By Kefiloe Kajane
Local skiing resort Afriski Mountain Resort will host couples Retreat courses for the first time in Lesotho on June 10 to June 13.
Afriski says in the past year stories have circulated about crumbling relationships due to the destruction of livelihoods, business closures and job retrenchments as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“People can agree that a relationship can be both amazing as well as extremely hard. They further explained that if a relationship is primarily built on external, or two-dimensional factors, such as money, time and other material factors, it is built on sinking sand.
“Marriage can be so much more. It is the establishment of a union, which is spiritual, emotional and physical, a life-long commitment is pledged and a ‘team’ is created. It provides an opportunity to grow in selflessness and grow the love-ability between spouses and children. The challenge is to look at the relationship from the inside, the intrinsic collective couple value and not the outside which focuses on material success.
“To calculate Collective Couple Value (CCV) one looks at how couples disempower or empower each other, resulting in their collective volitional power and collective occupational intelligences (OI). The higher the occupational intelligence, the more responsive, adaptive and contributive couples are to each other and the more this unity contributes to their sustainable well-being,” Afriski said in a statement.
