Sacred Foundations — Half-day face-to-face intensive, Face-to-face | Sacred Connections

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Face to face · Melbourne

Sacred Foundations

The half-day where you decide what you are building.

For engaged couples and the newly married

Saturday24October 2026
10am – 1pm · Flemington · Three facilitated hours
Places are limited · waitlist first

$248$148 a couple

$125 on your own — every exercise has a version for one

First Intake price — for the 24 October workshop

Foundations Plus

The workshop plus a private coaching hour afterwards — $248 together, $298 booked separately. Ask about Foundations Plus

Hands at a workshop table: a marker, the Sacred Foundations worksheet and a wooden Vision Frame
The last one

A real room, a real Saturday morning.

Photographs from the last Sacred Foundations workshop in Flemington.

Couples walking up to the venue in Flemington on the morning of the workshop
Arriving
Ashraf and Marinah teaching together at the front of the room
Taught by a couple
Couples seated and listening during the workshop
Couples, engaged
A husband and wife working through their sheet together at their table
A couple working together
Couples working together at their own tables
Your own table
Participants talking and working together during an exercise
Working together
A couple writing the values on their Vision Frame
Something to bring home
The whole group together at the end of the workshop
Everyone, at the end
The challenge

Most couples start with love and good intentions — but without understanding what makes a marriage last, they can find themselves stuck in the same painful cycles.

The shift

A half-day to build your shared roadmap — practical tools and Qur’anic wisdom for navigating marriage with intention, from day one.

  • The stages every marriage moves through, and what’s actually normal
  • The HEART Listening Method for real, compassionate communication
  • A shared vision, rooted in Qur’anic foundations
How it runs

Understand Your Journey Together

Discover where you are in your marriage’s natural stages — and why the hard parts don’t mean you’re failing.

Learn Couple Communication Skills

Two movements, practised in the room: HEART for receiving — full attention, understanding over defending — and GRACE for responding, so the hard thing can still be said with care.

Break Destructive Patterns

Identify the habits that quietly poison a marriage, and replace them with ones that bring you closer.

Create Your Shared Vision

Articulate together the legacy and future you want to build.

Root Your Marriage in Faith

Explore the Qur’anic foundations that make marriage a sacred covenant — not just a contract.

What is included
  • Three facilitated hours, in person
  • Your Vision Frame — a single page to take home and hang
  • All materials and tools
  • Follow-up recommendations for your season
What you may need
  • Both of you, for the full three hours
  • Travel to venue (details on enquiry)
Honest boundaries

An intensive education experience — not couples therapy. We will refer you to qualified support where that is more appropriate.

Safety & Support →
Questions, answered

Saturday 24 October 2026, 10am–1pm, in Flemington. Places are limited, and coming on your own is normal — every exercise has a version for one.

Couples in the first five years of marriage — the engaged, the newly married, and those a few years in who want to build on intention rather than assumption. Anyone serious about marriage who wants the right foundation before it begins is welcome too.

Yes. Sacred Foundations is built for the first five years, so a few years in is exactly the room it is made for. Further along than that, and Sacred Growth or Sacred Harmony will likely fit your season better.

Places are offered to the waitlist first.

$248$148 per couple · Saturday 24 October 2026