Conflict Resolution
Dr. Patty also teaches "Constructive Conflict Resolution" around the United States. Her workshops can be located through the following website: Cross Country Education
Upcoming Workshops
CONSTRUCTIVE CONFLICT RESOLUTION
January 31, 2010
Dr. Patricia L. Bay
- Increase your effectiveness with cognitive-behavioral and emotionally focused approaches to conflict resolution
- Recognize the effects of conflict on intimate, familial, personal and professional relationships
- Identify dysfunctional patterns of behavior and help change them into healthy, constructive behaviors
- Learn how most communication counseling stops short of being effective and develop skills to promote deeper communication
- Discover strategies for working through the "fear factor" and coping with stress resulting from conflict
Workshop Details
DATE: Saturday, January 31, 2010
TIME: 8:30 am — Sign-In and Registration
9:00 am — 4:00 pm (lunch is on your own at noon)
WHERE: Center for Spiritual Living
1905 Hartnell Avenue, Redding, CA 96002 (530) 221-4849
COST: $75.00 per person (6 CEU's available for $10 fee)
TO REGISTER: Call 530-221-4849 or call Dr. Patty w/ questions 530-241-3642
Can You Hear Me Now?
Conflict itself is not a problem. How conflict is handled can create problems. Unhealthy patterns of behavior and unresolved conflict are damaging to relationships and foster an environment of stress and chaos. Constructive conflict resolution increases intimacy in relationships and enhances success in other therapeutic activities. Professionals often stop short of helping couples resolve their communication difficulties and struggle to provide the tools needed for deep, lasting conflict resolution. Relationship therapy cannot be truly effective without the skills to facilitate deep communication and complete resolution of conflict. This one-day seminar teaches effective techniques to achieve complete conflict resolution and cultivate positive changes in all kinds of relationships. Methods to facilitate deeper communication will be explored. Participants will examine the application of cognitive-behavioral and emotionally focused therapies to working with conflict. You will learn how fear works to undermine lives and acquire techniques for overcoming fear and coping with stress associated with conflict. Attendees will leave this workshop with specific strategies to implement immediately.
Who Should Attend (6 CEU's Available upon request)
- Psychologists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychiatrists
- Administrators
- Pastoral Counselors/Clergy
- Substance Abuse Counselors
- Case Managers
- Crisis Intervention Counselors
- School Counselors
- School Psychologists
- Educators
- School Administrators
- Juvenile Justice Personnel
- Law Enforcement Personnel
- Probation Officers
- Parents
- Anyone wishing to improve communication skills
What You Will Learn
- Identify the underlying causes of unhealthy conflict
- Discuss the effects of unhealthy conflict on various types of relationships
- Examine the correlation between conflict resolution and sexual intimacy in relationships
- Develop skills to identify and change dysfunctional patterns of behavior
- Recognize the roles of fear and stress in conflict
- Discuss methods for facilitating more profound communication
- Utilize cognitive behavioral and emotionally focused therapies to promote constructive conflict resolution
COURSE CONTENT
- INTRODUCTION TO CONFLICT
- Current research
- Depression
- Sexual issues
- EFFECTS OF CONFLICT ON RELATIONSHIPS
- Couples/marriages
- Families
- Professionals/work settings
- THE BRAIN
- What happens in the brain during conflict
- Working with brain function to enhance conflict resolution
- CYCLES OF BEHAVIOR
- Identifying dysfunctional behaviors
- Expressing difficult emotions
- Implementing healthy behaviors
- THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES TO CONFLICT
- Cognitive-behavioral approach
- Emotionally focused therapy
- Healing the emotional bond
- THE ROLE OF FEAR IN CONFLICT
- Understanding fear
- Illusions of safety
- Working through fear
- THE ROLE OF STRESS IN CONFLICT
- Stress identification
- Coping tools for stress
- COMMUNICATIONÑTAKING IT DEEPER
- Taking listening to a whole new level
- Identifying core issues
- Supporting a partner's core issues
- Effective non-verbal communication techniques
"MAKING IT LAST FOREVER"
Communication & Conflict Resolution
for Couples
February 19-21, 2010
Patricia L. Bay, Psy.D., Marriage, Family Therapist presents a weekend workshop opportunity.
