Imago’s Course on Advanced Imago Skills Post Certification

Advanced Course, Course Level, Level 3

Brilliant at the Basics is a lively and interactive course of delving deeper into building our skills and deepening our processes of Dialogue. Stuck not using the Parent-Child Dialogue (and all those other great processes?)… time to get unstuck!

Our goal is that you leave this training with an expanded understanding of how and why to use different interventions at different times, and to support you in being creative within the structure of the dialogue process. We will sharpen your use of sentence stems and doubling to increase connection, safety, and forward movement with your couples.

Together we will clarify and deepen the essential theory pieces that help keep you calm and connected to your couples…yes, all your couples! As you master the Imago ‘Basics’ we will now add the skills to become ‘Brilliant’ and trust the depth of the Dialogue process even more.

Learning Objectives

• Expand your understanding of how and why to use different interventions and when
• Learn where to be creative within the structure of the dialogue process
• Sharpen your use of sentence stems and doubling to increase connection, safety, and forward movement with your couples
• Fine-tune the mandate for therapy in the first session and then later when evaluating progress according to the stated desires of the couple
• Clarify and deepen the essential theory pieces that help keep you calm and connected to your couples… ALL of your couples!
• Explore your beliefs about therapy with couples and their relationships
• Tools for deepening connection and “shallowing” affect are studied in more depth
• Increase your presence in your work with couples
• Deepen the dialogue process through advanced use and understanding of sentence stems, doubling, and focusing
• Apply and integrate the four “meta theories” of Imago with the deepening tools
• Explore when to utilize the Parent-Child Dialogue and other Imago processes
• Observe how, when, and why to best use each of the Imago processes