The purpose of this workshop is to provide couples therapists with a paradigm that enables their clients to re-conceptualize conflict and gives them the tools to embrace, relish and resolve conflict. This experiential workshop will focus on transforming conflictual couple interactions into empathic, generative problem solving.

Based on many years of researching couple conflict from an evolutionary understanding of emotions, the workshop leader will help therapists learn and experience how to move from the perspective of the individual to the more complex perspective of the unit. To that end, therapists will discuss basic human emotions (those oriented towards individual survival) and managing these feelings in order to achieve mutual understanding as a couple. Therapists will learn how to help clients re-conceptualize seemingly opposite points of view into a productive complementary relationship. The workshop will utilize extensive role playing.

Faculty: Charles N. Jamison, Jr, PhD, is a psychologist who currently works at the advertising agency Footsteps as their Brand Strategy Director. He has been in advertising/market research for over twenty five years. Dr. Jamison has won awards for his contributions to strategic and creative development. He has also taught psychology at the University of the District of Columbia and been a group therapist for teens at halfway houses in a program funded by Washington DC.

Date: Friday, June 6, 2008
Time: 10 am to 4 pm
Tuition: $115
CE Credits: 5

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