Brilliant at the Basics

Brilliant at the Basics is a deeply engaging, interactive advanced training that moves you from competence to artistry in the practice of Imago Relationship Therapy. Through demonstrations, focused skill practice, and real-time feedback, you’ll strengthen your use of core Dialogue elements—sentence stems, doubling, and mirroring—while learning to adapt and integrate interventions with confidence and precision. The training revisits essential Imago theory elements that ground your clinical presence, helping you stay regulated, empathically connected, and guided by the relational space itself.

Over the course of this immersive experience, you’ll explore “The Four Journeys,” discover new ways to incorporate psychoeducation seamlessly, and use advanced tools such as The Connection Circle to open deeper pathways to healing even in the first session. Organized as a therapeutic journey from the beginning to the end of therapy, this training supports you in accessing your personal brilliance, sharpening your empathic authority, and growing toward Imago Master-level practice.

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After this training, you will be able to:​

• Demonstrate the ability to flexibly adapt core Imago Dialogue structures (e.g., sentence stems, mirroring, doubling) and integrate additional interventions while maintaining a coherent Imago therapeutic frame.

•  Assess one’s own clinical strengths as an Imago therapist and develop a plan to expand and intentionally use these strengths to deepen safety, connection, and change in couple sessions.

• Explain the importance of maintaining a structured relationship-focused practice routine and identify at least two ways to stay focused on the relational space between couples. 

• Practice utilizing “The Open Window of Opportunity” in the very first session.

• Identify and practice clinical skills that influence and deepen a couples connection in therapy and describe at least two interventions to enhance engagement during Imago Dialogue sessions.

• Identify and choose the interventions that are appropriate in relation to the couple’s needs from moment to moment.

• Demonstrate at least two dialogue interventions that reliably deepen emotional connection between partners in session.

• Apply learning how to make the mental gearshift into vulnerability and intimate listening.

• Interpret and read the nervous system to facilitate the dialogue and mirroring in an attuned way.

• Identify and implement at least two clinical strategies to establish emotional safety and readiness for connection when beginning a session with a couple as all interventions are part of the Dialogue process.

• Utilize the tools of sentence stems, doubling, expanded doubling, mirroring styles.

• Identify and apply at least two focusing‑based techniques to help partners notice, name, and integrate their bodily experience within the Imago Dialogue.

• Demonstrate to teach the couple how to validate properly. 

• Integrate weaving in parent-child dialog during the flow of imago dialogue.

• Assess their own therapist skill level and identify two areas for future growth as an Imago Therapist.

• Practice working with lost self and unmet needs through the behavior change request dialogue.

• Recognize when a new, more constructive relational story is emerging in Imago Dialogue and apply at least two consolidation strategies (e.g., summarizing, future‑oriented linking, home practice) to help the couple stabilize it.

• Demonstrate and learn how to work with competence and Identity through dialogical narrative structures.

This training is intended for Imago Therapists, Imago Professional Facilitators and therapists in general at the advanced level.

CUE Management Solutions, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CUE Management Solutions, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

CUE Management Solutions, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed. psychologists #PSY-0242.

Participants can earn 24 CE credits upon successful completion of this training. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

Please note: While APA CE credits are widely accepted, participants should verify with their specific state licensing board to ensure these credits meet their continuing education requirements.

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Imago Relationships North America (IRNA) serves as an administrative sponsor for this training by providing application processing, registration, and logistical support. All decisions regarding eligibility, admission, successful completion, and any certification or designation as a Workshop Presenter are made solely by Imago International Training Institute (IITI) and the course faculty. IRNA does not grant or guarantee any certification or professional credential.

By registering for this course, you acknowledge that IRNA’s role is administrative only and that IITI and course faculty are solely responsible for admission, evaluation, and certification decisions.

_{Registration cancellations made up to 30 days prior to the start of the course (the date of the first live class) will be refunded in full (less transaction fees). Cancellations made between 30 days and 1 week prior to the start of the course will be refunded minus a $50 administrative fee. Cancellations made less than one week prior to the start of the course will be refunded minus a $100 administrative fee. No refunds will be given for cancellations after the first live class. All cancellations, questions, and concerns can be submitted to info@imagorelationshipswork.com.}  

_{IRNA strives for full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), by being committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodations for participants with disabilities.}

_{Prior to the beginning of the program, any known conflict of interest or commercial support will be disclosed. In the case where there is no known conflict of interest or commercial support, this will be made evident also. Information concerning conflicts of interest and commercial support is also disclosed via promotional materials that are made available to any potential participants prior to registration for the course.}