One year the summer institute features Couple Therapy. Local weekly courses then follow the Couple Therapy theme. The next summer institute features Family Therapy, including young children as well as adolescents, and the local weekly courses follow suit.
Monthly courses have a broader focus on object relations individual, couple and family therapy.
Taken together over the course of two years, the components fulfill the requirements for a certificate in object relations couple and family therapy. We use a format for teaching and learning that derives from object relations principles. Faculty and participants facilitate each other's growth in an open systems learning format where we examine our own contributions with integrity and value the wisdom of the group. From readings and didactic presentations and from our own experience of learning we learn to integrate cognition and affect, theory and technique, intrapsychic and interpersonal dimensions. The format includes lecture, case presentation, video, and group discussion.