March 27 & 28 and October 30 & 31st

Venue: East Hotel Canberra

A weekend workshop for all couples with Janine Moran and psychologist Melanie Sheehan. If you're from Canberra or from interstate consider staying at the East Hotel in Kingston - a short stroll to the beautiful Lake Burley Griffin and beautiful leafy cafe precincts of Manuka, old Kingston and Kingston Foreshore.

For more information on this workshop please download our brochure or to book, please email reception@janinemoran.com.au.

This workshop has been developed by Sue Johnson, who recently received the order for Canada for her leading edge work in couples therapy. Emotionally focused therapy for couples has been proven to have 75% success rate in improving and repairing relationships - higher than any other form of couples therapy.

There is no sharing of personal problems. The seminar is actually very private - it isn't group therapy. It actually isn't even therapy - it's educational, with material explaining the ways in which all couples get stuck in negative interaction cycles. These cycles can look and feel a little different from couple to couple  but have the same underpinnings as most other couples. You will watch clips of couples with similar issues, learn some really important concepts about what might have been getting in your way, then go away as a couple in private to talk through some of the content if you wish.

You work through 7 conversations - each carefully constructed to look at different aspects of relating to each other. Have you ever heard yourself or someone else say "we just don't communicate well"? In this workshop you go way beyond that statement, and work out why articulate and capable people who might communicate beautifully with others, get stuck with the person who matters the most to them. The 7 conversations help you do that.

Finding your demon dialogues, finding the raw spot, revisiting a rocky moment, forgiving injuries, engaging and connecting and bonding through sex and touch are just some of the important topics the workshop covers.

If you are in a counselling process or thinking you need counselling, you will find the workshop an excellent way to start getting a perspective on what has been getting in the way. Depending on where you are at - you might find the workshop enough to really make the difference without counselling. If things are really tough, the workshop might get you part way to understanding the problems and with some counselling help, make bigger progress in shorter time.

You will learn current, evidence-based information about relationship dynamics, and about the way our own emotional wiring feeds into our relationship patterns. You will see video footage of real couples having conversations to help them connect and understand each other, then go away on your own to practice these same conversations in a structured way, with support available if needed.

You take Sue Johnson's book home, Hold Me Tight, and use it as a resource to stay on track, or if you are a workshop participant we make every effort to jump you up our waiting lists so you can reinforce your progress in follow-up counselling.

The venue is the warm and inviting East Hotel, in Canberra's leafy inner south. Come to Canberra and enjoy its cafe culture, food and cultural attractions before or after the retreat, and stay at East. If you live in Canberra, come for the days only, and have morning and afternoon teas provided, and lunches on the beautiful terrace at Agostini's restaurant.

The price of this workshop is approximately the same price as for 5 counselling sessions, and you can work on your relationship all weekend. For some people it will be a far more gentle and less confronting introduction to figuring out their issues than counselling, and can be fun as well. It's deep content presented in a light-hearted way - hollywood movie clips to illustrate points. Most importantly, reiterating, it isn't group therapy - it's educational content presented that will change the way you understand how to do relationships well forever.

For more information on this workshop or to book, email reception@janinemoran.com.au. Scroll down to the read what participants have said after attending previous workshops.