When:
August 2 and 3, 2008
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Where:
Arden Hills Resort Club & Spa
1220 Arden Hills Lane
Sacramento, CA95845
Cost:
Early Registration: $600.00
Standard Registration: $650.00

Who Should Attend
Research shows that on average, couples wait six years from the first signs of problems before they seek help. This workshop is designed to strengthen your marriage or relationship. If you have a strong relationship, this workshop will provide you with insights and tools to make it a great one. If your relationship is distressed, this two-day workshop will provide a road map for repair.

What You'll Learn
At the workshop, couples will learn how to:

• Foster respect, affection, and closeness
  
• Build and share a deeper connection with each 
  other's inner world 
  
• Keep conflict discussions calm
  
• Break through and resolve conflict gridlock
  
• Strengthen and maintain the gains in your
  relationship 

The Workshop Program
John Gottman, Ph.D., has learned what really makes marriages work by studying and following over 3,000 couples in 30 years of research. John Gottman together with Dr Julie Schwartz Gottman, the Clinical Director of both The Gottman Institute and The Gottman Relationship Clinic, has designed this workshop presented by Gottman Certified Couples Workshop Leaders to teach you how to foster romance and harmony in your relationships.

During the first day, you will learn how to build fondness, admiration, and closeness in your relationship. On the second day, you'll work on conflict management while learning new and important communication skills.

In the workshop, there will be many humorous stories and role-plays by Gottman Certified Couples Workshop Leaders.  Couples work privately on exercises designed to address the challenges in their real-life relationship. Gottman therapists are available to support couples one-on-one with exercises.  There is no group work or public disclosure.

At the end of the workshop you will leave with a greater understanding of your relationship and the skills to repair or enhance it.

Workshop Topics

1. The five basic questions

• How is your marriage/relationship doing?
• What makes relationships change, for better or for worse?
• If your marriage is in trouble, how can you turn it around?
• If your marriage is doing well, how can you ensure that your relationship will continue to grow?
• As your relationship improves, how can you make changes last?

2. Assessing your marriage

• Learn to recognize the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and what to do if they are attacking your marriage.
• Identify your relationship's specific strengths and how to build on these.
• Learn about the effects of physiological flooding and how it may impede conflict resolution.
• Learn the small, easy steps that increase romance in your relationship.
  

3. Building a "Sound Relationship House"

• Learn how Love Maps provide a solid foundation for intimacy.
• Use the Fondness and Admiration System to renew respect and care for one another.
• Create an Emotional Bank Account that you can draw upon in times of stress. Develop your problem-solving skills, including the four techniques of effective conflict regulation: Softened Start-up, Accepting Influence, Repair Work, and De-escalation.

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Find out how you can make your dreams and aspirations come true  for you, your partner, and your relationship.

Register Online or call (916) 447-9007

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Nina Grueneberger is a Certified Gottman Method Couples Therapist.  She is also a Board Certified Diplomate through the National Association of Social Workers. Nina has an extensive background in the mental health field for 20+ years where she has taught couples  counseling courses, supervised interns, and has worked with groups, individuals, families, and couples. She has a successful  private practice in Sacramento, California where her main focus is on helping her clients have healthier relationships with themselves, their significant others, and their environments.

Lynda Voorhees is a Certified Gottman Method Couples Therapist.  She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a successful private practice in Menlo Park, California. Working with couples  was sparked by years of dealing with  family members in substance abuse treatment programs. She is also a Certified Addiction Specialist and is collaborating with the Director for the Center for Couples in Recovery at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto CA, to apply the Gottman Method to groups for couples in the early, middle, and late stages of recovery from substance abuse. Lynda’s 30 year career includes teaching  at the graduate psychology level, and providing training  and consultation to business leaders, professionals and community members on a variety of topics.

Lloyd Campbell is a Certified Gottman Method Couples Therapist. With his interest in marriage and family work,
Dr. Campbell has been an advisor to preschools, elementary schools, and has taught elementary and junior high school as well as being a counselor for junior high and high school students, and a head resident at Alma College. Lloyd has maintained a successful marriage  counseling practice for 27 years. He is also a college professor and has taught undergraduate and graduatelevel courses at Indiana University, University of Louisville,  California State University, San Bernardino, and San Diego State University.