You are not a victim
of your love story.
You are its author.
Most couples spend years feeling lost in the same patterns. In two days, you'll finally understand why — and discover that love is not something that happens to you. It's something you build.
Apply here"We don't just marry a person. We marry the parts of ourselves that still long to be healed."
— Emanuela Deyanova
Most couples wait until a crisis forces them to act. But the distance you feel, the arguments that keep repeating themselves, the conversations that somehow never reach each other… none of it is inevitable.
The Path of Love is a two-day guided experience for couples who want to understand why they keep getting stuck in the same painful dynamics, and how to reconnect before the distance grows bigger than the love beneath it.
Rooted in Imago Relationship Therapy, EFT, systemic work, and years of guiding couples through crisis and reconnection, The Path of Love offers deep relational insight and practical tools you can use for the rest of your life together.
Who is this for
This weekend was made for you if...
You love each other — but feel disconnected
You're not in crisis, but there's a growing distance you can't quite name. You want to reconnect before the gap widens further.
One of you feels alone in the relationship
One of you keeps trying to talk, repair, or reconnect. The other pulls away, shuts down, or avoids difficult conversations. The more one reaches, the more distant the other becomes.
You're ready to go deeper
Your relationship is solid, but you sense there's more available — more intimacy, more deep conversations, more genuine aliveness with each other.
You've become a team, but not lovers
Your relationship runs on logistics. Work, children, planning, responsibilities. You function well together, but underneath there's a quiet grief: you miss feeling chosen, desired, and emotionally close.
You keep having the same fight
The topics change, but the dynamic doesn't. You want to understand what's really happening beneath the surface and how to break the cycle.
You're at a crossroads
Something has to shift. You're not sure what the future holds, but you want to explore what's possible before making any decisions.
This retreat is not suited for
Couples experiencing acute crises, recent trauma, or serious mental health challenges are better supported through individual couples therapy. If you are unsure, please reach out before registering.
What you'll discover
Five things that will change how you love
Why you chose each other
Your partner is not a coincidence. Learn the unconscious forces that drew you together — and how understanding them unlocks something beautiful.
Conflict as a doorway
Arguments aren't problems to solve — they're growth trying to happen. You'll learn to move through conflict toward deeper connection, not away from it.
The dialogue that heals
A structured, step-by-step way to have the conversations that have always felt impossible — and finally feel heard by the person who matters most.
Your survival pattern
Discover whether you're a Pursuer or a Withdrawer and how understanding your partner's pattern ends the chase-and-withdraw dance forever.
How to build a love sanctuary
Practical, daily acts of care that create safety, desire, and the freedom to be completely yourself with another person.
Repair after hurt
Every couple hurts each other. The question is whether you know how to repair. This process helps you move beyond blame and protection, and create space for honesty, understanding, and emotional reconnection.
What to expect
Two days. Just the two of you.
Saturday · Day 1
Understanding the patterns beneath your relationship
Through guided exercises and private conversations, you'll begin to understand how your childhood experiences and unconscious patterns shape the way you love, react, and disconnect today.
Saturday afternoon
Learning to truly hear each other
You'll learn and practise the Imago Dialogue process, a powerful communication method that helps couples move beyond blame, defensiveness, and misunderstanding.
Sunday · Day 2
Repair, reconnection, and intimacy
A day focused on vulnerability, forgiveness, and rebuilding trust, helping you reconnect with the love and intimacy beneath the conflict.
Evidence-based, not therapy
This is an educational workshop grounded in Imago Relationship Therapy and EFT.
Tools that last a lifetime
You leave with a workbook and a set of practical dialogues you can return to again and again — long after the weekend ends.
A place away from the noise
Horsterwold is a beautiful nature place in the heart of the Netherlands — a calm, intimate setting where you can step out of daily life and truly reconnect with each other.
The setting
A place built for this kind of work
Eagle Lodges in Horsterwold is a peaceful forest retreat near Zeewolde, in the heart of the Netherlands. Away from the noise of daily life, surrounded by nature — exactly the kind of space where real conversations can happen.
You'll have the space, the stillness, and the time to truly focus on each other. Accommodation is arranged separately; once you register, we'll send you all the details.
Your guide
Guided by Emanuela
Emanuela Deyanova is a relationship therapist, bestselling author, founder of the School of Love, and one of the leading voices in conscious relationships in the Netherlands.
For more than a decade, she has guided thousands of couples through conflict, disconnection, betrayal, intimacy struggles, and the painful question many couples have: can we still find each other again?
Her work combines Imago Relationship Therapy, EFT, systemic work, trauma awareness, and practical communication tools with something many couples rarely experience: a space safe enough for the truth to finally come forward.
She believes relationships are not here to make us comfortable. They are here to make us conscious. And that even relationships standing at the edge of disconnection can become a doorway into deeper intimacy, honesty, passion, and love.
What couples say
Words from people who have done the work
"We've been together for nearly 43 years, yet this weekend helped us see our relationship with completely new eyes and actually apply what we learned."
"More than once, I was moved to tears. What struck me most was how safe and intimate the atmosphere felt, even in a room full of people."
"Such a beautiful balance between insight and experience. We've followed Emanuela for years, but this work touched us on a much deeper level."
"I finally saw my own part in the dynamic between us and what I could have done differently. That insight alone changed something important for me."
"I arrived carrying things I didn't even realise were there. I left feeling lighter, more open, and deeply connected to myself and my partner again."
Investment
Reserve your place
The Path of Love — Weekend Retreat
per person · 26–27 September 2026 · Horsterwold, Zeewolde
Questions? Reach out before registering: info@schooloflove.com
Questions
Things people often wonder
Many couples arrive with one person more hesitant than the other. What matters most is not perfection or certainty, but a shared willingness to stay open and explore your relationship together.
This is not a weekend about blame, forcing difficult conversations, or putting anyone on the spot. It's a structured and supportive experience designed to help both of you feel safer, more understood, and more connected.
Accommodation is arranged separately. Once you register, we'll send you practical details about the location, travel, and nearby places to stay.
This retreat holds a maximum of 8 couples. When it's full, it's full.
September 26–27, 2026 · Horsterwold, Zeewolde
Don't fix your relationship.
Step into it.
You already know something needs to shift. This weekend, give yourselves the space, the guidance, and the tools to make it happen.