New Workshop!
LEVEL I:
COUPLES THERAPY: A NEW
RESEARCH-BASED APPROACH
San Francisco, CA
Friday & Saturday
November 14-15, 2008
***SOLD OUT***
Presented by
John Gottman, Ph.D. and Julie Schwartz Gottman, Ph.D.
Integrate Research-Based Methods To Maximize Your Competence and Inspire Transformation.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
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 35 years of compelling research with over 3,000 couples, there's a practical and highly effective approach to guiding these couples across the chasm that divides them. In this workshop, Drs. John and Julie Gottman provide you with a research-based roadmap for helping couples to compassionately manage their conflicts, deepen their friendship and intimacy, and share their life purpose and dreams.
In this inspirational two-day workshop, you'll learn:
- How to help understand couples' struggles using new research-based assessments and effective interventions
- Research-based strategies and tools to help couples successfully manage conflict
- Skills that empower couples to dialogue about their worst gridlocked issues by uncovering their underlying dreams, history, and values
- Methods to help couples process their fights and heal their hurts
- Techniques for couples to deepen their intimacy and minimize relapse
You'll receive a 300-page Clinical Manual featuring new relationship assessment questionnaires and clinical interventions.
Clinicians who take this workshop will be equipped with new methods and tools to help couples break the cycle of criticism, defensiveness, contempt and stonewalling. Through demonstrations and films from the clinical office, you'll see how to apply the research-based principles and interventions of Gottman Method Couples Therapy to strengthen:
- The Friendship System - the building block for intimacy, passion, and good sex
- The Conflict System - the basis for helping couples manage solvable problems and understand and manage irresolvable differences
- The Shared Meaning System - the existential foundation of the relationship that helps couples create shared purpose in building a life together
WORKSHOP OUTLINE
DAY ONE
8:30 – 9:00 am: Registration Check-In
9:00 – 12:00 pm: The Research: What Makes Relationships Succeed or Fail?
- The Sound Relationship House Theory
- When is Couples Therapy Contra Indicated?
- Assessing a Relationship
- Session 1: Oral History Interview, Sampling Couple Conflict
12:00 – 1:15 pm Lunch
1:15 – 4:30 pm Learning to Use Assessment Questionnaires
- Session 2: Individual Sessions
- Session 3: The Therapeutic Contract
DAY TWO
9:00 – 12:00 pm Introduction to Intervention - Constructive Conflict
- Rapoport Intervention
- Ending the Four Horsemen
- Dreams-Within-Conflict
- Aftermath of a Fight
12:00 – 1:15 pm Lunch
1:15 – 4:30 pm Building Friendship and Shared Meaning
- Build Love Maps
- Turn Towards: The Stress-Reducing Conversation, Build Rituals of Connection, Create Shared Meaning
Workshop Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Summarize the research that allows prediction of future relationship stability with 94% accuracy
- Describe the seven levels of the Sound Relationship House theory
- Conduct a couple's therapy assessment using elements of the couple's narrative, the Oral History Interview, written questionnaires, observations of conflict, and individual interviews
- Describe two interventions for each: to help strengthen a couple's management of conflict; to enhance a couple's friendship system; and to explore a couple's system of shared meaning.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Participants working in the following fields will benefit from our 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
