Gottman Method Level 1 Training

Professional Training

This is the first step in learning Gottman Method Couples Therapy. A truly inspiring workshop, Level 1 training hosted in Appleton, Wisconsin will give you new insights into treatment for couples who struggle, using research-based assessments and effective interventions.

Help couples in your practice manage conflicts and deepen intimacy! This is the first step in learning Gottman Method Couples Therapy. A truly inspiring workshop, Level 1 Training will give you new insights into treatment for couples who struggle, using research-based assessments and effective interventions. Presented by Gloria Bannasch, LPC, GTC.

What You'll Learn

Increase Friendship in Clients' Relationship

Improve communication
Protect the relationship from outside stress
Help couples deal more effectively with conflict
Assist couples to solve “solvable” problems
Guide couples to overcome gridlock and effectively discuss perpetual problems

The art of compromise
How to repair the relationship when it becomes derailed by conflict or regrettable incidents
How to instruct support between partners successfully
Create shared meaning
What the Masters of Relationships know about sustaining and maintaining healthy relationships

Workshop Tickets

Date & Time

Event

Please stay tuned for the 2021 schedule for Level 1 Workshops.

The Virtual Experience

Who Should Attend?

Mental Health Professionals
Allied professionals and clergy
Students and interns
Family clinic staff
Professors/teachers of couples therapy
Researchers in the social sciences
Employee assistance professionals

Training Objectives

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, address solvable problems, understand and manage irresolvable differences
The Shared Meaning System – the existential foundation of the relationship that helps partners discover their shared purpose for building a life together
Research-based strategies and tools to help couples successfully manage conflicts
Skills to empower partners to dialogue about their gridlocked issues by uncovering their underlying dreams, history, and values
Methods to help couples process fights and heal their hurts
Techniques for partners to deepen their intimacy and minimize relapse
New assessments and effective interventions to help understand couples struggles

Program Objectives

Summarize the research that allows us to predict future relationship stability.
Describe the seven levels of the Sound Relationship House theory.
Conduct a couple’s therapy assessment using elements of the couples narrative, the Oral History Interview, written questionnaires, observations of conflict and individual interviews.
Describe two interventions to help strengthen a couple’s conflict management.
Describe two interventions to enhance a couple’s friendship system.
Describe two interventions to explore a couple’s system of shared meaning.
Explain why physiological self-soothing is essential for a healthy relationship.
Create a therapeutic contract with a couple, discuss and decide on goals and include a summary of the couple’s strengths and areas that need improvement.
Describe the Philosophy of Therapy including assumptions, an overview of techniques, and the goals of therapy.
Describe the Rapoport Intervention and when to use it.
Describe the process of therapy, including the structure of a session.

Can’t Make It?

We do our best to accommodate all attendees where possible regarding cancellations. If a professional cannot appear for a scheduled event, please notify the office as soon as possible. In the event, GJB Health Services can:

(1) Assign your ticket to the following event

(2) Assign your ticket to an event of the professional’s choosing.

Please be aware; however, that GJB Health Services will authorize ONE reschedule. Thank you and we appreciate your cooperation to best adhere to other professionals who wish to participate!