Hold Me Tight® Couples Workshop

Deeply experiential, Hold Me Tight® couples workshops help you and your partner step out of negative patterns of interaction and begin to strengthen your emotional connection, trust and intimacy.

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Developed by Dr Sue Johnson, author of :

Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love 

Endorsed by the American Psychological Association

Praised in Scientific Journals, The New York Times and Times Magazine

Acclaimed by Leading Relationship Experts, John Gottman, William Doherty and Harville Hendrix

“Romantic Love is not the least bit illogical or random. It is the continuation of an ordered and wise recipe for survival.  We now have a map that can guide us in creating, healing and sustaining love.  This is a consummate breakthrough”
 -Dr. Sue Johnson

 

About the Hold Me Tight® Couples Workshop

This program is aimed at helping couples with:

  • Discovering and addressing negative dynamics that lead to feeling disconnected, hurt and alone.

  • Understanding and voicing feelings and needs in ways that bring you closer to each other.

  • Beginning to repair past hurts and injuries.

  • Strengthening or rebuilding the trust between you.

  • Renewing the strength of your emotional connection.

  • Strengthening bonding through physical affection and sex.

Hold Me Tight® workshops are based on the theory of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), designed by Dr. Sue Johnson and on her book by the same name. During this workshop you and your partner will have time to slow down from your daily lives and engage in seven conversations that will strengthen your relationship. This workshop will include teaching, videos, private conversations with your partner, and group discussion with other couples. You’ll learn alongside other couples, without sharing the specifics of your relationship and there is no requirement to participate in group sharing.

 

The Hold Me Tight® Couples Workshop is based around seven conversations that include:

Recognizing Demon Dialogues
In this first conversation, couples identify cycles that prevent them from hearing one another’s deepest desire for love and connection.

Finding the Raw Spots
Here, each partner learns to look beyond immediate, impulsive reactions, seeking to understand vulnerabilities and fears experienced by their lover.

Revisiting a Rocky Moment
This conversation provides a platform for de-escalating conflict and repairing rifts in a relationship and building emotional safety.

Hold Me Tight
The heart of the workshop experience: this conversation moves partners into being more accessible, emotionally responsive, and deeply engaged with each other.

Forgiving Injuries
Injuries may be forgiven but they never disappear. Instead, they need to become integrated into couples’ conversations as demonstrations of renewal and connection. Knowing how to find and offer forgiveness empowers couples to strengthen their bond.

Bonding Through Sex and Touch
Here, couples find how emotional connection creates great sex, and good sex creates deeper emotional connection.

Keeping Your Love Alive
This last conversation is built on the understanding that love is a continual process of losing and finding emotional connection; it asks couples to be deliberate and mindful about maintaining connection.