Couples Experiential™ 2016: NEW Live Clinical Demonstrations with Real Couples

Be part of this once-in-a-lifetime experience!

World renowned couple’s therapist, Terry Real, works intensively with a group of five real couples, getting down to their most intimate issues and demonstrating powerful treatment techniques.

His work with each couple is deep, highly emotional, incisive and often life changing.

Using techniques drawn from the approach he created, Relational Life Therapy (RLT), each couple is led, with extraordinary quickness and precision, to their ‘next step’ toward unlocking their fullest potential. RLT leverages the concept of “relational living” in order to help people address relational and psychological health in relationships.

The format could not be simpler, or more exciting, as you see firsthand, a respected leader in the field work with each couple, one after another, who are experiencing different issues and in need of their own treatment approach.

How it Works:

• Each couple names their issues and identify their goals or wishes for the two-day treatment. Terry works with each couple, talking through their issues, articulating where the couple is stuck and where this relationship road block comes from.
• Watch and learn how Terry performs initial data gathering leading to a rich, precise and relational diagnosis and gain leverage by empowering a disempowered partner. Terry demonstrates powerful strategies to help the couple move forward, delve into deep trauma work, and actively teach new relational skills.
• Terry breaks and debriefs what you just witnessed, while the audience asks questions, and shares their observations and feelings.

OUTLINE

Assess the Relationship

• Strategies for data gathering
• Diagnose the presenting problem
• Each partner’s reality

Use Leverage in Therapy

• Strategies to gain leverage
• Strategies to use leverage
• Motivate each partner to go beyond comfort zone

Power and Control within the Couple

• Assess for power differential
• Empower the enabling partner
• Gender issues and their impact

Strategies to Assess and Treat Obstacles

• Preconditions for change
• Addiction
• Untreated psychiatric disorders
• Anger
• Violence/ sexual abuse

Infidelity, Secrets & Lost Passion

• Strategies for each person to move on from infidelity
• Go beyond the perpetrator/victim model
• Skills to deal with secrets in the relationship
• Reinvigorate passion into the relationship

Strategies to Move Couples Forward

• Make their realities collide
• Stance / stance / dance
• Use the relational grid
• Empower the latent
• Reconnect the blatant
• Minimize rage
• Gain leverage
• Join through the truth
• Effective treatment through play and imagination

Deep Trauma Work and Healing in Couples

• Family of origin resonance & multigenerational legacies
• Heal inner child parts
• Tri-part system of the psych: functional adult, wounded child, and adaptive child
• Empower functional adult to re-parent the wounded and adapted child parts

Teach Relational Skills

• Empathy
• Vulnerability
• Accountability

OBJECTIVES

1. Describe how to move past “he said / she said” to a nuanced and comprehensive relational diagnosis.
2. Demonstrate how to empower the enabling partner in couples where there’s a power differential.
3. Explain how gender issues impact the couple.
4. Develop strategies to gain and use leverage, motivating each partner to move beyond his or her comfort zone.
5. Assess and deal with “preconditions for change,” such as addiction, untreated psychiatric disorders, and violent or sexual acting out.
6. Discover how to help both partners deal with infidelity, moving beyond the conventional victim/perpetrator model.
7. Discuss how to handle the issue of secrets in couples therapy.
8. Develop anger management strategies for minimizing rage within couples therapy.
9. Show how to join the couple through the truth, forming an alliance with difficult clients using the art empathic confrontation.
10. Use techniques to move from the present difficulty to early childhood experience.
11. Demonstrate how to introduce and perform deep trauma work in the couple’s context.
12. Show how to introduce and teach new relational skills to couples like empathy, vulnerability, and accountability.

Satisfaction Guarantee
Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to PESI, Inc., PO Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call 1-800-844-8260.

ADA Needs

PESI would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at 800-844-8260.