The Extraordinary Lovers Experience

PHOENIX, ARIZONA · NOVEMBER 5 TO 8, 2026

Michael and Laurie

At the Extraordinary Lovers Experience, you will learn how to fall in love, stay in love, and build a legacy of love that lasts a lifetime.

A four-day, in-person immersion for couples and singles who are tired of fighting and feeling all alone. You'll learn the skills nobody ever taught you, practice them in the room, and go home knowing exactly how to keep love alive. Thursday, November 5, 10:00 AM to Sunday, November 8, 2:00 PM, Arizona time.

Claim Your Seat

Only 12 seats left. Doors close Friday, October 30.

I recorded a short video for you.

Coming as a couple

Whether you've been together one year or thirty, if you love your partner and still feel alone, I have a solution.

Watch the Couples Video

Coming on your own

If you have so much love to give and you keep choosing the wrong person, I have a solution.

Watch the Singles Video

Every love story we were raised on ended at the wedding.

Nobody taught us what comes after. So good people drift into:

  • Emotional distance. Living like roommates instead of lovers.
  • The same fight on repeat. Never repaired, just set down until next time.
  • Resignation. Believing this is just what long-term love becomes.

Single? It often looks like repeating patterns: choosing the same wrong partner again and again.

The Extraordinary Lovers Experience teaches the real Happily Ever After: the one you build, not the one you're promised.

I learned love the hard way.

Not many people know this, but I grew up in foster care. First my single mother raised me, then a single foster father. I never once saw two people stay in love. So when my own marriage got hard, I didn't know what to do. I had no role model for working things out, and couples therapy wasn't much help. I lost my first marriage because of it.

Your story may look nothing like mine. Maybe your parents stayed together and barely spoke, or love in your house had to be earned. Different houses, same lesson: nobody showed us how to keep love alive.

Love is a skill, and it can be learned. That's why I developed The Extraordinary Lovers Method™, and why Laurie and I teach it together, so no one has to learn love the way I did.

Four days. Real change you've already practiced before you go home.

  1. Four days, in person. You don't just hear the tools. You use them, with support, until they're yours.
  2. The Return to Love Game™ and the 3Rs. Fights end in minutes, not days.
  3. Ritual Creation. Passion that lasts by design, not by luck.

What Graduates Say

"We were drifting apart after 40 years... until ELE helped us fall in love again."
John & Christine P.
"We spent six years in couples therapy... and made more progress in four days at your retreat."
Santa Fe ELE graduate
"I came in small. I left whole. As a single woman, ELE gave me clarity, confidence, and tools I now use in every part of my life. I'm ready to receive real love."
Clare

What You Receive

What You ReceiveValue
Four days in person with Michael and Laurie$3,497
The Extraordinary Lovers Journey: six weeks of integration after the event$2,497
A private one-hour coaching session with Michael and Laurie$597
Three months in the Extraordinary Lovers Inner Circle$149
Total value$6,740

Your investment: $1,797 per person, or 4 payments of $539.10. Chef-prepared meals are included. Lodging is booked separately.

Coming as a couple? Each partner has a seat. Choose 2 at checkout.

The Details

  • When: Thursday, November 5, 10:00 AM through Sunday, November 8, 2:00 PM, Arizona time. Breakfast is served from 9:00 each morning.
  • Where: Phoenix West Valley, Arizona. The full address arrives in your welcome email.
  • Travel: Fly into Phoenix Sky Harbor (PHX). Most people arrive Wednesday evening.
  • Meals: Chef-prepared, throughout the four days.

Picture Sunday night, November 8th. You're driving home, and for the first time in years, you know exactly how to keep this feeling.

I'm not here to sell you. I'm here to invite you. If something in you just said "this is it," trust that.

Claim Your Seat

Only 12 seats left. Doors close Friday, October 30.

With love,

Michael & Laurie
The Extraordinary Lovers Method™

Michael and Laurie