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Part 2: Magic Moments in Couples Therapy

Session #: 710-308
Presenter(s): Pat Love
Session Length: 2 hr. 00 min.
Event: 2010 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium
Date: March 25-28, 2010

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Positive emotion is the marker for the salience that's essential to trigger change in couples who are emotionally wired to expect conflict and disappointment. In this workshop, you'll learn a method for helping couples find "limbic resonance" together--experience profound moments of emotional connection in sessions--which actually begins to rewire their brains to expect and attract more such positive experiences from each other. We'll discuss how to create contracts with couples that force both of them to articulate what they want and also reveal the emotional blocks standing in their way. You'll learn how to structure dialogues and exercises that can create relationship-altering moments in therapy, as well as homework techniques that increase the probability that these changes can be maintained outside the session. (This session will continue with Workshop 308.)

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