Imago Clinical Training

Learning Objectives for Module 1

Course Content Level: Intermediate

Lesson 1

1. View, conceptualize and discuss their clients and couples through the lens of the relational paradigm.
2. Explain why an increase in positive exchanges between committed partners is important.
3. Identify needs that underlie a partner's current frustrations with one another.
4. Facilitate partner’s understanding of how the past influences the present.

Lesson 2

1. Discuss the specific steps of the Imago Dialogue and explain the rationale for structuring a couples’ interpersonal dialogue process.
2. Facilitate a dialogical process between partners.
3. Define and discuss the role of healthy differentiation in a committed, intimate partnership.
4. Describe and explain how the rupture and repair of the emotional bond between partners strengthens resilience.

Lesson 3

1. Manage the challenges that arise when couples resist a structured listening process.
2. Use sentence stems to maintain an atmosphere of safety during the dialogue process.
3. Distinguish between the reptilian brain, the limbic system and the prefrontal cortex and be able to describe the role the brain plays in emotional co-regulation between partners.
4. Discuss the role of mindfulness in conscious, intimate and committed partnerships.

Lesson 4

1. Describe the importance of intentional romantic behavior and pleasurable activities in marital outcomes.
2. Describe the necessity of right brain, non-verbal communication in adult love relationships
3. Explain the role of human touch in a securely attached marital relationship.
4. Explain and discuss the role of playfulness and spontaneous play behavior in restoring safe, emotional bonds.

Lesson 5

1. Assess a couple through a developmental lens, identifying each partners’ core wound and adaptive style.
2. Identify how developmental wounds and childhood adaptations impact marital dynamics.
3. Describe how a corrective emotional experience between partners helps marital/individual health and satisfaction.
4. Explain why the dialogue process is a corrective emotional experience.

Lesson 6

1. Name two ways that children are wounded in childhood.
2. Describe how the socialization process in childhood influences adaptation and mate selection.
3. Explain why partners’ unmet needs provide clues to a blueprint for growth.
4. Discuss and illustrate how to transform marital power struggles.

Lesson 7

1. Define and explain re-imaging and why it is an initial task in couples’ therapy.
2. Describe and direct a process of revisioning the relationship.
3. Name 7 tasks of a conscious love relationship.
4. Explain why commitment between partners may be essential to marital improvement and happiness.

Lesson 8

1. Explain why frustration between partners is an important effect to address between partners.
2. Demonstrate how couples can translate their frustrations into small, specific requests for change.
3. Give an illustration of “stretching” and how stretching facilitates a sense of greater wholeness and aliveness.
4. Describe how and why change happens in small, specific and behavioral actions.

Sample agenda for each 4-hour lesson:

0:00 - 0:50 lecture of the day

0:50 - 1:00 Q & A

1:00 - 2:00 small groups of 3 to 4 in break out rooms

2:00 - 3:00 reading and viewing video

3:00 - 4:00 taking a quiz, answering discussion questions and journaling.

CUE Management Solutions, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CUE Management Solutions, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

CUE Management Solutions, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed. psychologists #PSY-0242.

Participants can earn 32 CE credits upon successful completion of Module 1 of the training. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

Please note: While APA CE credits are widely accepted, participants should verify with their specific state licensing board to ensure these credits meet their continuing education requirements.

 $1000 for each of 3 Modules* payable directly to the instructor. Payment plans and scholarhsips considered upon request.

Special bundle pricing available. Contact Michelle for more details.

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Continuing Education (CE) Credits - $60 for 32 credits for Module 1 (only), available for purchase after registration.
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