IMAGO PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
IMAGO PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
IMAGO: PROVEN STRATEGIES FOR HELPING COUPLES MOVE FROM CONFLICT TO CONNECTING
CAPE COD, MA
CAPE COD, MA
Imago: Proven Strategies for helping couples move from Conflict to Connecting.
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Carol J. Kramer, LICSW, is a certified Imago Relationship Therapist, faculty trainer, and workshop presenter. Carol brings enthusiasm, expertise, warmth, and clarity to the learning process. She is able to break down how to utilize the theory and she makes the process of learning engaging, safe, fun, and productive. Among the places Carol has presented are Omega Institute, Kripalu, and the Cape Cod Institute. She is based in New York City. www.safeconnections.com
Harville Hendrix, PhD, and Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD, are co-creators of Imago Relationship Theory & Therapy and cofounders of Imago Relationships International, which has trained over 2,500 therapists in over 61 countries. They are also co-creators, SAFE CONVERSATIONS®, a global social movement to facilitate the creation of a relational civilization through the distribution of new insights from the relational sciences 3.8 billion persons over the next 30 years.
They are the authors of three New York Times best sellers (Getting The Love You Want; Keeping The Love You Find; and Giving The Love That Heals), Making Marriage Simple, and six other books including Doing Imago Relationship Therapy in the Space Between: A Guide for Clinicians. Harville is a couple's therapist with more than 40 years' experience as an educator, clinical trainer and lecturer whose work has appeared on Oprah 17 times. In addition, a 30th anniversary edition of Getting the Love You Want launched in 2019.
In addition to Helen’s partnership with her husband in the co-creation of Imago Relationship Therapy, the Safe Conversations global movement, and co-creator of Imago Relationships International, she is sole author of Faith and Feminism plus And the Spirit Moved Them. She was installed in the Women’s Hall of Fame for her leadership in the global women’s movement and in the Smithsonian Institute for her creation of Woman Moving Millions.
Helen and Harville have been married for 40 years, have six children, seven grandchildren and reside in Dallas, Texas and New York City. www.harvilleandhelen.com; www.imagorelationships.org; www.safe conversation.com.
Joanne Audyatis, LMHC, has been helping couples find deep connection for over 20 years. She has a private practice of Imago Therapy on Cape Cod.
As a Certified Imago Workshop presenter Joanne, along with her husband Todd, present weekend-long workshops to couples from around the country.
Joanne is also an Advanced Imago Clinician and a Faculty Associate of Imago Relationships International.
- Helping couples focus on the space-between rather than the space-within.
- Revisioning their relationship as a partnership rather than a competition.
- How to talk about anything without polarizing.
- Shifting from judgment to curiosity and wonder.
- How to awaken couples from their symbiotic trance.
- Getting couples to commit to Zero Negativity and Intentionality.
- Helping couples practice a process that integrates their brains.
- Guiding couples in learning and practicing relational competency.
- Learning how to create and sustain a Conscious Partnership.
- Overview: Imago Relationship Therapy
- Imago in Historical Context
- Video: The Three Stages of Relationship
- The Space-Between and the Space Within
- Our relational brain
- Imago Dialogue Theory
- The value of structure and the use of sentence stems
- Practice: Mirroring an Appreciation
- Three Stages of Intimate Relationships
- The Impact of the Past on the Present
- Complementarity in couple’s relationships
- Anxiety and the Zero Negativity process
- The Power and Function of Memory
- The Observer Effect
- Imago Dialogue Theory
- Practice: Full Dialogue Process: Childhood Challenge and Need
- Conscious Partnership defined
- The Features of Conscious Partnership
- Steps towards Conscious Partnership
- The Initial Interview
- Practice: The Initial Interview
- Symbiosis and differentiation
- Seven stages of differentiation
- Replacing judgment with acceptance, curiosity and empathy
- Practice: The Frustration Dialogue
- From Judgment to Curiosity and Wonder
- Full Aliveness and Joy
- Integration of Imago into everyday life
- Developing the Relationship Vision
- Relationship Vision Dialogue
What Alumni Are saying:
“This was literally the most informative training I have ever attended. They were so knowledgeable and capable of breaking down very complex concepts. I walked away with SO much knowledge and some comfort in beginning to apply the concepts.”
“I think the addition of imago into my practice will benefit all my dyadic family sessions.”
“I enjoyed learning Imago theory from the developers themselves. I enjoyed hearing about the process they went through in formulating and fine tuning the theory and strategies used. They were all friendly, warm, welcoming and inviting.”
