Find the Best Balance Between Attunement & Structure!
TRANSFORM YOUR IMAGO WORK
Deepen Your Clinical Skills
As therapists we expect a little chaos. However, there are couples who just seem to challenge us every step of the way. Even when resistance and reactivity center on the dialogue itself, we can track energy with skill, empathy and compassion, moving couples toward connection, replacing negativity with positivity and affirmation!
From an Imago perspective, anxiety is at the core of all relational challenges. Anxiety causes clients to react to their partner in unconscious, hurtful, and destructive ways, and it causes clients to be very resistant to the counseling process. Anxiety in the therapist also causes unconscious reactivity and resistance to the counseling process. This course challenges the traditional understanding of resistance and reframes it as an indication of something much deeper—Terror.
Taught from the perspective of the relational paradigm and Imago Relationship Theory, this course employs a combination of interactive lectures, personal writing exercises, role plays, and demonstrations. This course challenges the participants to identify our own reactivity. It explores when and how that shows up in the counseling session sabotaging the entire counseling process - and leaving us with a terrible emotional residue!
- Recognize those couples who present a personal ‘challenge’ and how to use inner attunement and embodied presence, to stay present and available when challenged.
- Explore and develop an awareness of negative attachment and developmental cycles through the use of Imago work-up/core scene with couples
- Identify where clients are developmentally and respond appropriately in response to what may be surfacing with regard to unmet needs.
- Understand emotion from the perspective of connection and disconnection, and the polarities of joy and anxiety
- Explore interventions to assist the couple to move toward each other, co-regulating affect and moving into safety and joy.
- Learn to use safety, pacing and understanding of the dynamic cycle underlying the core struggles between maximizer and minimizer.
- Understand the needs and emotions driving the power struggle and the defended sel from an attachment and developmental lens
- Explore how to work with the negative cycles using dialogue, the relationship vision and the Imago workup.
With Colleagues...
- Explore how countertransference works in couples work and ways to stay consciously present with ourselves so we can stay consciously attuned to our clients in session
- Learn how attunement, compassion, validation, and empathy in the therapy session can empower highly reactive couples to step into loving long-lasting, fulfilling love relationships
- This course employs findings from the research in neurosciences, attachment theory, mindfulness, and most importantly - Imago Relationship Theory!
INTRODUCING
The Attuned Therapist
Take Your Imago Couples Work To The Next Level!
Deepen your trust in the dialogue process in this powerful Advanced Course, you will learn how to:
- Identify your own reactivity patterns
- Deepen your understanding of countertransference and anxiety - including how to work with these forces
- Identify pitfalls to avoid with highly reactive or highly resistant couples
This advanced workshop will increase both your competence and confidence in your work!
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NICE TO MEET YOU
I'm Michelle Bohls.
I have been a self-professed Impostor, struggling with extreme self-doubt. After professional experiences I would often feel pretty solid at first, but over time my mind would slowly question my competency. "Was it good? Really? You probably could have done more - or less!" You get the idea. These doubts would eventually convince me that I was an Impostor.
Once I learned to see beyond the reactivity and resistance, I was able to settle down and trust the process. Whew! I stop being so hard on myself. I am so happy you will get to experience The Attuned Therapist.
