Imago Clinical Training Will Help You:
- Feel more competent, confident, relaxed, and joyful in your work with couples.
- Understand the unconscious dynamics behind why couples are drawn to each other — and why conflict naturally arises.
- Guide couples to uncover the root patterns fueling disconnection and repeated conflict.
- Teach couples to communicate safely and consciously, reducing blame, shame, and criticism.
- Help couples heal together, strengthen their connection, and work as a team.
- Expand their relational skills so they can create the relationship they’ve always longed for.
- Deepen your own self-awareness of your core relationship patterns.
Level One: Core Clinical Training
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An intensive, interactive experience grounded in Imago theory and practice.
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A lively, supportive learning community with plenty of encouragement and connection.
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Hands-on practice to integrate theory and master key Imago skills.
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Engaging learning materials: videos, live demonstrations, readings, and real-life dialogue practice.
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Tuition: $3,000 (payment plans and scholarships available)
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CEUs available.
Level Two: Supervision & Certification
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Six monthly group consultation/supervision sessions to help you integrate your new clinical skills ($100 each; $600 total).
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Requirement to prepare and pass a final videotape of your work ($195).
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Completion of Level Two qualifies you to become a Certified Imago Therapist!
Standardized Learning Objectives for Imago Clinical Training, Module 1
Lesson 1
- View, conceptualize and discuss their clients and couples through the lens of the relational paradigm.
- Explain why an increase in positive exchanges between committed partners is important.
- Identify needs that underlie a partner’s current frustrations with one another.
- Facilitate partner’s understanding of how the past influences the present.
Lesson 2
- Discuss the specific steps of the Imago Dialogue and explain the rationale for structuring a couples’ interpersonal dialogue process.
- Facilitate a dialogical process between partners.
- Define and discuss the role of healthy differentiation in a committed, intimate partnership.
- Describe and explain how the rupture and repair of the emotional bond between partners strengthens resilience.
Lesson 3
- Manage the challenges that arise when couples resist a structured listening process.
- Use sentence stems to maintain an atmosphere of safety during the dialogue process.
- Distinguish between the reptilian brain, the limbic system and the prefrontal cortex and be able to describe the role the brain plays in emotional co-regulation between partners.
- Discuss the role of mindfulness in conscious, intimate and committed partnerships.
Lesson 4
- Describe the importance of intentional romantic behavior and pleasurable activities in marital outcomes.
- Describe the necessity of right brain, non-verbal communication in adult love relationships
- Explain the role of human touch in a securely attached marital relationship.
- Explain and discuss the role of playfulness and spontaneous play behavior in restoring safe, emotional bonds.
Lesson 5
- Assess a couple through a developmental lens, identifying each partners’ core wound and adaptive style.
- Identify how developmental wounds and childhood adaptations impact marital dynamics.
- Describe how a corrective emotional experience between partners helps marital/individual health and satisfaction.
- Explain why the dialogue process is a corrective emotional experience.
Lesson 6
- Name two ways that children are wounded in childhood.
- Describe how the socialization process in childhood influences adaptation and mate selection.
- Explain why partners’ unmet needs provide clues to a blueprint for growth.
- Discuss and illustrate how to transform marital power struggles.
Lesson 7
- Define and explain re-imaging and why it is an initial task in couples’ therapy.
- Describe and direct a process of revisioning the relationship.
- Name 7 tasks of a conscious love relationship.
- Explain why commitment between partners may be essential to marital improvement and happiness.
Lesson 8
- Explain why frustration between partners is an important effect to address between partners.
- Demonstrate how couples can translate their frustrations into small, specific requests for change.
- Give an illustration of “stretching” and how stretching facilitates a sense of greater wholeness and aliveness.
- Describe how and why change happens in small, specific and behavioral actions.
Standardized Agenda for each 4-hour lesson:
0:00 – 0:50 lecture of the day
0:50 – 1:00 Q & A
1:00 – 2:00 small groups of 3 to 4 in break out rooms
2:00 – 3:00 reading and viewing video
3:00 – 4:00 taking a quiz, answering discussion questions and journaling.