The Experience & Facilities

The Experience

The Clearing Experience is a life-changing process that moves couples from feeling hopeless and helpless to having clear understanding, clear direction and renewed hope.

Over the course of four days the skilled Clearing team works with a couple in a group setting alongside four other couples. The focus is on helping the couple understand how they have arrived at this state in their marriage, what barriers are keeping them stuck and blocking them from the marriage they’ve always wanted, and finally, how they can practically create a great marriage for themselves. No couple ever intends to end up in crisis, but through life’s circumstances and difficult choices couples end up feeling trapped having tried their best to succeed over many years.

While going through the Clearing Experience couples encounter warmth and Texas hospitality with all the distractions of life cleared away. Although the experience is aptly called an “intensive”, the challenging work translates into genuine fulfillment, hope, and direction.

Facilities

Throughout 2010 Marriage Intensives are being held as an exclusive engagement at the Family Retreat Center at Circle Lake in Pinehurst, Texas. It is located on 45 piney acres, including beautiful landscaping and 15 acres of stocked lakes, just 40 miles northwest of downtown Houston.
 
 Future intensives will be held at the soon-to-be-constructed retreat center for The Clearing on a 300-acre ranch just outside Brenham.

Location

Pending completion of our new facility, all Clearing programs for 2010 are being held at Circle Lake Retreat Center, 19000 Circle Lake Drive, Pinehurst, Texas 77362-1408.   download map and directions 

Future Location

The Clearing’s headquarters in Brenham are in a pre-construction phase. Until ribbon-cutting of the new multi-cottage retreat center, intensives will be held as an exclusive engagement at a multi-cottage lakeside retreat facility near Houston, Texas. Please contact us by email for more information on the location of upcoming retreats.

The Clearing's new permanent facilities will be conveniently located almost at the midpoint between Houston, Austin, and San Antonio. The new environmentally-friendly facility will be nestled in a forest-surrounded clearing on a 300-acre ranch in the rolling hills of Washington County Texas, about 8 miles outside of Brenham.