Faculty

Harville Hendrix

PhD
Co-Founder and Faculty
Imago International Training Institute

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D., are co-creators of Imago Relationship Therapy, a couples' therapy, and a social movement called Safe Conversations. Internationally respected as couples' therapists, educators, speakers, activists, and New York Times bestselling authors, their 10 books, including the timeless classic Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, have sold more than 4 million copies. Harville appeared on the Oprah Winfrey television program 17 times! Helen was installed in the Women’s Hall of Fame and the Smithsonian Institution. They have six children and eight grandchildren.

2024 Sessions

Safe Conversations: From the Clinic to the Culture

Safe Conversations is a social action initiative to take relational science from the clinic to the culture in order to help facilitate a transition from an individualistic to a relational civilization. Since talking is the most dangerous thing people do, and since listening is the most infrequent, and since difference is the source of polarization, this relational intervention helps people talk without criticizing, listen without judgment and connect beyond their differences. Delivered globally, this relational technology could create a safe world in which everyone is equal, diversity is celebrated and inclusiveness is total.

Speaker

Wednesday, December 09 11:45–1:45 PM
Faculty

Harville Hendrix

PhD
Co-Founder and Faculty
Imago International Training Institute

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D., are co-creators of Imago Relationship Therapy, a couples' therapy, and a social movement called Safe Conversations. Internationally respected as couples' therapists, educators, speakers, activists, and New York Times bestselling authors, their 10 books, including the timeless classic Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, have sold more than 4 million copies. Harville appeared on the Oprah Winfrey television program 17 times! Helen was installed in the Women’s Hall of Fame and the Smithsonian Institution. They have six children and eight grandchildren.

From Conflict to Connecting

Behind all frustration is a wish not spoken. Most people express the frustration and not the wish--leading to conflict. This demonstration shows the process of converting frustration into a wish and making a request for a behavior change--leading to connecting.

Discussant

Speaker

Thursday, December 10 2:30–4:00 PM
Clinical Demo with Discussant
Faculty

Daniel Siegel

MD, MS, FAAD, FACMS, CPCD
Clinical Professor of Dermatology
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University

Daniel M. Siegel, MD, Clinical Profesor at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University & former President of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) trained in dermatology at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas followed by a Mohs fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He earned an MS in Management and Policy from the W. Averell Harriman School for Management and Policy, SUNY Stony Brook, and holds an Advanced Certificate in Labor/Management.

A diplomate of the American Board of Dermatology and a fellow of the AAD, the American College of Mohs Surgery (ACMS) and the American Society for Mohs Surgery, he has served on the board of directors for many of these societies, including the ACMS, AAD, ADA, WDS, DebRA, Noah Worcester Dermatological Society and is one of the 20 esteemed active members of the New York Dermatological Society.

He served as board member of the International League of Dermatological Societies and International Society of Dermatology He joined the board of IDEOM in 2020.

Dr. Siegel has published over 250 articles, books and book chapters in major medical journals and textbooks. He is a reviewer, editor, or advisor for many dermatology journals. He also served from 2003 to 2010 as the AAD representative to American Medical Association Specialty Society RVS Update Committee (RUC) and currently serves as the AAD alternate advisor to the RUC.

Dr. Siegel received the 2023 AAD Gold Medal, the AAD’s highest award presented on a very selective basis to acknowledge outstanding and exceptional service in the field.

Faculty

Harville Hendrix

PhD
Co-Founder and Faculty
Imago International Training Institute

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D., are co-creators of Imago Relationship Therapy, a couples' therapy, and a social movement called Safe Conversations. Internationally respected as couples' therapists, educators, speakers, activists, and New York Times bestselling authors, their 10 books, including the timeless classic Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, have sold more than 4 million copies. Harville appeared on the Oprah Winfrey television program 17 times! Helen was installed in the Women’s Hall of Fame and the Smithsonian Institution. They have six children and eight grandchildren.

Topical Panel - The Goal of Therapy

The process of contracting for change in the initial session will be described and discussed. Methods of targeting goals will be compared and contrasted.

Panelist

Saturday, December 12 8:00–9:00 AM
Topical Panel
Faculty

Harville Hendrix

PhD
Co-Founder and Faculty
Imago International Training Institute

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D., are co-creators of Imago Relationship Therapy, a couples' therapy, and a social movement called Safe Conversations. Internationally respected as couples' therapists, educators, speakers, activists, and New York Times bestselling authors, their 10 books, including the timeless classic Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, have sold more than 4 million copies. Harville appeared on the Oprah Winfrey television program 17 times! Helen was installed in the Women’s Hall of Fame and the Smithsonian Institution. They have six children and eight grandchildren.

