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.
Continuing Ed is available to NYS Social Workers and Psychologists for participation in these workshops. Click here for details.
NEXT SESSIONS
Relationship Boot Camp
Date: Sat Feb 3 and Sun Feb 4, 2024
Time: 11am-6pm EST, both days.
Location: Via ZOOM
Relationship Boot Camp
Date: Sat March 16 & Sun March 17, 2024
Time: 9am-4:30pm both days
Location: San Diego, California (location TBD)
Relationship Boot Camp
Date: Sat April 6 & Sun April 7, 2024
Time: 9am-4:30pm both days
Location: 151 West 30th St., 3rd Floor, New York, NY

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Relationship Boot Camp
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
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.