A Professional Retreat in Wine Country!
Level I: Bridging the Couple Chasm
Gottman Couples Therapy - A New Research-Based Approach!
12 CE Hours for MFT’s, LCSW’s, and Psychologists
Friday, April 20th - Saturday, April 21st, 2012
Sebastopol, Sonoma County, California
This two-day workshop will prepare you to begin using
the Gottman Method in your practice immediately.
Gottman Professional Training
Research-based Training
Created by Drs. John and Julie Gottman
Presented by Lisa Lund, CRC, MFT
Certified Gottman Therapist & Workshop Leader
You’ll Learn The Gottman Method...
•Integrate research-based methods to maximize your competence and inspire transformation.
•Receive a 300-page Clinical Manual featuring new relationship assessment questionnaires and clinical interventions - a $150 value.
• See on film Dr. Julie Gottman use all of the main interventions with a real couple.
•Receive a certificate of completion from the Gottman Institute. CE Hours provided by the Gottman Institute. For those interested in pursuing Gottman certification, this 2-day workshop fulfills the Level 1 requirement.
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, you will be provided 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
Presented by Lisa Lund, CRC, MFT
Certified Gottman Therapist & Couples Workshop Leader
“Excellent - Very Thorough -
A well researched, well rounded approach to therapy!!!”
“Your energetic, informative,
knowledgeable style
made this a
Dynamic Workshop!”
“The theory and therapy
makes so much sense!”
“I was ecstatic to
learn the material...”
“Thank you for providing
this valuable information.”
“It was helpful to
have experienced
‘The Art & Science of Love’
a few weeks ago - to have the
personal experience brought
an added element to the
learning today!!!”