PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

 



DESCRIPTION OF WORKSHOP

This workshop for therapists -TURNING FIGHTS INTO INTIMATE CONVERSATIONS - presents Collaborative Couple Therapy. Its goal is to enable participants to:

1. Become each partner's spokesperson, scriptwriter, and advocate.

2. Turn problems into moments of intimacy.

3. Use fights as entry points into conversations that can expand the relationship.

4. Recognize pathological behavior as a default position that people fall back on when they are unable to get themselves across.

5. Bring out what each partner is struggling with in a way that gets everyone empathizing.

6. Find ways to empathize with the less likeable partner.

7. Become more conversant with their self-talk during couple therapy.

8. Deal with couple gridlock by re-assembling the relationship on the next higher level.

9. Recognize the subtle pejorative attitude that can easily creep into our work with clients.

10. Substitute loss of voice for resistance as the key psychopathological concept

 

The Major Elements of the Workshop:

POSITIONS. In order to do couple therapy you need a position: a way to make sense of the flood of material coming at you and a plan for how to intervene. Dan lists common positions as an introduction to describing his own.

THEORY OF RELATIONSHIPS. Dan uses a fight with his partner to lay out his theory of relationships and the couple therapy approach that emerges out of it.

LIVE DEMONSTRATION WITH VIDEO ANALYSIS. Using volunteers from the audience to role-play the partners, Dan demonstrates his therapeutic approach, followed by a video replay in which he describes the rationale behind each intervention.

THE THERAPIST'S INNER DIALOGUE. Using volunteers from the audience to help him read from a prepared script, Dan describes the conversation he has with himself while doing couple therapy. We see here the hidden tempestuous life of the therapist.

THE SOURCE OF THE PARTNERS' PROBLEM is loss of voice - the inability to express what they feel or even recognize fully what it is. Partners take these feelings that make them uneasy and sweep them under the rug or turn them into something the other is doing wrong - that is, they avoid or blame.

THE TASK OF THERAPY is to turn the couple's avoidant or angry interaction into an intimate conversation by discovering the missing heartfelt feelings and creating a joint platform (re-assembling the relationship on the next higher level).

THE PARTNERS' INNER DIALOGUES. A clue to the partners' missing heartfelt feelings is in their inner dialogues - what they say to themselves while talking to each other. A task of therapy is to bring out these inner dialogues.

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WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA

Berkeley, CA March 26, 2010, Friday, 9am-4pm. JFK University, Berkeley Campus. Phone (800) 557-1384. Website www.jfku.edu/ce. You may also register at the door.


OUTSIDE THE BAY AREA.

Portland, OR. Trainer is Nan Narboe who has taught with Dan since the 80s, and brings him to Portland two to three times a year. Nan's ongoing CCT training group meets from 1pm to 4pm on the last Friday of the month, September through June. Limited to those who have taken Dan's 6 hour introductory workshop or studied his cd of the workshop. Contact her for information (503-516-5832 or Nan@nannarboe.com ). 

Denton, TX. Feb 19, 2010.Texas Woman's University. Sponsored by the Federation of North Texas Area Universities. Register online @ http://www.twu.edu/ce

Fayetteville, Arkansas. May 14, 2010. Fayetteville Towne Center, 15 West Mountain Street, Fayettevile, Arkansas. Sponsored by Psychologists of Northwest Arkansas and Arkansas Psychological Association. For information drscottmccarty@yahoo.com.

 

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MONTHLY TRAINING MEETINGS

These meetings, which are held in three San Francisco Bay Area locations, provide continuing training in Collaborative Couple Therapy. Each meeting lasts three hours and has three parts:

1. Didactic. An aspect of Collaborative Couple Therapy is presented.

2. Case Consultation. Participants who wish to do so present couple cases for consultation. Emphasis will be on the aspect just discussed
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3. Demonstration and Practice. One of these cases will be chosen for role-play demonstration. Dan, and any of the participants who wish to, play the part of the couple therapist, followed by a video replay in  which the therapist elucidates his or her inner dialogue, with particular emphasis on the organizing issue of the session.


Schedule

Oakland, California, 9:15am-12:15pm, Saturdays
Feb 27, 2010; Mar 27, 2010.

Sebastopol, California, 2-5pm, Fridays
Feb 26, 2010; April 2, 2010; May 7, 2010

Palo Alto, California, 9:30am-12:30pm, Saturdays.
Feb 20, 2010; March 13, 2010

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CEUs

California MFTs and LCSWs. Apfelbaum-Wile Seminars (AWS) is approved by the Board of Behavioral Sciences to provide continuing education for Marriage and Family Therapists and Licensed Clinical Social Workers (provider #PCE 8). The one-day workshop meets the qualification for 6 CEUs, the two-day workshop for 12, and each continuing training session for 3. At some of the workshops, CEUs will be provided through the host's provider number. Email Dan for particulars.

MCEP credit. Email Dan to find out which of the California workshops and continuing training meetings provide MCEP credit, through which sponsoring organization, and whether the course has been approved or just submitted for approval.

 

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TWO DAY INTENSIVE TRAINING IN COLLABORATIVE COUPLE THERAPY

Oakland, CA. April 9-10, 2010 (Fri-Sat), May 1-2, 2010 (Sat-Sun), and June 5-6, 2010 (Sat-Sun). Dan will be meeting with a small group of people (maximum of 8). Featured will be role-play couple interactions with participant taking turns being the therapist (with Dan commenting). This training focuses on the principle tasks of collaborative couple therapy: helping partners find their voice, turning fights into intimate conversations, creating a couple platform, empathizing with the less likeable partner, and appealing to partners as consultants in dealing with the problems that arise in the therapy. Ceus will be provided. $500 ($300 for students and interns). Contact Dan 510-654-7390 or dan@danwile.com.

ACCREDITATION - 12 CE Credits/Hours sponsored by R. Cassidy Seminars

Psychologists R. Cassidy Seminars is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. R. Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for this program. (12) hours.

Social Workers: Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)-R. Cassidy Seminars, provider #1082, is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (www.aswb.org, phone-(800) 225-6880), through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. R. Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for the program. Social workers will receive (12) continuing education clock hours in participating in this course. CA: Course meets the qualifications for (12) hours of continuing education credit for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, Provider #PCE418.

Counselors: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the National Board for Certified Counselors to offer continuing education for certified counselors. We adhere to NBCC continuing education guidelines. Provider #5633. (12) hours.

Marriage and Family Therapists CA: Course meets the qualifications for (12) hours of continuing education credit for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, Provider #PCE418.

 

 

 

 

 

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