Dr. Diana Weiss-Wisdom

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Dr. Diana Weiss-Wisdom
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Couples Workshop

May 25- 26, 2012

Friday and Saturday  9-5 p.m. 


Based on Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) as outlined in the best selling book: "Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for A Lifetime of Love by Dr. Sue Johnson


• EFT has an astounding 70 - 75% success rate and results have been shown to last, even in the face of significant stress.


• EFT is recognized by the American Psychological Association as empirically proven.


Format includes: Lecture, Film clips demonstrating conversations, voluntary group discussion, and break out sessions in private with your partner.  Therapists are available during break out sessions when you are doing your couples exercises if you need assistance.


Book, all materials, lunch, and snacks are provided in cost of workshop.

Cost:

$895 per couple

Early Bird Discount $825 (before April 1st, 2012). 


Facilitators: Diana Weiss-Wisdom, Ph.D. and Jessica Buss, Ph.D.


Retreat is for all couples (lay and professional). 14 Ceu's pending for MFT's and LCSW's.

For more information, email us at drdiana@cottageclinic.net or call (858) 259-0146


In a beautiful setting, you can enjoy renewing and strengthening your relationship with breakthrough strategies that can help you stop arguing, learn how to problem solve and really communicate even about the issues that often set you off track with each other.          

 

You can improve, strengthen, heal and transform your relationship from where ever it is right now, using the tools and information that you will gain.        


        You will learn to          

  • Break the cycles of frustration and loneliness in your relationship
  • Make sense of your own emotions and your partner’s
  • Create lasting trust and intimacy
  • Forgive injuries that destroy trust and safety
  • Deepen your sexual connection.

 

In addition to practice with your partner, you will see how other couples in the Hold Me Tight: Conversations for Connection DVD learned to step out of negative cycles and create a lifetime of love.         


   http://www.holdmetight.net/video.php

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HOLD ME TIGHT presents a streamlined version of EFT. It walks the reader through seven conversations that capture the defining moments in a love relationship and instructs how to shape these moments to create a secure and lasting bond. Case histories and exercises in each conversation bring the lessons of EFT to life."  Sue Johnson, Ph.D.

Seven Transforming Conversations:

Recognizing Demon Dialogues—In this first conversation, couples identify negative and destructive remarks in order to get to the root of the problem and figure out what each other is really trying to say.

Finding the Raw Spots—Here, each partner learns to look beyond immediate, impulsive reactions to figure out what raw spots are being hit.

Revisiting a Rocky Moment—This conversation provides a platform for de-escalating conflict and repairing rifts in a relationship and building emotional safety.

Hold Me Tight—The heart of the program: this conversation moves partners into being more accessible, emotionally responsive, and deeply engaged with each other.

Forgiving Injuries—Injuries may be forgiven but they never disappear. Instead, they need to become integrated into couples’ conversations as demonstrations of renewal and connection. Knowing how to find and offer forgiveness empowers couples to strengthen their bond.

Bonding Through Sex and Touch—Here, couples find how emotional connection creates great sex, and good sex creates deeper emotional connection.

Keeping Your Love Alive—This last conversation is built on the understanding that love is a continual process of losing and finding emotional connection; it asks couples to be deliberate and mindful about maintaining connection.

    

The message of EFT is simple: Forget about learning how to argue better, analyzing your early childhood, making grand romantic gestures, or experimenting with new sexual positions. Instead, recognize and admit that you are emotionally attached to and dependent on your partner in much the same way that a child is on a parent for nurturing, soothing, and protection. EFT focuses on creating and strengthening this emotional bond by identifying and transforming the key moments that foster an adult loving relationship.


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Recent participants said about this workshop:

"This was incredibly wonderful for our relationship.  This has helped my partner and I begin to learn a new way to connect with each other."  - New Zealand Couple


"You created an incredibly safe and sacred space for this workshop. Thanks so much for the helpful workshop.  We feel deep respect and gratitude." - California Couple


"Extraordinarily helpful and well organized, both practical and thought provoking.  Well worth the time and money. We leave the experience enriched." - Arizona Couple


"This workshop has given me great hope for a lasting, loving relationship with my husband because of a major break through we had this weekend." - Canada Couple


 

FEEDBACK ABOUT THE BOOK FROM THE WORLD'S LEADING EXPERTS ON MARRIAGE AND RELATIONSHIPS:


“At last, a road map through Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy with its creator. Dr. Johnson’s superb science, humor, and clinical wisdom are finally accessible to all of us. I couldn’t pick a smarter, warmer, and more real guide for this journey.”
John Gottman, Ph.D.          

 

“A truly revolutionary, breakthrough book… the most important, valuable book for couples published in the 21st century.”
Barry McCarthy, Ph.D.          

 

“Sue Johnson [is] the most original contributor to couples therapy to come along in the last 30 years. This book will touch your heart, stimulate your mind, and give you practical strategies for improving your marriage.”

William J. Doherty, Ph.D.         


“Wonderful!…Hold Me Tight blends the best in research findings with practical suggestions from a caring and compassionate clinician. This fabulous book will be of great benefit…to couples trying to find their way to better communication and deeper, more fulfilling ways of being with each other. Bravo!”
Daniel J. Siegel, M.D.          

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