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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 PACTplus: Alumni Community Membership, these interviews and workshops are included in your membership. Please sign up in advance in your PACTplus portal for these events at no additional cost.

If you are not a PACTplus: 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 | Compassionate Request: Restore Safety Fast with New PACT Intervention by Eda Arduman, MA Clinical Psychology, PACT Faculty, and Level 1 Instructor**

July 31, 2026 8:00am – 10:30am Pacific Time

When a couple’s emotions soar, their insight, rationality, and control fly out the window. To stop couples who are spiraling, PACT Faculty and Level 1 Instructor Eda Arduman developed The Compassionate Request, a concrete technique for interrupting escalation cycles and helping couples move from individual reactivity to collaborative functioning.

When a couple enters their session in a state of high dysregulation, insight-based communication can become inaccessible. Partners spiral, narratives escalate, and the session can quickly devolve into a reenactment of the very patterns you're trying to transform as a couple therapist.

Sometimes, the couple can’t talk about their feelings, they simply need to restore safety fast. Eda finds a short, structured request delivered with the right tone, pacing, and presence can restore the Couple Bubble.

This practical workshop will outline the step-by-step structure of the Compassionate Request: how to pause escalation, name an internal state, identify a need, and make a specific, time-limited request in under 60 seconds.

Over 2.5 hours, PACT Faculty and Level 1 Instructor Eda Arduman will introduce and demonstrate the Compassionate Request, a structured micro-intervention grounded in PACT's core principles and informed by her psychoanalytic training. This technique teaches clinicians to support partners in stopping the distress spiral and actively seek co-regulation.

This workshop will cover:

How attachment styles and arousal biases create predictable relational traps
Why talking about emotions often amplifies dysregulation rather than resolving it
The step-by-step structure of the Compassionate Request
Why brevity and behavioral specificity, not emotional disclosure, are the keys to genuine co-regulation
How to coach couples to respond with a truthful yes, no, or counteroffer, plus the pitfall of false compliance
How voice, facial expression, pacing, and proximity function are co-regulatory tools, not just communication style
How to use this technique with highly reactive couples, shutdown partners, and in-session enactments
How to help couples build procedural memory for rapid repair, so the skill becomes available even under stress

Plus These Great Benefits!

Can’t make it live? Purchase in advance to receive access to the workshop recording for 3 months. Note: The recording is only available if you register before the live event begins.

* CE credit is available for this workshop.

* No PACT training is required to attend.

* Become a PACTplus: Alumni Community member now to reserve your seat for FREE.

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