Join Dr. Wendy Palmer Patterson and Dr. Kalanit Ben-Ari
*Imago Advanced Training Course: The Attuned Therapist*
Saturday May 10 - Monday May 12, 2025
9:30am - 5:30 pm
Early bird until January 15th, £500.
Full price £550.
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 counselling process. Anxiety in the therapist also causes unconscious reactivity and resistance to the counselling 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 play, and demonstrations.
Learning Objectives:
In this course, participants will learn to...
Define and recognise couples who present a clinical challenge
Define attunement and its clinical implications
Explain the significance of anxiety
Define the Relational Paradigm
Review the unique role of the Imago therapist
Identify their own personal reactive behaviours both inside & outside the office
Review the importance of interacting dialogically with their couples
Discuss and learn new and different applications of the validation step of the dialogue
Name the role anxiety plays in the therapist and learn clinical skills for staying present when anxious
Discuss and illustrate the importance of being the lead energy or leading with “empathic authority”
Identify couples at the first four developmental stages
Identify and review the developmental needs and how they present in adult intimate relationships
Plan how to use clinical attunement skills learned to target these relational needs of couples
Review the psychological journey’s importance in the relational paradigm
List five interventions to support safe sending and five interventions to support attuned and connected receiving
Utilize sentence stems that support positive, forward moving growth with couples
Please Visit the Kalanit’s Website for more information and to register.