1. Attend (as a participant) a Getting the Love You Want Weekend Workshop led by a Certified Workshop Presenter. Participation should be with one’s committed, intimate partner. Single therapists may attend with a close friend, relative, or colleague of any gender.
2. Attend all 12 Days of Imago Clinical Training delivered in three four-day modules.
3. 6 Months of follow up clinical consultation (monthly), individual or group, showing videos of your developing skill in IRT.
4. Assist a Getting the Love You Want Weekend Workshop during or shortly after Clinical Training.
5. Submit a passing video of your work.

• Level 1 (core 96-hour training): $3000 USD
  Typically paid in 3–4 installments.

• Level 2 (supervision): $600 USD
  Six 2-hour group supervision sessions (monthly). Optional discounted full-package available.

• Getting the Love You Want workshop attendance: price varies

• Certification tape review (optional): $195 USD
  Required only if you choose to complete full certification.

Grad students: If you are a grad student, we are offering a 20% discount on the Imago Clinical Training.

Imago cohort: In an effort to build community, we are offering discounts if three or more therapists register together! 10% off of the first module, or 15% off if you register for the full training!

Non-therapist partners of trainees are strongly encouraged to attend and participate in the Basic Imago Clinical Training at a greatly reduced rate. The couple will be able to experience the positive impact of the Imago tools and theory in their own relationship. Partners do not have to attend supervision nor submit videos.

Standardized Learning Objectives for Imago Clinical Training, Module 1

Lesson 1

1. View, conceptualize and discuss their clients and couples through the lens of the relational paradigm.
2. Explain why an increase in positive exchanges between committed partners is important.
3. Identify needs that underlie a partner’s current frustrations with one another.
4. Facilitate partner’s understanding of how the past influences the present.

Lesson 2

1. Discuss the specific steps of the Imago Dialogue and explain the rationale for structuring a couples’ interpersonal dialogue process.
2. Facilitate a dialogical process between partners.
3. Define and discuss the role of healthy differentiation in a committed, intimate partnership.
4. Describe and explain how the rupture and repair of the emotional bond between partners strengthens resilience.

Lesson 3

1. Manage the challenges that arise when couples resist a structured listening process.
2. Use sentence stems to maintain an atmosphere of safety during the dialogue process.
3. Distinguish between the reptilian brain, the limbic system and the prefrontal cortex and be able to describe the role the brain plays in emotional co-regulation between partners.
4. Discuss the role of mindfulness in conscious, intimate and committed partnerships.

Lesson 4

1. Describe the importance of intentional romantic behavior and pleasurable activities in marital outcomes.
2. Describe the necessity of right brain, non-verbal communication in adult love relationships
3. Explain the role of human touch in a securely attached marital relationship.
4. Explain and discuss the role of playfulness and spontaneous play behavior in restoring safe, emotional bonds.

Lesson 5

1. Assess a couple through a developmental lens, identifying each partners’ core wound and adaptive style.
2. Identify how developmental wounds and childhood adaptations impact marital dynamics.
3. Describe how a corrective emotional experience between partners helps marital/individual health and satisfaction.
4. Explain why the dialogue process is a corrective emotional experience.

Lesson 6

1. Name two ways that children are wounded in childhood.
2. Describe how the socialization process in childhood influences adaptation and mate selection.
3. Explain why partners’ unmet needs provide clues to a blueprint for growth.
4. Discuss and illustrate how to transform marital power struggles.

Lesson 7

1. Define and explain re-imaging and why it is an initial task in couples’ therapy.
2. Describe and direct a process of revisioning the relationship.
3. Name 7 tasks of a conscious love relationship.
4. Explain why commitment between partners may be essential to marital improvement and happiness.

Lesson 8

1. Explain why frustration between partners is an important effect to address between partners.
2. Demonstrate how couples can translate their frustrations into small, specific requests for change.
3. Give an illustration of “stretching” and how stretching facilitates a sense of greater wholeness and aliveness.
4. Describe how and why change happens in small, specific and behavioral actions.

Standardized Agenda for each 4-hour lesson:

0:00 – 0:50 lecture of the day

0:50 – 1:00 Q & A

1:00 – 2:00 small groups of 3 to 4 in break out rooms

2:00 – 3:00 reading and viewing video

3:00 – 4:00 taking a quiz, answering discussion questions and journaling.