Level 2 – Assessment, Intervention, and Co-Morbidities

Professionals In-Person Training

Gottman Method Couples Therapy – Level 2

What will I learn in Level 2?

Building on what you learned in the Level 1 Training, you will review how to assess a couple’s Friendship Profile, Conflict Profile, and Shared Meaning Profile. You will be provided with a toolkit of interventions that couples can use as antidotes to the Four Horsemen and soothe physiological flooding. You will apply six modes of changing the Attack/Defend System in a couple’s interactions and learn how to assist couples in establishing dialogue about their gridlocked conflicts.

You will learn how to select and implement interventions to help couples deepen their Friendship System with rituals of connection, select and implement interventions to help couples create a shared system of values and meaning, and identify and implement five different co-morbidities common to couples using Gottman assessments and interventions.

Course price $950.00 early bird and $1,100.00 regular

Trainer: Mike Fidler, MSW, RSW

Duration: 20 hours, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm

Format: Face to Face

CE Credits: 19; Provided upon the completion of the certification quiz provided in the on-demand course.

What is included in the price?

Included in the registration price is a clinical training manual, which contains the core Gottman Method Couple’s Therapy assessments and interventions. You will be awarded a Certificate of Completion with an assessment score of 80% or better from The Gottman Institute.

 

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Description

Description

Immerse yourself in the Gottman Method and gain confidence using the techniques in your clinical work. Level 2 Training provides an in-depth exploration of assessment and intervention with advanced practical guidance for clinical observation and identifying co-morbidities, including PTSD, affairs, and addiction.

This advanced, self-paced online course includes engaging lecture content from a recent four-day Level 2 workshop conducted by Drs. John and Julie Gottman. During the workshop, the Gottmans share in-session clinical videos that demonstrate practical application of assessment and intervention techniques. Special guest lecturer, Dr. Robert Navarra, presents relevant data and clinical findings incorporating Gottman Methods in treatment of couples in addiction recovery.

 

Learning Objectives

  1. At the completion of this training, you will be able to:Explain the basics of observation including why it’s important to recognize Emotions on the Human Face, Tension in the Voice, the Importance of Words and the use of the SPAFF coding system
  2. Describe the seven levels of the Sound Relationship House theory
  3. Describe how to recognize Bids and Turning Towards
  4. Explain the components of the first three Assessment sessions
  5. Explain and demonstrate how to conduct an Oral History Interview
  6. Explain and demonstrate how to conduct a Feedback Session, including how to formulate a Treatment Plan and how to present it to the couple using the Sound Relationship House model
  7. Describe the use of the core assessments with couples, including the Locke-Wallace, Weiss-Cerretto, Gottman Sounds Relationship House Questionnaires, Gottman 19 Areas Checklist, EAQ, SCL-90, Detour Scales, CAGE, and b-MAST
  8. Explain and demonstrate the rules for Gentle Start Up
  9. Develop interventions that couples can use as antidotes to the “Four Horsemen”
  10. Prepare couples to physiologically soothe when flooded
  11. Select and implement interventions to help deal with conflict
  12. Apply different modes of changing the “Attack/Defend System” in a couples interaction
  13. Assist couples to establish dialogue about their gridlocked conflicts
  14. Instruct couples on how to work towards compromise on perpetual problems using the Two Oval method
  15. Describe the five steps of processing a fight or a regrettable incident using the Aftermath of A Fight intervention
  16. Use and describe the Stress-Reducing Conversation to minimize relapse
  17. Select and implement interventions to help couples deepen their “Friendship System” by working on Fondness and Admiration
  18. Select and implement interventions to help couples Build Shared Meaning with Rituals of Connection Identify and formulate a plan for different co-morbidities common to couples using Gottman Method Couples Therapy
  19. Assessment and Intervention
  20. Describe how to apply Gottman Method Couples Therapy to a couple who has experienced an affair
  21. Describe when it is appropriate and inappropriate to use Gottman Method Couples Therapy with a couple dealing with substance abuse
  22. Describe how to apply Gottman Method Couples Therapy to a couple experiencing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
  23. Describe the differences between situational and characterological domestic violence and when it is appropriate and inappropriate to use Gottman Method Couples Therapy with a couple dealing with domestic violence
Details

Details

Included Content

This online course includes:

  • 19 hours of video from a recent live workshop conducted by Drs. John and Julie Gottman
  • 734-page PDF manual with the content, assessments, interventions, and references discussed in training videos
  • 262-page PDF of lecture slides
  • Online quiz and downloadable certificate for 19 CE hours awarded by PESI
  • Certificate of Completion from The Gottman Institute
  • Hebrew translations available. Additional translations coming soon.

