You love each other, but lately it feels harder to talk, easier to misread each other, and
exhausting to keep circling the same conversations. Getting the Love You Want® is a two-day couple’s workshop designed to help you slow things down, understand what is really happening beneath conflict, and reconnect with clarity, safety, and
respect.
This workshop is facilitated by Philipa Thornton, psychologist and advanced Imago therapist,
alongside her ‘helper’ husband Chris Paulin, fellow psychologist. With decades of clinical
experience, warmth, fun, and steadiness to they specialise in creating a space where couples feel
supported, safe and connected. As life partners they live this journey.
This is not therapy. You work privately with your own partner throughout the weekend. Sharing with
the group is always optional.
Why Couples Choose this Workshop
Most couples don’t come because they are failing. They come because they still care and do not want
to keep repeating the same patterns.
Based on the internationally recognised Imago Relationship Therapy model, Getting the Love You Want® has been refined over decades and is offered worldwide as both a stand-alone experience and a powerful complement to therapy.
Over two carefully structured days, you are guided step by step through proven conversations that reduce reactivity, increase understanding, and make it possible to feel heard, seen and valued again without blame, interruption, or escalation.
Many couples leave saying they finally understand the ‘what’ of what has been happening and truly feel equipped with tools they can return to when things get hard. The relief of not having to meet for hours and weeks of therapy is refreshing for many.
Why Couples Feel Safe with Philipa and Chris
Philipa and Chris bring a calm, balanced, and deeply respectful presence. Couples often say they
feel emotionally safe rather than exposed, guided rather than pushed, and understood rather than analysed.
Chris’s presence adds a grounded, relational steadiness that many couples find reassuring, particularly for partners who are hesitant about therapy-style environments. Together, they model the kind of respectful, human communication this workshop supports.
This workshop is especially suited to couples who value privacy, structure, and emotional intelligence, and who want depth without drama.
What You will Learn Together
Couples learn how to:
• Navigate recurring conflict around money, intimacy, parenting, trust, and unmet needs
• Speak and listen without escalating, shutting down, or walking on eggshells
• Understand each other’s reactions with compassion instead of blame
• Repair moments of disconnection without reopening wounds
• Build emotional safety while appreciating differences
Hear from other Couples
o “It felt contained, not confronting.”
– M., Ballarat VIC
o “Clear enough for me to stay engaged.”
– T., Mandurah WA
o “Less talking about us. More talking to each other.”
– L., Woden ACT
You do not need to be in crisis.
You do not need to have all the answers.
You simply need a willingness to slow down and show up together.
Especially suited to All Couples
This workshop is particularly powerful for couples who are capable, thoughtful, and successful in many areas of life, yet find their relationship is where things feel most confusing or fragile.
If you are good at coping, analysing, or staying composed but struggle to feel truly met or understood by your partner, this work often lands deeply.
Many couples say, “We manage everything else. We just don’t know how to do this part.”
What this Workshop is and is Not
This workshop is:
• Private work with your partner
• Structured and guided
• Emotionally safe and respectfu
• Evidence-based and practical
This workshop is not:
• Group therapy
• Advice-giving or blame-focused
• Public sharing (optional) or pressure-based
• About deciding whether to stay or leave
A Gentle Invitation
This workshop is intentionally kept small to protect depth and privacy. Places are limited and early booking is recommended. Email or talk to Philipa Thornton Ph 0434559011.
If you love each other but feel disconnected, cautious, or stuck in familiar loops, this weekend offers a clear and supportive way forward.
Choose each other again and ‘Get The Love You Want’ Imago style.
Crows Nest, Sydney
www.marriageworks.com.au
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$995 per Couple or Limited spaces available |
Afternoon tea & lunch will be provided. Please advise of any dietary requirements when you register.
If you’re working with couples who need a deeper reset, our Getting the Love You Want Imago workshop offers a powerful, structured boost to the therapeutic process. Psychologist Philipa Thornton and her helper husband, consultant psychologist Chris Paulin, co-facilitate this two-day intensive in Crows Nest on 7–8 March 2026, guiding partners through proven Imago processes that strengthen communication, calm reactivity and build emotional safety. Many therapists tell us their clients return more open, regulated and ready to continue the work.
