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The Art and Science of Love: A Weekend Workshop for Couples Workshops Presented by Drs. John and Julie Gottman in Seattle

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New Workshop!

Level I: Bridging the Couple Chasm

Gottman Couples Therapy -
A NEW Research-Based Approach 
(12 CE's)


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

October 1-2, 2010
ANAHEIM, CA

Click here to download the REGISTRATION FORM or to see the BROCHURE

This workshop is available as a Home-study DVD Program and is also offered live by Certified Gottman Therapists (see below).

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:

  • New research-based assessments and effective interventions to help understand couples' struggles 
  • 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

4:30-5:00 pm Clinical Q & A with Drs. John & Julie Gottman

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

4:30-5:00 pm Clinical Q & A with Drs. John & Julie Gottman

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

Participants will be able to:

  1. Summarize the research that allows prediction of future relationship stability with 94% accuracy
  2. Describe the seven levels of the Sound Relationship House theory
  3. 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
  4. 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

CLICK HERE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON:
Workshop Fees, Location, Accommodations and Continuing Education


This Level I training is also offered by the following Certified Gottman Therapists:
  • Austin, TX - December 5 & 6, 2009: Presented by Vagdevi Meunier, Psy.D.  Location: Triton Plaza, 7035 Bee Caves Rd, Suite 103, Austin, TX 78746.  For more information or to register, email drvagdevi@gmail.com.
  • Honolulu, HI - December 10 & 11, 2009: Presented by Robert O'Brien, Ph.D.  Location: Chapel D-Wing, Tripler Army Medical Center, 1 Jarrett White Road, Honolulu, HI.  For more information, contact Ms. Alison Combs at acombs@hjf.org or call 301-294-7292.
  • Vancouver, BC, Canada - January 28 & 29, 2010:  Presented by Darren Wilk MA, RCC. and Lawrence Stoyanowski M.Sc., MFT. Location: Holiday Inn, 1110 Howe Street, Vancouver, BC V6Z 1R2.  For more information and to register, visit www.bestmarriages.com , or call 604-539-5277.
  • Salt Lake City, UT - March 4 & 5, 2010: Presented by Suzanne Pratt, LCSW.  Location: The Center for Human Potential, 525 East 100 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84102.  For more information or to register, please call 801-483-2447 or visit https://www.c4hp.com/content/level-i-gottman-couples-therapy
  • Bellevue, WA - March 11 & 12, 2010: Presented by Terry Sterrenberg, MSW, LCSW.  Location: East Shore Education Center, 2700 SE 32nd St, Bellevue, WA 98005-4317.  For more information, or to register, visit www.cascadia-training.org, or call 206-441-6892/800-298-6516.
  • Menlo Park, CA - April 9 & 10, 2010: Presented by Robert Navarra, PsyD, MFT and Nina Grueneberger, LCSW.  For more information, or to register, contact Dr. Navarra at 650-593-8087 or visit www.robertnavarra.net.
  • Cleveland, OH - April 15 & 16, 2010: Presented by Kathleen B. Corcoran, Ph.D.  Location: Cleveland Center for Conscious Living, 6611 Rockside Road, Suite 215, Independence, OH 44131.  For more information or to register please visit http://www.kathleenbcorcoranphd.com
  • Santa Rosa, CA - May 7 & 8, 2010: Presented by Lisa Lund, MFT and Marcia Gomez, LCSW.  Location:  The Angela Center, 535 Angela Drive, Santa Rosa, CA 95403.  For more information or to register, visit www.gottmanprofessionaltraining.com.
  • Houston, TX - June 25 & 26, 2010: Presented by Donald L. Cole, D.Min., LPC, LMFT, and Carrie Cole, M.Ed., LPC.  Location: University of Houston, Clear Lake, 2700 Bay Area Blvd, Houston, TX 77058.  For more information, call 281-480-0200.
  • Sacramento, CA - August 20 & 21, 2010:  Presented by Nina Grueneberger, LCSW and Robert Navarra, PsyD, MFT.  For more information, or to register, contact Nina Grueneberger at 916-447-9007 or visit http://cacouplesworkshop.com/LevelOne/
  • Cleveland, OH - September 10 & 11, 2010: Presented by Kathleen B. Corcoran, Ph.D.  Location: Cleveland Center for Conscious Living, 6611 Rockside Road, Suite 215, Independence, OH 44131.  For more information or to register please visit http://www.kathleenbcorcoranphd.com

 

Click here for Workshop Fees, Location,  Accommodations and Continuing Education Information. 

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

FOLLOW THE LINKS BELOW TO READ MORE ABOUT DRS. JOHN AND JULIE GOTTMAN.

About Dr. John Gottman
About Dr. Julie Gottman

The Gottmans teach with a combination of warmth, humor, lecture, role-plays, and films straight out of the clinical office. The methods you’ll learn will immediately empower your work as a couples therapist.



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