Gottman Level 1 Training
Gottman Couples Therapy:
A New Research Based Approach: Bridging the Couple Chasm.
Gottman Method Couples Therapy – Level 1 Clinical Training
This is going to be a very personal way to learn the Gottman method up close. We only allow a limited number of registrations to improve the learning potential and create community at the same time. You will be learning from seasoned masters of the Gottman method, who have developed their entire practice around this researched based Approach. You will be able to see first hand how their practice has incorporated the method and created a brand that works.
A workshop for clinicians and anyone else that is wanting to work with couples and use the Gottman Method of Couples Therapy.
The training reviews Dr. Gottman’s four decades of research on what makes marriages succeed or fail, and teaches a therapy that helps troubled marriages. The workshop provides a wealth of information about couples dynamics, marital assessment, couples exercises and therapeutic interventions. All materials may be used in private practice settings.
and therapeutic interventions. All materials may be used in private practice settings.
Additional Training Events:
Upcoming Gottman Level 1 Training:
Gottman Level 1 Training – Vancouver, BC
Executive Hotel Vancouver Airport, BC
Oct 6, 2025 – Oct 7, 2025
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
PRESENTERS:
Lawrence Stoyanowski and Darren Wilk are Senior Certified Gottman Therapists with a wealth of experience working with the method and are the first of a handful of therapists to teach the Level 2 Gottman Method Clinical Training . They come highly recommended by The Gottman Organization and have presented numerous times in this capacity. They are both Advanced Gottman Clinical Trainers and Certification Consultants with the Gottman Institute mentoring therapists in their certification process.
In this inspirational two-day workshop, you’ll also learn:
- How to help understand couples’ struggles using new research-based assessments and effective interventions
- Research-based strategies and tools to help couples successfully manage conflict
- Skills that empower couples to dialogue about their worst gridlocked issues by uncovering their underlying dreams, history, and values
- Techniques to help couples presenting with multiple co-morbidities including incest, the effects of poverty, PTSD and infidelity
- Methods to help couples process their fights and heal their hurts
- Techniques for couples to deepen their intimacy and minimize relapse
- Methods to help couples feel a renewed sense of caring and partnership through emotional connection.
You’ll view video of Dr. John Gottman’s research with couples and see extensive films from the Gottmans’ clinical office demonstrating their use of Gottman Method therapy with their clients.
You’ll also receive an online Clinical Manual Featuring new relationship assessment questionnaires and clinical interventions that you’ll be able to use immediately with your clients.
Clinicians who take this workshop will be equipped with new methods and tools to help couples break the cycle of criticism, defensiveness, contempt and stonewalling. Through demonstrations and films from the clinical office, you’ll see how to apply the research-based principles and interventions of Gottman Method Couples Therapy to strengthen:
The Shared Meaning System – the existential foundation of the relationship that helps couples create shared purpose in building a life togetherhat may be helpful in determining your personal readiness.
The Friendship System – the building block for intimacy, passion, and good sex
The Conflict System – the basis for helping couples manage solvable problems and understand and manage unresolvable differences
You will learn what Dr. Gottman’s research tells us about couples, including:
- How married couples really sustain their marriages–in contrast to common myths and misconceptions.
- How the quality of relationships affects the immune system, physical health and well being.
- How marital problems change over time, but never go away–even in happy couples.
Workshop Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Summarize the research that allows prediction of future relationship stability.
- Describe the seven levels of the Sound Relationship House theory.
- Conduct a couple’s therapy assessment using elements of the couple’s narrative, the Oral History Interview, written questionnaires, observations of conflict, and individual interviews.
- Describe two interventions for each: to help strengthen a couple’s management of conflict, to enhance a couple’s friendship system, and to explore a couple’s system of shared meaning.
Get the Full Workshop Outline Here
ALSO INCLUDED
Included in the registration price for this Live Training Event is FULL ACCESS to the Gottman Level 1 Online Course!
11 hours of video from a recent live workshop conducted by Drs. John and Julie Gottman
352-page digital Level 1 Clinical Training Manual PDF which contains the core Gottman Method Couples Therapy assessments, interventions, and references discussed in training videos.
63-page PDF of lecture slides
Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level 1 Training Certificate of Completion from the Gottman Institute
Videos and Online Lectures for future reference.
Eligibility to continue to Level 2 Training
Cost
$805.00 for Early Registration
Regular Registration Level 1 $865.00
$1505.00 if you combine Gottman Level 1 and Level 2.
Student Registration Rate for Level 1 $635.00
*Refund Policy: Refund (minus $100 administrative fee) when canceling 30 days prior to the workshop.
After this date credit will be given to attend a future workshop.
