Level 2 Training
Outline and Objectives...
You'll deepen your understanding
of the Gottman Method!
DAY ONE
8:30 am - 8:50 am: Registration Check-In
9:00 am - 5:00 pm: Level 2 Workshop
(Lunch on your own)
Receive a 550-page Clinical Manual featuring
new relationship assessment questionnaires
and clinical interventions.
BASICS OF OBSERVATION
Introduction to Observation
Emotions in the Face
Tension in the Voice
The Words Themselves
BIDS AND TURNING
Overview
Film - Anderson Cooper Show
Film - Greg and Jennie
CASE INTRODUCTION
Introducing Steve and Krista
Film - Spain without Interest, Bread with Interest
Film - Dinner at Steve and Krista’s
Film - Open Ended Questions
Film - Contempt in 30 Seconds
View original videos of couples
from Gottman's famous "Love Lab"
ASSESSMENT SESSION #1 - ASSESSMENT
Couple’s Narrative
Oral History Interview - content, questions, and coding
Film - Oral History Interview samples
ASSESSMENT SESSION #1 - ASSESSMENT CONFLICT SAMPLE
Evaluating conflict management Gridlocked conflict
Repair
Videotaping and physiological reading
ASSESSMENT SESSION #1 – PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
Film – Steve and Krista’s couple narrative, Oral History Interview and Conflict discussion
PRACTICE ROLE PLAY SESSION #1 –
Narrative and Oral History Interview
ASSESSMENT SESSION #2 - INDIVIDUAL INTERVIEWS
Review
Film – Steve and Krista’s Individual Interviews
ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRES
Steve and Krista’s score sheets
ASSESSMENT SESSION #3 - FEEDBACK AND TREATMENT PLANNING
How to give feedback
Film – Masters and Disasters
INTERVENTION – THE GOTTMAN RAPOPORT INTERVENTION,
COMBINED WITH DAN WILE
AND INTERNAL WORKING MODEL INTERVENTIONS
Introduction to interventions
Film – The Gottman-Rapoport Intervention, plus Dan Wile and Internal Working Model Interventions
PRACTICE ROLE PLAY
Day One Conclusion - Q and A
DAY TWO
9:00 am - 5:00 pm: Level 2 Workshop
(Lunch on your own)
Internalize and integrate the Gottman Method
Assessment and Intervention techniques.
INTERVENTION – COMPROMISE
Introduction
Film – Compromise
INTERVENTION – FLOODING AND SELF-SOOTHING
Introduction
Film – Flooding and Self-Soothing
INTERVENTION – DREAMS WITHIN CONFLICT
Introduction
Film – Dreams Within Conflict
PRACTICE ROLE PLAY - DREAMS WITHIN CONFLICT
INTERVENTION – AFTERMATH OF A FIGHT OR REGRETTABLE INCIDENT
Introduction
Film – Aftermath of a Fight plus Dan Wile
PRACTICE ROLE PLAY - AFTERMATH OF A FIGHT OR REGRETTABLE INCIDENT
INTERVENTION – POSITIVE ADJECTIVE CHECKLIST AND EXPRESSING FONDNESS AND ADMIRATION
Introduction
Film – Positive Adjective Checklist
INTERVENTION – STRESS REDUCING CONVERSATION
Introduction
Film – Stress Reducing Conversation
Comments and discussion
PRACTICE ROLE PLAY - STRESS REDUCING CONVERSATION
Comments and discussion
INTERVENTION – RITUALS OF CONNECTION
Introduction
Film – Rituals of Connection
Comments and discussion
Day Two Conclusion - Q and A
These Level 2 workshops are presented in a “Professional Retreat” setting just minutes north of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge at the SF Theological in San Anselmo.
Lisa Lund, CRC, MFT
Master Certified Gottman Therapist
Couples Workshop Leader
(415)721-4310
DAY THREE
9:00 am - 5:00 pm: Level 2 Workshop
(Lunch on your own)
See on film Drs. John & Julie Gottman
demonstrating assessment and interventions in
case examples pulled from their private practice.
PTSD
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Film – Pitbulls
Film – Cobras
ADDICTIONS
Day Three Conclusion - Q and A
Workshop Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
1. Assess a couple’s “Friendship Profile”, “Conflict Profile”, and
“Shared Meanings Profile”.
2. Develop interventions that couples can use as antidotes to the
“Four Horsemen".
3. Help couples to soothe physiological flooding.
4. Apply six modes of changing the “Attack/Defend System” in a
couple’s interactions.
5. Assist couples in establishing dialogue about their grid-locked
conflicts.
6. Select and implement interventions to help couples deepen
their “Friendship System” with rituals of connection.
7. Select and implement interventions to help couples create a
shared system of values and meaning.
8. Identify and implement five different co-morbidities common
to couples using Gottman Couples Therapy Assessment and
Intervention.
Note: For More Info on Continuing Education Credits - CE Credits - CE’s - See Registration Page
For those interested in pursuing
Gottman certification, this 3-day workshop
fulfills the Level 2 requirement.
Payment plans available thru PayPal!
See Registration page for details!
