Bridging the Couple Chasm, Gottman Couples Therapy, a New Research-Based Approach

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.  This workshop is based on Dr. John Gottman's 35 years of compelling research with over 3,000 couples and presents a highly effective approach to guiding these couples across the chasm that divides them.  You will be provided a research-based roadmap for helping couples to compassionately manage their conflicts, deepen their friendship and intimacy and share their life purpose and dreams.

Clinicians will learn:

• New research-based assessments and effective interventions to help understand couple's 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
  

Workshop Objectives:

• 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 couples' 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.
  

This training is an entry workshop for the professional wanting to become a certified therapist using the Gottman Method, or for those wanting an in-depth look at the Gottman research and interventions.  Attendees will receive a 300-page Clinical Manual featuring new relationship assessment questionnaires and clinical interventions.  A $100.00 value.