Intensives with Dr. Alan Pickering

Marriage Intensive

This intensive focuses on a marriage in crisis; or for couples who desire an intensive premarital experience (“you cannot have a great season without a great preseason”).  This will be a comprehensive treatment of the relationship that will involve a total of 12 hours.  This will include pre-testing and limited pre-work before the intensive weekend.

 

The Schedule

Friday

Session 5-8pm

Saturday

Session 10-12n

Couple’s Working Lunch 12-2pm

Session 2-7pm

Sunday (Optional)

Lunch & Church with Dr. F. Alan Pickering

 

Requirements & Pre-work

  • You must have a brief conversation with Dr. Alan before finalizing the commitment to this intensive.
  • Couples must take the Taylor-Johnson Temperament Analysis before meeting. It will be administered by Dr. Alan Pickering.  The link will be sent to your email and it will take about an hour.
  • Couples must take The Marital Intimacy Inventory, which will be sent to the couple before the Intensive weekend. This inventory will analyze the 12 areas that create intimacy in a relationship (e.g., intellectual intimacy, recreational intimacy, spiritual intimacy, communication intimacy, sexual intimacy). The booklets will be mailed to the couple and must be mailed back before the Intensive.  That testing will take around 30-45 minutes.
  • Couples will receive Dr. Pickering’s book (2 copies), Essentials Every Couple Needs for a Happy, Healthy & Successful Relationship.
  • Couples must be willing to make a serious attempt to revitalize or save their marriage; or to prepare (premaritally) for an upcoming marriage.
  • Payment is required in advance ($1856). If a couple has to cancel, there must be a 7-10 day advanced notice.  With that notice, an 80% refund is granted.   Without sufficient notice, there would be no refund.
  • If you live outside of the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area, you will need to arrange for your own housing.

What You Will Receive for this Intensive Package

  • Testing with the Taylor-Johnson Temperament Analysis
  • 2 copies of Essentials Every Couple Needs for a Happy, Healthy & Successful Relationship
  • The Marital Intimacy Inventory, which analyses the 12 ways couples connect with each other (e.g., spiritual intimacy, recreational intimacy, intellectual intimacy, sexual intimacy, etc.).
  • A total of 10 hours with Dr. F. Alan Pickering, plus a personal luncheon with him if you are able to stay over for Sunday.

For premarital couples, you will receive the Twogether in Texas certificate, which will give you an 80-90% discount on your marriage license.

Family Intensives

These Intensive focuses vary.  A family must choose which focus they prefer for the building up of their family system (“when the tide comes in, all the boats rise” ). The various intensive focuses include these separate or a combination of the following possibilities:

 

  • The Building of a Healthy & Effective Family System
  • Emotional Regulation
  • Living in an Age of Rage: Dealing Effectively with the Emotion of Anger
  • Self-Discipline
  • Assertiveness
  • Love: Understanding & Experiencing the Best

The Schedule

Saturday

Session 10-12n

Working Lunch with Dr. Alan 12-2pm

Session 2-7pm

Sunday (Optional)

Lunch & Church with Dr. F. Alan Pickering

 

 

Requirements & Prework

 

  • You must have a brief conversation with Dr. Alan before finalizing the commitment to this intensive.
  • Each family member will be required to take the Taylor-Johnson Temperament before meeting. It will be administered by Dr. Alan Pickering.  The link will be sent to your email and it will take about 30 minutes.
  • Payment is required in advance ($1785 [3 family members]—$2385 [6 family members] depending on the number of family members and the tests that will be required for each person to take before the intensive). If a couple has to cancel, there must be a 7-10 day advanced notice.  With that notice, an 80% refund is granted.   Without sufficient notice, there would be no refund.
  • If you live outside of the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area, you will need to arrange for your own housing.

What You Will Receive for this Intensive Package

 

  • Testing with the Taylor-Johnson Temperament Analysis
  • A copy of a book, written by Dr. Alan that will be given for every family member on the subject that is the focus of the intensive.

A total of 9 hours with Dr. F. Alan Pickering, plus a personal luncheon with Dr. Alan.

Personal Growth Intensive

This intensive is a personal retreat with Dr. Alan for the individual who is wanting to make a major shift with his/her life and ascend to a more effective way of life.  It will involve covering the most essential items for the maximizing of your life.  These subjects could involve most, if not all of the following:

 

The 5 Existential Issues of Life: purpose & meaning, security, significance, lifestyle, eternity

Emotional regulation

Assertiveness

Self-Discipline

Connections: The Maximizing Your Relationships with Everyone

Shame, Regret & Self-loathing

Love: Understanding and Experiencing the Best

Bold Love: Sexual Issues

Improving Your Marriage

Dealing with a Personality Disorder

Wisdom

Probing the Depths of Christianity: Systematic Theology, Sharpening the Sword

 

 

The Schedule

Saturday

Session 10-12n

Working Lunch with Dr. Alan going over test results 12-2pm

Session 2-8pm

Sunday (Optional)

Lunch & Church with Dr. F. Alan Pickering

 

 

Requirements & Prework

 

  • You must have a brief conversation with Dr. Alan before finalizing the commitment to this intensive.
  • You will be required to take the Taylor-Johnson Temperament Analysis & Omni testing before meeting with Dr. Alan for you intensive. The Taylor-Johnson Temperament Analysis and the Omni will be administered by Dr. Alan Pickering.  The link will be sent to your email and it will take about an hour.
  • Payment is required in advance ($1880). If you have to cancel, there must be a 7-10 day advanced notice. With that notice, an 80% refund is granted.   Without sufficient notice, there would be no refund.
  • If you live outside of the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area, you will need to arrange for your own housing.

 

What You Will Receive for this Intensive Experience

 

  • Testing with the Taylor-Johnson Temperament Analysis and the Omni
  • A copy of all the books pertinent to your selection of topics, written by Dr. Alan that will be given to you for each segment of the intensive. Your focuses will be determined through a discussion with Dr. Alan.

You will have a total of 10 hours with Dr. F. Alan, plus a personal working lunch with him.

Contact & Scheduling

If you an interest in scheduling an intensive with Dr. Alan, please text him, give him a call at 817.807.6869, or email him at [email protected]