Cocreative Couples: From Power Struggle to Passion and Aliveness
Would you like to work with couples, but find relationship work intimidating, confusing, overwhelming?
This course will introduce you to a groundbreaking, clear, effective framework for your work with any couple, and provide you with tools you can immediately apply in your sessions. Dr. Colwell will outline how couples' reactivity takes them immediately into hierarchy and the knottiness of power struggle, and how their natural collaboration and connection can come back online as they can shift their own physiology.
Course Objectives
Outline the physiological impact of reactivity on the ability to function well in a relationship, and similarly how shifting out of that reactivity opens the door to intimacy and connection
Utilize the "inner map" in understanding human functioning. apply that knowledge to clients' behavior, especially in relationships
Apply the power over/power under/power with checklist with individuals and couples; utilize this checklist in formulating a path forward with the couple
Topic(s)
Couples
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Psychologist
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