“To witness to Christ’s gospel of reconciliation in individual, conjugal, family and community life.”

Over the years we, in the Marriage Encounter Foundation, have developed a total program in couple and family spirituality, signalized by a spaced progression of weekend experiences, each one focusing on a particular dimension of couple and family life. There are four phases to the program which covers a period of approximately five years.

Our core inspiration comes from the belief that every family is designed by God to be fully alive in all levels of human relationships: intrapersonal, interpersonal, and metapersonal. Needless to say, the soul and spirit of all these relationships is authentic love.

PHASE I

1. Marriage Encounter Weekend
2. ME follow-up Reunions
3. Sponsoring of an ME Weekend
   

PHASE II

1. Weekly Prayer Assembly (Charismatic Renewal)
2. ME-Life in the Spirit Seminar
3. Weekly Prayer Assembly

PHASE III

1. Spiritual Deepening Weekend (Ignatian Spirituality)
2. Basic Christian Growth Groups (Weekly Prayer Meetings, Charismatic Renewal & Ignatian Spirituality Integrated)
3. Monthly Prayer-and-Teaching Night
4. Family Encounter Weekend, followed by F.E Reunions monthly (in place of Prayer-and-Teaching Night)

PHASE IV

1. Christian Parenting for Peace and Justice Weekend (CPPJ)
2. CPPJ Follow-Up Sessions monthly (in place of F.E. reunion- Prayer-and-Teaching Night)
3. Periodic Recollection or Weekend Retreat

PHASE V

1. An eight-day Ignatian Retreat or
2. An Ignatian Retreat in Daily Life for 18 weeks
3. Skills for understanding workshop
4. Personal Growth Group Seminar
5. Values Clarification Seminar
6. ME Deepening Seminars
7. STEP-Kid and STEP-Teen Seminars
8. Parents are Lovers Seminars and other parenting seminars
   

AREA I - SOCIAL ACTION PROGRAM
Anyone of the following levels:

• First: Direct service of the corporal works of mercy (doing with rather than doing for)
• Second: Empowering others to help themselves (the self-help approach)
• Third: Direct work for social justice
• Fourth: Others, according to need. Although no one ME group can concentrate on all three levels at the same time, effective social action and love of one’s neighbor include all three
  

AREA II - ME AND ME RELATED WEEKENDS, ADAPTATIONS, & THEIR FOLLOW-UPS

1. Live-out ME weekends conducted in the local language
2. Tipanan Sessions, Balik-Tipanan Sessions and similar enrichment programs (Tuklasan, Ugnayan, Panayam)
3. Discovery Weekends; Tugmaan Seminar
4. Sons and Daughters Encounter; Youth Encounter, Antioch and Luke 18; weekends
5. Buhay Espiritual ng Mag-asawa
6. Others, according to need

AREA III - TEAM AND LAY COUNSELING PROGRAMS

1. Basic Counseling Skills Training
2. Alternative Counseling Approaches
3. Marital and Family Counseling Seminars Training
4. Genogram and Gestalt Seminars
5. Team Training and Deepening Seminars
6. Shepherd Training and Deepening Seminars
7. Pre-Marital Counseling Seminar
8. Others, according to need

AREA IV - DOCUMENTATION & RESEARCH

1. Publication(s)
2. Multiplication of Competence

AREA V - FINANCE

Fund-raising to finance the various apostolic projects. (Alternative life styles fund raising program)