PACT Interviews and Workshops
Gain practical skills and learn new approaches that help you and your clients grow and thrive — even if you have not taken PACT training.
Open to all clinicians, these interviews and workshops are chock-full of useful information vital to your ongoing growth and development as a couple therapist.
If you have a PACT+ Alumni Membership, these interviews and workshops are included in your membership. Please sign up in advance in your PACT+ portal for these events at no additional cost.
If you are not a PACT+ Alumni Member, you can still register and join in! Simply sign up for each workshop using the links below.
Interviews
Join PACT developer Dr. Stan Tatkin as he interviews other experts in the field of couple therapy and delves deeper into topics related to sex issues, consensual non-monogamy, and the integration of PACT with other models of couple therapy.
In these interviews, you’ll meet a range of innovative and inspiring people who are working with couples in their own ways.
Workshops
In workshops, you’ll learn from PACT founder and other PACT faculty about experiential strategies, pioneering approaches, and practical resources that allow you to integrate new skills into everyday clinical practice and feel more confident in your work with couples.
Upcoming Events
Live Workshop: Working with Couples on the Brink, taught by Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT
Friday, October 25, 2024
8:00am - 10:30am Pacific time
3 CE hours; no PACT training required
PACT+ Members: Sign in and reserve your FREE seat.
In this workshop, PACT developer Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, discusses how to work effectively with couples unsure of whether they want to stay together – couples on the brink of splitting up.
Working with couples on the brink poses particular challenges. As a therapist, you need to work quickly and strategically. The therapist must be laser focused on the task at hand – that is, helping couples figure out whether or not they want to stay together based on where they are currently.
Working with couples on the brink can cause anxiety for you, as the therapist, because you can feel the pain of people not wanting to lose each other and maybe their families.
In this workshop, Stan explains how to work most effectively with couples on the brink and help ease anxiety you may feel about working with these couples.
You will learn how to:
- Enable repair but not allow couples to relitigate the past; the task is to focus on the present and the future.
- Work with accrued threat memory to help partners move forward without triggering threat responses in each other.
- Help couples rebuild their relationship on a new foundation of secure functioning – consciously, deliberately, and declaratively according to their separate wishes.
- Help couples make agreements on the big things so they are pointing in the same direction.
- Think strategically and stay on task so you don’t waste time when couples are in crisis.
In addition, Stan addresses how working with couples on the brink may involve:
- A new couple who is not able to launch into the next phase of their relationship because one partner resists commitment.
- A dealbreaker: when one partner wants something different than the other; for example one wants children and the other doesn’t, or one wants to introduce other partners into the relationship and one doesn’t.
- One partner who continues to lie and cheat.
Learn through lecture, discussion, and role playing – and ask questions if you have them!
Working with Couples on the Brink, a workshop taught by Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT
Friday, October 25, 2024
8:00am - 10:30am Pacific time
* 3 CE hours available for this workshop
* PACT training is not a prerequisite to attend this workshop.