Deepening Gottman Couples Therapy: Working with Emotions Presented by Dr Bill Bumberry. Advanced Clinical Trainer and Gottman Certification Video Reviewer
You’ve read the books and taken the trainings. You know the model and understand the interventions. You do really good work with some couples, perhaps not so effective with others. Spend a day with us to deepen your therapy and increase its efficacy. Wednesday 18th September 2024 - Live and Interactive via ZOOM
Gottman Couples Therapy is an emotionally focused, experientially driven approach to working with couples. Does it also have a psycho-educational element? Well, of course. The decades of relationship defining research from the Love Lab and beyond offer a cortex friendly understanding of the dance between partners. This research is an enlightening, enriching contribution to our professions, as well as to couples around the globe.
What is too often overlooked is the central role emotions play in our work with couples.
In this workshop we will:
- revisit the Sound Relationship House and go “inside the interventions” with an eye towards opening and working with the emotions that reside within our couples.
- We’ll address core issues such as the importance of “approach rather than avoidance”, the centrality of meta emotions in our work, conflict styles, the value of vulnerability and the opportunity that accompanies gridlock. We’ll even add a bit of Attachment Theory to the conversation.
- Exploring the power of emotions in therapy begins by resurrecting a long-forgotten term … the “person of the therapist”. In addition to the partners, there’s another person in the room … The therapist presence, perspective and engagement are central to what happens during the sessions.
Join us for a day of exploring the emotional, experiential core of our model.
Workshop presented by Advanced Clinical Trainer and Gottman Certification Video Reviewer from the USA – Dr. Bill Bumberry. Bill is a foundation member of the Gottman community and a certified EFT therapist, he has a strong commitment to the continual development of Gottman therapy with a focus on the central role emotions and attachment play in therapy. He is the co-author of Dancing with the Family: A Symbolic-Experiential Approach, A Different Kind of Caring (videotape) and Reshaping Family Relationships: The Symbolic Therapy of Carl Whitaker.