Audience

Successful completion of Gottman Method Couples Therapy – Level 1

Participants working in the following fields will benefit from this training:Mental health providers

  • Allied professionals and clergy
  • Students and interns
  • Family clinic staff
  • Professors/teachers of couples therapy
  • Researchers in the social sciences
  • Employee assistance professionals
Trainer

Mike Fidler has a Master of Social Work degree & is a Registered Social Worker. He has certificates from the University of Toronto in custody access mediation, Psychosocial Factors in Rehabilitation & Addiction Studies, and has an Advanced Family Therapy training certificate from the George Hull Family & Children’s Centre. Mike is a certified Substance Abuse Professional under NAFTA. Mike completed his advanced training using John Gottman Marital Assessment & Intervention Techniques through the Gottman Institute in Seattle, Washington & is a certified Gottman couple’s therapist. Mike has advanced training in emotional focused couple’s therapy with Susan Johnson & Les Greenberg respectively. He has his advanced level training in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy as an attachment & trauma therapist for children and youth with Daniel Hughes.

Mike is certified by the Gottman Institute to train couples’ therapists in Level one introductory Gottman methods theory, Level two advanced training in Gottman clinical methods & Level three practicum. He is a consultant in the therapist certification track. Mike is a certified Art & Science of Love workshop leader.         

As a Certified Advanced Trainer, Mike has spent nearly 20 years being trained by John and Julie Gottman during yearly retreats.He worked at the Haldimand Norfolk Children’s Aid Society for 12 years as a child abuse specialist, taught provincially & nationally for over 6 years for the Institute for the Prevention of Child Abuse, has been in private clinical practice for over 30 years, and managed Mike Fidler & Associates Inc. from 1989-2019.

Mike has volunteered for over 20 years as a marriage preparation trainer & is an international couple’s workshop leader delivering The Art & Science of Love Couple’s Workshop in Simcoe Ontario & abroad. Mike is a specialist in couple’s therapy within his semi retired clinical practice since 2019. Mike has more than 10,000 hours as a couple’s therapist. As a Gottman certified Advanced Trainer he continues a robust teaching practice.

 

Schedule

Gottman Method Couples Therapy

Level 2 Assessment, Intervention, and Co-Morbidities

OUTLINE -8:30 am to 5:00 pm

DAY ONE

INTRODUCTION

  • Overview of Workshop

BASICS OF OBSERVATION

  • Emotions in the Human Face
  • Tension in the Voice
  • The Words Themselves

BIDS AND TURNING

  • Overview
  • "Spain Without Interest, "Bread With Interest"
  • "Greg and Jennie-Northwest Afternoon"

SESSION #1: ASSESSMENT

FRIENDSHIP PROFILE: ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW

  • The spirit of the interview
  • Content and Questions in the interview
  • Coding notes
  • Oral History Benchmarks
  • FILM: "Oral History Interview Samples"

EVALUATING CONFLICT AND REPAIR

  • Setting up a Conflict Discussion
  • Evaluating Conflict
  • Gridlocked Conflict
  • Videotaping and Physiological Flooding

SESSION #1: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

  • FILM: "Initial Session"
  • Couple's Narrative
  • Oral History Interview
  • Conflict Discussion
  • Group role play practice: Oral History Interview

SESSION #2: INDIVIDUAL INTERVIEWS

  • FILM: "Assessment Individual Session - Michael & Trudi"
  • Assessment Questionnaires and Scoring
  • Scoring Summary Sheet

 

