Hold Me Tight® Couples and Marriage Workshop

Couples Workshop at Creating Solutions
Facilitated by Amy Cardinal, M.A. and Renata Logan, M.SC, Registered Psychologists

This workshop gives couples practical tools to better understand one another, share feelings in healthy ways and respond with care and connection. Whether you want to strengthen an already solid relationship or find new ways to move through challenges, you’ll walk away with insights and skills to feel closer, calmer, and more supported in your partnership.

October 25-26, 2025
2 Day Workshop
$650+GST per Couple.

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At the Hold Me Tight® Workshop, you and your partner will explore the new science of love based on Attachment Theory and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). Through engaging teaching, video demonstrations of real couples, and most importantly, private guided conversations with your partner, you gain the tools to:

  • Recognize and change negative patterns that keep you stuck

  • Communicate your needs and emotions in a sage, supportive way

  • Deepen your emotional bond and feel closer than ever

  • Create lasting positive change in your relationship

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This workshop is an opportunity to strengthen your connection, whether you’re:

  • A couple looking to enrich an already strong relationship

  • Partners navigating challenges and wanting to break old cycles

  • A couple preparing to take your relationship to the next stage

  • Or even a professional curious about applying 40 years of research on love and attachment

Imagine leaving with a deeper sense of safety, acceptance and closeness with the person you love!

Ready to take the next step? Fill out the form above to register. Once you complete the form you will be re-directed to our client intake form. Please fill this out with as much detail as possible so we can best support you and your partner.

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy has been shown through research to be the most effective approach to helping couples:

  • Change the negative cycle of repetitive arguments and distancing that can cause alienation, frustration, and pain

  • Understand emotions and needs in romantic relationships and how to tend to each other in away that creates positive, bonding

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  • Begin to repair old relationship injuries and how to build more trust moving forward

  • Learn and practice a new way of communicating with each other that promotes a closer connection, more effective problem solving skills, and can help you have more fun freedom together in your life

What to Expect During the Hold Me Tight Workshop:

Over two days you and your partner will be guided through a supportive, and engaging, and research-based program designed to bring you closer together.

Here’s what the experience looks like:

Interactive learning-Learn essentials of attachment theory and the neuroscience of love through engaging presentations, videos, and stories that bring the material to life.

Private Guided Conversations-Work through seven carefully structures exercises with your partner-always privately, never in front of the group. these conversations are designed to build on one another, helping you create a “Love Map: that research shows reduces conflict and increases long-term satisfaction.

Support When You Need It-Our trained facilitators will be available to support you and your partner as you go through the exercises, ensuring you feel guided and cared for throughout the process.

Real-Life Inspiration-Watch video demonstrations of couples practicing the same conversations you’ll be having, so you can see how these tools work in real relationships.

Optional Group Sharing-Participate in group discussions only if you choose-there’s no pressure to speak up, and you’ll never be “put on the spot”

By the end of the workshop you’ll not only understand what’s really driving conflict in your relationship: you’ll also have practiced a proven method to move through those moments with compassion, understanding, and closeness.

This is a positive, research-based workshop for all couples: whether you want to enrich your connection, prepare for a stronger future together, or learn how to change patterns that leave you feeling stuck.

Imagine leaving with a deeper sense of connection, practical tools you can use right away, and a renewed vision for a love that keeps growing stronger over time.

The facility is fully accessible. If you have questions about accommodations for disabilities or personal challenges, please email: admin@creating-solutions.com

Information for Mental Health Professionals Who Plan to Attend the Workshop

Professionals who attend with their partner, will learn the latest research about adult love relationships and how to keep them healthy and long lasting. This can help therapists in their own personal relationships, their relationships with their clients, as well as helping their clients with their primary love relationships. If you are a mental health professional, this workshop is not a replacement or substitute for obtaining training to become proficient in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. It is more like an introductory course, that teaches the EFT Map.

A certificate of attendance will be issued upon request for 14 hours.

Learning objectives for the purposes of those attending with their partner wanting to use this workshop as part of your continuing competency plan.

  • Identify two major tenants of attachment theory.

  • Describe how neuroscience and attachment theory affect romantic relationships.

  • Demonstrate the negative cycle of repetitive arguments and distancing that can cause alienation, frustration, and pain and explain how to change it.

  • Identify two major factors in positive, safe, adult romantic relationships.

  • Define the research-based method for repairing relationship injuries and how to build a more trusting bond moving forward.

  • Summarize and Practice a new way of communicating that promotes a closer connection, more effective problem-solving skills, more interpersonal freedom, and independence.