Remember when love was new? If it’s time to renew and revitalize your connection, our couples workshops will help you revive the spark.
Work directly with our team of veteran EFT couples therapists, in this intimate 2-day couples weekend workshop based on the work of Dr. Sue Johnson. Limited to only eight couples.
Register for a Hold Me Tight® Workshop
“The workshop took our re-connecting process to a whole new level.”
What are the 7 Hold Me Tight® Conversations
for a Lifetime of Love?
In conversations 1-3 we learn about the cycle, your relationship’s enemy – the stuck patterns you get caught in over and over regardless of topics.
In conversation 4 we learn and experience a process of identifying our core relationship needs and sharing them with your partner. This process becomes the antidote to the cycle or “Demon Dialogue” as Sue Johnson refers to it.
Conversations 5 & 6 give us a chance to apply what we have learned to specific relationship dynamics.
Recognizing Demon Dialogues – First, you identify common behavior pattens and the emotions and intentions that drive disconnection and conflict. Then you share your basic moves and experience in the cycle with your partner. - Finding the Raw Spots – Next, you find connections between your current reactive response to your partner and past raw spots from old relationship injuries, often in childhood. As you share about the a source of a raw spot with your partner it begins to help your partner see they are not the primary cause of your response.
- Revisiting a Rocky Moment – After you can spot your demon dialogue and increase your acceptance of both your and your partner’s parts in the cycle what do you do? Conversation 3 provides a tool for reconnecting and repairing after getting caught up by the cycle.
- Hold Me Tight® – Now, building off of what you learned in the first 3 conversations you start to identify what you need with your partner to tame the cycle. Then you share with these fears with your partner and get practice letting them know what you need.
- Repairing Injuries – In conversation 5 you use this same process from the Hold Me Tight Conversation and apply it to a specific time of hurt in the relationship.
- Bonding Through Sex and Touch – Building on what you learned about the emotional disconnect cycle and applying the same principles to the sexual disconnect cycle.
- Keeping Your Love Alive – The last conversation in the program builds on the understanding that a love relationship is a continual process of losing and finding emotional connection; it helps couples to be deliberate and mindful about maintaining that connection.
“You created a safe environment to work through difficult situations”
During the workshop, you will get the tools to help you and your partner foster secure and lasting bonds that last a lifetime. You will get the tools to:
- Recognize the ‘demon dialogues’ that all couples get caught in and discover what you are really trying to say to each other
- Explore your feelings and needs underneath your behaviors
- Deepen both emotional and physical intimacy
- Repair and forgive old attachment injuries
- Discover deep emotional connection that creates greater bonding and can keep your love alive so your relationship becomes the safe harbor it was meant to be
EFT is endorsed by the American Psychological Association as scientifically proven and widely heralded as one of the most successful approaches to creating loving relationships and lasting bonds.
Work directly with certified EFT couple therapists Dennis Eames, MS, EFT therapists with advanced training Kim Eames, MA, and and other break out facilitators with EFT Certification or advanced training.
Experience the tools for repairing and reconnecting whether you are just starting out in your relationship or have a long term marriage.
We guide you and your partner through facilitated conversations, video presentations, guided exercises and “one-on-one” discussions, to help you reconnect and transform your relationship.
“The workshop gave us the longing and the tools to get out of the patterns that have trapped us for a long, long time.”
Our Hold Me Tight® couples workshops include:
- Live Demos of couples working through the process Hold Me Tight Conversations
- Teaching and exercises led by instructors trained in the highly regarded Emotionally Focused Therapy.
- Therapist/facilitator supported practice exercises with your partner to create greater awareness and understanding of your respective emotional experience
- A Hold Me Tight® workbook full of information and exercises to guide practice and emotional deepening of your relationship at home
- Private follow-up session at no additional fee! – scheduled at a time of your choice!
“You created a very safe environment and helped me understand with clear examples that were very valuable in seeing our relationship in a new light.”
Therapists – earn 13 CEU’s. Learn more here »
Now Holding Intimate Couples Workshops in Seattle:
Upcoming In-Person Dates:
2025 WORKSHOP:
💞 Feb 15-16, 2025 - Full
🌷 April 26-27, 2025 - Full
🍁 Sept 20-21, 2025 🍁
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Participant stories of restored and strengthened relationships for over a decade!
“When we arrived on Friday evening both my husband and I were ready to call it quits. When Joseph suggested to all of us that “we were the perfect partners for each other,” I politely nodded but deep down my doubts remained due to our “entrenched dysfunctionalities.”
By the time we left on Sunday we knew that we really are the partners and that our love could be fully restored and grow.
We had tried couples therapy, had read several books, including Non-Violent Communication, but this emotion focused approach is truly unique, effective, transformative and inspiring. Thank you so much!”
“the workshop provided the framework we needed to crack open some lingering hurts and get started with healing and repairing”
“Amazing how deep we could go in just a short period of time. We guidance and facilitation we had meaningful discussions on important relationship issues that were long overdue.”
“I learned that vulnerability can be difficult but essential for a loving relationship. I felt that after opening up to my wife.”
“I was very nervous. I did not know what to expect, but the format was fantastic. Between the video’s, lecture, break-outs and debriefs…all were very powerful and for me truly life changing. We were close to divorce, but now we feel hope.”