SESSION #3: GIVING FEEDBACK AND TREATMENT PLANNING

FEEDBACK SESSION

  • Overview
  • Feedback Session benchmarks
  • Clinician's Checklist for Relationship Assessment
  • Sound Relationship House Theory
  • Gottman Method Clinical Hours Documentation Form
  • Gottman Treatment Plan Form
  • FILM: "Masters and Disasters"
  • Group Role Play Practice: Feedback Session

GOTTMAN METHOD INTERVENTIONS

INTERVENTION OVERVIEW

  • Intervention benchmarks
  • Three qualities every therapist needs

INTERVENTIONS TO MANAGE CONFLICT

INTERVENTION: GENTLE START-UP

CASE INTRODUCTION: STEVE AND CRYSTA

  • FILM: "Family Dinner"
  • FILM: "Four Horsemen Examples"

INTERVENTION: LABEL THE FOUR HORSEMEN AND REPLACE THEM

WITH THEIR ANTIDOTES

  • FILM: "Four Horsemen examples"

 

DAY TWO

INTERVENTIONS TO MANAGE CONFLICT

INTERVENTION: FLOODING

  • FILM: "Flooding & Soothing"
  • Group Role Play: Flooding

INTERVENTION: GOTTMAN-RAPOPORT EXERCISE

  • FILM: "Gottman-Rapoport Intervention"
  • Group Role Play Practice: Gottman-Rapoport

INTERVENTION: THE DAN WILE INTERVENTION

  • FILM: "Dan Wile Intervention"
  • Group Role Play: Dan Wile

INTERVENTION: INTERNAL WORKING MODEL

  • FILM: "Internal Working Model"

INTERVENTION: COMPROMISE

  • FILM: "Compromise"
  • Group role play practice: Compromise

INTERVENTION: DREAMS WITHIN CONFLICT

  • FILM: "Dreams Within Conflict"
  • Group role play practice: Dreams Within Conflict

INTERVENTION: AFTERMATH OF A FIGHT OR REGRETTABLE INCIDENT

  • FILM: "Aftermath of a Fight"
  • Group role play: Aftermath of a Fight

INTERVENTIONS TO STRENGTHEN FRIENDSHIP AND ROMANCE

  • Overview
  • Turning Towards Exercises

INTERVENTION: WORKING ON FONDNESS AND ADMIRATION "I

APPRECIATE ... " ADJECTIVE CHECKLIST

  • FILM: "Working on Fondness & Admiration"

 

DAY THREE

INTERVENTIONS TO STRENGTHEN FRIENDSHIP AND ROMANCE

(continued)

INTERVENTION: STRESS REDUCING CONVERSATION

  • FILM: "Stress Reducing Conversation"
  • Group role play exercise: Stress Reducing Conversation

INTERVENTIONS TO CREATE SHARED MEANING

INTERVENTION: CREATE SHARED MEANING AND BUILD RITUALS OF CONNECTION

  • FILM: "Rituals of Connection"

RELAPSE PREVENTION

CO-MORBIDITIES

DEALING WITH AFFAIRS

DEALING WITH ADDICTION

PTSD

DEALING WITH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

  • "Pit bulls"
  • "Cobras"
  • "CTAV Collage Video"
Copyright @ 2000-2014 by Dr. John M. Gottman and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman. Distributed under license by The Gottman Institute, Inc.
CE Credits

CE Credits - Canada

Most Canadian Professionals requiring CE credit will find the CEs available to the USA professionals are transferable.  Check with your professional body to ensure transferability.  You will have a copy of your sign-in sheet for those professional bodies requiring confirmation of attendance. The On-Demand course that comes with the live presentation package has CE Credit with the completion of a quiz.

“The College of Psychologists of Ontario does not accredit or endorse any providers of continuing education or professional development programming.

All registrants of the College are expected to exercise their judgment when completing activities towards the fulfillment of the mandatory Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Program requirements. If a course, seminar, or other interdisciplinary event has enhanced their knowledge and skill as it relates to their professional practice of psychology, they are permitted to include it toward the requirements.

If registrants are not awarded with a formal CE certificate from a program provider, they may document their participation by the number of hours completed and will be expected to retain supporting documentation.” Quality Assurance <qualityassurance@cpo.on.ca>

“For activities which occur outside of the province of Québec (formation hors-Québec), whether in person or online, we ask participants (psychologists and holders of a psychotherapy license) to make sure the activity they want to add to their continuing education file is relevant to psychotherapy. Thus, no accreditation is needed on your part. Accreditation is required if the activity is happening in Québec.

