One week is not long enough for participants to concentrate fully on their issues. Group counseling requires extended time for relationships among the couples to develop. The process is accumulative. The best work is done during the second week. Relaxation and recuperation are part of the experience.
Maximum effectiveness requires and unhurried pace.
To enable participants to deal freely and redemptively with their personal and relational frustrations, hurts, and stresses. To assist participants to come to an understanding of how their feelings about themselves and others originated and developed. To help participants begin to learn more effective patterns and skills in relating to themselves and others. Charis Seminars Effective leadership in today's churches requires effective preparation. Many pastors acknowledge that they were not adequately trained to cope with the demands which are placed on them.