Resources
For Couples
- Find an Encounter-centered Couples Transformation® practitioner trained by Hedy
- Suggested reading list for couples
- 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!
- And get to know Hedy a bit better by watching her TEDxTelAviv talk on The Power of Connection and reading what was written about her in an article published in The Journal of Health and Human Experience, called A Matter of Courage: Vulnerable Women Prevailing Against the Odds. The section about Hedy begins on page 99. We also very-much recommend the beautiful documentary made about Hedy and Yumi, called Hedy and Yumi: Crossing the Bridge
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.
- The Couple’s Journey Intensive: A Ten-Step Adventure, done is association with MAIT, in English. This replay is of a full-day Zoom training Hedy did where she describes each step of the journey of The Couple’s Journey Intensive, as well as its rationale. She also decodes the complex distinction between the adaptive “survival dance” and the “dance of life in connection.” Hedy also guides two in vivo demonstrations and shares some of the lessons she’s learned while delivering her work solely via Zoom, and across a 10-week period, vs. over a two-or-three-day intensive.
- Generative Presencing: A Deep Dive Into Powerful Connection, done in association with MAIT, in English. This replay is of a full-day training as in which Hedy Schleifer describes the concept of Generative Presencing based on the Organizational Development author Otto Scharmer’s Theory U. She shares the idea of the “emergent future” based on the concept that each one of us is not just one self but two. We are each our current self, which is a result of our entire journey of the past. And we are also our emerging future self, which encompasses the future possibilities to be actualized. When, as humans, we are giving each other Generative Presencing, these two selves begin to listen to each other. And as a result we can step out of the relational reactive “Survival Dance” and step into the intentional dance of “Life in Connection.” The training also includes in vivo demonstrations with two couples, about how to guide them down to the bottom of the “U” and back up the other side so that their present and future selves can begin to listen to each other in the service of their essence-to-essence connection.
- 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.
- 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!
- And get to know Hedy a bit better by watching her TEDxTelAviv talk on The Power of Connection and reading what was written about her in an article published in The Journal of Health and Human Experience, called A Matter of Courage: Vulnerable Women Prevailing Against the Odds. The section about Hedy begins on page 99. We also very-much recommend the beautiful documentary made about Hedy and Yumi, called Hedy and Yumi: Crossing the Bridge