To provide you with the opportunity to spend a distraction free weekend focused on your relationship.
To validate your conflicts, power struggles and frustrations as predictable and even necessary aspects of a committed partnership.
To present, demonstrate and practice essential relational tools that will help resolve conflicts and move you to a higher level of functioning as a couple.
To clearly show the steps necessary to increase safety and reduce reactivity.
To help you learn your partner's love language.
To send you home with a jointly created vision of what your ideal relationship will look like and knowledge of the tools necessary to take you on the journey to a safe and passionate marriage or partnership.
It's early in your relationship and you would like to establish solid foundations and healthy communications patterns.
Your long term relationship is lacking energy, passion and a sense of connection.
Your relationship is near death and you want to see if it can be saved.
The basis for this workshop rises out of the Imago Theory developed by Drs. Harville Hendrix and Helen Hunt. It is comparable to 3 to 6 months of weekly therapy sessions in cognitive and experiential learning. It has been utilized by thousands of couples in twenty countries and is now available on 5 continents. It is not a quick fix. It is a realistic understanding of the path to a safe and passionate marriage or partnership, a roadmap of the journey, and the tools needed to get you there.
The workshop will provide the safety needed to fully focus on your partner, yourself and your relationship. By exploring childhood experience and romantic attraction you'll begin to understand the nature of your struggles in a very different way. You'll spend time alone and together reflecting and writing the details of your conscious and even unconscious needs in the relationship and then you'll share that information in a way that amplifies understanding and empathy.
Lectures, supported visually with the latest in presentation graphics, about the purpose and dynamics of your relationship.
Individual reflection and recording using the "Getting the Love You Want" Couples' Manual.
Demonstrations of communication skills.
Practicing new behaviors and skills with your partner. While this workshop is conducted in a group environment you are not required to participate in personal group interaction. You may share as much or as little about yourself as you feel comfortable. The only time we ask you to say something about yourself is during the "icebreaker" at the beginning of Day One, and then again at the end of Day Two. This is not group therapy. You share only with your partner in a safe, comfortable and confidential manner.
Early registration assures attendance. To register, complete the registration form below and click the submit button. After you submit your registration, you may proceed to Step 2 and click the 'Pay Now" button. You will be directed to the secure website, PayPal, to pay for the course using your credit or debit card. You do not need to be a member of PayPal to make a payment. Arrange your travel plans to attend the entire workshop. Dress is casual and comfortable and a sweater is suggested as room temperatures vary. You may also consider bringing a pillow for added comfort. It's important not to allow family or business matters to interrupt you once the workshop begins. We encourage you to stay at a local hotel on Saturday night to maintain focus and avoid distractions. The closest hotel to our office (walking distance) is the Hotel Sierra, 925.743.1882.
If you cancel eight (8) days or more prior to the workshop, you will receive a refund less a $50 administrative fee, or you may transfer once for a $25 charge. If you cancel seven (7) days or less prior to the workshop, you will receive a refund minus a $100 administrative fee. Your registration is nonrefundable if you do not attend or do not complete the workshop. The presenter is not responsible for prepaid, nonrefundable travel arrangements. If the presenter cancels the workshop, a full refund will be made.
Note to Mental Health Providers This Course meets the qualifications for 18 hours of Continuing Education Units for MFT's and LCSW's as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Ralph Butcher PCE4416 and Mindy McHugh PCE4417.
Step 2: After you complete Step 1, click the "Pay Now" button below to pay for your order. You may pay for this workshop with your credit card, debit card, or bank account. You do not need to be a member of PayPal to complete your transaction.
