Hollyhock - Island Getaway Health Retreat

A Lifetime of Love

Jul 7 - 11, 2010

Johnson

Presented by: Sue Johnson

• Relationship

Transform the frustration and loneliness of your relationship into a safe emotional bond. We all want a positive answer to the key question in love relationships, “Are you there for me?” We all want a close, loving bond with our partner. And now, at last, we know what goes wrong in love and we know how to put it right.

Learn to take the mystery out of love and discover the ways of breaking the cycles of frustration and loneliness in your relationship. Create lasting trust and intimacy, stepping out of the demon dialogues that divide you, forgiving injuries and deepening erotic connection. This workshop is based on Sue Johnson’s twenty-five years of research and her highly successful couple therapy approach, Emotionally Focused Therapy. Learn the steps that lead to a lifetime of love. Singles and couples welcome.

This program begins in the evening of the first day and ends at lunchtime on the last day. The program is based on Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (www.iceeft.com), a tested ground breaking approach developed by Dr. Sue Johnson, in which seven out of ten distressed couples are able to repair their relationship. The format will be a mixture of presentation (on the new science of love as laid out in Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love), watching and discussing 3 couples transforming their relationship in the Hold Me Tight conversations on DVD and doing exercises based on these conversations. 

Dr. Sue Johnson is a professor of clinical psychology and a pre-eminent leader in the field of close relationships. She is the author of Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love. www.holdmetight.com

Click here to listen to Sue Johnson on CBC's Ideas.

Click here to discover how couples therapy at the Vancouver Couple & Family Institute can help you create love relationships you want to come home to.

"Sue Johnson [is] the most original contributor to couples therapy to come along in the last 30 years. This book will touch your heart, stimulate your mind, and give you practical strategies for improving your marriage. It will be an instant classic." William J. Doherty, Ph.D.author of Take Back Your Marriage

TUITION: $545 CDN (meals & accommodation extra) / 4 nights