The Art of Relational Couples Therapy
Two Day Training for Therapists with Hedy Schleifer
Have you ever wished that you could ask an expert your pressing questions? Have you ever wished you could help your challenging couples experience more deeply the power and richness of their inherent connection?
Using live demonstrations, practice, processing of techniques and lecture, Hedy will lead you through a 2-day experience, in which you will learn in body, mind, and spirit, how to become an even more effective, more relaxed, and more joyful guide for couples.
During these two days with Hedy, you will have the opportunity to take your experience and skill as a relationship therapist to new heights. Hedy will be help you explore the questions about your work that you are constantly asking. She will help you grow your professional skills through your in-vivo experience of watching her weave new paradigms for assisting couples to connect. She will work with several couples, over the course of this two-day training. The couples will be challenging couples from the caseloads of the participants. You will have the unique opportunity to see how Hedy, a “master” therapist, handles “real-life” couples. With Hedy’s expert guidance, these couples will utilize a variety of processes that will enable them to enter into their next level of connection, full aliveness, and empathic bonding. Hedy will also describe and discuss her integration of the philosophy of Martin Buber, Imago Relationship Therapy, Appreciative Inquiry, Peer Co-Counseling, and relational Neuro-Biology. It is this unique integration that forms the frame for all her work.
HOURS: 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM both days
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At the end of this training, you will be able to:
- Summarize the basic principles of the Relational Paradigm, as distinct from the Individual Paradigm, in couple’s therapy.
- Describe the qualities of Relational Intelligence and Relational Maturity.
- Apply knowledge gained from demonstrations of relational work to develop Relational Intelligence and Relational Maturity with couples.
- Recognize the difference between content-focused versus process-focused couple’s therapy.
- Utilize well-delineated steps to guide a couple in a relationally focused manner.
- Practice relationally focused couple’s therapy in dyads.
Hedy, who often is called the “Therapist’s Therapist” bases her work on her 30+ years of experience as a clinical psychologist, on her 15+ years of experience training and supervising couples therapists worldwide, and on her almost 45 years of marriage. Her theoretical foundations are psychoanalytic and psychodynamic therapy, Imago Relationship Therapy, the relational philosophy of Martin Buber, Appreciative Inquiry, and the positive psychological approach of Re-evaluation Counseling. Hedy’s personal and professional identity has also been deeply affected by her rootedness in Jewish history and tradition.
In 2007, Hedy appeared on Israel TV as one of three therapists of renown in a series entitled “Couples Therapy”. In 2008, a documentary film was released entitled “Hedy and Yumi: Crossing the Bridge”, which showcases Hedy’s work with couples across cultures.
Today, Hedy travels extensively throughout the world bringing her passion and expertise in the “Art of Relationships” and “Conflict Dissolution” and “Relational Maturity” to many settings, spanning the mental health, healthcare, educational and corporate communities.
Hedy believes that world peace begins with the transformation of the human family, and can best be achieved by creating strong, committed and growing partnerships.
