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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Intimacy | Sex and Sexuality | Conflict
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2012
- Faculty:
- Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:54:46
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 27, 2012
- Short Description:
- In this workshop, we will look at fantasy as an ingenious way our creative mind overcomes all sorts of relational and intra psychic conflicts around desire and intimacy. Therapists can help clients develop a view of fantasy as a narrative that creates a safe space to experience the pleasure that can invigorate their loving relation-ships. They will decipher the meaning of sexual fantasies, approaching them more as dreams or complex symbolic structures than as literal narratives of secret intentions.
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- Topic Areas:
- Keynotes | Love | Couples Therapy | Polyvagal Theory | Intimacy | Neuroscience | Relationships
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2013
- Faculty:
- Stephen Porges, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 56:26
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 20, 2013
- Short Description:
- The Love Code provides a metaphor to explore the neural mechanisms underlying how and why we attach, bond, fall in love and seek out safe and trusted others in an unsafe world. This presentation will explore the body’s need for intimate engagement and social bonding from an adaptive perspective. Within the theoretical context of the Polyvagal Theory, the presentation will illustrate how specific features in our social environment may trigger neurophysiological systems, through a process of “neuroception,” that enables us either to be fearful and disengage or to feel safe and enter enduring intimate relations.
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Sale is $29.00
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Sex and Sexuality | Workshops | Intimacy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2013
- Faculty:
- Marty Klein, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 1:51:11
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 19, 2013
- Short Description:
- What do most couples really want from sex? It isn’t endless orgasms, or sex around the clock. Most people want the same old things: connection, pleasure, excitement, mystery, validation. And magic. When the prospect of getting these is slim, satisfaction declines, and desire falls. This is not a “dysfunction;” improving genital “function” is not the answer. The key, instead, often lies in addressing power struggles and control issues; the existential challenges of adulthood; and the need for a new vocabulary. We will discuss how to move couples from perfunctory, infrequent sex to a more vibrant and intriguing experience. We’ll also look at what therapists need internally to help couples discuss sex.
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Sale is $29.00
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Intimacy | Couples Therapy | Relationships
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2013
- Faculty:
- Lonnie Barbach, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:31:09
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 20, 2013
- Short Description:
- Dr. Barbach will explore dialogue as it pertains to creating intimacy. Her presentation will analyze the language used by partners as a key to understanding the dynamics of the relationship and how deliberate linguistic changes can transform that relationship by deepening emotional bonds and creating healthy intimacy.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Pain and Healing | Couples Therapy | Sex and Sexuality | Conflict | Infidelity | Intimacy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2013
- Faculty:
- Marty Klein, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 2:04:57
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 21, 2013
- Short Description:
- Couples therapy typically pathologizes porn use while legitimizing the grievances of the user’s partner. While this approach may seem logical, it rarely increases sexual/relationship satisfaction. How do we hold both partners while they struggle to define their behavior, contract, and emotions? This talk examines a different approach to intrapsychic conflict and power struggles over porn use. We’ll explore underlying rela-tional issues, including: Is conflict about pornography a way to avoid confronting defi-cits in the sexual (or non-sexual) relationship? Are one or both partners acting out body image issues? Is porn use infidelity?
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Sale is $29.00
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Sex and Sexuality | Keynotes | Intimacy | Relationships
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2015
- Faculty:
- Pat Love, EdD
- Duration:
- 53:58
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 24, 2015
- Short Description:
- Our natural sexual setpoint explains a lot about arousal, desire and intimate satisfaction. We will explore this issue with research, facts and humor, with the objectives of understanding the effects of estrogen on desire and the effects of testosterone on desire.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Attachment | Keynotes | Anxiety | Intimacy | Sex and Sexuality | Love
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2015
- Faculty:
- Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
- Duration:
- 57:21
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 25, 2015
- Short Description:
- This bold take on intimacy and sex grapples with the obstacles and anxieties that arise when our need for secure love conflicts with our pursuit of passion. We will tackle eroticism as a quality of vitality in relationships extending far beyond mere sexuality and show how reconciling these two competing needs is at the heart of sustaining desire over time. We will address paradoxes of desire and how social forces inhibit erotic expression; attachment history and the erotic blueprint.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Infidelity | Sex and Sexuality | Workshops | Love | Intimacy
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2015
- Faculty:
- Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
- Duration:
- 1:40:17
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 25, 2015
- Short Description:
- Through case examples, Esther Perel will show how to effectively engage such issues as intimacy, sexuality and infidelity by creating separate spaces where each partner can explore his/her feelings and experiences along with larger relationship dynamics. We will show how to navigate privacy and secrecy, honesty and transparency, stage interventions around sexual impasses, and structure a safe and flexible therapeutic environment to work effectively with infidelity.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Workshops | Love | Communication | Intimacy | Relationships
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2015
- Faculty:
- Pat Love, EdD
- Duration:
- 1:34:46
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 25, 2015
- Short Description:
- While we love those deep, intimate conversations that bring us close together and join our spirits, what role does difference play in passion? Come explore this and other questions related to relational happiness. We will identify two empathic systems, and understand the role of dopamine in intimate relationships.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
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- Topic Areas:
- Couples Therapy | Workshops | Intimacy | Love | Sex and Sexuality
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2015
- Faculty:
- Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
- Duration:
- 1:27:43
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 25, 2015
- Short Description:
- Why does great sex so often fade for couples who claim to love each other as much as ever? Why doesn’t good intimacy guarantee good sex? When you love , how does it feel and when you Desire how is it different? Loss of Desire brings many people into our offices. It is the prime sexual complaint that leads relational unhappiness, infidelity and even divorce. For the most part, sexuality has been relegated to sex therapy and couple therapy has been a desexualized practice. Yet, love in our digital age puts sex at the center of couples’ lives.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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