Partners in Health

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 will 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

You will 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.

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.

REGISTER ONLINE

Mention Good Therapy Australia when you register and receive a copy of Dr John Gottman's new book The Science of Trust, for clinicians. Special offer available until September 30, 2011. Click here to register via Kassan Events website.

Plan your PD for next year and receive 14 points towards your active CPD component.

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.

DATES

This workshop will start at 9am and go through until approx 5pm on both days.

ADELAIDE, 16-17 February, 2012
Venue details to be advised

BRISBANE, 20-21 February, 2012
Bardon Conference Centre, 390 Simpsons Road, Bardon

MELBOURNE, 23-24 February, 2012
Royce Hotel, 379 St Kilda Road, Melbourne

FEE

The cost for the Level 1: Bridging the Couple Chasm workshop with Drs John & Julie Gottman is $825 (includes GST).

Payment for attendance of this workshop must be made within 7 days of registration. Payment plans are also available. Please register online to set-up a payment plan and choose the payment plan option from the payment methods.

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.
Certificate of Attendance at completion of the workshop
Access to books/resources relevant to this workshop

SPEAKER INFORMATION

John Gottman, Ph.D. is world-renowned for his work on marital stability and divorce prediction, including the study of emotions, physiology, and communication. He was recently voted as one luential Therapists of the past quarter-century by Psychotherapy Networker magazine. He is the author of 190 published academic articles and author or co-author of 40 books, including his NY Times best seller, Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work. He is the Executive Director of the Relationship Research Institute, which creates programs for new parents and treatments for domestic violence.

Julie Schwartz Gottman, Ph.D. is a highly respected clinical psychologist and educator who was recently honored as the Washington State Psychologist of the Year. She is the designer and Clinical Director for Loving Couples, Loving Children, a curriculum for couples challenged by poverty, and co-designer of a therapeutic model for addressing domestic violence. She has authored or co- authored three books, and has been a frequent guest on radio and TV talk shows. Dr. Gottman specializes in working with distressed couples, abuse and trauma survivors, those with substance abuse problems and their partners, as well as cancer patients and their families.

Drs. John and Julie Gottman are engaging and illuminating speakers who present with humor, wisdom, and clarity. Their workshops integrate didactic presentation, analysis of couple interactions, demonstrations of clinical technique, experiential learning, videos from their clinical office and lively exchanges with their audiences.

Together, the Gottmans teach Couples Workshops and the Professional Training Programs at The Gottman Relationship Institute. They are also involved in ongoing relationship research studies, and have private practices on Orcas Island, near Seattle, in which they see couples for weekly and intensive marathon therapy sessions and conduct small group couples retreats.