Don t miss this exciting opportunity to immerse yourself in a conversation of mindfulness and couples therapy. This groundbreaking training offers you the chance of a lifetime to engage with three of the greatest thinkers ... more »in their fields as they weave together independent approaches that will empower and transform your work with individuals and couples.
Learn how to move couples from rigid and chaotic states to a state of empathy, compassion, and flexibility through mindfulness.
Dr. Dan Siegel has made one of the most exciting scientific discoveries of the last 20 years: how we focus our attention shapes the structure of our brain. He will masterfully provide an entertaining and clear framework for understanding the human mind and its connection to relationships.
In response, the Gottmans will skillfully demonstrate through live video taped sessions with couples, clinical vignettes, and experiential audience participation, how to interweave mindfulness into your couples work using evidenced-based interventions from Gottman Method Couples Therapy.
This workshop provides a synthesis of Interpersonal Neurobiology woven together with key Gottman Method Interventions. You will learn how to identify chaotic and rigid states of mind and help move individuals and couples toward states of flexibility, compassion, openness, empathy and attunement. As a result, they will experience deeper connection, renewed intimacy, greater self-compassion, and healing from relationship wounds.
OBJECTIVES
* Summarize the three domains of the Gottman Method Sound Relationship House
* Apply principles of Interpersonal Neurobiology to clinical assessment
* Describe several ways in which the Gottman Method can be integrated with principles of Interpersonal Neurobiology
* Define the self-organizing aspect of the mind and mental health
* Identify several Gottman Method interventions that promote self-integration
* List at least seven aspects of integrative prefrontal functions
* Discuss the ways in which attachment patterns and couple relationship dynamics intersect
* Identify the overlap between the social and regulatory circuits of the brain
* Discuss the four ways in which experience alters the function and structure of the brain
* Define integration and its functional outcomes
* Describe how attachment categories may be altered by psychotherapy
* Identify how Gottman method may induce neuroplastic changes in the brain
OUTLINE
* Self-Awareness and Self-Soothing
* Connecting Your Brain s Hemispheres and Connecting with Your Partner
* Moving Past Trauma to Receptivity
* Contextualizing Negativity in a Deeper Story
* Building Attachment, Understanding and Compassion
* Creating a Partnership within Yourself and With Your Partner
* Building Connections for a Lifetime
* Increased Attunement and Implications for Working with Affairs
CONTINUING EDUCATION INFORMATION
Continuing Education Credits are available for the following professions:
