Hold Me Tight: Conversations for Connection
A One-Day Workshop for Therapists
and Their Partners
Saturday, March 5, 2016
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Tulane School of Social Work
Hold Me Tight Couples Workshop is an educational and experiential one-day retreat designed to help couples build their relationship, overcome problematic patterns of interaction, strengthen connection and feel secure, valued, and loved.
In this one-day Hold Me Tight workshop, specially offered to therapists and their spouses or partners, we will utilize the most empirically supported marriage model in the world, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). Pioneered by Dr. Sue Johnson and Dr. Les Greenberg, research studies have found that 70-75% of couples move from distress to recovery and 90% show significant improvements through the use of Emotionally Focused Therapy.
The Hold Me Tight program for couples was developed by Dr. Sue Johnson, award-winning founder of EFT and author of the book Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love, and recently released Love Sense.
As therapists, we invest our energy helping our clients with their lives and relationships. We believe your own relationship is worth investing in.
About the Presenter
George Faller, LMFT is a world leader in helping people reconnect and in building strong relationships. The experience George brings is vast, as he works as a marriage therapist to scores of Wall Street executives, serves as a marriage consultant and conference leader to the US Military, NYPD, and FDNY, and trains therapists from around the globe, including right here in Louisiana. He is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in Connecticut and New York, an AAMFT (American Association for Marriage & Family Therapy) Supervisor, and a Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist, Supervisor, and Trainer. Additionally, George is the founder and president of the New York Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy, the Director of Training at the Greenwich Center for Hope and Renewal in Connecticut, and is an Adjunct Faculty Member at the Ackerman Institute for the Family in Manhattan. He is also a board member for the Porter Cason Institute for the Family at Tulane University School of Social Work. George was featured on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams as a “Person Making a Difference” in the world in December 2011.
Registration Information and Fees
The registration fee is $100 and includes lunch on site as well as 5.5 CEU hours. Payments can be made via credit card or check (payable to Tulane School of Social Work). Checks should be mailed to:
Tulane School of Social Work -- 8906
Attn: Hold Me Tight Workshop
127 Elk Place
New Orleans, LA 70112
Please fill out the registration form, but your final registration is predicated on receiving your payment. Once your payment is received, you will receive an e-mail confirming your registration into the program, and you will be guaranteed a spot at the workshop.
CANCELLATION POLICY -- In the event you find you cannot come to our program, it is important for you to notify us BEFORE the program begins; either by e-mail (preferred) at blrl@tulane.edu or via phone at 504-865-5314. We will refund the registration fee if notified before the event begins, after event begins, there are no refunds.
Parking/Building Entrance Information
For anyone being dropped off, go to 111 S. Saratoga, which is ½ block from Canal Street, and you will need to walk up the parking garage ramp to second floor. Once on the second floor, take a left and enter the building through the Skywalk. More detailed directions are below.
Anyone driving to and attending the event, please park in the Saratoga Parking Garage located at 111 S. Saratoga St. If you look up as you pull into the garage, you will see the skywalk that you must cross into our building. Park in the garage and proceed to second floor of parking garage. The skywalk is on Saratoga side of garage, if you are in the elevator, exit the elevator lobby to left into the garage and walk 50 feet, turn right following the pedestrian crosswalk to skywalk over S. Saratoga street to enter 127 Elk Place.
This is the only entrance open for this workshop. Once in Elk Place, proceed down hall and take the elevator to third floor. Registration will be on right as you get off elevator. You must sign in and out in order to receive your social work CEU certificate.
Questions?
For more information, contact Bonnie Lister or Kathy Smith at blrl@tulane.edu or at 504-865-5314.