For Professionals
Are you a therapist or other helping professional in search of a way to be more helpful to couples? Consider joining us June 25 and 26, 2010 for…
Bridging the Couple Chasm
Gottman Couples Therapy: A New Research Based Approach
Workshop Description
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, Dr. Don Cole and Carrie Cole 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.
What You’ll Learn
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
Participants will be able to:
- 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 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.
Therapist who complete this workshop have taken the first step toward certification as a Gottman Method Couples’ Therapist. See www.gottman.com for more details about certification.
Continuing Education:
The Center for Relationship Wellness is authorized to offer continuing education credits from the Gottman Institute for this program. This course is approved through the Gottman institute for 12 CE’s. Approved for APA, NBCC, CA-BBS and NASW via R. Cassidy. Please visit www.gottman.com for full CE information.
Please Click here to register for the June 25 and 26, 2010 workshop at the University of Houston, Clear Lake.
Supervision
Carrie Cole, M.Ed. LPC and Don Cole, D.Min. LPC, LMFT are both experienced supervisors who have helped a number of LPC interns and LMFT Associates meet the requirements for licensure in Texas. If you are looking for a supervisor, please contact us and we’ll discuss your situation.
For Clergy
Living as God’s Family
A program for Strengthening Congregations and their Leaders
Congregational conflict is a well recognized reality. Relational psychologies such as Family Systems Theory have often been mined to provide insight into the dynamics of these conflicts. These ideas and the programs that have developed from them have certainly provided help to many congregations and leaders. John Gottman’s research into the nature of intimate relationships goes beyond family systems and offers new valuable insights into the way we relate to each other in our congregations. Living as God’s Family, based on Gottman’s research, is an exciting, intense workshop designed to increase cohesion, friendship, positive feelings, conflict management skills and unity of purpose within our congregations.
Living as God’s Family does not promote any particular theology or doctrine. It is appropriate for congregations of all denominations or faith groups. The program was written by Don Cole, D.Min. an ordained pastor and licensed therapist and co-authored by his wife Carrie Cole M.Ed. also a licensed therapist. Both Don and Carrie have been trained and certified in Gottman Method Therapy by the Gottman Institute of Seattle.
Living as God’s Family is a 12 hour seminar which can be offered to members of congregations in a variety of formats. Please call or email for more information.
NOTE TO CLERGY The workshop Bridging the Couple Chasm, Gottman Couples Therapy: A New Research Based Approach is for you too. Many pastors have benefited greatly from this two day educational experience. See above for more details.
Premarital Counseling is available for your couples looking to get their marriage off to the right start. If we can assist you in your work of helping couples prepare for successful marriage, please give us a call. See our Services page for more information. Premarital Workshops are also available to congregations. Please contact us for details.
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