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Carrie and Cat are passionate about helping couples and individuals have the relationship of their dreams. They invite you to join them at one of their workshops or events in the coming year. Please help them spread the word about Imago and the Santa Fe Center for Relationships by forwarding this email to a friend or loved one who may be interested by using the link at the bottom of the page.
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What Participants are Saying About Us and Our Workshops for Couples:
The safest, most deeply satisfying experience
I could imagine having with my partner.
Carrie and Cat are/must be the best of the best-definitely two people who genuinely fit the profiles of people who should be helping others better their relationship.
Their concern for others shows through their incredible work. (They) have given our marraige life and hope again.
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Realizing that conflict is growth trying to happen has changed my entire outlook on life.
I now have hope, not despair. I am excited to have a new vision of my husband, myself and our journey ahead.
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2010 "Getting the Love You Want" Workshop dates:
Open to All Couples:
May 14-16
July 23-25
September 24-26
November 12-14
June 11-13
August 6-8
October 8-10
Gay Couples:
December 3-5
For more information
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Keeping the Love You Find: Workshop for Singles/Individuals
September 10-12
Start Right, Stay Connected:
Premarital Workshop
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Celebrate how different you and your partner are!
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Tolerance and celebration of individual difference is the fire that fuels lasting love.
~ Tom Hannah
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Vive la Difference!
Last month we wrote about letting go of your childhood need to be "right" and becoming an adult by opening yourself up to your partner's world view and reality. It can't be one partner is "right" and one partner is "wrong". Two realities can peacefully co-exist, and must, if your relationship is going to not only survive, but thrive.
When you were in romantic love, you thought you both liked the same things and thought the same way. You were symbiotic. But when the chemicals of romantic love that were coursing through your veins eventually wore off, you found yourself looking at the same person, but with a horrifying reality that rather than being twins separated at birth, you were actually VERY DIFFERENT from one another. And so the uncomfortable and difficult power struggle between the two of you began in earnest and may continue to this day.
Until you can see how different your partner is from you and you are able to accept, and even celebrate the difference, you will be limiting yourself and your relationship. That "I'm right", "you're wrong" thinking, we wrote about last month, diminishes the "other" and creates a one up, one down in your relationship, i.e. a vertical, hierarchical, rather than horizontal, equal relationship.
Being in relationship requires you to acknowledge that you are two different people with different ideas, different thoughts, different experiences and different realities. If you can first acknowledge, then embrace, and finally celebrate that difference and see that you both have something to contribute, you and your relationship will be enriched enormously.
Both of you have different peices of the puzzle. It would be a paritial picture if it were only your pieces. By allowing each of you to put those pieces in place, the relationship picture you create together with all those pieces will be whole and complete.
In your relationship there is an "other" who is NOT you. Be open to and cherish that difference and your relationship will grow and thrive. Vive la difference! |
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Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
~ M. Scott Peck
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Love is appreciating your differences as well as your similarities.
~ Unknown
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| New Imago Offerings in 2010 |
Imago Singles/Individuals Workshop
"Keeping the Love You Find"
This intensive self-growth workshop for individuals is based on the work of Harville Hendrix, PhD, author of Keeping the Love You Find, and founder of Imago Relationship Theory.
This workshop is great for people that are not in a committed relationship or for individuals seeking to improve self-knowledge and their relationship skills. It is appropriate for those who are new to Imago, as well as those who have completed the "Getting the Love You Want" workshop, or had other experience with Imago.
In this workshop you will:
- Identify your character structure & your defenses
- Discover how childhood wounds affect your relationships
- Understand why you are drawn to certain people
- Gain new relationship skills
- Create a Plan for Personal Change
Cost is $375. Early Bird Rate: $325. Bring a Buddy: Both pay $250.
CEU's offered for New Mexico Therapists for all of our workshops.
Imago Premarital Workshop
"Start Right, Stay Connected"
November 6, 8:30 AM -6 PM
In this workshop you will learn ways to...
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Communicate effectively with your partner
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Discover why the unconscious forces that attracted you to your partner may eventually also be the source of your relationship conflicts
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Remove negativity
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Keep the romance, passion, fun and intimacy going in your relationship
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Help with the wedding planning and not go crazy
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Prevent an affair
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Create a vision of where your relationship is headed
This workshop is appropriate for you if:
- You are engaged to be married
- You are not engaged, but are contemplating getting married
Please help us spread the word to family and friends about these new workshops by using the "Forward email" link at the bottom of the page. |
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