Refer your couples or learn more at www.marriageworks.com.au
A Workshop for Couples
With William Vorobioff
Based on Harville Hendrix’s best-selling book of the same name, Imago workshops were developed over a 16 year period. This workshop is offered around the world as a stand alone experience and as a turbocharger to therapy. It is an intensive experience that provides the education, context and tools for understanding what is happening, repairing difficulties, and a path to deepening connection.
Some Comments from recent workshops:
“The workshop gave me and my partner the time, space and tools to build a solid foundation for communication and loving connection.” DK—July 2025
“Transformational. Weekend has restored my faith and optimism in us. In a space of two days it put us both on the same page in a way we’ve never been in 20 years.” Andy.
“I was dragged here without expectation and it was amazing. It opened insights and clarity around long standing problems. The dialogue has provided a huge sense of both relief and hope that our problems can be both understood and transcended.” Dan
What you can learn
ENQUIRIES: Email Will at wvorobioff@outlook.com or phone 0414 408956
TO REGISTER:
Email your names, mobile numbers and date of deposit/payment to: wvorobioff@outlook.com
Payments to be paid into the following account:
William Vorobioff
BSB: 944600 A/C no 000732 838
Please identify payment with your surname/s.
A Workshop for Couples
With William Vorobioff
Based on Harville Hendrix’s best-selling book of the same name, Imago workshops were developed over a 16 year period. This workshop is offered around the world as a stand alone experience and as a turbocharger to therapy. It is an intensive experience that provides the education, context and tools for understanding what is happening, repairing difficulties, and a path to deepening connection.
Some Comments from recent workshops:
“The workshop gave me and my partner the time, space and tools to build a solid foundation for communication and loving connection.” DK—July 2025
“Transformational. Weekend has restored my faith and optimism in us. In a space of two days it put us both on the same page in a way we’ve never been in 20 years.” Andy.
“I was dragged here without expectation and it was amazing. It opened insights and clarity around long standing problems. The dialogue has provided a huge sense of both relief and hope that our problems can be both understood and transcended.” Dan
What you can learn
ENQUIRIES: Email Will at wvorobioff@outlook.com or phone 0414 408956
TO REGISTER:
Email your names, mobile numbers and date of deposit/payment to: wvorobioff@outlook.com
Payments to be paid into the following account:
William Vorobioff
BSB: 944600 A/C no 000732 838
Please identify payment with your surname/s.
Has your sexual relationship become a bit “same old, same old” or infrequent? Do your differences in levels of desire create tensions between you? Has aging impacted your sense of yourself as a sexual being or your enjoyment of sex? Or do you just want to keep the fun and passion alive over the long term? If yes, read on.
Many couples start out their relationship hot and horny, but over the years with the stresses of life, jobs, family, limited time, in addition to the changes with aging, sex can become routine, a source of conflict or rare to non-existent. It doesn’t have to be that way. In this workshop you will learn ways to bring back the passion and excitement through discovering yourself and your partner in new ways as fully alive sexual human beings.
You will learn:
All personal work is done with your partner. And don’t worry – no nudity or anything too risqué. Safety and comfort of participants is of the essence and we work to create an environment in which we hope everyone will feel safe enough to stretch into sharing openly with their partner.
About the Presenters: Sophie Slade is an Imago Relationship Therapist, workshop presenter, senior clinical instructor and clinical psychologist. David Howarth is a regular bloke and retired electrician. He has been assisting Sophie in presenting workshops for over 20 years. Sophie and David have been lovers and life partners for many years and have had to overcome lots of the challenges that so many long-term couples face in their sexual relationships.
Please note that the cost of $850 is per couple.
A Workshop for Couples
With Julie Cutler and William Vorobioff
Whether you and your partner are seeking to enrich your communication, deepen your connection, have lost your way and want to repair and rebuild your connection or are in some despair with regard to your relationship, you are not alone.
These two day workshops are valuable for any couple, regardless of their age or length of relationship, who are seeking to have a supportive and happy relationship.
Tens of thousands of couples in new and long term relationships worldwide have found help by attending an Imago workshop for couples.
Relationships can be challenging and if you are struggling with yours, this course will enable you to acquire new communication skills and learn the ‘Imago Dialogue’. You will learn to resolve conflicts and recreate intimacy through exercises and exploration of your emotional history.
By the end of the workshop, most couples leave feeling far more positive about their relationship and have skills to help them face the future together.
For more information and to book onto the workshop: https://www.enrichingrelationshipsaust.com/getting-the-love-you-want.html.
“My partner and I attended this workshop fairly early in our relationship and found it allowed us to establish a strong foundation for understanding and communication moving forward. We would recommend this workshop to anyone. K & C”
“The Imago process is the only couples therapy I know that provides a practice to improve connection and quality in intimate relationships. I’m looking forward to moving into an awesome new experience of marriage with my husband. S & P”
“Imago is the only option I have found for marriages and relationships really in need of healing. A & S”
A Workshop for Couples
With Jiselle Saraghi
This workshop is designed for couples who want to deepen their connection and create a conscious, joy-filled partnership. It is also for couples exploring whether they should stay or go. It is for the two of you working together, without any pressure to share with the group.
Please note that this is not group therapy; it is a space for you to explore your relationship and learn new skills to help you sustain your love over the long haul.
The workshop was developed by Harville Hendrix, the author of Getting The Love You Want over 30 years ago and has been helping couples all over the world ever since. Whether you’re in Australia, America, France, or any country in the world, the workshop’s content remains the same. However, what sets each workshop apart is the unique flair and flavour that each facilitator brings to the table.
For more information, contact Jiselle at Marriage Counselling Gold Coast – Relationship Counselling (innercalminc.com.au).
“Going to Jiselle’s Imago workshop, I’m truly pleased to say, shocked & surprised me in the best way possible! In our 37 years of marriage, I honestly felt my husband & I had nothing new to discover about each other, or even to learn about love & communication. Well I was wrong! The whole weekend we learned heaps & had fun too! Not only between ourselves but also sharing alongside with other couples as a group too.
It was fascinating to learn the mirroring technique of dialoguing & mindful listening, then repeating back what your partner had just spoken. To really see things from your partner’s perception, no second guessing, was a powerful eye-opener. This was a way that we could communicate better & ask questions of each other without having any doubts or anxiety to be open & vulnerable in a fully safe way. Jiselle was a wonderful supportive guide through it all. The way she listened to all of us & helped summarise our issues as we were learning, was so impressive!
A most impactful part for me, was discovering the reasons & importance of revisiting deeply hidden feelings & situations from early childhood memories.
To share these together, was quite the shockingly intense but insightful & deeply moving experience that opened new depths of connection & reached a whole other level of caring & understanding between us both.
What I loved most about the weekend workshop was rediscovering what my husband & I deeply felt & valued about each other. OMG I fell in love all over again! It was not only a wonderful confirmation to see things we were already doing successfully in our relationship, but going through the Imago tasks, stages & procedures with Jiselle’s caring guidance, explained the how & why we ended up together. It just made so much sense.
All in all – an amazing, fabulous, creative, impactful, workshop.!
Well done & thank you, Jiselle for all the extra Nurturing & Nourishing layers you’ve imparted to us both that we can continue on with into our future together.”
Getting The Love You Want: A Workshop for Couples
Whether you and your partner are seeking to enrich your communication, deepen your connection, have lost your way and want to repair and rebuild your connection or are in some despair with regard to your relationship, you are not alone.
These two day workshops are valuable for any couple, regardless of their age or length of relationship, who are seeking to have a supportive and happy relationship.
Tens of thousands of couples in new and long term relationships worldwide have found help by attending an Imago workshop for couples.
Relationships can be challenging and if you are struggling with yours, this course will enable you to acquire new communication skills and learn the ‘Imago Dialogue’. You will learn to resolve conflicts and recreate intimacy through exercises and exploration of your emotional history.
By the end of the workshop, most couples leave feeling far more positive about their relationship and have skills to help them face the future together.