Faculty

Jack Kornfield

PhD
Founder
Spirit Rock Center

Jack Kornfield, PhD, trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India and Burma. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. He co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, and the Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre, California. Jack holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and has taught on Eastern and Western psychology in centers and universities worldwide. He is a grandfather, a husband and an activist. His 16 books have been translated into 22 languages and sold more than 1.5 million copies. They include, A Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology, A Path with Heart; After the Ecstasy, the Laundry and his most recent book, No Time Like the Present.

Faculty

Cloé Madanes

LIC, HDL
President
Madanes Institute

Cloé Madanes, HDL, LIC, in Psychology, is a world-renowned innovator and teacher of family and strategic therapy and one of the originators of the strategic approach to family therapy. She has authored nine books that are classics in the field: Strategic Family Therapy; Behind the One-Way Mirror; Sex, Love, and Violence; The Secret Meaning of Money; The Violence of Men; The Therapist as Humanist, Social Activist and Systemic Thinker; Relationship Breakthrough; Changing Relationships; and Not By Accident. She has presented her work at professional conferences all over the world and has given keynote addresses for The Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference, the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy; the National Association of Social Workers, The Erickson Foundation, the California Psychological Association and many other national and international conferences. Madanes has won several awards for distinguished contribution to psychology and has counseled out- standing individuals from all walks of life.

Doing Imago Therapy in the Space Between - 2020

Since life is lived in the Space-Between and remembered in Space-Within, thus giving birth to subjectivity, therapeutic intervention should be directed to the Space-Between in order to effect change in the Space-Within. This radical shift from subjectivity to the interactive space calls for a radical revision of therapeutic interventions. This speech will describe the problem and discuss the impact of relational interventions.

Speaker

Saturday, December 12 1:30–2:30 PM
Faculty

Harville Hendrix

PhD
Co-Founder and Faculty
Imago International Training Institute

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D., are co-creators of Imago Relationship Therapy, a couples' therapy, and a social movement called Safe Conversations. Internationally respected as couples' therapists, educators, speakers, activists, and New York Times bestselling authors, their 10 books, including the timeless classic Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, have sold more than 4 million copies. Harville appeared on the Oprah Winfrey television program 17 times! Helen was installed in the Women’s Hall of Fame and the Smithsonian Institution. They have six children and eight grandchildren.

Safe Conversations - 2021

Contextual change is essential to sustain personal change. This speech describes and discusses an experiment of exporting Imago Dialogue as a transformational process to the culture.

Speaker

Wednesday, December 01 7:30–9:30 AM
Faculty

Harville Hendrix

PhD
Co-Founder and Faculty
Imago International Training Institute

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D., are co-creators of Imago Relationship Therapy, a couples' therapy, and a social movement called Safe Conversations. Internationally respected as couples' therapists, educators, speakers, activists, and New York Times bestselling authors, their 10 books, including the timeless classic Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, have sold more than 4 million copies. Harville appeared on the Oprah Winfrey television program 17 times! Helen was installed in the Women’s Hall of Fame and the Smithsonian Institution. They have six children and eight grandchildren.

The Imago Dialogue and Process

The Imago Dialogue Process is a structured interaction between intimate partners that creates Safety so they can drop their defenses, become vulnerable and experience connecting. Using the structure enables couples to talk about any subject with creative engagement and without polarizing.

Speaker

Wednesday, December 01 11:00–12:00 PM
Clinical Demo
Faculty

Harville Hendrix

PhD
Co-Founder and Faculty
Imago International Training Institute

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D., are co-creators of Imago Relationship Therapy, a couples' therapy, and a social movement called Safe Conversations. Internationally respected as couples' therapists, educators, speakers, activists, and New York Times bestselling authors, their 10 books, including the timeless classic Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, have sold more than 4 million copies. Harville appeared on the Oprah Winfrey television program 17 times! Helen was installed in the Women’s Hall of Fame and the Smithsonian Institution. They have six children and eight grandchildren.

Doing Imago Relationship Therapy in the Space Between - 2021

When the Space-Between rather than the Space-Within becomes the source of experience, by implication it is the location of therapeutic intervention. This speech will discuss the shift from the individual to the relational paradigm as the new domain of therapeutic intervention.

