Relationship Boot Camp

This 2-day/weekend Relationship Boot Camp offered by therapists Jerry Sander, LCSW & Kristy Gaisford, LCSW can help give you the skills you need to change your relationship from “so-so” to the path of full-throttle intimacy. Includes materials/resources that will be sent to you in advance.

The Boot Camp is an authorized presentation of Terry’s Real’s workshop and both of us have been trained directly by Terry.

NEXT SESSIONS

Relationship Boot Camp
with Jerry Sander, LCSW (solo)

Date: Sat Feb 1 & Sun Feb 2, 2025
Time: 9am-4:30pm both days
Location: Smith College
Dewey Common Room
7 College Lane
Northampton, Massachusetts 01063

Relationship Boot Camp
with Kristy Gaisford, LCSW (solo)

Date: Sat March 1 & Sun March 2, 2025
Time: 9am-4:30pm both days
Location: The Hotel Peery
110 West Broadway
Salt Lake City, UT, 84101

Relationship Boot Camp
with Kristy Gaisford, LCSW and Jerry Sander, LCSW

Date: Sat April 5 & Sun April 6, 2025
Time: 9am-4:30pm both days
Location: E. L. Hannah Community Center
819 Abbot Road
East Lansing, MI 48823

Relationship Boot Camp
with Kristy Gaisford, LCSW and Jerry Sander, LCSW

Date: Sat April 26 & Sun April 27, 2025
Time: 9am-4:30pm both days
Location: Balance Arts Center
151 West 30th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, New York 10001

Relationship Boot Camp
with Jerry Sander, LCSW (solo)

Date: Sat Aug 9 & Sun Aug 10, 2025
Time: 9am-4:30pm both days
Location: Mountain Lake Park
46 Bowen Road
Warwick, NY 10990
Note: Lodging at Mountain Lake Park with cabins/Queen beds, will be available. Watch for rates/details.

Register for:
Relationship Boot Camp

$795 per individual

$1,390 per couple

Payment via PayPal, Venmo or Check

Reconnect, Learn Strategies and Essential Skills

The workshop is open to all individuals and couples. Through a combination of lecture, in-person role-play, small group exercises, and personal work, this live workshop will teach all participants how to:

• be connected and protected in relationships.
• identify the five losing strategies.
• practice the five winning strategies.
• analyze healthy listening and responding skills.
• identify where they get stuck the most with their current or past partner.
• learn new ways, going forward, without being stuck.

Relationship Boot Camp Takeaways

clarity

Learn to identify where you get stuck the most with their current (or past) partner and learn new ways, going forward, without being stuck.

connections

Learn skills necessary to teach couples how to assess losing strategies and move to winning ones.

communication

Learn to analyze healthy listening and responding skills, and strategies to be connected and protected in your relationship.

roadmap

We will help you see that the road forward allows for hope and joy.

Kristy Gaisford, LCSW is a graduate of Columbia University’s School of Social Work, is a mother of four, and a stepmother of another four. She has been in practice for over 20 years.

Jerry Sander, LCSW is a graduate of New York University’s School of Social Work, is a father of four and has been in practice for 35 years.

Both of us have studied with Terry Real and are certified in his Relational Life Therapy approach to couples’ work. We also are authorized presenters of his weekend Relationship Boot Camps.

We consider ourselves fellow travelers with you on the up and down journey of relationships. We walk the walk; we’ve both been married, divorced, and remarried to other people, cultivating happiness after some rough times. We know what it’s like to feel the exaltation of first love, the heartbreaks and defeat that accompany divorce and the energy it takes to start again. We know what it is like to have children watching you the whole time.

We’ve learned what relational skills we needed to develop, and we practice them — mostly successfully — with our beloveds every day, week, month and year.

We want to share them with you.