New Workshop!
GOTTMAN METHOD COUPLES THERAPY
LEVEL I:
BUILDING SOUND RELATIONSHIPS
A Research-Based Approach

San Francisco, CA
Friday, November 14, and Saturday, November 15, 2008

Presented by
John Gottman, Ph.D. and Julie Schwartz Gottman, Ph.D.

Looking to Expand or Enhance Your Strategies and Interventions in Your Work with Couples? Help Your Couples Successfully Transform Their Relationship From Hopeless to Hopeful.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:

Join Us! For the first time, Drs. John & Julie Gottman present both a research-based and clinically-based training workshop for therapists. This new workshop includes Dr. John Gottman's 35 years of pioneering research on what makes relationships succeed or fail. In this research, myths fall and truths emerge. Learn how to help your couples with scientifically-based assessment methods, interventions, and relapse-prevention strategies. The tools you’ll be given have been crafted from what happy couples actually do rather than from preconceived stereotypes. With this workshop you’ll be given blueprints for strengthening your couples’ friendship and romance, helping them with conflict management, and creating their shared sense of purpose and meaning.

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Learn what Dr. John Gottman's research tells us about couples, including...

• How couples really sustain their relationships in contrast to common myths and misconceptions.
• How couples successfully deal with conflicts without destroying their connections.
• How couples build lasting friendships that lead to romance, passion and good sex.
• How couples deepen their intimacy by sharing their values, roles and goals.

Gain realistic, practical research-based tools to help your couples, including...

• A newly revised assessment package to help you pinpoint your couples' strengths and challenges.
• A collection of intervention tools to help your couples deepen their friendships, manage their conflicts, define their shared meaning systems, and enhance their sex lives.
• Methods to help couples feel a renewed sense of caring and partnership through emotional connection.

Immediately apply what you've learned, including...

• Means to identify key points in couples' interactions when your interventions will be most effective.
• Strategies to help partners shift from attack to connection.
• Methods to help your couples solve their own problems.
• Skills to empower your couples to dialogue about their worst gridlocked issues.
• Tools to support your couples' friendship and intimacy.

In this workshop you will:

View new films from recent clinical sessions that clearly demonstrate how to integrate these powerful assessments and interventions. You will also receive a 300-page Clinical Manual complete with new relationship assessment questionnaires and clearly written, useful materials for couples’ interventions – ($149 when sold separately).

These two days focus on a range of topics including:

• What is "dysfunctional" in ailing couples relationships? And what is "functional" in healthy relationships?
• The Friendship System as the building block for intimacy, passion, and good sex.
• The Conflict System as the basis for helping couples manage solvable problems and dialogue constructively about unsolvable problems.
• The Shared Meaning System as the existential foundation of the relationship that helps couples create shared purpose in building a life together.
• Understanding when Couple Therapy is contra-indicated.
• The Philosophy, Assumptions and Goals of the Therapy.
• How to effectively move from Gridlock to Dialogue on a Perpetual Issue by helping your couples learn to understand the underlying dreams, history, beliefs or values in their positions.
• How to effectively stop the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Criticism, Defensiveness, Contempt, Stonewalling.
• How to successfully help your couples process what happened after a fight or regrettable incident.
• How to help your couples build emotional rituals of connections.
• How to successfully minimize relapse.

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