Giving and Receiving Love

Presented by Sophie Slade and Ian Tomlinson

Transform your practice by mastering the art of healing connection

Are you ready to take your couples therapy skills to the next level? This profound three-day advanced training will equip you with powerful tools to help couples break through their barriers to giving and receiving love.

Why do we struggle with connection?

"Why is it we say we want to be intimate but behave in ways that totally shatter intimacy?"

Discover how the fundamental pulse of giving and receiving affects every relationship, and why couples get stuck in patterns that block this natural flow. Learn to identify and work with:

The neurobiology of connection and trust

How the survival imperative inhibits our ability to give love to others
How childhood wounds create barriers to receiving love

The unconscious collusion that maintains disconnection

The body's role in vulnerability and emotional attunement

The reciprocal flow of giving and receiving and how it manifests in the sexual relationship

What You'll Learn:

DAY ONE: Giving Love

• how developmental experiences create the software and hardware of giving and receiving love
• Personal exploration of  strengths and challenges in giving love personally and professionally
• How to work with clients to support them moving beyond the terrors of giving the love their partner wants
• How to transforming criticism into vulnerability and connection
• The neurobiology of emotional connection
• Self-hatred and the origins of shame
• Practical dialogues for helping couples reveal themselves

DAY TWO: Receiving Love

• Why it feels safer to die than be loved.
• Personal exploration of strengths and challenges in receiving love personally and professionally
• how to work with clients who block themselves from receiving the love they crave.
• Dialogues to help clients move through the unconscious collusion that blocks change
• Experiential body work with postures

DAY THREE: The reciprocal flow of giving and receiving

• Advanced Behaviour Change Request techniques
• Sexuality - giving and receiving with the body
• Holding the tension between the needs for safety and novelty
• Working skillfully with sexuality
• Creating sustainable intimacy

Who Should Attend:

This advanced training is designed for:

Certified Imago Relationship Therapists and trainees who have taken The Foundation Training and Clinical Skills Part 1 of the Imago Relationship Therapy training course

Dates: 8th-10th November, 9.30am - 5pm
Location: The Village Hotel, Cheadle, Stockport
Investment: £575

Payment can be made in full or by instalments. The instalment plan would be a deposit of £175 and then four monthly payments of £100.

Please note, the payment is made to the Imago UK, not Ian Tomlinson, so take good account of the banking details.

How To Pay

Payment to Imago UK bank account

Account number: 00951102

Sort Code: 30-90-24

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