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: Love vs. Your Brain: Why Neurobiology Will Break Relationships and How to Outsmart It, taught by Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT
February 27, 2026
8:00am - 10:30am Pacific timeÂ
If you’ve ever wondered why even your most motivated couples slip back into the same painful patterns, you’re not alone.Â
Even loving, committed couples can find themselves stuck in conflict or disconnection, causing chronic instability. What looks like resistance or avoidance is often the brain’s built‑in survival wiring taking over.
In this workshop, Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, explores a counterintuitive truth at the heart of intimate relationships: the human brain is fundamentally designed for survival, not love.Â
Without conscious design and deliberate intervention, our most cherished relationships are vulnerable. That’s not because partners are bad or morally wrong but because our biology — energy conservation, subcortical threat systems, memory bias, and automatic survival responses — all work against long-term pair bonding.
Under stress, these powerful neurobiological forces routinely override cognition, empathy, and intention, leading partners to default to self-protective, pro-self behaviors that undermine mutuality and long-term security.
In this workshop, Stan will decode complex science into practical clinical strategies you can immediately put to use in your practice. Come learn how to:
- Translate neurobiological insights into concrete therapeutic interventions for high-conflict and insecure couples
- Assess and intervene in couple conflicts driven by subcortical threat systems and survival-based automation.Â
- Reframe couple distress in ways that reduce blame and improve engagement.Â
- Interrupt escalation cycles and reduce misperceptions fueled by memory bias.
- Guide couples toward co-regulation and secure-functioning behaviors, even under stress.
As a couple therapist, you can help partners outsmart their own biology.Â
Plus These Great Benefits!
When you purchase the workshop, you’ll receive a recording that you’ll be able to watch on demand for three months after the live event.Â
* CE credit is available for this workshop.Â
* PACT training is not a prerequisite to attend.
* Become a PACT+ Alumni Member now to reserve your seat for FREE.