We ask participants to provide us with the following supporting documents when they add a formation hors-Québec to their file:

  • Certificate of participation indicating at least the activity title, date and duration, name of organization and trainer, and
  • Payment receipt, and
  • Activity description, advertisement or flyer.” Julien Ayotte

CE Credits - USA

NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after completing and passing the online post-test evaluation).

Continuing Education Information:

Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this self-study package. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self-study is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260.

Addiction Counselors:

This self-study activity consists of 11.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.

California Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Counselors (CCAPP):

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the CCAPP-EI, Provider #: OS-03-036-1021. This self-study activity meets the qualifications for 11.0 CEH’s (continuing education hours).

California Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Counselors (CADTP):

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the CADTP, Provider #: 201. This Category H activity meets the qualifications for 11.0 CEU’s (continuing education hours).

Oklahoma Alcohol & Drug Counselors:

PESI, Inc. is an Oklahoma Board of Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselors approved provider #20190032. This self-study activity consists of 11.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction.

Counselors:

This intermediate self-study activity consists of 11.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.

Florida Social Mental Health Counselors:

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number 50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 11.0 continuing education credits.

Montana Counselors:

The Montana Board of Behavioral Health no longer pre-approves any courses or sponsors. Each licensee is responsible for taking courses which contribute to their competence and directly relate to their scope of practice as defined in board statute (MAR 24-219-32). Licensees must keep CE documentation for three years in case of an audit. This intermediate level self-study activity consists of 11.0 clock hours of instruction.

Nevada Counselors:

PESI, Inc. is an approved CEU provider with the State of Nevada Board of Examiners for Marriage and Family Therapists and Clinical Professional Counselors. This self-study activity qualifies for 11.0 contact hours. Approved Provider # NVCEP2006.

New York Counselors:

PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s (NYSED) State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. #MHC-0033. This self-study activity will qualify for 13.0 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

Pennsylvania Counselors:

The Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors accepts many national association CE approvals, several of which PESI offers. For a full list, please see your State Board regulations at https://www.dos.pa.gov/ProfessionalLicensing/BoardsCommissions/. This intermediate self-study activity consists of 11.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction.

South Carolina Counselors:

This self-study program has been approved for 11.0 continuing education hours by the South Carolina Board of Examiners for Licensure of Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Psycho-Educational Specialists. Provider #4540.

Texas Counselors:

This self-study activity consists of 11.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors no longer approves programs or providers. PESI activities meet the continuing education requirements as listed in Title 22 Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 681, Subchapter J, Section 681.142 Acceptable Continuing Education. Please retain the certificate of completion that you receive and use as proof of completion when required.

Marriage & Family Therapists:

This self-study activity consists of 11.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.

Florida Marriage & Family Therapists:

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number 50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 11.0 continuing education credits.

Illinois Marriage & Family Therapists:

PESI, Inc. has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the State of Illinois, Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Professional Regulation. Provider #: 168-000156. Full attendance at this self-study activity qualifies for 11.0 credits.

Montana Marriage & Family Therapists:

The Montana Board of Behavioral Health no longer pre-approves any courses or sponsors. Each licensee is responsible for taking courses which contribute to their competence and directly relate to their scope of practice as defined in board statute (MAR 24-219-32). Licensees must keep CE documentation for three years in case of an audit. This intermediate level self-study activity consists of 11.0 clock hours of instruction.

Nevada Marriage & Family Therapists:

PESI, Inc. is an approved CEU provider with the State of Nevada Board of Examiners for Marriage and Family Therapists and Clinical Professional Counselors. This self-study activity qualifies for 11.0 contact hours. Approved Provider # NVCEP2006.

New York Marriage & Family Therapists:

PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s (NYSED) State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists. #MFT-0024. This self-study activity will qualify for 13.0 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

Pennsylvania Marriage & Family Therapists:

The Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors accepts many national association CE approvals, several of which PESI offers. For a full list, please see your State Board regulations at https://www.dos.pa.gov/ProfessionalLicensing/BoardsCommissions/. This Intermediate self-study activity consists of 11.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction.

