(HS Bader 150450 2025) Healing Trauma Through Transformative Dialogue: A Developmental Approach to Restoring Connection

Course overview

Couples often begin therapy with the complaint, "We can't communicate." Feelings of frustration, disappointment, and despair often lie behind this common problem, along with a mistaken belief that communication techniques will easily restore love and connection. But true healing and reconnection requires something deeper: embracing differentiation. In this workshop, you'll explore this essential developmental stage and identify the emotional capacities required for partners to relate to each other clearly---not as idealized extensions of themselves, but as separate, unique individuals. You'll learn to help couples: Identify where they are in the developmental model Move through the challenging terrain of the differentiation process Draw on practical strategies to increase genuine understanding, respect, and appreciation Transform relational trauma into opportunities and growth