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A special opportunity to sneak away with your sweetie for a weekend of good food and wine, connection, education, and rejuvenation.
Check In: Friday, February 13th, 2026
Check Out: Sunday, February 15th, 2026
$2,800/couple
$750 non-refundable down-payment
Balance due 60 days prior to retreat
Please Note: This is a private group retreat, and all reservations must be made directly through the Group Leader. Booking is not available through our website. Please click the button to book directly through the Group Leader’s site.
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Class description
Dina and Michael, facilitators of couple retreats at Wild Rice, are offering a unique Valentine's Day experience at Wild Rice. This retreat will blend valuable education on key relationship areas—communication, connection, emotional safety/vulnerability, and intimacy—with exciting activities, including a special food and wine pairing.
David Devere, a wine educator, will lead the food and wine. David and his wife, Sara, bring years of experience hosting wine tours in France, promising a fun and distinctive addition to the retreat.
Beyond the structured sessions, ample opportunity for play and rejuvenation is integrated into the schedule. The retreat aims to provide a perfect balance of relationship connection and leisure, ensuring you leave feeling more centered in yourself and deeply connected with your partner.
biography
Dina Clabaugh, LICSW, is the founder of Insight Counseling in Duluth, MN. For the past decade, Dina has been practicing psychotherapy with special interests in attachment, connection, neuroscience, and the intimate partner bond. She has studied Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), and IMAGO Theory. She is influenced by the works of Esther Perel, Terry Real, Richard Schwartz, and Peter Fraenkel.
By supporting couples Dina feels she is also indirectly (or directly) supporting the whole family system. Our individual wellbeing and the wellbeing of those around us mirror the quality of our intimate partner relationship. It matters. Like anything we do in life, practice makes perfect. While relationships will never be perfect, with skilled direction and compassionate support, Dina believes couples can experience the revolutionary sensations of full aliveness, joyful relaxation, and wonder. They discover re enchantment.
Michael Clabaugh, LGSW, MA, MSW, is a couple therapist practicing at Insight Counseling in Duluth, MN. Michael sees relationships as the place we go as adults for comfort, solace, validation and as a place where our most vulnerable parts can be seen and held. Because it is two people each seeking this deep love, this intense relationship is also a crucible and struggle. Freud said, "We are never so open to suffering as when we love." The relationship either breaks or stagnates. Or, it grows and blossoms as each confronts the challenge to grow and to become the person that a relationship ultimately requires of us. "I am I because you are you; you are you because I am me. Therefore I am not me and you are not you."
Michael holds degrees from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Harvard, and The College of St. Scholastica. Michael is Level 1 trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Level 1 trained in clinical hypnosis by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH); he is an avid student of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), David Schnarch, and IMAGO Relationship Therapy.
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