From an Imago perspective, anxiety is at the core of all relational challenges. Anxiety causes clients to react to their partner in unconscious, hurtful, and destructive ways, and it causes clients to be very resistant to the counseling process. Anxiety in the therapist also causes unconscious reactivity and resistance to the counseling process. This course challenges the traditional understanding of resistance and reframes it as an indication of something much deeper—Terror. Taught from the perspective of the relational paradigm and Imago Relationship Theory, this course employs a combination of interactive lectures, personal writing exercises, role play, and demonstrations.

This course challenges the participants to identify their reactivity. It explores when and how that shows up in the counseling session sabotaging the entire counseling process. Course participants learn skills to determine their countertransference and stay consciously present with themselves and consciously attuned to their clients in session. This course explains the participant to model and teaches attunement, compassion, validation, and empathy in the therapy session to empower highly reactive couples to be their wounded healers and step into loving long-lasting, fulfilling love relationships. This course employs findings from the research in neurosciences, attachment theory, mindfulness, and Imago Relationship Theory. 

In this course, participants will learn to...

• Define and recognize couples who present a clinical challenge 
• Define attunement and its clinical implications 
• Explain the significance of anxiety 
• Define the Relational Paradigm 
• Review the unique role of the Imago therapist 
• Identify their own personal reactive behaviors both inside & outside the office
• Review the importance of interacting dialogically with their couples 
• Discuss and learn new and different applications of the validation step of the dialogue 
• Name the role anxiety plays in the therapist and learn clinical skills for staying present when anxious 
• Discuss and illustrate the importance of being the lead energy or leading with “empathic authority” 
• Identify couples at the first four developmental stages 
• Identify and review the developmental needs and how they present in adult intimate relationships 
• Plan how to use clinical attunement skills learned to target these relational needs of couples 
• Review the psychological journey’s importance in the relational paradigm 
• List five interventions to support safe sending and five interventions to support attuned and connected receiving 
• Utilize sentence stems that support positive, forward moving growth with couples

Click here for a detailed agenda for this course.

This program is intended for Certified Imago Therapists, Certified Imago Facilitators and Educators and Certified Imago Workshop Presenters at the advanced level. There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.

$750

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CEs available for purchase after registration for an additional $40.

This Live Interactive Webinar provides 24 CE hours and is cosponsored by R. Cassidy Seminars, P.O. Box 14473, Santa Rosa, CA 95402.

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_{Registration cancellations made up to 30 days prior to the start of the course (the date of the first live class) will be canceled at no cost. Cancellations made between 30 days and 1 week prior to the start of the course will be refunded minus a $50 administrative fee. Cancellations made less than one week prior to the start of the course will be refunded minus a $100 administrative fee. No refunds will be given for cancellations after the first live class. All cancellations must be submitted in writing via email. For questions or concerns, contact info@imagorelationshipswork.com.}