CONNECTED AGAIN
You can love each other and still get stuck.
A Virtual Relationship Workshop for Couples
The same disagreement. The same shutdown. The same pursuit. The same distance.
Connected Again helps couples slow the pattern down, understand what happens between them when connection feels threatened, and practice new ways of finding each other again.
This is a structured, experiential relationship workshop grounded in relationship science and informed by attachment and nervous-system principles.
Who Connected Again Is For
Connected Again may be a good fit for couples who:
- care about their relationship but repeatedly get caught in the same conflicts
- feel increasingly distant or disconnected
- struggle with defensiveness, withdrawal, escalation, or shutdown
- want to strengthen friendship and emotional connection
- want practical ways to navigate conflict differently
- want to understand how stress and nervous-system responses affect their relationship
- want to become more intentional about the relationship they are building together
WHAT WE'LL WORK ON
1. Understand the Pattern
Learn to recognize the cycle that takes over when connection feels threatened.
Couples privately map:
Trigger → Nervous-System Response → Protective Response → Partner Response → What Happens Next
2. Find Each Other Again
Explore friendship, curiosity, appreciation, bids for connection, turning toward, and the small interactions that strengthen relationships over time.
3. Conflict Without Losing Connection
Practice recognizing flooding, slowing escalation, beginning difficult conversations differently, taking effective breaks, accepting influence, and making meaningful repairs.
The framework we will practice together:
4. Build Your Relationship Plan
Each couple leaves the workshop with a practical two-week experiment that includes:
- a daily connection ritual
- a weekly relationship check-in
- a plan for recognizing and responding to flooding
- preferred repair strategies
- one relationship pattern they want to interrupt
- one intentional change they will practice together
What the Workshop Feels Like
Couples will not be expected to disclose their most private relationship experiences to the entire group.
Teaching occurs together, while many exercises and conversations happen privately between partners.
The emphasis is on learning, experiencing, practicing, and taking usable tools home.
Two Nervous Systems, Not Just Two Communication Skills
Relationships involve two nervous systems, not simply two sets of communication skills. When connection feels threatened, your body can react before you have had a chance to think.
Connected Again integrates relationship education with attachment and nervous-system awareness to help couples notice what happens internally before automatic protective responses take over. Understanding this layer gives you more choice in the moments that matter most.
Schedule
Dates being finalized
Connected Again includes a 3-hour workshop followed by a 1-hour integration session. Join the interest list to be notified when dates are confirmed.
The initial workshop focuses on understanding patterns, strengthening connection, practicing conflict and repair skills, and developing a two-week relationship experiment.
Couples return for the integration session after practicing the material in real life. The integration focuses on what worked, where old patterns returned, troubleshooting barriers, strengthening repair, reinforcing regulation and connection, and creating a 30-day relationship plan.
Capacity, Investment & Eligibility
Virtual · TX, OR, WA & CO
4-couple minimum · 6-couple maximum · 12 adults maximum
Closed cohort
$695 per couple · includes both partners
Payment option: $350 + $345 = $695
Couples register once per couple, not once per individual partner.
Both partners must be physically located in Texas, Oregon, Washington or Colorado during the workshop and integration session. If partners are participating from different locations, both locations must independently be within the eligible states.
Limited to six couples so there is room for meaningful participation, private partner exercises and thoughtfully paced facilitation. The offering requires at least four enrolled couples to proceed.
Clinical Fit and Screening
Connected Again is not appropriate for every relationship. Participation requires a brief screening or consultation to determine whether the group format is appropriate for your situation.
Some circumstances may be better served by individualized couples therapy, an intensive, safety-focused services, or another level or type of care. If that is the case, we will talk about it openly.
Participation in this workshop should not be used as a substitute for immediate crisis or safety services. If you are in crisis or concerned about safety, contact 988 or your local emergency services.
Approach
Connected Again draws from:
- Gottman Seven Principles relationship education
- attachment-informed care
- nervous-system education
- structured regulation and resourcing
- experiential couple exercises
- relationship repair practices
Connected Again is not an official Gottman program, Gottman therapy, or otherwise endorsed or certified beyond Sasha's actual training. No proprietary Gottman worksheets or copyrighted training materials are used or reproduced in this workshop.
Facilitation
Led by Sasha Flores, LCSW-S, PMH-C.
Related Care
For couples whose needs are better suited to individualized work, couples intensives offer a deeper, more focused format.
The pattern can change when you understand it together.
Join the interest list, and Sasha will reach out to schedule a brief consultation.