What is the Gottman Level 1 Training?

This practical, emotion-focused, and highly effective couples therapy approach is based on Drs. John and Julie Gottman's four decades of research with more than 3,000 couples, creating the most extensive study ever done on marital stability and divorce prediction.

In this workshop, you will be provided with a research-based roadmap for helping couples compassionately manage their conflicts, deepen their friendship and intimacy, and share their life purpose and dreams based on the Sound Relationship House Theory.

You will be introduced to Dr. Gottman’s breakthrough research on thousands of couples to understand the difference between the “Masters” and “Disasters” of relationships. If you are not already doing assessment, this training will teach you how to assess a relationship’s strengths and areas of concern using empirically validated questionnaires.

You will learn research-based strategies and tools to help couples successfully manage conflict. You will gain skills to empower partners to dialogue about their worst gridlocked issues by uncovering their underlying dreams, history, and values. You will gain tools to help couples process fights and heal their hurts, and techniques for partners to deepen their intimacy and minimize relapse. Click here to read the full workshop outline. 

Training Objectives

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

• Summarize the research that allows us to predict future relationship stability.
• Describe the seven levels of the Sound Relationship House Theory.
• Conduct a couple’s therapy assessment using elements of the couple’s narrative, the Oral History Interview, written questionnaires, conflict sample and individual interviews.
• Create a therapeutic contract with a couple, discuss and decide on goals and include a summary of the couples strengths and areas that need improvement.
• Describe the Philosophy of Therapy and including assumptions, overview of techniques and goals of therapy.
• Describe two interventions to help strengthen a couple’s conflict management.
• Describe two interventions to enhance a couple’s friendship system.
• Describe two interventions to explore a couple’s system of shared meaning.
• Explain why physiological self-soothing is essential for a healthy relationship.
• Recognize and intervene effectively with the Four Horsemen of the Ac
• Describe the process of therapy, including the structure of a session.