LINKAGE RELATIONSHIPCOACH COURSE - Voice dialogue world

Starting September 2023

With Robert Stamboliev and staff

The only relationshipcoach course with Voice Dialogue in the world!

Are you already working as a coach, trainer or therapist with Voice Dialogue and the psychology of selves? And would you like to extend your knowledge and skills in working with relationships?

This course offers a step in the right direction. You learn to facilitate both private and work relationships. Each participant determines whether his main focus is on measure. During the intake prior to the start of the program this will be determined.

The role of vulnerability
In order to understand the impact and causes of relationship problems between partners we must, as a relationship coach, first realise how much vulnerability plays a role in this. Suppressed and therefore unexpressed vulnerability is the ignition for most relationship problems. Because when both partners – whether in a work or private relationship – learn to communicate their vulnerability effectively, their relationship deepens.

Of course the way in which we communicate our vulnerability differs in private or work situations. In love relationships all aspects of ourselves (vulnerabilities, disowned selves) will manifest in a raw way. In work relationships this usually is not the case. Nevertheless the same dynamics are active under the surface. To facilitate work relationships effectively and with enough depth and impact it is therefore an important requirement to understand what is happening in intimate relationships.

During the training program we will dwell on the similarities and differences of both approaches extensively.

Accreditation
EMCC/NOBCO 34 PE points

Program

Content
The basic starting points we work with during this course are the principles of the Psychology of Selves, the bonding patterns and your personal experience with relationships. Particpants need to have enough experience with Voice Dialogue and the Psychology of Selves. The course is practically oriented with sufficient theory.

Unit 1
The first unit consists of two consecutive days with the following subjects:

What is love?
Bonding patterns in relationships, with special attention for the patterns of attack and withdrawal.
Training in analyzing the bonding patterns (mapping), a prerequisite for all the following work.
Transference & countertransference.
Vulnerability: the key to intimacy and effective collaboration.
Attachment: fear, signals and needs.
Linkage part 1: energetic connection as a healing power.

Unit 2 – the dynamics of relationship

Polarities and polariasation in relationships.
Relationship constellations.
Particpants facilitate each other on a relationship theme.
Clearing: working through a relationship problem between the partners.
Linkage part 2: energetic connection as a healing force.

Unit 3 – the relationship coach conversation

Basic attitude: reflecting on one’s own role as a coach.
When to choose for an individual or relationship oriented approach.
Linkage part 3: energetic connection as a healing force.
Relationship trauma’s: never again!
Demonstration session with a couple (work or private) by a trainer.

Unit 4 – the right intervention at the right moment

Practical tools and home assignments you can give to couples.
Different techniques and interventions to move through impasses.
Sexuality and intimacy.
Participants facilitate a couple from their own network under supervison. This can be a work-, family-, friendship- or intimate relationship.

Unit 5 – deepening and attention for the relationship process

Being able to design a treatment program: from a single conversation to the larger spectrum.
Which area’s need first attention in a relationship crisis?
Further development of one’s own style.
How to integrate everything in one’s own practice.
Demonstration session with a couple (work or private) by a trainer.

Concluding day
On this final day there is an opportunity for loose ends and we dot the i’s and cross the t’s.

Intensive guidance
The guidance is very intensive and is provided by Robert Stamboliev and staff.

Literature
The following books will be used during the program:

Embracing Our Selves – Hal and Sidra Stone Ph.D.
Partnering – Hal and Sidra Stone Ph.D.
Embracing your Inner Critic – Hal and Sidra Stone Ph.D.
The Energetics of Voice Dialogue – Robert Stamboliev MA
Focusing – Eugene T. Gendlin Ph.D.
Hold me tight – Sue Johnson Ph.D.
The article ‘Why individual coaching can be counterproductive for relationship issues‘ – Ruud Zuurman

Study load
The program consists of 5 blocks of 2 days and a final day for presentations, in total 11 days. Next to this there are 4 meetings for intervision, assignments, case and literature study.

The training program lasts 7 months.

Result
After this course:

You understand the core of relationship problems and are more able to find the sore spot in these problems.
You have the tools to make a diagnosis and to draw up a specific guidance plan.
You have gained knowledge and developed skills to guide various relationships.

Practical information