Workshop and Seminar Topics: If you have an interest in attending any of these workshops or seminars, please contact us.
Clinical and Practical Areas
- Responding vs Reacting (Staying in Neutral)
- Shadow Boxing: Reacting to what we believe about the other, not what’s necessarily true
- We (unwittingly) teach people how to treat us; and you can change that
- Self-Confidence requires Self-Efficacy; it doesn’t occur on its own
- There’s no such thing as Laziness; it’s mostly a function of anxiety
- Changing Dysfunctional Thinking
- Equalizing Imbalances -The Economics of a Relationship and how to change them (in work and life)
- The Substance Abusing Family Member: A gentler approach eliciting positive change via reinforcement and engagement vs the more volatile ‘Interventions’
- The Restrictive/Binge Eating Cycle and Self-Efficacy
- Communicating Negative Information; it can motivate rather than deflate
- You Have to Make Movement To ‘Move’
- To manage anxiety, learn to “Make it Moot”
- Helping families through divorce: the differing needs of the children separate from the needs of the partners
- If you want to communicate, change the unwitting messages
- Setting Limits: Saying No, Saying Yes
- Self-efficacy vs. self esteem; Focusing on the former will make the latter happen
Interpersonal Relationships
- The Chase isn’t what you think it is
- Falling out of love is a myth – and can change
- “Hogging the Wanting”
- “We have no chemistry” is rarely the reason a relationship isn’t working
- When a relationship becomes less sexual, take more risk
- When someone says, “All I care about is making you happy” – Run!
- The role of porn
- If attraction and sex are underwhelming, that can change
- People have affairs because they’re afraid they’re losing their partners – not because they no longer love them
- Why annoyance is so present in relationships
- Don’t make your partner do your reassuring; Do your own self-inquiry
- Intimacy requires being able to have “separateness”