Resources

For Couples

  • Find an Encounter-centered Couples Transformation® practitioner trained by Hedy
  • Audio/video products from Hedy to support you with your relational journey:
    • Hedy and Yumi: Crossing the Bridge (DVD—not available for streaming) is a documentary about their relationship, with beautiful insights into the work Hedy does with couples from workshops in Vancouver, Vienna, and Israel.
    • The Miracle of Connection—Transforming Your Relationships (Audio on CD) is a series of interviews with Hedy as as she talks about the Power Struggle stage of relationships and how to use our differences to deepen intimacy and connection.
    • Crossing the Bridge (Audio on CD) is a four-part audio interview with Hedy that dives into what a couple needs to know to get back on track, how to keep the excitement alive over time, transforming conflict in connection, how fear and anger are guides to relationship fulfillment, getting what you want by giving what your partner needs, and achieving relational maturity.
    • From Affair to Reconnection: A Couple’s Journey (DVD—not available for streaming) follows Hedy’s work with a couple on the brink of divorce after an affair. Here, you’ll get to watch Hedy use her unique skills for weaving together past, present, and future to help the couple embark on a journey of reconnection and of rekindling their love.
  • Subscribe to Hedy’s email list to be among the first to know of new events, trainings, and Hedy’s best thinking about relationships based on her “learning laboratory” in her marriage with Yumi!

 

For Practitioners

  • Pre-recorded-professional trainings Hedy has done that are available for purchase:
    • Unraveling the Survival Knot, done in association with MAIT, in English.The “Survival Knot” is the most treacherous territory of a couple’s relationship. It is the unconscious, and yet essential agenda embedded in the “problem” with which they appear in the office of the therapist. Increase your expertise and skill to assist couples in Unraveling the “Survival Knot.”Witness and learn Hedy’s step-by-step, systematic roadmap to unravel the relational impasse, where one person’s anguished desperation meets the other person’s dogged resistance, and vice versa.
    • Becoming a Creative Couple: Transformational change in Couples Therapy, done in association with MAIT, in English.Learn the road map that Hedy designed to invite couples into “transformational change” where there is a “before” and an “after.” Hedy invites participants to leave the training with a vision of how to achieve an even more relaxed and responsive therapeutic stance with couples, and with enhanced skills for “holding the space” for them.
    • The Hero’s and Heroine’s Journey: Creating an Encounter with the Journey of Childhood, done in association with MAIT, in English. As an integral part of a step-by-step 10 session Couple’s Journey, Hedy creates an opportunity for the couple to become each other’s best emotional ally. Hedy designed a ritual to introduce the childhood story as a hero’s and heroine’s journey. In this training, Hedy does a live demonstration of how she guides the couple to embrace each other’s archetypical story, as well as bring the needed alliance and advocacy to the inner child.
    • Becoming a Creative Couple: Transformational change in Couples Therapy, done in association with the Israeli Association for Couples and Family Therapy, in Hebrew.Hedy teaches the roadmap for a couple’s journey towards transformative change.
  • Audio/video products from Hedy to support you with your work with couples:
    • Affairs: A Step-by-Step Process for Reconnection (DVD only—not available for streaming) answers the question of how you, as a therapist or coach, help couples who are struggling in the aftermath of an affair to restore and strengthen their relational bond, free them of the victim-perpetrator trap, and enable them to make authentic amends. Watch Hedy working with a post-affair couple using her Encounter-centered Couples Transformation® approach in an intensive, and discover and learn how to support a couple to generate stronger bonds in the post-affair relationship.
  • Subscribe to Hedy’s email list to be among the first to know of new events, trainings, and Hedy’s best thinking about relationships based on her “learning laboratory” in her marriage with Yumi!