For Committed Couples Seeking to Strengthen Intimate Connection
Based on the latest attachment and education research, the Building a Lasting Connection® (BLC) Workshop is designed to provide couples with the essential components relationships need to build a lasting love that will stay strong to weather the storms of life. You can learn to do marriage better through learning how to share and connect at a deeper level. This workshop gives you the way to learn how.
The BLC® workshop is built on the five levels of our relationship pyramid that are essential to romantic relationships. Participants receive necessary instruction and skill practice across these modules:
Attachment: The Foundation to Romantic Love and Security.
Communication: How to Share Intimately and solve problem collaboratively in a Stressful and Busy World.
Managing Differences: How to Use Your Differences to Improve Your Relationship, Especially Around Important Decisions and Hurt Feelings.
Physical Connection: The Importance Of Touch, What You Need To Know About Differences, and How to Strengthen Adventure and Play Especially in Consideration Of Differences in Affection and Desire.
Shared Goals: How to Build the Life Together You Both Dream Of – Across Your Life Span.
While Couple Education has been shown to help marriages, it has failed to help couples understand relationship development and essential relational dynamics.
Cutting edge research about how couples develop and maintain romantic connection, support each other emotionally and strengthen their loving bond across time has not been included.
Couples need more than active listening skills and conflict resolution, they need to know how to grow and improve their love, prevent disconnection and emotional isolation, heal hurts and prevent resentment and understand how their differences can be their biggest strengths.
The Lasting Connection® Workshop was developed by two experienced educators and couple therapists to provide these essential elements. Based on the latest research of romantic bonding and emotion, along with understanding the necessity for couples to have connecting conversations, they created a Connection System®.
The Connection System® is more than a communication tool, it is a connecting experience. With the Connection System® as a key feature, this workshop comes alive across all sections providing education that is experiential, the kind of education that makes a lasting difference.
These are the things that help partners improve the quality of their relationship across time, to grow their love, their living interactions, understanding and harmony.
In 2021 the first research study on the Lasting Connection® Workshop was completed showing the workshop is meeting its goals. Even a year after attending the workshop couples report how they continued to get closer, developed more compassion and a deeper understanding of their partners. And very importantly they loved the flow of the workshop, the Connection System® and learning experientially.
This workshop makes a difference, it can help you build a truly lasting connection. We hope you’ll join us in St. George so we can support you in having happier and stronger relationship.
Get the information, experience and materials you need to be successful.
Support an important trend in our culture to utilize education to enhance our ability to have strong and happy relationships. The truth that we need intimate connection, especially in long term committed relationships, supports the movement that we can learn to do relationships better. It feels great to work with each other, express our needs with confidence and learn to solve problems together.
Meet your Workshop Developers and Facilitators
Rebecca Jorgensen, Phd and Debi Gilmore, DMFT
Rebecca Jorgensen, PhD
Co-Creator of Building A Lasting Connection®
Dr. Jorgensen is an internationally recognized Trainer and Supervisor of Emotionally Focused Therapy. She co-founded the San Diego Center for EFT and the Training and Research Institute for Emotionally Focused Therapy Alliant. She has two best selling training videos, Emotionally Focused Therapy: A Complete Treatment and Emotionally Focused Therapy: Step by Step.
Debi Gilmore, DMFT
Co-Creator of Building A Lasting Connection®
Dr. Gilmore is a nationally approved supervisor with the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) and a certified supervisor of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) through the International Centre of Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT). She is the co-founder and Clinical Director of the EFT Counseling and Education Center.
Dr. Jorgensen and Dr. Gilmore brought together what they know from research and practice to launch the Building A Lasting Connection® program, that includes tools, resources, training and couple workshops to promote the development of secure attachment and to prevent couple distress.
RECOMMENDATIONS & FEEDBACK
EFT Therapist and Researcher Dr. James Casten
Dr. James Kasten
Licensed Professional Counselor
Nationally Certified Counselor
If you want to strengthen your relationship and learn to have life-changing conversations, you will want to attend the Lasting Connection® workshop. The data from my research demonstrates that couples experienced a strong felt sense of emotional closeness with their partner and developed necessary communication skills that deepened the communication between them. What makes this workshop unique is that each couple reported that they continue to experience the positive results gained from the workshop. You owe it to yourself, your sweetheart, and your relationship to go through the Lasting Connection™ workshop experience to develop a love that grows and lasts a lifetime.
EFT Supervisor and Rabbi Joshua Marder
“The challenges of couples today are complicated and alarming. The Building a Lasting Connection® material guides a couple towards a path of understanding, engaging, and thriving.
This material gives couples a precious gift, a foundation to building a home of harmony and love.”
Joshua Marder, Rabbi
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
Certified EFT Supervisor & Couples Therapist
Workshop Participant Feedback
“We learned to communicate in a new way and it brought us closer together. We knew we loved each other but we had lost our connection. It feels so good and hopeful to have this aliveness and care back in our relationship. It’s like we got a map and found our way home.”
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“I am amazed how good it feels to communicate calmly with such deep emotions.”
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“I am happily surprised how effective the structure is.”
Learning to Communicate, Learning About Each Other:
“Before going I thought we have good communication skills; that’s something that we have learned
as a couple to do. But this was like a higher level; this is like from algebra to calculus as
far as communication goes, it really was. There were things that we would never have
done without course and without the skills and the techniques that they showed us. These skills are so wonderful to have.”
“I feel like I benefited from understanding more about our relationship dynamic and from learning more about why my partner tends to respond the way she does. I feel like she benefited from learning the same things about me. Understanding why I react the way I do in certain situations. And the relationship itself, I think, has benefited a lot from that knowledge.”
“I liked the interactive exercises how we started off with like something small, and we got used to the rhythm of it and what it looked like, and then we could move on to bigger things later on in the workshop. And then, I don’t know; I felt like it really helped open up our mind to what that looks like.”
Get an entire day’s relationship training from two experts!
Price: $50/couple
February 8, 2025
9 AM- 5 PM
Hilton Garden Inn
1731 S Convention Center Dr.
St. George, UT 84790
Questions? Email our BLC Communication Specialist Justin at email: Justin@BuildingALastingConnection.com
Register now so you can grow your relationship and learn to deeply and authentically connect.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Cancellation Policy?
If you are unable to attend the workshop, you may transfer your ticket to another couple by emailing kami@buildingalastingconnection.com. No refunds will be given.
Will this workshop help us across time?
There is nothing more rewarding in life than to love. We want to help you safeguard and secure your love.
We believe love is meant to be strong enough to last, so we can build our lives with each other.
For most of us – to experience a relationship that grows with us – we need to invest time and resources to learn how to keep it strong and thriving.
The research on attachment science is clear that we can build security, and the research on our program also is clear, this workshop can help across time.
– Dr. Rebecca Jorgensen and Dr. Debi Gilmore, Building a Lasting Connection® Co-Developers.
