DAY ONE

8:30 - 9:00 am:  Registration Check-In

9:00am - 4:30 pm:  Workshop

(Lunch on your own, 1.5hr)

The Research - What Makes Relationships Succeed or Fail?

    • What is different about Gottman Method Couples Therapy

    • What is dysfunctional about relationships when they are ailing

    • The “Masters” and Disasters” of relationships: Exploding some common myths

    • Negative and positive sentiment overrides

    • Friendship, Intimacy, Positive Affect System

    • The Shared Meaning System

    • The Sound Relationship House Theory

The Assessment Sessions

Session 1 - Assessing the Couple Together

    • Couple’s Narrative

    • Oral History Interview

    • Videotape: A 10 minute Conflict Interaction

    • Ending Session 1 - Preparing Couple for Individual Sessions - No secrets

    • Assessment: Written Questionnaires

Session 2 - Individual Sessions

Session 3 - The Therapeutic Contract: Discussing and Deciding about Goals.

                  Summary of Strengths and Areas that Need Improvement.

                  Assessment and film.

Day One Conclusion - Q and A

DAY TWO

9:00 - 4:30 pm: Workshop

(Lunch on your own 1.5hr.)

Introduction to Intervention

    • Assumptions of the Therapy

    • Overview of the Therapy

    • Goals of the Therapy

Conflict Management

    • Rapoport Intervention and film

    • Ending the Four Horsemen and film

    • Dreams Within Conflict and film

    • Building the Basic Skills (Softened Start-up, Accepting Influence, Repair and De-escalation,

       Physiological Soothing, Compromise)

    • Aftermath of a Fight and film

Building Friendship and Shared Meaning

    • Build Love Maps and film

    • Turn Towards: The Stress-Reducing Conversation and film

    • Build Rituals of Connection and film

    • Create Shared Meaning and film

Process of the Therapy

1. •Structure of a Typical Session
   

2. •What the Therapist Can Say
   

3. •The Domino Theory of Emotion
   

Summary

1. • What’s Next: Additional Training
   

2. • Workshop Conclusion - Q and A
   

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. 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

For more Information...

Lisa Lund - (707) 547-0401

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