What is the Gottman Level 2 Training?

Building on what you learned in the Level 1 Training, you will review how to assess a couple’s Friendship Profile, Conflict Profile, and Shared Meaning Profile. You will be provided with a toolkit of interventions that couples can use as antidotes to the Four Horsemen and soothe physiological flooding. You will learn multiple ways of changing the Attack/Defend System in a couple’s interactions, and learn how to assist couples in establishing dialogue about their gridlocked conflicts.

You will learn how to select and implement interventions to help couples deepen their Friendship System with rituals of connection, select and implement interventions to help couples create a shared system of values and meaning, and identify and implement five different co-morbidities common to couples using Gottman assessments and interventions. Click here to read the full workshop outline. 

This training dives deep into the Gottman Method approach for treating complicated cases involving co-morbidities, including affairs, PTSD, addiction, and domestic violence and provides the most comprehensive and rich set of knowledge and tools to apply this method.

This training is for mental health providers, allied professionals and clergy, students and interns, family clinic staff, professors/teachers of couples therapy, researchers in the social sciences, and employee assistance professionals. Completion of Level 1 Training is required.

At the completion of this training, you will be able to: 

• Explain the basics of observation including why it’s important to recognize Emotions on the Human Face, Tension in the Voice, the Importance of Words and the use of the SPAFF coding system.
• Assess a couple’s “Friendship Profile,” “Conflict Profile,” and “Shared Meanings Profile.”
• Explain and demonstrate how to use the 3 profiles to choose appropriate interventions for the couple.
• Explain and demonstrate how to conduct an Oral History Interview.
• Describe the use of the core assessments using the online Gottman Connect website, explain it to your couples, download and read the couples and therapist report accurately so you can conduct the feedback session.
• Select and implement interventions to help couples deepen their “Friendship System” with Rituals of Connection.
• Identify and formulate a plan for different co-morbidities common to couples using Gottman Method Couples Therapy Assessment and Intervention.
• Describe how to apply Gottman Method Couples Therapy to a couple who has experienced an affair.
• Describe when it is appropriate and inappropriate to use Gottman Method Couples Therapy with a couple dealing with substance abuse.
• Describe the differences between situational and characterological domestic violence and when it is appropriate and inappropriate to use Gottman Method Couples Therapy with a couple dealing with domestic violence.