The Center For Intentional Living - Education For Life with Charlie Verge, Ph.D. and faculty
Upcoming Classes and Workshops
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Couple Therapy II:  A Follow Up
Core Program
 
8 Thursday mornings • 10am-12am • Price: $320
 
This 8-week class is a follow-up for graduates of the Program In Couple Therapy (or equivalent experience), previously offered through the Family Institute of Cambridge.  Participants will have the opportunity to practice their skills in creating safe and successful conversations with couples and develop confidence in using intervention strategies taught in the Couple Program, as well as learn new methods that deepen intimate conversations and create contexts for greater healing for couples.  Course content will include forgiveness and reconciliation work, repairing intimate wounds, balancing relational and individual work, using language and action to enhance empathy, and coaching the growth of love.
 
Program Dates:
April 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
May 6, 13, 20
Couples II
To register for this course, please click below or send a check to The Center for Intentional Living, 11 River St., Wellesley, MA 02481
Price: $320.00
 
 
Creating Loving Relationships
Workshop Series
 
10 Tuesday evenings beginning September 15, 2009 • 7:30-9:30pm • $20 per session per person• Participants may sign up for one, several, or all sessions. Attendance at a previous session is not a prerequisite, however, for maximum benefit, participation in all 10 sessions is encouraged.  Open to individuals and couples.  
 
This ten-week seminar is open to all couples and individuals who want to build more loving relationships. Participants learn to create intimate partnerships with the respect, devotion, appreciation, and honesty that form the basis for lasting happiness. Each week a different theme will be addressed in depth. This seminar is chock full of valuable information for improving intimacy skills to enhance the quality of true loving connection.
 
Program Dates:
September 15, 22, 29
October 6, 13, 20, 27
November 3, 10, 17
 
Register online by clicking below, or send checks payable to the Center for Intentional Living, 11 River St., Wellesley, MA  02481. 
 
Creating Loving Relationships
Complete 10 week series
Price: $175.00
Creating Loving Relationships, Session 1
Setting the Stage for Love: Good walls build good neighbors: the importance of safe harbors and deep respect. The power of intention. The practice of devotion.
Price: $20.00
Creating Loving Relationships, Session 2
The Art of Loving Communication Part 1: The language of love. Moving beyond conflict and defense to understanding. Knowing when to move forward, when to step back.
Price: $20.00
Creating Loving Relationships, Session 3
The Art of Loving Communication Part 2: Getting past power and control. Deepening appreciation. The witness protection program. Apologies, forgiveness, and recovery.
Price: $20.00
Creating Loving Relationships, Session 4
The Dance of Attachment: Coming together and moving apart. Giving and taking space. Needs and greeds. Fears, hopes, and disappointments. Knowing how to grow and change SIMPLY.
Price: $20.00
Creating Loving Relationships, Session 5
Love and Sex Part 1: The physical acts of loving. Touch and affection. Balancing different times and needs. Knowing your dance. Learning new steps. Pleasure and play. Creating sexual connection. Sexiness: how to nourish it, how to flourish it.
Price: $20.00
Creating Loving Relationships, Session 6
Love and Sex Part 2: Great passion for a lifetime. The power of abstinence. Lessons for the East: moving past tantra and techniques. Sex through the lifecycle. Understanding the losses and gains of aging. Sweetness forever.
Price: $20.00
Creating Loving Relationships, Session 7
Falling In and Out of Love Part 1: What to do when the fire's nearly out. Steps to take when all else fails. Resolving and healing affairs and other betrayals.
Price: $20.00
Creating Loving Relationships, Session 8
Falling In and Out of Love Part 2: Turning anger and conflict into intimacy. Honoring differences in rhythm and style. Rediscovering each other.
Price: $20.00
Creating Loving Relationships, Session 9
Partners in Parenting: Loving parents, loving partners. Dealing with extended family relations. Boundaries that keep relationships alive, boundaries that don't. Triangles that work, triangles that don't. Creating shared visions of family life. Family fun. Appreciating different parental gifts. Compassionate witnessing of parental wounds. Parenting each other.
Price: $20.00
Creating Loving Relationships Session 10
The Circle Game: Growing together. Individuation and mutual support. Aging together. Gratitude and love for a lifetime. The evolution of sweetness.
Price: $20.00
 
 
 
 
 
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