✦ Building Love That Lasts: A Gottman Couple's Workshop

Price: $150 per couple | 20% off for Members

Date: Saturday, August 22nd at 1:30pm

Join us for an in-person, 2-hour immersive workshop rooted in the principles of the Gottman Method. Together, we’ll explore the foundational elements that support happy, healthy, and resilient relationships. Grounded in decades of research on what makes partnerships thrive, this experience offers practical tools you can immediately apply to deepen trust, strengthen communication, and create a more secure emotional bond.

Through guided exercises and thoughtful reflection, couples will learn how to transform moments of tension into opportunities for connection and understanding. This workshop is both educational and experiential — offering space to learn, practice, and reconnect in a supportive environment.

What to expect:

- A clear overview of key Gottman relationship principles

- Insight into the “Sound Relationship House” framework

- Tools to strengthen friendship and emotional intimacy

- Practical communication strategies to reduce defensiveness and escalation

- Techniques to navigate conflict in a healthy, productive way

- Guided partner exercises to practice skills in real time

- Prompts to deepen appreciation, admiration, and shared meaning

- Take-home tools to continue building connection beyond the workshop

Whether you’re looking to refresh your foundation or intentionally invest in your partnership, this workshop offers research-backed guidance and meaningful time together.

Facilitator Bio
Traci Boyle-Galestiantz, LCSW, has been a licensed clinical social worker for more than 17 years, supporting individuals and couples through seasons of change, growth, and resilience. In addition to her Portland-based private practice, Beloved Wellness, she has taught Child and Family Studies for over 20 years and provides clinical supervision to other therapists.

Traci is a Level 3 Certified Gottman Therapist and draws from the Gottman Method to help couples understand the patterns they get stuck in, communicate more clearly, and rebuild connection through conflict, big and small.

Her work is shaped by both professional training and lived experience as part of a couple, from young love and growing a family to early widowhood and single parenting.  Now Traci lives with a partner, nurturing and managing a blended family, helping her understand various paths life can take us on.