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Lasting Connection® Workshop
LIVE SPRING Facilitator Training

Promoting the Development of Secure Attachment

Classes every Monday over Zoom:

February 23, March 2, 9, 16, 23

8:00 am – 11:00 am PST
9:00 am – 12:00 pm MST
10:00 am – 1:00 pm CST
11:00 am – 2:00 pm EST 

12 CE’s Available

For Couple Therapists, Marriage Educators and Coaches

The Lasting Connection® Facilitator Training:

Become a Certified Relationship Educator! Equip your practice, coaching business, or workshop series with the Lasting Connection System®: a revolutionary, research-based framework for helping couples protect, deepen, and grow their love across a lifetime.

The Lasting Connection® Facilitator Training: Become a Certified Relationship Educator

Equip your practice, coaching business, or workshop series with the Lasting Connection System®: a revolutionary, research-based framework for helping couples protect, deepen, and grow their love across a lifetime.

This intensive training teaches you to provide a connecting experience that moves clients and participants from emotional isolation to a secure, lasting bond—addressing the critical relational dynamics that traditional communication models often overlook.

The Value of Adding the Lasting Connection System® to Your Offerings

This experiential training is based on cutting-edge research in romantic bonding and attachment, providing you with a proven structure to help the couples you work with:

  • Build Secure Attachment: Teach the essentials of attachment to safeguard connections from conflict, rejection, and emotional disconnection.

  • Go Beyond Surface Communication: Master the Lasting Connection System®—a proven, easy-to-implement tool for facilitating truly connecting conversations that get to the heart of every matter, transforming communication from a skill into an experience.

  • Foster Lifelong Relationship Growth: Empower couples to heal old hurts, prevent resentment, and understand how their differences can become their relationship’s greatest strengths.

  • Deliver Clinically Proven Results: A 2021 research study on the workshop showed that couples continued to grow closer, develop more compassion, and deepen their understanding of each other even a year after attending. Offer a system with demonstrated, lasting efficacy.

Whether you are a licensed therapist looking to enhance your clinical structure or an educator/coach ready to offer a cutting-edge, research-backed workshop, the Lasting Connection System® provides the clear, defensible foundation you need to help couples achieve true, secure connection.

Get the training and materials you need to be successful.

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Training includes 15 hours of research-based instruction via online video conference (Zoom) including:

  • Presentation Skills & Techniques for engagement using experiential learning theory.

  • Presentation Materials, ready to use and personalize. 

  • Unlimited Access to Course Recordings 

  • Membership in Facilitator private group for support and promotion.

  • Your workshops listed on our Workshops page.

  • The Lasting Connection System® (a $200 value); a full sized 4×8 foot guide to connecting and healing conversations. 

  • A beautiful tote to carry and keep your materials in.

  • 12 CE’s available through TRI EFT Alliant for mental health professionals.

So you can start presenting what you’ve learned and begin to help couples strengthen their relationship right away.

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. We can help couples learn to do relationships better. 

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.

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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. 

RECOMMENDED BY:

EFT Therapist and Researcher Dr. James Kasten

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 Participants

“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.” 

  • “I am amazed how good it feels to communicate calmly with such deep emotions.”

  • “I am happily surprised how effective the structure is.”

What is Included in the Price?

Live Online Training and follow up Independent Self-Paced Study (recordings of the virtual course). Note: The training dates listed are for live, online instruction and experiential practice.

Also included the Lasting Connection® Facilitator Guide and the Lasting Connection® Materials Set, which contains the core items facilitators need to present an engaging and productive workshop or to mentor couples individually.

The Lasting Connection® Materials Set includes the Lasting Connection System® in 2 sizes, Facilitator Guide, Participant Manual and a tote bag. The Lasting Connection® Workshop PowerPoint presentation slides are delivered to you in electronic form.

Once you have completed the online training you will receive an official Lasting Connection® Facilitator certificate, seal, and access to our online Lasting Connection® Facilitator Community. You will also be authorized to purchase additional Lasting Connection Systems® and workshop materials to enhance your facilitator experience when you start facilitating your workshops.

Meeting Dates and Times

February 23

March 2

March 9

March 16

March 23

Time: 8:00 am – 11:00 am PST   
9:00 am – 12:00 pm MST
10:00 am – 1:00 pm CST
11:00 am – 2:00 pm EST

NOTE: A minimum of 10 participants is required for this training to go forward as outlined above. If the minimum number of participants is not reached by February 19th you will have the option to defer to the next training or to be transferred into our Pre-Recorded Workshop.

You’ll get a box of materials handed directly to you!

The Building a Lasting Connection® Participant Materials

Materials include: 4×8 foot Lasting Connection System®; the 8/12X 11 inch Touch Lasting Connection System®, the Participants Guide and BLC Tote Bag. 

Get all you need to get started

when you sign up now.

Price: $499

Price includes instruction, workshop materials including the Connection System®,  Facilitator Guide, ready to go PowerPoints for your workshops, participant manuals for your workshop participants and membership in a private facilitators discussion group. And, unlimited access to the training recording and the downloadable materials.

Questions? Email our BLC Communication Specialist Camille at email: Camille@BuildingaLastingConnection.com 

Personalized Payment Plans are also available. Email us from the Contact Page.

Register now so you can provide your own Lasting Connection® Workshops to groups and one couple at a time. 

We look forward to working with you.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Cancellation Policy?

If you are unable to attend the workshop, you may transfer your funds and registration status to another couple to participate or to a future workshop. 

To obtain a transfer, please notify us at least 2 weeks before the workshop. 

Transfers expire one year from the date of the notification.  All registrations are final. 

Tell Me More About The Lasting Connection System®

Your Lasting Connection System® is made of durable and washable material that is built to last for years. 

  • Even after the workshop is over, this Lasting Connection System® can keep moving you into deeper connection one step at a time, so your relationship will continue to grow.

  • Studies show that with immersive practice, this way of connecting can become second-nature. You really can have the relationship of your dreams. 

  • Easy to use and provides important structure to develop the kind of communication that ignites your relationship with understanding a love.

What Can A Lasting Connection® Facilitator Do Upon Successful Completion of Training?

Training authorizes a Lasting Connection® Workshop Facilitator to:

  • Independently teach and facilitate the Lasting Connection® Workshop, potentially generating income for you.

  • Use and promote the materials and content of the Lasting Connection® Workshop

  • Be listed as a Facilitator on the Building A Lasting Connection® International Website.

  • Purchase additional Connection Systems and supplies at a discount. Work towards becoming a CERTIFIED Facilitator.

What If I Haven’t Been Trained in Working with Couples?

 

  • While this course does not replace training in how to work with couples as a licensed professional, the training offers facilitators the concepts and skills needed to help couples understand the principles of attachment and healthy communication.

  • Licensed or pre-licensed professionals interested in further training or supervision are encouraged to contact us. 

 

 

 

I want to work with premarital couples, will this also help me with other couples?

What kind of couples does the course apply to?

  • While designed for premarital and early relationship couples we have found it works wonders for all couples, even long-term couples who are happy or struggling deeply in marriage.