The Journey of Change

After this training, participants will be able to:

1. List the nine relational and intrapersonal shifts that support lasting change in couple’s therapy.
2.  Explain how a Behavior Change Request Dialogue can be used to support the transition from insight to sustained behavioral change.
3. Facilitate an Imago dialogue that helps partners identify and interrupt a recurring negative interaction pattern.
4. Differentiate certainty-based positions from curiosity-based responses within couple interactions.
5. Apply strategies that shift partners from emotional reactivity to intentional, chosen responses in dialogue.
6. Transform partner blame into self-reflective, self-responsible statements that identify personal needs, contributions, and defenses.
7. Identify signs of symbiosis or fusion in couples and implement interventions that support differentiation.
8. Restructure complaints and generalized criticism into specific, respectful, actionable behavior-change requests.
9.  Use Imago dialogue processes to help partners clearly express wants, needs, and desired behavioral changes.
10.  Reframe negative interaction cycles by helping partners identify strengths, resources, and possibilities for new relational responses.
11.  Analyze individual partner frustrations as components of a reciprocal, co-created relational dance.
12.  Identify common defensive postures that interfere with safety, connection, and behavioral change in couple’s therapy.
13. Select verbal and nonverbal interventions that promote emotional safety, connection, and co-regulation between partners.
14.  Explain how childhood experiences and attachment-based narratives can shape present-day reactions and relationship patterns.
15. Guide partners in constructing a more cohesive adult narrative that integrates early-life experiences with current relational realities.
16. Translate an adult narrative and future relationship vision into specific, observable new behaviors through therapeutic enactment and rehearsal.
17. Develop a case formulation that integrates the couple’s relational dance, defensive postures, attachment narratives, and change goals.
18. Identify ways the therapist’s own character structure, assumptions, or defensive responses may unintentionally interfere with therapeutic effectiveness.
19. Develop a professional growth plan identifying specific practices, consultation supports, and learning resources for continued integration of Imago interventions.
20.  Evaluate a couple’s readiness, barriers, and supports for maintaining new relational behaviors between therapy sessions.

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.

CUE Management Solutions, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0925.

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: Participants should verify with their specific state licensing board to ensure these credits meet their continuing education requirements.

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.}  

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_{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.}