What makes a relationship work? Drs John and Julie Gottman have spent over 35 years researching over 3000 couples. Now after watching a couple for only 5 minutes, John Gottman can predict with 91% accuracy whether they will happily stay together.

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.

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 of the Top 10 Most Influential Therapists if the past quarter-century by Psychotherapy Networker magazine. He is the author of 190 published academic articles and author and co-author of 40 books, including his New York Times best seller, Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.

Dates

16 and 17 February 2012

Location

Adelaide Festival Centre
Festival Drive, off King William Road
Adelaide SA 5000

Who should be attending?

Professionals who wish to serve today’s couples and families. Couples currently enter marriage with a 50% chance of failure and many seek a scientifically sound approach to help them understand and strengthen the weak areas in their relationship. This training will empower therapists to provide this help to couples and families.

In this inspirational two-day workshop, you’ll 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

Fees

Total cost for this training is $825 ($750 + GST). This will include:

• 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
• Morning and afternoon tea
• Lunch
• Note paper

How to enrol

Enrolments are now closed.

Please note that enrolment via the Institute of Social Relations is available to SA, WA and NT residents only. If you are from QLD, VIC, NSW, TAS please register for Melbourne or Brisbane at Kassan Events.

Workshop Outline

Day 1

8.30 - 9.00	Registration Check-In
9.00 - 10.25	The Research: What Makes Relationships Succeed or Fail?
10.25 - 10.45	Morning Break
10.45 - 12.00	The Sound Relationship House Theory
12.00 - 1.15	Lunch
1.15 - 3.00	The Assessment Sessions & Learning to Use Assessment Questionnaires
3.00 - 3.15	Afternoon Break
3.15 - 4.00	Film: Live Sessions: Assessment
4.00 - 5.00	Clinical Q&A

Day 2

9.00 - 10.10	Introduction to Interventions - Constructive Conflict
10.10 - 10.30	Morning Break
10.30 - 12.00	Interventions Continued
12.00 - 1.25	Lunch
1.25 - 3.15	Building Friendship & Shared Meaning
3.15 - 3.30	Afternoon Break
3.30 - 4.30	Process of the Therapy & Summary
4.30 - 5.00	Clinical Q&A

 

Refund and cancellation policy

Cancellations up to 60 days before the Conference date will be fully refunded except for a $50 administration fee deducted from the amount of your refund. Cancellations made within 60 days of the Conference date will not receive any refund. Tickets are transferable. If the course is cancelled by us, a full refund will be given.