South Carolina Marriage & Family Therapists:

This self-study program has been approved for 11.0 continuing education hours by the South Carolina Board of Examiners for Licensure of Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Psycho-Educational Specialists. Provider #4540.

Texas Marriage & Family Therapists:

This self-study activity consists of 11.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists no longer approves programs or providers. PESI activities meet the continuing education requirements as listed in Title 22 of the Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 801, Subchapter K, Section 801.264 Types of Acceptable Continuing Education. Please retain the certificate of completion that you receive and use as proof of completion when required.

Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Clinical Nurse Specialists:

This self-study activity consists of 11.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.

California Nurses:

PESI, Inc. is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #:17118 for 11.0 self-study contact hours. You will need to provide your license number to PESI. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid.

Florida Nurses:

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Florida Board of Nursing. Provider #: FBN2858. These materials qualify for 11.0 self-study contact hours.

Iowa Nurses:

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Iowa Board of Nursing. Provider #: 346. Nurses successfully completing these self-study materials will earn 11.0 self-study contact hours. Copies of the evaluation may be sent to the IBON. You will need to provide your license number to PESI. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid.

Psychologists:

This self-study activity consists of 11.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline and the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity. Contact us for more information on your state board or organization specific filing requirements. American Psychological Association credits are not available.

Florida Psychologists:

PESI, Inc., is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Psychology. Provider Number 50-399. This product qualifies for 11.0 self-study continuing education credits. Please make sure to bring your license number to the seminar so that we can report your attendance to CE Brokers.

Ohio Psychologists:

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Ohio Psychological Association, Provider #263896894, to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content. PESI is offering this self-study activity for 11.0 Standard hours of continuing education credit.

Illinois Psychologists:

PESI, Inc is an approved provider with the State of Illinois, Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Professional Regulation. License #: 268.000102. Full attendance at this course qualifies for 11.0 self-study contact hours.

Indiana Psychologists:

PESI, Inc is an approved provider with the Indiana Board of Psychology. Certificate #: 98000998A – Category I. PESI maintains full responsibility for this program and its contents. Full attendance at this self-study course qualifies for 11.0 contact hours.

Kentucky Psychologists:

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Kentucky Board of Examiners of Psychology to offer continuing education for psychologists. PESI maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This self-study activity will qualify for 11.0 contact hours.

Social Workers:

This intermediate self-study activity consists of 11.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.

Colorado Social Workers:

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Colorado Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. Provider #1413. This course has been approved for 11.0 continuing education hours.

Florida Social Workers:

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number 50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 11.0 continuing education credits.

Illinois Social Workers:

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Illinois, Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Professional Regulation. License #: 159-000154. Successful completion of this self-study activity qualifies for 11.0 contact hours.

Kansas Social Workers:

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board. Provider #14-006. This self-study course has been approved for 11.0 continuing education hours.

Minnesota Social Workers:

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Minnesota, Board of Social Work. Provider #: CEP-140. This self-study course has been approved for 11.0 continuing education hours. A certificate will be issued upon successful completion of a post-test.

Montana Social Workers:

The Montana Board of Behavioral Health no longer pre-approves any courses or sponsors. Each licensee is responsible for taking courses which contribute to their competence and directly relate to their scope of practice as defined in board statute (MAR 24-219-32). Licensees must keep CE documentation for three years in case of an audit. This intermediate level self-study activity consists of 11.0 clock hours of instruction.

New York Social Workers:

PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s (NYSED) State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0008. This self-study activity will qualify for 13.0 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance. Expires: December 31, 2020.

Pennsylvania Social Workers:

The Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors accepts many national association CE approvals, several of which PESI offers. For a full list, please see your State Board regulations at https://www.dos.pa.gov/ProfessionalLicensing/BoardsCommissions/. This intermediate self-study activity consists of 11.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction.

Other Professions:

This self-study activity qualifies for 11.0 clock hours of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.

Disclaimer:

**Information obtained in this course should be used within your scope of practice. **It is your ethical responsibility to report accurate hours to your licensing board.  **All self-study participants must complete and pass (80% or better) a post-test/evaluation prior to receiving a certificate of completion. If you require a copy of the test/evaluation for CE purposes, please print at the time you take the test.

