
Choose what fits your income
Prices per person, including accommodation, meals and spa.
| Lower income | Middle income | Higher income | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 day | €750 | €1,500 | €2,250 |
| 2 days | €1,125 | €2,250 | €3,375 |
- Pre-program briefing call with each participant
- Morning and afternoon sessions with therapeutic, somatic and creative elements
- Reflection exercises for the breaks
- Integration call with the couple following the retreat
- Morning meditation and movement practice
- Stay in a luxury double room with ensuite bathroom and mountain view
- Three vegan or vegetarian meals a day
- Use of the spa with pool, sauna, gym, daybed and sunbeds
- Walks in the beautiful mountains
Find your dates
Tell us a little about the two of you and which dates you have in mind. We'll set up the briefing calls from there.