Bridging the Couple Chasm

Help couples in your practice manage conflict and deepen intimacy! This is the first step in learning Gottman Method Couples Therapy. A truly inspiring workshop, Level 1 Training will give you new insights into treatment for couples who struggle, using research-based assessments and effective interventions.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

When couples enter the therapy office, they sting with pain and despair. They look to the clinician to referee chronic conflicts, fix their partners, and rebuild burned bridges. Now, based on Dr. John Gottman’s 40 years of compelling research with over 3,000 couples, there’s a practical and highly effective approach to guiding couples across the chasm that divides them.

In this workshop, you will be provided with a research-based roadmap for helping couples compassionately manage their conflicts, deepen their friendship and intimacy, and share their life purpose and dreams.

APPLY GOTTMAN METHOD COUPLES THERAPY TO HELP COUPLES STRENGTHEN:

• The Friendship System – the foundation for intimacy, passion, and good sex
• The Conflict System – the basis for helping couples identify and address solvable problems, and understand and manage irresolvable differences
• The Shared Meaning System – the existential foundation of the relationship that helps partners discover their shared purpose for building a life together

AS A RESULT OF TAKING THIS TRAINING, YOU WILL LEARN:

• Research-based strategies and tools to help couples successfully manage conflict
• Skills to empower partners to dialogue about their worst gridlocked issues by uncovering their underlying dreams, history, and values
• Methods to help couples process fights and heal their hurts
• Techniques for partners to deepen their intimacy and minimize relapse
• New assessments and effective interventions to help understand couples’ struggles

PARTICIPANTS WORKING IN THE FOLLOWING FIELDS WILL BENEFIT FROM THIS TRAINING:

• Mental health providers
• Allied professionals and clergy
• Students and interns
• Family clinic staff
• Professors/teachers of couples therapy
• Researchers in the social sciences
• Employee assistance professionals

AS A RESULT OF THIS TRAINING, YOU WILL RECEIVE: 

• Upon completion of this training, attendees are awarded a Certificate of Completion. Included in the registration price is a clinical manual, which contains the core Gottman Method Couples Therapy assessments and interventions.
• 300+ page Level 1 Clinical Training Manual
• Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level 1 Training Certificate of Completion

  9:00 -  10:30 am           The Research & Theory
10:30 – 10:45 am           BREAK
10:45 – 12:00 pm           Assessment Overview
12:00 –   1:25 pm           LUNCH
  1:30 –   3:00 pm           Assessment Sessions
  3:00 –   3:15 pm           BREAK
  3:15 –   4:00 pm           Film: Assessment
  4:00 –   5:00 pm           Q & A           

Day Two 

  9:00 –    9:45 am          Introduction to Intervention
  9:45 – 10:10 am           Conflict Management
10:10 – 10:30 am           BREAK
10:30 – 11:50 am           Conflict Management (continued)
11:50 – 12:00 pm           Q & A
12:00 –   1:25 pm           LUNCH
  1:30 –   3:15 pm           Building Friendship & Shared Meaning
  3:15 –   3:30 pm           BREAK
  3:15 –   3:55 pm           Process of Therapy
  4:05 –   4:15 pm           What’s Next: Additional Training
  4:15 –    5:15 pm          Q & A

Please Note:

12 CE credits available, not required.

Satisfaction Completion:

Participants must attend the entire seminar & complete the provided evaluation to receive a certificate of completion. Failure to sign in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial Credit in not available.