WORKSHOPS
Transform Your Relationship, Transform Your Life
Discover the tools to create a secure, fulfilling, and deeply connected relationship. Our workshops provide a supportive space for couples to strengthen their bond through practical, science-backed exercises and guided conversations.
Learn to:
🗹 Communicate authentically and resolve conflicts effectively.
🗹 Repair emotional disconnects and build lasting trust.
🗹 Deepen intimacy and create meaningful shared traditions.
Whether enhancing your connection or overcoming challenges, these workshops empower you to build the love and partnership you’ve always dreamed of.
Building A Lasting Connection®: One Step At a Time
WORKSHOP FOR COUPLES
Building A Lasting Connection®: One Step At a Time is an interactive program that weaves attachment and experiential learning into one course that provides an actual connection system – a systematic way to communicate for closeness on topics that matter: decision making, differences, affection and sexual intimacy, exploring roles and developing goals. When we don’t know how to communicate for closeness in our intimate relationships, feelings go underground and show up in ways that amplify disappointments, cause turmoil and relational stress.
The objective of the workshop is to teach couples, within an active and practice-based setting, how to create and preserve a foundation of secure attachment in their relationships.
I will guide you through some practical reflections and conversations on:
Attachment - The Universal Need for Connection
Communicating for Connection
Managing Differences
Physical Connection
Shared Goals-–Building Traditions and Rituals
With a new understanding of science, theory and practice, couples will:
Achieve a greater understanding of what “romantic love is” and how to maintain and grow it.
Learn how to communicate in a more full, authentic, deep and meaningful manner to navigate differences, solve problems together, remove relationships blocks and turn around conflict
Increase intimacy and create common rituals, traditions and common goals for securing their bond and creating a lasting relationship.
Hold Me Tight®
WORKSHOP FOR COUPLES
Hold Me Tight® Workshop for COUPLES was created by Dr. Sue Johnson, the founder of EFT – emotional focused therapy based, based on scientific couple interventions validated in over 20 outcome studies demonstrating long term positive results.
During the practical workshop partners are guided through a series of facilitated reflections and conversations to increase their capacity to cooperate around key issues, discuss difficult topics, repair connection after rupture or hurts, create more secure and connected relationships.
Partners go through 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 how 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 stories, ideas, and exercises, based on the science of love, the wisdom of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT) and the clinical experience of Dr. Sue Johnson are meant to create a more secure bond and a lasting relationships.
Hold Me Tight Let Me Go®
WORKSHOP FOR PARENTS & TEENS
The Hold Me Tight® Let Me Go Program is based on EFT - Emotionally Focused Therapy originated by Dr. Sue Johnson. In this program, we seek to free up what has blocked the caregivers’ wired-in capacity to provide protection and nurturance. We also seek to help adolescents restore their trust so they can more safely reach for care and nurturance when needed.
This program:
offers a supportive and enriching environment for families navigating the challenges of adolescence.
empowers families to deepen their connections, foster understanding, and build resilience during this pivotal stage of life.
helps families to take control of rigid patterns and clarify emotional signals about needs and fears in a way that encourages family members to respond with openness, accessibility, responsiveness and emotional engagement.
Through a series of facilitated reflections and conversations, parents and teens learn effective communication skills, strengthen bonds, and develop strategies to navigate conflicts and transitions together:
Understanding the Caregiving Attachment System and Co-Caregiving Alliance
Conversation 1: Caregiving Attachment and Alliance: Demon Dialogues – Parents’ [parent’s only]
Safety, Secure Bonding, and Family
Conversation 2: Family Bonding and Security Priming [parents with children]
How Love Goes Wrong
Conversation 3: What Drives Demon Dialogues? [parents with children]
Separate Adolescent and Caregiver/Parent Groups and Teen Groups
Conversation 4: Peer Support: Separate Parent and Adolescent/Adult Children Groups
Reconnecting the Attachment and Caregiving Systems
Conversation 5: Hold Me Tight, Family Style [parents with children]