5-Day Intensive
Training in Pragmatic-Experiential Therapy for Couples (PET-C)
August 1-5, 2008,
Build on your
basic understanding of PET-C through five days of intensive training at
By the end of the
week, you’ll have developed or strengthened your ability to:
1.
Help each partner understand the degree to which his/her typical reactions
during upsetting situations, and his typical style of interacting during
non-conflict times, meet (or fail to meet) the prerequisites for relationship
success (the specific attitudes and actions that are highly predictive of
relationship success or failure).
2.
Know exactly what each partner needs to do to more fully
meet the prerequisites for relationship success in any situation s/he faces.
3.
Help each partner realize that is in his/her own best
interest to meet the prerequisites for relationship success (i.e., those who
meet the prerequisites almost always get treated well by their partners).
4.
Cultivate a receptive state of mind in each partner so that s/he can
receive this information non-defensively.
5.
Help partners begin to meet the prerequisites for relationship success
during therapy sessions by creating internal shifts in each of them, then
guiding them toward ways of relating that are highly predictive of relationship
success.
6.
Help each partner recognize the automatic, deeply
conditioned nature of his/her typical reactions during upsetting situations.
7.
Help each partner become more aware of the specific package
of automatic reactions (emotional habits) that get activated when s/he gets
upset.
8.
Help each partner realize the necessity of repetitive
practice if his/her emotional habits are ever going to change.
9.
Design daily practices for clients that promote new levels of neural
integration and recondition outmoded emotional habits;
10.
Help each partner develop strong motivation to engage in these daily
practices.
11.
Make personalized
CD recordings for clients to use daily in their efforts to rewire their brains
for more flexibility;
12.
Help clients
learn to use digital voice recorders at home to build daily practices that
rewire their emotional habits.
13.
Become more aware of, and better able to, shift your own
internal states as needed
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when working as a
therapist,
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in your own
personal life
It is assumed
that participants will have read Dr. Atkinson’s book, Emotional Intelligence in Couples Therapy: Advances from Neurobiology and the Science of
Intimate Relationships prior to beginning the intensive week of training. During
the training, you’ll learn how to use various digital technologies to
strengthen your therapeutic impact.
You’ll learn how and when to generate personalized handouts and
exercises for your clients, using the PET-C electronic CD workbook, Developing Habits for Relationship Success. You’ll receive the same digital sound
recorder (yours to keep) that’s used by all of our clinicians at the Couples
Research Institute to make personalized CDs for clients to use in their daily
reconditioning practices. We understand that not all therapists feel confident
with computer-related technologies, so we’ll walk you though the steps
necessary to make the kind of personalized CDs that have been useful to many
PET-C clients.
Tuition: $1100.
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