Stop Having That Same Old Fight
and Get What You Really Want Instead!
In Stop Having That Same Old Fight, we'll share concepts and tools we've developed that radically changed our relationship and the relationships of others who have learned and used our methods.
This 8-week course will be taught live with weekly talks plus Q&A sessions. The talks will be recorded for review or later viewing. Those who can't attend the live session will be able to watch the video and submit questions, which we'll answer in the next meeting.
Each week we'll focus on a specific skill and give you understandable, doable assignments that will help you use our tools and concepts to develop new, more useful skills and behaviors.
A fillable, illustrated eWorkbook, with descriptions of the concepts, explanations of the tools, and practice prompts is included with the course.
Your Instructors
Gretta met Bill at a friend's 13th birthday party where Bill played his guitar for the first time in public, serenading the gathering with Mr. Tamborine Man and the entire 26 minutes of Alice's Restaurant.
They joined forces to raise money for the starving children of Biafra, discuss philosophy and religion in Sunday school and win best actor and actress in the high school production of “Pride and Prejudice.” Going separate ways after graduation, they reunited decades later, discovering that they had both become spiritually-minded therapists.
Still committed to increasing healing, awareness and human understanding, Bill and Gretta combined their creative and psychological skills and knowledge to form Keene Murray Therapy. Working in tandem as well as individually with clients, they have built a thriving private psychotherapy practice in Brooklyn and created Hespera, a personal retreat for creativity and healing in upstate New York. From the desire to pass on to others what they have learned and continue the dialogue with kindred spirits, Practical Guides to Being Human emerged. They will be presenting blogs, courses, workshops and a series of books under that name. The books, written by Gretta and illustrated by Bill will be published in the coming year.
5 Reasons why Bill & Gretta are especially qualified to teach this course:
1. They are a couple.
2. They are psychotherapists with decades of training and experience.
3. They have worked with hundreds of couples as a couple.
4. They have developed unique tools and concepts using those experiences.
5. They enjoy what they do and make talking about difficult subjects fun!
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In Stop Having That Same Old Fight you'll learn how to:
Recognize THE CONDITIONS--the factors that contribute to that Same Old Fight and practice strategies that divert the brewing hurricane out to sea!
Identify THE BAIT--the upsetting, activating actions that ignite the Same Old Fight--and develop alternate, more effective and satisfying responses
Understand THE HOOK--the meanings we make that call forth our defenses and set in motion that Same Old Fight--and consider other possible interpretations.
Develop strategies to change our habitual behaviors during THE STRUGGLE and to rely less on our Bodyguards with their arsenal of spontaneous defenses.
Negotiate changes in behavior and develop deeper understandings that will be your TRUE FOOD--what you really want from the interaction and the relationship.
Reinforce THE SWIM BY--the ways you escape the painful, destructive words and actions of that Same Old Fight and instead create more satisfying interactions.
Set your INNER COMPASS so you are always aiming in the direction of your identified values, directing you to have the kind of life and relationships you really want.
Enliven and increase your opportunities for VITAL PLAY--the ways we feel truly alive and connected to life, ourselves and others.