Amore Retreat Mission Statement
About Dr. M. P. Wylie
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Amore Retreat Idyllwild Story
Mission Statement: Bringing couples closer together through: one-on-one retreats, communication building tools, coaching and counseling -- utilizing outstanding and effective skills.
Dr. M.P. Wylie has thirty-five years of extensive education, research, training, and experience in building lasting and loving relationships. Through guided retreats, she helps couples achieve happiness, stability, and intimacy by learning to understand, respect, and appreciate each other, thereby improving relationships in all stages of life and love.
Dr. Wylie is the Founding Director of Amore Retreat Idyllwild (ARI), where she specializes in Five-Day Intensive Marital / Couples’ Retreats. She is thrilled with the outcome and transformation of couples and especially those in crisis and considering divorce.
Dr. Wylie is certified as a Relationship Enhancement® Marital/Couples Trainer and Educator/Leader and has led Three-Day RE Program Leadership Training Workshops. Dr. Wylie has directed over 100 Five-Day Intensive Marital/Couples Retreats with a 95% measurable positive outcome related to improving communication skills and increasing feelings of closeness, resulting in more hope for a lasting relationship. Dr. Wylie is the author of Journey to Love and Summit of Your Potential, which are implemented during her Five-Day Intensive Individual Retreats. Furthermore, she is a graduate from Ottawa University with Masters Degrees both in Counseling and Human Resources. She is an adjunct advisor to the Union Institute; where she achieved a Doctorate in Psychology. Dr. Wylie is an active member of Healthy Relationships California, and founding board member of the National Association for Relationship and Marriage Education.
Dr. Wylie is the founder of Relationship Research Foundation (RRF), a community nonprofit organization that successfully managed healthy marriage federal funding for seven years in Southern California, serving over 7,000 families. The seven selected evidence-based programs helped families and couples have better relationships and communication skills, with a research outcome of 94% recommending the programs and 89% of surveyed couples showing improved communication and relationship skills from sixteen hours of learning, coaching, and practicing new skills by her professionally trained instructors.
Dr. Wylie has trained over a thousand of her professional peers (pastors, psychologists, therapists, social workers, and educators) in a variety of communication, relationship, parenting, and self-development programs. It gives her a great sense of pride to know that so many caring professionals, both nationally and internationally, are teaching others skills to attain more loving relationships, marriages, and families, and happier and more fulfilled lives.
For the past ten years, Dr. Wylie has been providing Five-Day Intensive Marital/Couple Retreats (one couple at a time); implementing Relationship Enhancement Skills using the Mastering the Mysteries of Love Booklet. Sessions are held for three hours each day during which couples practice the RE skills and work through four challenges in their relationship to the point both feel satisfied. Included in the retreat are four follow-up phone sessions. The retreats take place in the magnificent mountain resort of Idyllwild, California in Dr. Wylie’s welcoming and comfortable home office.
She is delighted to be living full-time in the picturesque little village of Idyllwild. She is the proud mother of five amazing grown children who have their own families, and have blessed her with fifteen grandchildren. She thrives on her loving relationship with her husband Jim, fun family time, and nurturing friendships. She takes pleasure in the great outdoors, photography, hiking, movies, interior design, gardening, traveling, writing, and her fluffy 10-pound Maltipoo, Bentlee, that hopes to someday be a therapy dog in her retreat sessions.
Amore Retreat Idyllwild Story
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Amore Retreat is located in enchanting Idyllwild, among tall pines, huge oaks and sweet smelling cedar trees, with four delightful seasons. Hiking trails abound, plus majestic mountains and awesome rock formations, with Strawberry Creek flowing through the village, as well as Lake Hemet and Lake Fulmar on the outskirts. It is one of the top 100 art towns and filled with galleries, gift shops and numerous awesome restaurants to choose from, as well as welcoming lodging accommodations. Idyllwild provides couples and individuals an abundance of relaxing, fun and romantic activities to enjoy.
Dr. Wylie fell in love with Idyllwild on her first visit in 2006 and decided then to someday move up on the Hill and provide marriage and couple’s retreats. At the time she wasn't sure what that would look like and explored the option of starting a B&B type retreat location. She then discovered God had a “better” plan for her and that running a B&B Retreat would drain her of not only her energy, but also the time she desired to dedicate to working with couples and individuals. So the “better” plan was to focus on couples and individuals while working exclusively in assisting them in transforming their lives, relationships and marriage. And has created a cozy and warm living room office in her delightful home with her loving husband, with a great deal of privacy and homeyness to provide couples and individuals a relaxing environment, where they feel safe, secure and honored as an individual as well as a couple. As you arrive you’ll have your own parking space in the driveway and coming up the walk-way you’ll enjoy the three tier water feature and large oak tree, and the front yard surrounded by trees, rose bushes and daffodils in the spring. You’ll be warmly greeted by Dr. Wylie, when you enter through the double french doors that creates your own private entrance. During the cold winters, there will be a crackling fire in the fireplace and in the warm summers a cool breeze coming through the windows. The Keurig will be warmed up and ready to provide you hot coffee or tea, as well as your own private restroom. You’ll both comfortably sit on the large leather Chesterfield sofa and put in a good days worth of work in a loving environment. 
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