IMAGO: Proven Strategies for Helping Couples Move from Conflict to Connecting

If you dread your next appointment with a couple, avoid doing couples therapy altogether but would like to, or love couples and want to do it better, join Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D., Carol Kramer, LICSW, and Joanne Audyatis, LMHC, in this rare opportunity to study with the founders of Imago Relationship Therapy and two members of their star Imago Faculty. In this training, you will learn how to help couples quickly move from conflict to connecting by learning how to change your interventions from the Space-Within to the Space-Between, that helps couples create a transformed, rather than just a better, relationship. This involves couples developing relational competence by:

• Learning how to talk with each other about anything without polarizing.

• Embrace and celebrate their differences.

• Shifting from judgment to curiosity and wonder.

• Committing to a Zero Negativity relationship.

• Engaging in life changing affirmations.

• Waking up from their symbiotic trance.

• Revisioning their relationship as a partnership rather than a competition.

• Seeing how their relationship challenges repeat their unresolved childhood challenges.

• Understanding the difference between the Space-Between and the Space-Within.

• Using memory to create and sustain connecting.

• Changing their brains by practicing the dialogue process.

• Learning how to create and sustain a Conscious Partnership.

Using Imago Relationship Therapy, comprehensively available in DOING IMAGO RELATIONSHIP THERAPY IN THE SPACE-BETWEEN: A Guide for Clinicians, this theory-based skill-building training process will help you, as a therapist, assist couples in transcending their biggest challenge: accepting difference, connecting beyond difference and co-creating a Conscious Partnership that meets developmental needs and restores full aliveness and joy. Each day will include lectures, videos, live demonstrations and the practice of Imago Dialogue processes.

This workshop is open to clinical professionals who want to become certified Imago Therapists or other professionals who want to use the Imago Dialogue Process in their lives and work.  The training counts as two days towards certification as an Imago therapist by the Imago International Training Institute or, for non-clinical professionals, it counts for two days towards becoming an Imago Facilitator. It also meets some of the requirements of the Safe Conversations Training Institute for a certificate as a Safe Conversations Trainer.