Level 2 Workshop Outline

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Earn 20 CE’s - Three day workshop completes your Gottman Level 2 Certification Training.

Level 2: Assessment, Intervention, and Co-Morbidities
Gottman Couples Therapy Training - A New Research-Based Approach!

Gottman Method Level 2: Assessment, Intervention, and Co-Morbidities
Workshop Outline and Objectives...

DAY ONE
8:00 - 8:20 am:  Registration Check-In
8:30 am - 5:00 pm:  Gottman Level 2 Workshop
(Lunch on your own, 1.5hr)

BASICS OF OBSERVATION

  1. •Introduction to Observation
  2. •Emotions in the Face
  3. •Tension in the Voice
  4. •The Words Themselves

BIDS AND TURNING

  1. •Overview 
  2. •Film - Anderson Cooper Show
  3. •Film - Greg and Jennie

CASE INTRODUCTION

  1. •Introducing Steve and Krista
  2. •Film - Spain without Interest, Bread with Interest
  3. •Film - Dinner at Steve and Krista’s
  4. •Film - Open Ended Questions
  5. •Film - Contempt in 30 Seconds

ASSESSMENT SESSION #1 - ASSESSMENT

  1. •Couple’s Narrative
  2. •Oral History Interview - content, questions, and coding
  3. •Film - Oral History Interview samples

ASSESSMENT SESSION #1 - ASSESSMENT CONFLICT SAMPLE

  1. •Evaluating conflict management Gridlocked conflict
  2. •Repair
  3. •Videotaping and physiological reading

ASSESSMENT SESSION #1 – PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

  1. •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

  1. •Review
  2. •Film – Steve and Krista’s Individual Interviews

ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRES

  1. •Steve and Krista’s score sheets

ASSESSMENT SESSION #3 - FEEDBACK AND TREATMENT PLANNING

  1. •How to give feedback
  2. •Film – Masters and Disasters

INTERVENTION – THE GOTTMAN RAPOPORT INTERVENTION, COMBINED WITH DAN WILE AND INTERNAL WORKING MODEL INTERVENTIONS

  1. •Introduction to interventions
  2. •Film – The Gottman-Rapoport Intervention, plus Dan Wile and Internal Working Model Interventions

PRACTICE ROLE PLAY

DAY ONE CONCLUSION - Q and A


DAY TWO
8:30 am - 5:00 pm:  Gottman Level 2 Workshop
(Lunch on your own 1.5hr.)

INTERVENTION – COMPROMISE

  1. •Introduction
  2. •Film – Compromise

INTERVENTION – FLOODING AND SELF-SOOTHING

  1. •Introduction
  2. •Film – Flooding and Self-Soothing

INTERVENTION – DREAMS WITHIN CONFLICT

  1. •Introduction
  2. •Film – Dreams Within Conflict

PRACTICE ROLE PLAY - DREAMS WITHIN CONFLICT

INTERVENTION – AFTERMATH OF A FIGHT OR REGRETTABLE INCIDENT

  1. •Introduction
  2. •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

  1. •Introduction
  2. •Film – Positive Adjective Checklist

INTERVENTION – STRESS REDUCING CONVERSATION

  1. •Introduction
  2. •Film – Stress Reducing Conversation
  3. •Comments and discussion

PRACTICE ROLE PLAY - STRESS REDUCING CONVERSATION

  1. •Comments and discussion

INTERVENTION – RITUALS OF CONNECTION

  1. •Introduction
  2. •Film – Rituals of Connection
  3. •Comments and discussion

DAY TWO CONCLUSION - Q and A


DAY THREE
8:30 am - 5:00 pm:  Gottman Level 2 Workshop
(Lunch on your own 1.5hr.)

PTSD

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

  1. •Film – Pitbulls
  2. •Film – Cobras

ADDICTIONS

DAY THREE CONCLUSION - Q and A


Gottman Level 2 Workshop Objectives:

  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 Level 2 Registration Page

*** Discounts are available for registering for both Level 1 and Level 2 trainings, all 3 trainings, and for groups of 3 or more. See registration page for more info or call Scott at (702) 757-7393.

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Scott Wolfe, Ph.D.

Nevada Relationship Center

2410 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway, Suite 100

Henderson, NV 89052


Senior Certified Gottman Therapist
Master Gottman Trainer
(702) 757-7393
[email protected]
www.swolfephd.com


You’ll deepen your understanding of the Gottman Method...


Internalize and integrate Gottman Method Assessment and Intervention techniques.


Receive a  Clinical Manual featuring new relationship assessment questionnaires and clinical interventions.


See on film Drs. John & Julie Gottman  demonstrating assessment and interventions in case examples pulled from their private practice.


View original videos of couples from Gottman's famous "Love Lab"


Receive a certificate of completion from the Gottman Institute.


For those interested in pursuing Gottman certification, this 3-day workshop fulfills the Level 2 requirement.