John M. Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman, William Bumberry, Vagdevi Meunier – The Gottman Method Approach to Better Couples Therapy

Description of The Gottman Method Approach to Better Couples Therapy

In recent years, research has identified key, measurable elements of happy and stable long-term relationships. They include trust, attunement, listening compassionately and nondefensively within conflict, a relational safe haven, and emotional commitment. In this workshop, you’ll acquire tools for approaching couples therapy more effectively. You’ll discover:

• How to enhance a couple’s capacity for gratitude, cherishing, and commitment
• Interventions that increase couples’ ability to deescalate anger, manage conflict, and repair ruptures in the relationship
• How to stay calm in the midst of couples’ relationship conflicts and have hope when they feel hopeless

Objectives

1. Demonstrate how to enhance a couple’s capacity for gratitude, cherishing, and commitment
2. Apply interventions that increase couples’ ability to deescalate anger, manage conflict, and repair ruptures in the relationship
3. Employ personal calming techniques in calm in the midst of couples’ relationship conflicts and have hope when they feel hopeless

What you’ll learn in The Gottman Method Approach to Better Couples Therapy

• Sharpening Concepts of What Works
  • Get the Data
  • Love Lab Creation
• Gottmans’ New Love Lab
  • Gathering the Narrative and Physiological Measures
  • Gottman Relationship Checkup Questionnaire
• What Predicts Future of a Relationship?
  • Masters versus Disasters
  • Positive to Negative Ratio
  • Roach Hotel Model
• Phase Space Plots of Relationships
  • Attractors
  • Vectors
  • Case Study
  • Influence Functions
  • Parameters
    • Change the Eight “Sliders”
• Sound Relationship House
  • Scales
  • Seven Mechanisms with Interventions
• Conflict and Physiology
• Three Gottmans’ Couples’ Interventions
  • Power of Positive Startup
  • Power of Turning Toward and Accepting Influence
  • Power of Repair
• Building Trust
• Building Commitment
• Summary of The Magic Trio and Making Couples Therapy Work
• Questions and Comments

Target Audience

Psychologists, Physicians, Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Behavioral Health Professionals

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