Description:

The reason why most couples’ characteristic fights never get resolved is because in our most heated moments, we stop fighting with each other. Core negative images (CNIs) start fighting and the two real partners get lost. This workshop teaches participants how to help partners identify, make explicit, accept, and ultimately work with one another’s core negative images. As partners are taught to utilize each other’s CNIs, rather than fight them, all sorts of creative and deliberating possibilities emerge.

Educational Objectives:

1. To define “core negative image.”
2. To describe the use of “core negative image” in therapy.

*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*