Speaker

Saturday, December 04 1:30–2:30 PM
Faculty

Harville Hendrix

PhD
Co-Founder and Faculty
Imago International Training Institute

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D., are co-creators of Imago Relationship Therapy, a couples' therapy, and a social movement called Safe Conversations. Internationally respected as couples' therapists, educators, speakers, activists, and New York Times bestselling authors, their 10 books, including the timeless classic Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, have sold more than 4 million copies. Harville appeared on the Oprah Winfrey television program 17 times! Helen was installed in the Women’s Hall of Fame and the Smithsonian Institution. They have six children and eight grandchildren.

Safe Conversations - 2023

Talking is the most dangerous thing most of us do, and listening is the most infrequent. Safe Conversations Dialogue is talking without judgment, listening without criticism and connecting beyond difference.

Presenter

Wednesday, December 13 9:40–12:40 PM
Room California - AB (Hilton)
Faculty

Harville Hendrix

PhD
Co-Founder and Faculty
Imago International Training Institute

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D., are co-creators of Imago Relationship Therapy, a couples' therapy, and a social movement called Safe Conversations. Internationally respected as couples' therapists, educators, speakers, activists, and New York Times bestselling authors, their 10 books, including the timeless classic Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, have sold more than 4 million copies. Harville appeared on the Oprah Winfrey television program 17 times! Helen was installed in the Women’s Hall of Fame and the Smithsonian Institution. They have six children and eight grandchildren.

Imago Dialogue

When conversation changes from monologue to dialogue, safety is created connection can occur.

Presenter

Thursday, December 14 9:40–11:10 AM
Room California - AB (Hilton)
Clinical Demo
Faculty

Harville Hendrix

PhD
Co-Founder and Faculty
Imago International Training Institute

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D., are co-creators of Imago Relationship Therapy, a couples' therapy, and a social movement called Safe Conversations. Internationally respected as couples' therapists, educators, speakers, activists, and New York Times bestselling authors, their 10 books, including the timeless classic Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, have sold more than 4 million copies. Harville appeared on the Oprah Winfrey television program 17 times! Helen was installed in the Women’s Hall of Fame and the Smithsonian Institution. They have six children and eight grandchildren.

The Space-Between

Imago Relationship Therapy shifts the location of therapy from the Space-Withing to the Space-Between. The Space-Between is where life is lived, where suffering happens and where healing occurs. The Space-Within is where all this is remembered and repeated. Shifting from the Space-Within to the Space-Between moves from change to transformation.

Presenter

Thursday, December 14 3:05–4:35 PM
Room California - C
Faculty

Harville Hendrix

PhD
Co-Founder and Faculty
Imago International Training Institute

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D., are co-creators of Imago Relationship Therapy, a couples' therapy, and a social movement called Safe Conversations. Internationally respected as couples' therapists, educators, speakers, activists, and New York Times bestselling authors, their 10 books, including the timeless classic Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, have sold more than 4 million copies. Harville appeared on the Oprah Winfrey television program 17 times! Helen was installed in the Women’s Hall of Fame and the Smithsonian Institution. They have six children and eight grandchildren.

Couples Therapy

Discussion on different perspectives on Couples Therapy.

Presenter

Saturday, December 16 2:50–3:50 PM
Room Pacific - AB
Invited Panel
Faculty

Harville Hendrix

PhD
Co-Founder and Faculty
Imago International Training Institute

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D., are co-creators of Imago Relationship Therapy, a couples' therapy, and a social movement called Safe Conversations. Internationally respected as couples' therapists, educators, speakers, activists, and New York Times bestselling authors, their 10 books, including the timeless classic Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, have sold more than 4 million copies. Harville appeared on the Oprah Winfrey television program 17 times! Helen was installed in the Women’s Hall of Fame and the Smithsonian Institution. They have six children and eight grandchildren.

Faculty

Terry Real

LICSW
Founder
Relational Life Institute

Terry Real is a nationally recognized family therapist, author, and teacher. He is particularly known for his groundbreaking work on men and male psychology, as well as his work on gender and couples; he has been in private practice for over thirty years. Terry has appeared often as the relationship expert for Good Morning America and ABC News. His work has been featured in numerous academic articles, as well as media venues such as Oprah, 20/20, The Today Show, CNN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, and many others.

In 1997, he published the national bestseller I Don’t Want to Talk About It, the first book ever written on the topic of male depression. That was followed by How Can I Get Through to You?, an exploration of the role of patriarchy in relationships, and most recently, The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Know to Make Love Work, a practical guide for couples and couples therapists. His latest book is Us: Getting Past You & Me to Build a More Loving Relationship.

Terry founded The Relational Life Institute, which offers a training program for therapists, as well as workshops for couples and individuals.

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