Description
Webinar: SOLUTION FOCUSED COUPLES THERAPY: a Brief and Effective way to Work with Couples
(2 CPD Points)
Guest Speaker: Elliott Connie
Date: 13 July 2022
Time: 16h00 – 18h00
Online via Zoom: Join us from the convenience of your laptop, cellphone or tablet.
Price: R400-00
Can’t make it? Register anyway, we will send you a video link of the webinar recording and you still get your CPD points.
CPD Certificate: Complete a short multiple choice Q&A Form to receive your certificate.
Presenter: Dr Jacqui von Cziffra-Bergs
Webinar Outline:
All couples enter therapy with a successful past. No matter how tough things have bee, all couples experienced a honeymoon or courtship phase that contains magical exceptions to their current struggles. Couples come to therapy to tell you what is going wrong, they want the therapist to hear how stuck they are and often they want the therapist to take sides. Added to this, the current aftermath of a global pandemic with lockdown situations, financial strain, home schooling and trauma have put a huge strain on marriages. Solution Focused couples therapy is a brilliant and effective way to stop the blame game and turn the conversation to a very goal orientated and collaborative space. In this webinar I will interview world renowned Solution Focused couple’s therapist Elliott Connie on his insights and ideas about working with couples. Elliott will be sharing his knowledge with us about how to bring hope back into the relationship and keep the love alive. Elliott will also be discussing how we can use language to interrupt negative patterns and help the couple co-construct hopeful futures. In this webinar we will also be discussing the equal opportunity technique which helps keep the session fair and collaborative.
Aims of the workshop:
- Understand the principles of Solution Focused Couple counselling
- Make the relationship the client
- Understand the equal opportunity rule
- Uncover relationship goals
- Utilise exceptions in the relationship
- Reintroduce love and hope
Outcomes of the workshop:
On completion of the workshop the participants will be able to:
- Implement a relationship way of thinking
- Make the relationship the client
- Work goal orientated
- Utilize strengths to the benefit of the relationship
- Find and build on exceptions
Reading list:
- Connie, E 2012: Solution Building Couples counselling
- Connie, E 2021: Connecting with the couple. Online workshop
- Weiner-Davies M 2012; Keeping Love Alive. www.DivorceBusting.com
