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In all relationships we make mistakes. We hurt those we love. Ruptures and injuries happen in most relationships. Time does not heal. If we do not choose to enter the process of forgiveness, we decrease the chances of closeness and connection with our loved ones.

Dr. Sue Johnson and other relationship experts such as Drs. John and Julie Gottman, Dr. Fred Luskin of the Stanford Forgiveness Project and many others emphasize the importance of repair and forgiveness in loving, close, healthy relationships.

However, as therapists, we often struggle with how to truly help our clients heal from painful attachment injuries and how to facilitate effective forgiveness conversations.

Dr. Michelle Gannon and Dr. Sam Jinich of Hold Me Tight Workshop and the San Francisco Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy (SFCEFT) teach and supervise therapists how to facilitate Forgiveness Conversations based on Sue Johnson's Attachment Injury Repair Model, Emotionally Focused Therapy and Hold Me Tight Workshop.

Please join us for a day about Forgiveness. You will practice how to facilitate Forgiveness Conversations in a positive, encouraging and safe environment. You will learn the Attachment Injury Repair Model through didactic instruction, experiential exercises, watching video taped examples and many role play opportunities. Throughout the day, there will also be opportunity for 1:1 personalized attention, questions and discussion.

• 1. Participants will be able to describe and define how the lack of emotionally supportive responsiveness at a moment of vulnerability and need leads to relationship injuries.
• 2. Participants will learn and be able to describe a research-supported method of repair and forgiveness.
• 3. Participants will be able to describe the therapeutic steps that facilitate expressions of regret and forgiveness based on the Attachment Injury Repair Model (AIRM) and will be able to describe how and when to apply the steps to healing an attachment injury.
• 4. Participants will demonstrate through role plays with other participants how to explore the experience of an injury with two individuals (couples, family members, business partners, friends or colleagues), how to set-up enactments to facilitate a heartfelt apology and increase the possibility for forgiveness based on the approach used in the Hold Me Tight Workshop and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT).