Our shuttle transports you from Florence Airport and brings you to the Villa for arrival at 4:30. Whether you fly directly in or explore Italy on your own for days before, the retreat starts in the van ride to the Villa. Carolyn, her assistant and the Villa staff greet you and show you to your room and your welcome gift.

Once settled, we meet back for social hour and a welcome dinner. We will get to know each other and Carolyn will introduce the retreat process. After dinner you are invited to linger and relax or have an early night.

Our first full day will be at the Villa, where you will mix rest and relaxation with learning and activities facilitated to bring you closer. After daily coffee service, you are invited to join Carolyn for a hike around the area to stretch your legs. Following a delicious breakfast, we will gather to have our first session.

This two hour session will focus on the needs of your relationship for this trip. Supported in creating goals, you will then be led through a deeper understanding of each other to create the deepest relationship possible. The exercises will establish the connections as the basis for the week together and your ongoing relationship.

After a gourmet lunch, you have time to yourselves to explore, rest and relax, with suggested prompts and activities for deepening your experience. Each couple gets a session with Carolyn to enhance their experience and you can use this time to do so. You can also cab into Florence for a couple of hours or just relax by the pool.

We meet again for social hour and a pizza party. No ordinary pizza, we are treated to the experience of seeing how the best pizza in the world is made on a wood fired oven in our garden. Nourished and content after a luxurious day, you head to sleep feeling connected and inspired.

Our first adventure day, we head out to three wineries and olive oil vineyards.

But first, after coffee service, you have the option of joining Carolyn for a couples meditation session to start the day connected. Watch this process deepen everything that follows it as she leads you through the best ways to use this practice no matter what or how you are doing.

Following another delicious breakfast, we have a brief group session on communication to build in the tools to enhance your experience on the wine tours and beyond. The simple tools you use will teach you how to see and hear each other toward deeper connection, reduced friction, and more collaboration.

Then for the rest of the day we explore the gorgeous and delicious vineyards of Tuscany, where you learn about wine and olive oil production and the special wines only made here. You will taste both wines and olives oils paired with snacks and treats that enhance the experience. Then over a 3 course lunch, you will be treated to incredible food while you share together.

Once back at the villa you will have an opportunity to rest and relax before another amazing meal. Over dinner, Carolyn will facilitate a discussion that helps you grow closer and have fun together while learning about the challenges Carolyn and her husband have navigated together. Carolyn's humor and storytelling will create more opportunities for laughter and learning.

Our second full Villa day, today is focused on working and playing together. Another optional walk together will help start the day in connection and health.

Our morning session focuses on deepening your understanding of yourselves, your relationship and each other. Leaving behind the grind of your day to day life, you are now in a space to lean into full curiosity and play together. Through both exercises and teaching, Carolyn will help you shake off the old stories and baggage that has weighed you down and help you begin to create the new version of you. It will be challenging, exciting and inspiring and the morning will fly by.

A leisurely lunch will fuel you for an afternoon together on your own. An optional session with Carolyn, a taxi ride into Florence or another nearby town, or a relaxing afternoon in the Villa are among your choices. Carolyn will support you in making the best use of your time together by offering customized activities for your time alone together based on the goals you developed with her prior to arrival.

We meet back in the kitchen for our cooking class. Here we learn the secrets of your favorite Italian dishes as we make the dinner for ourselves. Part play, part learning and part collaboration, the cooking class will challenge your communication and connection or bring you easy joy. Either way Carolyn will enhance the experience with cues to notice and work with aspects of your relationship through out.

After enjoying the fruits of your labors, enjoy after dinner wine in the game room and salon before heading off to bed.

Today is our day in Florence. A brief meditation before breakfast to connect you, Carolyn will support you in setting intentions for the day together. We drive the 30 minutes to Florence and are met by our walking tour guide. We will be led through Florence's incredible history, and explore two of her greatest museums-The Uffizi and the Galleria D'academia.

After the tour concludes, you are on your own for the rest of the day to explore the other parts of this vibrant city you are most excited to see. Using the tools you have been taught, you will be encouraged to practice navigating the exploration of this incredible place with new eyes. You have lunch on your own and can stay for dinner as well.

The van returns to the villa at an agreed time, or you have the option of getting back on your own, with Carolyn's team able to assist with arrangements. Back at the villa you can rest, relax and enjoy a light dinner if you do not choose to have dinner on your own.

Now we build on the deepened connection and fun you have had and we take it to 11.

After a morning meditation, walk or sleep-in and a glorious breakfast, we meet up for a morning session.

Carolyn guides you through the key pieces to bring your relationship to more ease, passion and joy. Attachment and neuroscience are at the foundation, but you would never know it (unless the 6 couples are as nerdy as Carolyn and want the full academic deets) because you will be guided through a process that will feel like you are on your own private island together. Leaving this session you will feel clear, confident and deeply in love. You will have a plan for bringing the experience back home.ds

After lunch buffet where you can eat together as a group or take your lunch together to a private spot, you have time to yourselves with questions to use to inspire further connection and learning. Optional coaching sessions with Carolyn could deepen the work done or you can retreat to your gorgeous bedroom for rest and connection.

Social hour and a lively and delicious dinner rounds out the day. Play a game of pool or ping pong if you're in the mood or just relax by a fire.

Today is the spa day. An optional meditation will help you start the day connected and clear about your needs and wishes for your experiences today.

Following a light breakfast, we journey to Grotta Giusti, a natural thermal spa with caves deep into the ground. Here you have time in the spring fed thermal pools, grotto and treatments available to restore yourselves. Carolyn's team will help you make advanced reservations for any treatments you want, and you enjoy a delicious and healthy lunch poolside. You can hang with the group or take time to yourselves. It is a day filled with deep restoration and connection.

We return to the Villa mid afternoon. After a brief group practice to integrate the experiences, you have time to rest before social hour and our celebration dinner.

Over dinner, Carolyn will lead a discussion that will help begin the process of bringing your relationship home. You will celebrate your relationship and each other, more close and in love than you ever thought possible.

After a buffet breakfast and a closing circle, you leave with all the tools, processes and supports needed to bring the vacation back home with you. Our vans take you to the airport where you can head home or on the next leg of your vacation. If you want to add other stops, Carolyn can offer suggestions!

Following the retreat, we have a meeting together over zoom to check in and support you. Carolyn also sets up a session at a time best for each of you to follow up and offer support in integration and follow through on the work you need to do.