Name: **Art &amp; Science of Love Couples Weekend Raleigh, NC Feb 15-16, 2025
SKU: 17505
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Presenters Bios

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Please click here to register directly through A Couples Place website

Fall in love again at the Art and Science of Love: A Weekend Workshop for Couples, February 15-16, 2025, in Raleigh, NC, at the Hyatt House North Hills Raleigh.

The Art and Science of Love: A Weekend Workshop for Couples is designed to strengthen relationships through engaging presentations and experiential activities. If you have a strong relationship, this workshop will provide you with the insights and tools to foster further closeness, friendship, and trust. If your relationship is distressed, this two-day workshop will provide you with a greater understanding of your relationship and a road map for repair.

Early Registration – $ 799 per Couple

Save $50! Register 3 weeks early for the couples workshop.

Standard Registration – $ 849 per Couple

* National Marriage Seminars or CoupleStrong does not host this workshop.

The Art & SCIENCE of Love

Gottman Weekend Couples Workshop

This comprehensive, science-based couple and marriage workshop & retreat is appropriate for premarital, engaged, married, cohabiting, gay, straight, happy or struggling couples. All of the ideas presented to you will be grounded in sound and extensive research brought to you from the Gottman Relationship Institute. You will learn what actually works in relationships that are happy and stable.

~ No public discussion or disclosure is involved. All work is done as a couple. ~

Next LIVE Workshop: February 15th & 16th, 2025

* Special Valentine’s Weekend Workshop

The Art & SCIENCE of Love workshop was designed by Drs. John and Julie Gottman. It is based on Dr. John Gottman’s leading edge research involving over 3,000 couples spanning the past three decades. Gottman is the author of 190 published academic articles, and best selling author or co-author of over 40 books including “The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work”, “What Makes Love Last”, “The Relationship Cure”, “Why Marriages Succeed or Fail”, and the newest book, “Fight Right”.

Your presenter is Lisa Lund, MFT, a Master Certified Gottman Therapist, lecturer & trainer, and workshop leader directly trained by Drs. John and Julie Gottman. Lisa is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 25 years of counseling experience treating couples.

You will learn how to…

Foster respect, affection and closeness
Keep conflict discussions calm
Build and share a deeper connection
Break through and resolve conflict gridlock
Strengthen and maintain success in your relationship

What to expect…

The Art and Science of Love Workshop is designed to strengthen your relationship through engaging presentations and skill building exercises that are grounded in research. Lisa will share many humorous stories, film clips and role plays. During the first day, you will learn how to build and maintain fondness, admiration, and closeness in your relationship or marriage. On the second day, you will work on conflict management while learning new and important communication skills. All of the exercises are designed to address your real-life challenges and you will work only with your partner. During the exercises, the presenters remain available to consult with those couples who desire help. There is no group work or public disclosure. This is an experiential, psycho-educational workshop for couples, and is not therapy. The workshop is a terrific weekend couple getaway. At the end of the workshop you will leave with a greater understanding of your relationship and the skills to repair or enhance it.

Who Should Attend…

Research shows that on average, couples wait six years from the first signs of problems before they seek help. The workshop is designed to strengthen your marriage and/or relationship. If you have a strong relationship, this workshop will provide you with insights and tools to make it a great one. If your relationship is distressed, this workshop will provide a road map for repair. If you are dealing with domestic violence, serious drug or alcohol addiction, or serious mental health problems, this workshop may not be appropriate for you. In these cases, please consult with Lisa.

Workshop Topics

1. The Five Basic Questions:

How is your marriage / relationship doing?
What makes relationships change, for better or for worse?
If your relationship is in trouble, how can you turn it around?
If your relationship is doing well, how can you ensure that it will continue to grow?
As your relationship improves, how can you make changes last?

2. Assessing Your Relationship:

Learn to recognize the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and what to do if they are attacking your relationship / marriage
Identify your relationship’s specific strengths and how to build on these
Learn about the effects of physiological flooding and how it may impede conflict resolution
Learn the small, easy steps that increase romance in your relationship

3. Building a “Sound Relationship House”:

Learn how Love Maps provide a solid foundation for intimacy
Use the Fondness and Admiration System to renew respect and care for one another
Create an Emotional Bank Account that you can draw upon in times of stress
Develop your problem-solving skills and learn effective conflict resolution
Find out how you can make your dreams and aspirations come true for you, your partner, and your relationship

Please click here to register directly through A Couples Place website

Presenters Bios

Lisa Lund, MFT, Certified Master Gottman Couples Therapist, Workshop Leader, and Professional Trainer, Licensed Marriage Counselor & Family Therapist

EDUCATION

M.S. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (Counseling) – Dual specialization in MFT and Rehabilitation, 1992.

B.A. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (Psychology) 1983.

Certified Master Gottman Method Therapist, Trainer and Consultant #119

Core Skills Training in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy-EFT-ICEEFT

Prepare/Enrich Facilitator and Trainer

LICENSE

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #LMFT 33393 California

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #LMFT 10193 North Carolina

Practice Values

My passion is helping couples repair their relationships. I’ve been a psychotherapist for 25 years and have worked with many populations but I find couple’s work to be most rewarding. I like the energy and the challenge of holding two differing points of view without judgment (and teaching couples to do the same).

These days, I only work with couples. All couples are welcome to my practice including engaged, married, straight, lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender couples. I believe all relationships are cross-cultural in that we all bring unique backgrounds to our union. What I don’t know I’m open to learning from you.

“Lisa was fantastic… I was overwhelmed by how she handled us. We are now more open, have better communication, barriers have broken down, and there was a reinforcement of the love that already existed.”

I use evidence based methods because I believe too much of couples therapy has been based on someone’s opinion of what a good relationship looks like, rather than on what research with real couples tells us works. I often tell my clients they don’t need to go to “couple nirvana” to heal. Evidence based studies tell us there aren’t any perfect couples.

I enjoy debunking the common myth that conflict is a predictor of divorce. Conflict is normal in close relationships and not an index that something is wrong. In fact, disagreements are full of existential meaning and the opportunity to know one another better, but couples need to know how to make these conversations safe. My role as a couples’ therapist is to help couples approach conflict more gently, because that’s what happy couples in the research were doing.

“Working with Lisa stopped a divorce, improved communication, and brought us together in a way we haven’t had since we first became involved with each other romantically.”

The happy couples in the research, though not perfect, were more mindful about maintaining their friendship, managing their conflict, and continuing to build a sense of shared meaning in their lives.

Whether you coming in for a tune-up, enhancement or repair there are many ways that we can work together to strengthen your relationship. You might be surprised at how fast things turn around by making some small but significant changes.

“Friendship, a gentle approach to conflict and shared meaning, when strong, are both the effects and the causes of happy relationships.”
John Gottman, A Science-Based Approach

The Gottman Method can be integrative and some other approaches that I blend into my work are; Sue Johnson’s Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, Dan Wile’s Collaborative Couples Therapy and David Olsen’s Premarital (prepare/enrich).

**Art & Science of Love Couples Weekend Raleigh, NC Feb 15-16, 2025

Please click here to register directly through A Couples Place website

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