Gottman Training for Professionals -LEVEL 3

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Gottman Level 3 Training

9am-5pm Pacific time

June 9-11, 2025 

Level 3 cost $1,099

cost increases to $1,150 after April 1st, register early to secure your spot!

Register HERE

Cancellation Policy: Full refund minus $50 processing fee if received 3 weeks or more prior to workshop date. After that date, participants will receive full credit to attend a future training within 2 years. Join from anywhere in the world, class is held virtually via ZOOM

Course includes Level 3 training manual and therapy sessions live training videos, all made available to you in your online Gottman.com account

There is no better way to learn how to apply the Gottman Method than this workshop.
This is an advanced  training targeted to Therapists, counselors, psychologists and social workers

Through videotaped cases of real couples, hands-on role plays, demonstrations of assessments and interventions, and nuanced discussion of technique, the Level 3 Practicum significantly expands your understanding of when and how to use Gottman Method approaches.

In a small-group setting & in role plays, you will have the opportunity to practice and refine your use of Gottman Method therapy and formulate a roadmap for clinical decisions.

Level 3 Practicum content represents the true resistances and co-morbidities we face as therapists and how we can transform them into effective healing methods for the couple.

The workshop is structured to help create a safe and secure environment so participants can learn and practice while feeling free of criticism and negative judgment.
-Agenda at bottom of the page!

Workshop Objectives
At the end of this workshop participants will understand how to:
-Interpret the Oral History Interview during a couple’s assessment 

-Integrate their strengths and challenges in terms of the “Sound Relationship House”
-Classify and identify their own “Four Horsemen” and understand the antidotes
-Choose and utilize appropriate tools to help a couple deepen their “Friendship System”
-Define a couple’s conflicts in terms of solvable, perpetual, and grid-locked problems
-Utilize the “Dreams Within Conflict” technique to help a couple feel hopeful and to achieve break-through with their perpetual conflict
-Indicate when one or both partners are flooding
-Demonstrate ways to help the couple reach solutions using the Compromise Ovals intervention
-Integrate appropriately when co-morbidities are present
Training Prerequisites
1) Master’s or doctoral degree OR current enrollment in a graduate program within a mental health-related field

2) Completion of Gottman Level 1 and Level 2 Live or Online via www.gottman.com)

3) A ten minute video clip of you working with a couple

20 CE's avail. for $39.99, to be purchased directly from National Marriage Seminars (NMS). Link to pay for your CE's will be available upon course completion, and once you fill out course eval and pay the fee to NMS you will get your CE certificate directly from them. see more about NMS/ and their CE's at the bottom of page.
This training is led by Stacy Hubbard, LMFT. She is a certified Gottman Therapist, and Advanced clinical trainer and consultant with the Gottman Institute. She has been helping couples through her Gottman work for 20+ years. She is in private practice in Southern Oregon. 

Video Participation:

Participants are asked to bring a short (ten minute or so) video segment of difficult and challenging couples to the Level 3 workshop. The video taped 10 minute conflict sample will work. The therapist’s work with the couple will not be critiqued; in fact the video does not even need to show the therapist; just seeing the couple is all that is needed. The purpose will be to use these couples to illustrate how the Gottman Method can be applied to these tough cases.  Participants will then have the opportunity to practice using the interventions in a supportive small group setting with other participants’ role playing the couples from the videos.  Bringing a video tape is highly encouraged but not required.

 There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program. 

Questions, Contact Stacy at 541-778-5987

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Satisfactory Completion

Participants must have paid registration fees, signed in, attended the entire seminar,  and signed out to receive a certificate. Failure to sign in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available.

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Level 3 training Agenda - Gottman method

9-4:30 Pacific time all 3 days, each day has two 10 min breaks and 1 hour for lunch

Day 1: 

9:00am Introduction to staff and orient them to their manuals/ zoom

9:35- Attendee intro themselves and about their practice and use of the method

10- Introduce my ‘office kit’- what I have on hand at all times (pulse oximeters, etc)

10:15- show video tape of oral history interview, either from the 5 couples project or if there is an audience video submission

10:45- do live demonstration with audience volunteers (showing how to do oral history interview)

11:10- break

11:20- small group role play as the couple from the video

11:55- large group discussion to process the role play

12p- lunch

1pm- session #3 (feedback) show video from 5 couples

1:30- discuss the video and how to proceed w/ feedback when there’s an affair

1:45- intro the role play of feedback session

2:15-large grp process the role play scenario

2:30pm- show video tape including a couple in conflict (locked in attack defend cycle)

2:40- live demonstration of rapoport intervention

3-3:10pm- break

3:10-small group role play using rapport to unlock the conflict

3:40- large group discussion to process the role play

4-4:30- case staffing and questions from the day

Day 2

9:00am- Dreams w/ in the conflict overview. 

9:30- Watch video of a couple with a gridlocked conflict –

9:45- Live demonstration of how to intervene with this couple differently

10:05- small group role play using dreams w/in conflict intervention

10:35- process the exercise and role play

11am -10 min break

11:10- watch Second video clip of couple locked in conflict. Video from participant

11:30 dreams w/in conflict role play (small group)

11:55- Q & A about the role play

12noon- lunch break

1pm- aftermath of a fight, intro and review the intervention. 

1:25- role play live demonstration. 

1:50- role play in small groups

2:30pm- process the role plays, and do Q & A

3pm-break

3:10- leader provides an example of doing a Dan Wile during the aftermath of a fight exercise

3:45pm- affair recovery, go over the 3 phases in affair recovery

4:15-4:30pm- wrap up w/ questions about the day

Day 3

9am –compromise ovals lecture

9:20- role play of using compromise ovals

9:45- small group role play

10:05- Q & A about the role play

10:20- 4 horsemen lecture

10:35- live demonstration on intervening on the 4 horsemen

10:45- small group role play

11am break

11:10- certification track/consultation talk 

11:35- build friendship lecture. Focus on Stress reducing conv.

11:45- live demonstration of the exercise

12:05- small group role play on stress reducing conv.

12:25- Q & A on the role play

12:30- Lunch break

1:30- lecture on rituals of connection, and talk about how to create them

2pm- role play on rituals of connection

2:30- discussion of love maps and helping couples build in relapse prevention

3pm- break

3:10- lecture on handling co-morbidities (addiction, affairs, PTSD)

4:15-4:30 General questions on the method, case staffing