Drs. John and Julie Gottman | February 2012

BRIDGING THE COUPLE CHASM

Gottman Couples Therapy:A Research-Based Approach

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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. 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:

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
New assessments and effective interventions to help understand couples’ struggles
Learn what the Gottman research tells us about couples
How married couples really sustain their marriages—in contrast to common myths and misconceptions.
How the quality of relationships affects the immune system, physical health and well being.
How marital problems change over time, but never go away—even in happy couples.

You’ll receive a 300-page clinical manual featuring new relationship assessment questionnaires and clinical interventions designed to help couples break the cycle of criticism, defensiveness, contempt and stonewalling. Gain specific, research-based tools to make an impact on the couples you see in your practice, including…

New marital assessment and diagnosis procedures that have been used to predict marital stability with 94% accuracy.
New diagnostic tools that accurately identify the specific problems in the dynamics of the marital relationship.
Methods to help couples feel a renewed sense of caring and partnership through emotional connection.

APPLICATIONS

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 couples discover their shared purpose for building a life together

You will be ready to apply what you've learned, including:

The key points in couples' interactions, when your interventions will be most effective.
Therapeutic methods to help couples enhance friendship and shared meaning in their relationships.
Specific and precise therapy techniques based on years of scientific analyses that help resolve solvable problems and dialogue on grid-locked ones.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Summarize the research that allows reliable prediction of future relationship stability.
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.

INCLUSIONS

The fee for this workshop includes:

A 300 + page manual, printed and presented in a binder for your practice and future reference
Both Drs John and Julie Gottman presenting for 2 days including time for Q&A
Catering: arrival tea and coffee, morning and afternoon tea and lunch.
1. Certificate of Attendance at completion of the workshop
2. Onsite access to special Gottman books/resources relevant to this workshop

PROGRAM

DAY 1

8.30 - 9.00	Registration Check-In
9.00 - 10.25	The Research: What Makes Relationships Succeed or Fail?
10.25 - 10.45	Morning Break
10.45 - 12.00	The Sound Relationship House Theory
12.00 - 1.15	Lunch
1.15 - 3.00	The Assessment Sessions & Learning to Use Assessment Questionnaires
3.00 - 3.15	Afternoon Break
3.15 - 4.00	Film: Live Sessions: Assessment
4.00 - 5.00	Clinical Q&A

DAY 2

9.00 - 10.10	Introduction to Interventions - Constructive Conflict
10.10 - 10.30	Morning Break
10.30 - 12.00	Interventions Continued
12.00 - 1.25	Lunch
1.25 - 3.15	Building Friendship & Shared Meaning
3.15 - 3.30	Afternoon Break
3.30 - 4.30	Process of the Therapy & Summary
4.30 - 5.00	Clinical Q&A

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