Renewing the Rhythms of Family Life and Relationships
after the Coronavirus Pandemic
20 April 2024, 9:00am - 4:30pm AEST
** This event will be recorded. **
**Excuse me, may I have your attention? will be available for attendees only.**
**Gottman methods to assist couples connect post Covid restrictions will be available to attendees and non-attendees**
As we are well aware, the hinges of human history have turned profoundly upon the advent of the Coronavirus Epidemic. Almost overnight, human beings had to change their interactions with society from personal interactions to electronic interactions and remain, largely, in isolation. As we stand upon the threshold of a post epidemic era, we need to consider, for ourselves as well as for our clients, ways to embrace new rhythms of intrafamilial and interpersonal relationships. In this way we can ensure that, whilst the impact of the Coronavirus Epidemic has been profound, it does not have to leave an ineffaceable as well as impoverished way of relating with one another. To this end, CCAA is delighted to present two notable speakers, Joy Anasta and Robyn Lyngard, for this full day Professional Development Presentation.
Excuse me, may I have your attention? with Joy Anasta
Isolation and shutdowns saw Covid become a time of increased dissociative disorders, disconnection and levels of internal chaos. How do we find our way back, now that we can go ‘back into the world’, especially for our young people who have found a world inside their screen. As humans we seek, indeed desire, connection; but Covid has left its mark with increased social anxiety and uncertainty about how to reach out.
Gottman methods to assist couples connect post Covid restrictions with Robyn Lyngard
People are healthier and wealthier in stable couple relationships. This workshop will use the research and methodology of Drs John & Julie Gottman* to assist couples establish healthy long-term relationships. Particular attention will be given to expanding relationship flexibility and capacity in light of current influences from the covid pandemic. Since covid restrictions began in early 2020, couples have faced various changes to their lifestyles such as interruptions to children’s education, changes in employment, re-evaluating priorities, and heightened challenges in caring for older family members. In this workshop, we will explore ways to equip couples to navigate these new rhythms of living. Robyn will focus upon assisting couples to further their emotional connection through enhancing their conflict management skills, building their friendship, managing stress outside of their relationship (employment, church, extended family relationships etc), and having conversations around changed priorities and life goals.
Presenter/s:
Dr Joy Anasta
With 25 years of private practice as a therapist, and more than 40% of her work focused on relationships in all their various presentations, Joy is first and foremost a thinker, and interpreter of life, and the nuances of life that bring our clients into our rooms feeling confused and overwhelmed about how they arrive in the position they find themselves in.
Robyn Lingard
Robyn became SA’s second Certified Gottman Therapist in 2019 after being introduced to the Gottman model during her Master’s degree. During these past 15 years, she has undertaken ongoing training in couples therapy according to various models, including Gottman training levels 1 to 3. In 2014, under the supervision of CCAA founder, Dr John Court, her research into couples relationships and the management of chronic illness was published in the international Family Journal: Counselling & Therapy for Couples & Families. To obtain Gottman certification, Robyn was required to extensively record her therapeutic work for examination by the Gottman Institute. Robyn is currently participating in two international studies conducted by the Gottman Institute into the effectiveness of Gottman therapy among couples and affair recovery.
Robyn is a psychotherapist in private practice in Adelaide’s northeast where she consults with couples and adult individuals and provides clinical and pastoral supervision.
This course counts towards 3 hours of category A CPD for one session and 6 hours of category A for both sessions.
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$10 Early Bird discount finishes on 13 April 2024