CK™ 2 TRAINING – RELATIONSHIPS TRAINING

 This course will give you a clear understanding of:

• Why we are attracted to specific types of partners
• The reasons relationships fail & what can be done to change this
• Conflicting and complementary elements of the couple’s  ‘Relationships Matrix™’
• How what brings us together can break us apart
• The eight basic human needs in intimate relationships
• Hidden agendas brought into a couples’ relationships
• Compatibility and communication issues
• Attachment injury and anxious and avoidant attachment
• Sex, sexuality and intimacy issues
• Domestic violence profiles
• The ‘tipping point’ in relationships
• Recovering from infidelity, a separation or a death of a partner
• Positive flourishing relationships
• The dance of intimacy in dating

In this workshop you will learn how to :

• Apply the three tiered (typically 3 stage) CK™ approach to relationship issues and modify it for couples sessions

Stage 1 – Talk Therapy Relationship Counselling Skills 

• Use circular questioning and other communication skills for working with couples
• Manage conflict in couples’ sessions
• Facilitate couples in learning constructive communications skills, validation and supportive responding
• Identify triggers in relationships and the emotional reactions resulting
• Explore couples individual and collective histories and identify how past relationships and family of origin influences have molded their current issues
• Identify couples’ attachment injuries that have caused gridlock in their relationships

Stage 2 – Couple  & Individual Kinesiology Based ‘Resolving Emotional Stress Circuits’

• Use the ‘Yin Yang Strengths Chart™’ to identify complementary & conflicting strengths in relationships
• Use muscle testing based regression to identify childhood and past relationship wounds intruding into the current relationship, and how to de-stress and resolve them
• Aid partners to gain empathy by seeing each other’s wounded Child Self
• Work through guilt and blame

Stage 3 – Behaviour Change Relationship Exercises

• Draw up the couple’s  ‘Relationships Matrix™’ of compensating strengths and deficiencies, and their conflicting excesses
• Help couples decode and resolve their ‘Relationships Matrix™’
• Utilise a wide range of relationship exercises to build relationship skills
• Employ relationship enhancing exercises adapted from Positive Psychology and Attachment theory

Apply CK™ to Relationship Issues  in Practice

• Work with couples, both individually and together, and with singles
• Work with specific issues of LBGT relationships
• Apply the techniques to specific issues of infidelity, recovery from separation/divorce, and death of a partner
• Address the common conflict issues of money, sex, housework, in-laws, work stress, work versus family, parenting styles and step-parenting issues
• Address individual issues affecting the relationship (e.g. jealousy, insecurity, anxiety, depression, mental health issues, personality disorders, alcoholism, drug addiction, pornography, gambling addiction)
• Help couples separate from unworkable relationships without taking lots of baggage with them
• Help singles overcome past relationship hurts and find satisfying and lasting new relationships

Support Yourself as a CK™ Practitioner

• Deal with your own relationship issues that can intrude into working effectively with couples
• Engage appropriate supervision and debriefing
• Promote yourself as a professional Counselling Kinesiology™  practitioner specialising in relationships issues

Presentation structure:

• Relationship questionnaires
• Relationship Exercises
• Working with relationships

– Techniques & issues

– Background and explanation

– Demonstration – singles and couples

– Q & A

– Supervised practice – role plays & de-stressing

– Revision

• De-stressing own relationship issues – supervised practice
• Couples balances demonstration

Materials included:

• 3 comprehensive workbooks preceding the hands-on intensive covering background theory and structure of CK™ Relationships Training
• CK™ 2 ‘In Practice’ workshop manual to accompany the 3 days hands-on intensive
• 3 further workbooks covering the material covered in the hands-on intensive plus the applications of CK™
• Worksheets to help absorb and retain the information
•  Yin Yang Strengths Chart™ to identify complementary & conflicting strengths in relationships
• Relationships Matrix™ chart & questionnaire
• Role Play outlines of couples’ issues
• Couple relationship history and session note forms
• Sample relationship issues case studies and case study proformas
• 4 webinars (Avoidant/Anxious Attachment, Relationship Matrix™, Yin Yang Strengths Chart™, Couple’s Sessions Case Study)

Prerequisites:

CK™ 1 workshop and completed workbooks & worksheets (CK™ 1 competency assessments not required to be completed)

Presenters:

Gordon and Debra Dickson

Competency Assessments:

• Practical assessment during the hands-on intensive
• Satisfactory completion of all worksheets
• 2 detailed case studies on relationship issues covering all 3 stages of CK™ (at least one with a couple)
• Written multiple-choice theory (posted out with time limit to return – open book)
• Verified attendance at the 4 webinars
• Oral (by phone or video conference) to prepare for promoting and marketing yourself as a CK™ Relationships Practitioner

Accreditation:

40 hrs of accredited training as Category B “Further Kinesiology Studies” or “Communication Studies” with Australian Kinesiology Association (AKA).

CK™ 2 contributes to the hours required to become a registered kinesiology practitioner.

Location:

Sunshine Coast  – Integrated Health Kinesiology, 13 Parkana Crescent Buddina, QLD.

Melbourne – venue to be advised and subject to numbers

Dates & Times:

Distance Education components – To be scheduled
Hands-on intensive (3 days 9 am – 6.30 pm) – To be scheduled

Cost:

(January 2018)

Complete training package (Distance Education components, 3 day hands-on intensive, 4 webinars including all materials and competency assessments) –
Pay As You Go $265/calendar month x 4 1/2 – total $1193
– Hands-on Workshop Repeat: $405

Application Form:

Download an application form now –
CK™ 2 APPLICATION FORM

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