• Discuss and demonstrate the specific steps of the Imago Dialogue and explain the rationale for structuring a couples’ interpersonal dialogue process.

• Discuss how Imago Dialogue ends symbiotic fusion between partners and how it facilitates healthy differentiation.

• Discuss and explain how Imago Therapy is grounded in the origins of Cosmic connections.

• Describe and explain how rupturing connections are unconscious ways to restore wholeness.

• Teach clients how to mirror, validate and empathize and will also be able to manage the challenges that come up when couples resist this structured listening process.

• Use sentence stems to maintain an atmosphere of safety during the Dialogue Process.

• Identify how the human brain evolved that allowed for it to make conscious decisions to assist one’s partner in their healing process.

• Describe the function of the polyvagal nerve as part of the human’s neuroception system to monitor one’s safety or danger.

• Describe why romantic love ends and intentional romantic behaviors and feelings can last a life-time.

• Describe the necessity of an adult love relationship holding space for respecting the different views of both partners.

• Explain to a couple how their relationship vision needs to include pleasurable activities, playfulness and behaviors that nurture their positive energies.

• Implement deepening exercises that lead toward each becoming a source of safety and a source of pleasure.

• Assess couples through a developmental lens, identify type of wound (attachment, exploration, identity and competence) as well as the corresponding defensive or adaptive style.

• Identify how developmental wounds and a partners’ childhood adaptations impact a couples’ current dynamic interplay with one another.

• Use Imago’s developmental model in a diagnosis and prescriptive manner.

• Create attuned and corrective experiences between partners to help heal deficits from their childhood.

• Describe to a couple why a "no-exit" decision or choice is vital for relationship repair and growth.

• Describe how the socialization process influences childhood adaptations and thus impacts mate selection and partner choice.

• Explain how deficits in nurturing impact a child's experience of wholeness and how they move toward repressing impulses of aliveness and then make adaptations that affect adult relationships.

• Help partners identify "lost parts" of themselves in each other and help them make behavior changes that will help each recover these missing parts.

• Explain the value of closing "exits" of escaping energy so couples can commit to the new images that are so vital to relationship repair and then lead them in a Commitment Dialogue.

• Describe and explain to a couple the necessity of re-imaging each other as having been wounded in childhood and then deepen the couples' awareness by using the Parent/Child Dialogue.

• Explain the value of touch in the couple’s relationship and then help them experiment with safe contact when appropriate, such as when doing a Caring Behavior Dialogue.

• Describe and direct a process of "re-visioning the relationship" to help couples develop a road map for their conscious relationship.

• Construct and facilitate a Behavior Change Request process in the office.

• Explain how and why of the Behavior Change Request Process and its benefits for a couple’s healing process.

• Describe why negative transactions don’t solve anything and will be able to teach the couple to translate their frustrations into doable requests for change.

• Explain the concept of “stretching” and why stretching beyond the adaptive self and reclaiming “lost” parts of the self is an integral part of wholeness for the self and the couple.

• Define and facilitate the steps of the Parent-Child Dialogue
• Explain the role of Re-imaging in Couples Therapy, and distinguish between Re-imaging and Re-visioning
• Utilize Imago interventions to deepen affect and emotional release
• Identify the projection process and unconscious recreation of familiar love in the adult love relationship

• Define the goals of the initial interview session, and practice guiding a couple through a basic Imago session and Imago Work-up
• Demonstrate the Holding Exercise and coach the appropriate application of the Holding Exercise.
• Explain the importance of touch in a couple relationship

• Describe the therapist’s role in facilitating a Dialogue session
• Define differentiation and explain how Dialogue facilitates differentiation
• Demonstrate deepening a Dialogue through sentences or doubling
• Explain how to creatively translate questions into sentence stems or lead lines

• Define the potential impact of emotional symbiosis on relationships and the underlying purpose of reactivity
• Describe the connection between unmet needs and reactive behavior
• Explain how stretching beyond one’s character adaptation frees energy and promotes growth.  Explain the duality between reactivity and vulnerability

• Define the steps of Behavior Change Request and practice how clients can translate frustration into positively stated, small, do-able requests for change
• Describe the unconscious challenges to change that can emerge when stretching beyond adaptations to meet a partner’s needs
• Identify growth edges as a therapist and create action plan to move towards meeting the challenge of that edge
• Identify one’s lost self and describe the value of reclaiming lost or undeveloped aspect of self
• Practice and demonstrate helping partners communicate inevitable frustrations to one another in healthy ways

• Define the powerful influences on the brain from childhood trauma affecting adult love relationships
• Explain and understand the unconscious goal of the following:  affairs, addictions in relationships, and  the unconscious use of issues in relationships
• Describe using Amends or Forgiveness as a commitment to move on in the relationship

• Define resistance in relational terms and identify ways to work with resistance with couples
• Identify the projection process and unconscious recreation of familiar love in adult love relationships
• Explain and understand why highly reactive couples are so afraid of connecting in loving ways, and the reason for coaching a couple in a positive triangle
• Explain the fear of touch in a reactive couple relationship

• Explain the concept of differentiation and how Imago Dialogue promotes it
• Identify ways of helping couples make connection during a session
• Utilize sentence stems to ride the waves of the Dialogue
• Describe the relational – in between – aspects of a couple as the dialogue see-saws between the partners
• Explain how the focus on deepening the emotional journey will both differentiate and then allow for real connection between the partners

• Describe issues couples from diverse backgrounds and cultures present
• Explain and describe the significance of modern world diversity
• Explain and understand  seminal relational issues seniors present, and some seminal issues families present
• Identify unconscious issues of race and racism embedded in cultures and thus in therapists
• Describe how one’s own racial unconscious beliefs may impact facilitating an Imago Dialogue  

• Prescribe the Goodbye Process to assist in grieving the loss of hopes and dreams of a relationship
• Identify a list of common ethical challenges that occur in treating a relationship
• Identify and describe common ethical challenges of keeping the frame for relationship therapy
• Describe the central ideas of Imago that a therapist might share with a couple to help them understand the Imago therapeutic process
• Compute feedback on their own work, keep developing their growth edge and take responsibility for their continuous learning as an Imago therapist
• Identify specific and key learnings In Imago and celebrate one’s own growth