ABOUT US

COURAGEOUS LOVING

is a company based in Chestnut Ridge, NY

offering Transformational Relationship Training to Individuals, Couples and Groups.

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 OUR MISSION:

TEACHING PEOPLE TO HEAL THEIR RELATIONSHIPS AND TRANSFORM THEIR LIVES.

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WHO WE ARE:

THE COURAGEOUS LOVING CENTER was created by Amy and Michael Sherman in December 2006.  As counselors, trainers and writers, Amy and Michael have devoted their lives to teach others how to heal relationships and experience personal transformation.  They have worked with hundreds of people, guiding them with supportive care and brilliant insights, while helping them to step into new levels of personal power and inner peace.

As a husband and wife team, Amy and Michael are walking the path alongside their clients and students.  With warmth, humor and wise words, this unique couple relate to their audience with a sense of authenticity, grace and humility.  They are a straight talking, gutsy couple with huge hearts and open minds.  They get right to the core of the matter and teach their clients how to do whatever it takes.

HISTORY OF THE COUPLE AND THE BUSINESS:

Right from the beginning of their relationship, they felt a sense of destiny that their shared desire to heal themselves and their own partnership would lead them to teach others to do the same.  Having walked through several major relationship transformations, with a commitment to keep agreements they have made together in their partnership, the two of them have developed a systematic way of working together that quickly elicits results from individuals and couples alike.

Amy and Michael come to this work as people walking the path with their clients.  They go through and have gone through many of the toughest issues that couples face.  When people come to them with questions or in a crisis, they will be received with a sense of “I get you” and “We’ve been there.”  These partners have overcome incredible odds and taught many others to do the same.  They are masters of techniques that have helped them save their couplehood from disintegration, allowing them experience emotional safety, freedom of expression, individual and shared career success, fun with family and friends, renewed intimacy, and joyfulness of purpose in their lives together.  They are also masters of teaching these techniques to others.

In 2003, having moved back home to the New York area after meeting in Seattle, Washington, the couple set up an office in Nyack, NY, a suburban town outside of New York City. (Rockland County). In 2010, they moved the office into the basement of their home in Chestnut Ridge, NY, very close to the border of New Jersey in Bergen County. They see clients in their home office, work on the phone or with skype with folks around the country and the world, while also offering workshops to the public, including a monthly lecture called “THE RELATIONSHIP MIRACLE” which happens every second Monday at LIFT NYACK Yoga Studio and Holistic Center. (See “Workshops” Tab above).

THE FUTURE:

Courageous Loving will continue to develop  an array of multimedia programs and audio recordings, as well as offering powerful material on the web.  There is much to absorb on this blogsite, including digital recordings of real IMAGO DIALOGUES that teach how to work through conflict in a relationship.   The 3 Hour Audio Program, “RELATIONSHIPS ARE THE ROADMAP TO DESTINY” features a comprehensive overview of the Courageous Loving approach to healing relationships and personal transformation. (To learn more about this program, CLICK: HERE)

Amy and Michael are currently offering a new training for businesses and organizations called “LISTENING FOR LEADERSHIP.” These trainings will teach teams to develop better trust, creative problem solving, and conflict resolution communication techniques.

PHILOSOPHY AND APPROACH:

Amy and Michael have integrated powerful and proven methods of healing and transformation. Amy comes from a background as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a Masters Degree in Family Systems Theory.  Michael is a writer, leadership trainer and former middle school English Teacher with a Masters in Teaching.   Both completed the post-graduate clinical training in Imago Relationship Counseling, and are certified practitioners of Imago Dialogue, a method of partner communication that naturally creates harmony through conflict. Michael is also a student of Aikido, a martial art that blends easily with the language of Imago Dialogue.

Through their work and experience, Amy and Michael have developed an innovative and dynamic approach that has lead to tremendous breakthroughs with their clients.  Partners who receive couples counseling at The Courageous Loving Center do so in a two-on-two format,  setting up a structure where the clients are being mentored by a professional couple who know what it takes to turn things around.  The mentoring approach increases the sense of mutual belief and trust in the process, which increases the pace of healing and allows the couple to take what they learn and practice on their own — as if they were in martial arts training with two masters.

“RELATIONSHIP TRAINING:”

The “training” model is well suited for counseling clients and workshop students of Courageous Loving.  Amy and Michael see themselves as “Relationship Trainers” – in the sense that there are systems that work to heal relationships, and that the integrating of these systems into the life of an individual or couple opens the doors to new levels of personal accountability, clarity and purpose, as well as inner calm and profound acceptance.  In this way, the world of Courageous Loving centers around the teaching of a single question:

“WHO ARE MY RELATIONSHIPS CALLING ME TO BECOME?“

When an individual or couples client can crossover in their lives to a place where they have not only asked that question, but have become that person, then they will have finally put to rest problems that have affected their relationships and their lives for years.  They will truly be a “COURAGEOUS LOVER”, in that they are standing up for their truth, while remaining connected and conscious of the people in their lives.

THE NEXT STEP FOR YOU:

We invite you to explore this website, listen to the recordings of IMAGO DIALOGUE, read the previous blog posts, leave a comments, download the Free 12 page E-book, enjoy.  We also invite you to consider the next step of “Relationship Training” in your life – and to that end, you  may want to submit a question through our Free e-Coaching service or give us a call and set up a Free Consultation over the phone (see tabs above for “Free Coaching” or “Contact”). We can answer all of your questions and show you how we can help you.

See all the tabs above to make the next step that feels right for you.  Call us at (845) 290-0565. To Email, CLICK: HERE.

Thank you for reading.

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