About The Learning Path
More Than Theory – A Lived Experience
While many people find Imago through reading about it and it provides valuable insights, the power of this approach can be truly experienced and explored through training and experiencing in community.
Imago is more than another couples therapy method – it's an invitation to a fundamentally different way of being in the world and as a therapist.
What Makes Imago Training Unique
Personal Transformation First
Training includes exploring your own character patterns and relational dynamics.
You cannot guide others through dialogical healing without first beginning to explore your own Imago and defensive adaptations.
This is essential to the work.
Learning to Hold, Not Fix
Most of us are trained us to analyze, interpret, and solve. Imago training teaches something different:
how to hold space patiently while couples find their own way through, using our expertise to facilitate the couple's journey rather than directing it.
This requires unlearning the impulse to rescue or fix, and instead trusting the dialogue process itself.
A Different Therapeutic Stance
Minimal interpretation: Trust the couple's own discoveries more than your insights
Sparse diagnosis: Focus on relational dynamics rather than individual pathology
Patient witnessing: Allow the dialogue to reveal what needs healing
Systemic thinking: Work with the relationship as your client, not the individuals
Integrative wisdom: Healing happens through the couple's connection and contact with each other – beyond categories
Breaking Old Habits, Building New Capacities
Release the expert position and become a dialogue facilitator
Trust the couple's wisdom rather than your therapeutic knowledge
Stay curious instead of jumping to conclusions
Hold paradox – being deeply skilled while remaining humble
The Training Experience
Embodied Learning
You don't just learn about Conscious Dialogue – you practice it, receive it, and feel its impact.
This embodied experience becomes the foundation for authentic facilitation with couples.
Supervised Practice
Real-time feedback and supervision help you recognize when you're slipping into old therapeutic patterns
and guide you back to the Imago stance of patient, curious witnessing.
Community of Practice
Training creates connections with other therapists walking this path,
providing ongoing support for this different way of working that can sometimes feel countercultural in traditional therapy settings.
Why This Matters for Your Practice
Reduced Therapist Burnout: Let go of fixing and trust the dialogue process for sustainability
Deeper Therapeutic Impact: Couples experience transformation through their own discoveries
Professional Renewal: Reignite your passion for couples work with a fresh perspective
Expanded Possibilities: Conflict becomes wisdom pointing toward healing and growth
An Integrative Approach
Imago honors the brilliance of other therapeutic modalities and integrates their insights.
Sometimes our work may look like any other approach. But at its core lies a central knowing:
the shift happens through the couple's connection and contact with each other, beyond our theoretical categories.
This relational space becomes the primary healing agent.
Trusting the Couple's Healing Wisdom
Imago recognizes that couples are their own healers – we serve as facilitators of their inherent wisdom.
The relationship itself becomes the therapeutic agent, not our techniques or interpretations.
Our role is to create conditions where their natural healing capacity can emerge,
trusting the dialogue process more than our clinical expertise.
The Imago Therapist: A Different Way of Being
A guardian of safety rather than a provider of insights
A dialogue coach rather than a relationship expert
A witness to transformation rather than its architect
A holder of hope for what's possible in conscious relationship
This Is Why Training Matters
Reading about Imago can inspire and inform, but training transforms how you show up as a therapist.
It challenges you to release old patterns of helping and embrace a way of being
that trusts the couple's own capacity for healing.
This isn't just learning a new technique – it's discovering a new way to facilitate human transformation.
Start Your Journey
You can begin with the first training module and decide later whether to continue with full certification.
However, even for the first module, participants are expected to show up ready to be part of a small group learning environment,
be fully present, participate actively, and support the collective learning experience.
A pre-interview will discuss these conditions and ensure readiness for this transformative work.
This allows you to experience the Imago approach firsthand while honoring the commitment needed for meaningful learning to occur.