Imago Certification Training

Professional TrainingsLevel 2

CERTIFIED IMAGO CLINICAL RELATIONSHIP THERAPIST (CIT)

Certification phase is based around a six-month program of supervision which prepares for submission of a final clinical video for evaluation as well as written reports.

Consultation
Video Review
Assist a Getting The Love You Want® Workshop

Continuing Education Credits And Tuition: Imago Continuing Education is required every two years.

What are the requirements to register for this training?

Participate in a ‘Getting the Love You Want – Couples Weekend Workshop’
Provide clinical support in a ‘Getting the Love You Want – Couples Weekend Workshop’
Complete two reports following the training, as outlined by the Clinical Instructor.
Present DVD samples of your work with couples for supervision
Complete six supervision sessions with an Imago supervisor
Submit a final DVD of your work with couples, for assessment, after completion of the six supervision sessions.
Provide proof of membership to a recognised professional association
Pay certification fees

Learning Objectives

Learn the transformational Imago skills to facilitate connection with committed partners to move relationships into passionate, safe and intimacy.
Learn the four relational lenses that will help you make sense of the attraction and conflict you see in a couple and will help you to guide the couple towards a more conscious relationship.
Experience a revolutionary, safe, and empowering supervision process that will help you build confidence and competency in working with couples.

After This Training, Participants Will Be Able To

Discuss childhood stages of development and wounding as well as resulting characterological adaptations in primary relationships.
Discuss the concept of the Imago and the role it plays in partner selection and subsequent stages of adult relationships.
Work with a couple’s resistance, flow with it and keep volatile couples in dialogue.
Demonstrate dialogical skills to assist couples in restructuring conflict and frustration, resolving adult and childhood rage, bringing them into a healing relationship, and guiding them from unconscious to conscious relating (moving them from reactivity to intentionality).
Demonstrate skills to assist couples in increasing validation and empathy and achieve a deeper level of commitment and intimacy.
Focus on their own personal Characterological Growth and thus be more able to deepen client’s affect, getting them in touch with childhood pain, and thus helping them find healing in the adult intimate relationship.
Empower couples to continue the work of healing after therapy is terminated.