FAQ

FAQ

What is an On-Demand course?

On-Demand courses are self-paced online courses you can access any time from any computer or mobile device with a current browser and a reliable internet connection. Courses include streaming video lectures and downloadable PDFs of manuals and supplemental content. There are no required assignments or scheduled events, and there is no interaction with faculty or other students.

On-Demand courses that are eligible for self-study CE credits include online quizzes, as well as certificates you can download once you have viewed all the content and passed the quiz. These courses do not expire. You can take as long as you need to pass, and you still have access once you have completed the course.

What kind of computer skills do I need?

In order to be successful with online learning, you must have basic computer or mobile device and internet skills. You should be able to use a browser, such as Chrome or Firefox, and keep it updated to the most recent version. You will need to be able to create an account at gottman.com, complete the purchase process, and visit your account again to launch your courses. You will need to understand how to click buttons, use video controls, such as pause and play, and download and open PDF files.

How do I access the course content once I have purchased a course?

Log in at gottman.com and visit your My Account page to see a list of your online courses. Each course will include a button to launch the course viewer. The viewer button takes you to a page that contains all the course content, including links to take your CE quizzes and download certificates.

What is required in order to earn CE credit?

In order to receive CE credit, you must view all the course videos and complete the quiz with an 80% score or higher. Once you have successfully completed the course and passed the quiz, you can download your CE certificate. CEs are provided by PESI, an approved continuing education provider for many national and state agencies.

Do online courses come with the printed manuals?

No. Online courses that include manuals come with a downloadable PDF manual. When you purchase an online course that has a printed manual available for purchase, you can add the manual to your order for an additional fee. If you would like a printed manual but did not select it during purchase, you can order it later from our online store.

Do I need the printed manual?

We highly recommend you purchase the printed manual for online courses. Every printed manual includes a binder with tabs for each chapter, so it’s easy to flip through the materials as you watch the videos. Manuals are an important reference during and after the courses as you learn to apply the methods.

Can I share my login with colleagues so we can learn as a group?

No. Logins may only be used by the individual who purchased the course. If you would like to learn as a group, please ask the other members to purchase the course.

Can I share the manual and handout PDFs with colleagues?

No. All files included with the course may only be used by the individual who purchased the course.

Can I purchase Online Learning products for someone else?

No. Purchases are associated with user accounts and linked to CE credits and certificates. You can allow someone to use your credit card to purchase, but they need to be logged into their own account so it can be associated with their credits for the course.

Dates / Cost

Dates:

June 4th to 6th 2025

Location:

1158 Charlotteville Road, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada   N3Y 4K5

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Cost:

Registration Options (all rates are per person)

  1. Registration Rate: $1,100.00 CAD (+GST), $825.00 USD (+GST)
  2. Early Bird Registration, Valid until April 1, 2025: $950.00 CAD (+GST), $712.50 USD (+GST)
  3. Bring a colleague for a discount of $100 to a maximum of 2 colleagues. Once the colleague(s) are identified, registered and paid, your fee will then be charged and adjusted to reflect the discount.
  4. Student Registration Rate: $635.00 CAD (+GST), $478.25 USD (+GST). Proof of enrollment is required.
  5. Combined Level 1 & 2 Rate: $1,500.00 CAD (+GST), $1,125.00 USD (+GST).

~ GST will be added to all prices, USD payments by Cheque.

Group rates may be available for early registration only. Please email events@bestmarriages.ca for details 

* Refund Policy: Refund (less $100 administrative fee) when cancelling 30 days prior to the workshop. After this date, credit will be given to attend a future workshop.

Attendance (Limited to):

15

Payment:

CDN funds by cheque or e-transfer, USD funds by check mailed To: Patricia Fidler, 1558 Charlotteville Rd. 8, On, Canada N3Y 4K5

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 Contact:

Sandra Callaghan positiverelationship2@gmail.com for more information and registration.

Registration:

Sandra will notify you of receipt of registration.  Once payment is received you will have confirmation of your spot from Sandra. positiverelationship2@gmail.com