The tranquility of beautiful McCloud, California just 15 minutes from Mt. Shasta, is an ideal location in which to focus on your relationship. This workshop will work on advanced communication and conflict resolution skills for couples. Dr. Patty wrote her doctorate dissertation on this subject and it is a particular passion of hers. It is easy to communicate with your partner when things are going well. It is when the going gets tough that tempers can rise, people withdraw or often resort to unhealthy practices. The skills to make even the hardest topics workable are yours with good conflict resolution training.
Even the strongest relationships can use a "shot-in-the-arm" once in awhile. Whether yours has been experiencing difficulties or you feel comfortable and content, join us for a weekend of exploration and skill building. This workshop provides a strong degree of privacy for your issues. You will not be asked to disclose personal, couple information in a group setting. Couples will learn techniques and then go off by themselves to practice. Coming back together, couples might share how things went or can ask questions, but do not have to share what they talked about.
Group leader, Dr. Patty and her attorney husband, Richard (married 29 years) brings a wealth of experience to couple recovery, communication and conflict resolution. Call Dr. Patty (530) 241-3642 with questions about the workshop.
Workshop Details
DATE: Friday, February 19 , 2010 to Sunday, February 21, 2010.
TIME: Arrive between 3:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. with Friday evening dinner beginning promptly at 6:00 p.m. We will end between 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. on Sunday afternoon.
LOCATION: Stoney Brook Inn, McCloud, CA (Directions to the Inn will be sent with enrollment confirmation and packing instructions.)
WORKSHOP FEE: $350 per couple (plus lodging fees)
LODGING FEES: Vary from $430 - 500, per couple, for the weekend depending on which room you choose. Lodging fees include your room for two nights and all meals (2 breakfasts, 2 lunches and 2 dinners) We feature healthy, delicious meals accommodating vegetarian and special dietary needs (within reason).
To Reserve Your Place:
Submit your check for the workshop fee ($350) made out to Dr. Patricia L. Bay, 1352 Oregon St, Redding 96001 (You will be contacted to choose your room on a first to sign up basis.)
Names: _______________________________________________________________________
Address: ______________________________________________________________
City: ________________________________ ST: ____________ ZIP:____________
Phone: H: ___________________W: __________________Cell:_________________
Email: _________________________________________________________________
Cancellation Policy: Prior to 30 days, full refund less $25 fee. No refund after 30 days prior, unless your spot is filled from the waiting list.
REGISTER EARLY AS THIS WORKSHOP IS SIZE LIMITED TO 10 COUPLES!
Types of Rooms Available:
7 rooms: Queen Bed / private bath
2 rooms: Queen Bed / private bath / kitchen / TV
1 room: Queen Bed / 2 Twins / private bath / kitchen / TV
Send your $350 workshop fee now to register early and get your choice of accomodations.
You will be called to select your room in the order paid registrations arrive. (Lodging fees will be due by 01/10/2010.)
Come join us for an experience that has proven for many to be a life changing weekend of personal insight, connection with others, relationship enrichment and a whole lot of fun!
Previous Workshops
"Living A Life Of Love - Letting Go Of Fear"
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 Group leader, Patty, and co-leader, Darren, "flipped over" in their chairs. |
 Beautiful fall colors at Stoney Brook Inn in McCloud. |
"Radical Happiness Workshop"
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Hypnosis Workshop
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Couples Workshop — July 2006
The July 2006 Couples Workshop turned out awesome. We are so proud of all the couples who attended. They worked hard on their relationships and made some wonderful changes. What a tribute they are to relationship preservation!
Here's Patty with one of the Tootsie Pops that have become a tradition, started by "B", at all the workshops.