A New Research-Based Approach
This is a special training event for leadership staff at Verve Community Church
Craig Tucker, LCSW, is your Certified Gottman Trainer and Workshop Leader. In Gottman Level 1 Training, you’ll discover new ways to help couples in your congregation who are experiencing challenges. You’ll learn how to assess their needs and to use strategies that work. This method focuses on emotions and gives you tools you can use right away. The training is based on more than 40 years of research by Drs. John and Julie Gottman. They studied over 3,000 couples. Their work is the largest study ever done on what makes marriages last or fail. Ready to take the first step?
This Gottman Level 1 Training
This Gottman Level 1 Training will be held at the Verve Community Church campus at 4620 Pine St, Riverside, CA 92501. The Level 1 Training Dates Are:
Monday, May 4, 2026 — 5:30 PM – 8:45 PM
Monday, May 18, 2026 — 5:30 PM – 8:45 PM
Monday, June 1, 2026 — 8:45 PM
Monday, June 15, 2026 — 5:30 PM – 8:45 PM
Tickets for the Four Day Training
Regular: $445 Orders for this training close on April 27, 2026.
Gottman Level 1 Schedule
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Learn how to Move Couples from Conflict to Connection
Join the Gottman Level 1 training for the leadership at Verve Community Church campus in Rancho Cucamonga, California! You’ll spend four exciting days with learning with your team. Each person’s experience matters. The focus is on helping each of you stay connected—to the material, to your own clinical intuition, and to the learning community around you. You won’t be left to navigate this alone.
In this workshop, you’ll get a clear plan to help couples build stronger relationships. This plan comes from the Sound Relationship House Theory. Through it, we’ll explore Dr. Gottman’s research on thousands of couples. You’ll see what makes some relationships thrive while others fail. You’ll learn how to guide couples through conflict with care. What is more, you’ll understand how repair helps couples grow closer, build trust, and share their dreams.
If you don’t already use assessments, this training will show you how. You’ll learn to spot strengths and challenges using validated questionnaires. Real videos of couples from the famous Gottman “Love Lab” will be shown. You’ll see Dr. Julie Gottman in action, demonstrating how to assess and help couples in her own practice.
To follow up, you are invited to participate in the TuckerWorks Level 1 discussion forum for three months. You will also have access to a treasure trove of additional tools to help you get started with the Gottman Method.
Frequently Asked Questions
You will learn research based tools that help couples handle conflict in healthy ways. We provide you with skills that help partners talk about their worst challenges. You’ll guide them to explore the dreams, past experiences, and values that hide behind the problems. Next, we give you tools to help couples work through fights and heal emotional wounds. Finally, you’ll learn ways to help partners grow closer and avoid falling back into old patterns.
This training is for mental health providers, allied professionals and clergy, students and interns, family clinic staff, professors/teachers of couples therapy, researchers in the social sciences, and employee assistance professionals. There are no prerequisites.
Included in the registration price is a clinical training manual, which contains the core Gottman Method Couples Therapy assessments and interventions. You will be awarded a Certificate of Completion with an assessment score of 80% or better from The Gottman Institute.
No, there are no prerequisites. Pre-licensed mental health providers, students and interns, are welcome. Also, all allied professionals (clergy, family clinic staff, professors/teachers of couples therapy, researchers in the social sciences, and employee assistance professionals, and so on).
- 300-page digital Level 1 Clinical Training Manual
- Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level 1 Training Certificate of Completion
- Videos for online lectures and interventions included
- Eligibility to continue to Level 2 Training
- Three months of membership in our Level 1 discussion forum
- Access to my treasure trove of tools to help get started in the Gottman Method
From the Gottman Institute you will receive:
From TuckerWorks you will receive:
At the completion of this training, you will be able to:
- Summarize the research that allows us to predict future relationship stability.
- Describe the seven levels of the Sound Relationship House Theory.
- Conduct a couple’s therapy assessment using elements of the couple’s narrative, the Oral History Interview, written questionnaires, observations of conflict and individual interviews.
- Describe two interventions to help strengthen a couple’s conflict management.
- Describe two interventions to enhance a couple’s friendship system.
- Describe two interventions to explore a couple’s system of shared meaning.
- Explain why physiological self-soothing is essential for a healthy relationship.
- Create a therapeutic contract with a couple, discuss and decide on goals and include a summary of the couples strengths and areas that need improvement.
- Describe the Philosophy of Therapy and including assumptions, overview of techniques and goals of therapy.
- Describe the Rapoport Intervention and when to use it.
- Describe the process of therapy, including the structure of a session.
12 CE Hours are available for $40 through The Cognitive Behavioral Institute. You will receive a link via email to the CE application after course completion. After payment and satisfactory completion of the appropriate information with The Cognitive Behavioral Institute, they will email you a certificate within 48 hours.
Satisfactory Completion
Participants must have paid registration fees, signed in, attended the entire seminar, and signed out in order to receive a certificate. Failure to sign in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available.
The Cognitive Behavioral Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Cognitive Behavioral Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Counselors/Marriage and Family Therapists/Mental Health Counselors Nearly all Professional Counselors, MFT & Mental Health Counselors, and LCSW (in some states) boards accept APA. Check with your board to be sure.
Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations occasionally. We attempt to stay on top of the most recent changes. If you have questions about a course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly for a definitive answer.
14 Days Prior To The First Day Of Event = Full refund, minus a $50.00 processing fee.
7 Days Prior To The First Day Of Event = 50% refund, minus a $50.00 processing fee.
Within 6 Days Of The First Day of Event = No refund, but contact us if you would like to reschedule. For rescheduled registrations, the maximum refund for cancellation is 50%, minus a $50.00 processing fee, until 14 days prior to the first day of the rescheduled event. Within 14 days of rescheduled event, no refunds or additional rescheduling will be allowed.
