The Getting The Love You Want Workshop is a couples weekend workshop to help you feel connected to your partner, improve communication, change conflict patterns and return to the loving place where you began.  This workshop is based on Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly’s book, Getting The Love You Want in conjunction with their Imago Relationship Therapy model.  In this workshop, you and your partner will learn new ways of talking and listening that can transform arguments into opportunities for connection and growth. You will create a shared written relationship vision for a clear roadmap moving forward, identify themes around wounding and areas for healing and growth, as well as gain tools to create and sustain a positive and fulfilling relationship for both partners. 

This workshop is a good fit for couples in all relationship stages, including those feeling disconnected, stuck in conflict, coping with loss, experiencing life transitions, in preparation for marriage, as well as those looking for increased momentum to support couples counseling. 

Instructor

Lauren Ippoliti, LCSW-R is a Clinical Social Worker specializing in couples counseling and trauma therapy.  She is an Advanced Certified Imago Therapist and works with couples using Imago Relationship Therapy, and is also informed by The Gottman Method and Terry Real’s Relational Life Therapy.  Imago Relationship Therapy was created by Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt who are well known for their NY Times bestselling book, Getting The Love You Want, and have also been featured on the Oprah Winfrey show. 

Lauren received her Master’s in Social Work from Syracuse University and has worked in domestic violence, substance abuse and community mental health organizations.  She is currently in private practice in the Central NY area where she works with couples, families and individuals looking to improve relationships,  and work through and heal from past trauma and relational wounding.  Lauren is also a Workshop Presenter for the Getting The Love You Want Workshops and additionally provides Couples’ Intensives in partnership with The Marriage Restoration Project.  Lauren is fully trained in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR) and is currently engaged in training as a Sex Therapist and is working towards AASECT certification. Lauren is a member of Imago Relationships North America (IRNA), Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing International Organization (EMDRIA), the American Association of Sexual Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and The National Association for Social Workers (NASW). 

Schedule Overview

Sunday
1:00 pm - Welcome and Introduction to the workshop and Imago
4:00 pm - Check in to rooms
6:00 pm - Dinner

Monday
8:00 am - Breakfast
9:30 am – 11:50 – Morning session 1
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Afternoon session 1
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm - Free time to enjoy the camp (guided tour or paddling?)
6:00 pm – Dinner

Tuesday
8:00 am - Breakfast
9:15 am - 10:00 am – Check out of rooms
10:00 am – 12:00 pm – Morning session 2
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – Lunch
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm - Afternoon session 2

The Adirondack Pack Basket is one of the most recognized objects associated with the Adirondacks. Join Linda Scherz for a weekend of traditional basket weaving. This class allows students to select between two different basket types to create during the weekend. See below for a description of each of the basket options. Includes 3 nights lodging, all meals, and instruction. Additional fee for materials.

Linda will demonstrate, teach you weaving techniques and guide you while you weave your basket. All materials and tools needed will be provided.

Please note:

• Materials fee will be paid directly to the instructor at the start of the program and is based on the type and size of basket. Basket choice can be made during the registration process.

• Students should wear comfortable clothing.

• Baskets will not be stained during class.

Adirondack Pack Basket

The Adirondack Pack Basket is one of the most recognized objects associated with the Adirondacks.  This will be a weekend of weaving your utilitarian pack.  These packs are patterned from the traditional Adirondack Pack Baskets. 

Students weave a plain weave base with the pre-cut spokes.  Then learn to continuous weave the sides of the basket; level the top, cut and tuck, add handle, and complete the rim. Lastly, add an adjustable webbing (if available) or leather harness for carrying. 

This class will be fun for all weavers.  Linda will demonstrate, teach you weaving techniques and guide you while you weave your basket.  Students will be using a drawknife with shave horse and other sharp tools.

Instructor will bring all materials to make the basket and tools students will need during class.

Students should wear comfortable clothing.

Baskets will not be stained during class.

Fishing Creel

This newly designed creel is woven with reed in a continuous weave. There is significant attention to shaping as it is made to conform to being worn on one’s hip. Linda will be guiding students as they weave as this can be a challenge. The rim is double lashed with artificial sinew. Students will cut a lid of leather to fit their woven creel, cut the hole in it, and fit the buckle strap and attach to the creel. The harness will be made prior to class. Students have a choice of nickel or copper hardware. Choice needs to be made when registering.

Approximate Dimensions: 10 ½” x 8” x 7”H

Materials Fee: Fishing Creel $95.00 with silver, $110.00 with copper

Instructor

Schedule Overview

Sunday: Check-in runs from 4:00-6:00 pm, followed by dinner and camp orientation. We’ll meet our instructor before settling in for the night.

Monday: Basket weaving class begins after breakfast. We’ll work from approximately 9:30 am - 4:00 pm. Use free time to hike, paddle, or relax. After dinner all are invited to a campfire at the historic lean-to.

Tuesday: Basket weaving class begins after breakfast. We’ll work from approximately 9:30 am - 4:00 pm. Use free time to hike, paddle, or relax. After

Wednesday: After breakfast, put final touches on your basket with Linda before heading home.

*Please note that registration for this program is through Syracuse University. The link above will take you to a new website to register.

This weekend immersion will be held in the secluded Adirondack retreat of the Great Camp Sagamore,  with exclusive and private access to 1,526-acre homestead of the visionary William West Durant. Come experience a masterpiece of Adirondack architecture, a place where America’s most influential people came to take a break from the clamor of their “modern” life. The 27-building Great Camp stands alone on a remote lakeside. Sagamore’s builders gathered the colors, scents, and textures of the wild forest and reassembled them indoors in a style that is now imitated nationwide.

The all-inclusive weekend, healing and wellness program provides an indigenously inspired view of the nature of being human in this 3-dimensional world. Diane and Jordan masterfully weave their unique and innovative healing perspectives with you.  They will share traditional and contemporary indigenous healing practices to help individuals dismantle their trauma patterns and hidden obstacles we have all accumulated because of innate responses to difficult and painful experiences of our lives.  The trauma informed process they share, acknowledges ones past while helping the person step into their personal power and clear the way to reach tomorrows goals with more self-awareness, ease, and clarity.

By attending the 3 ½ -day healing & wellness program, you will Learn:

• Indigenous healing practices.

• Focus first on the self, and how to share and support others.

• Explore the background of indigenous cultural practices.

• Learn how to get started with personalized rituals and tools for your own growth and healing.

• Gateway for taking the next step with deeper ceremonial practices.

• An indigenously inspired view of the nature of being human in the 3-dimensional world.

• Facets and application of the practices as a basis for trauma-informed care.

Fostering Emergence of the Good Mind is an energetically referenced, emotionally-focused, body-based approach to healing and wellness drawn from a traditional Native healing methodology rooted in the story of Tadodaho; the man with the hair of snakes who was cleansed and healed by the Peacemaker and his delegation.

CREDENTIAL

At the successful conclusion of this microcredential program, participants will receive a digital badge from Syracuse University, College of Professional Studies, which can be shared on LinkedIn or any digital media, and which will provide complete detail on information learned and competencies gained throughout the program.  Participants can also request a paper and/or a digital certificate.

SPONSORING DEPARTMENT CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions regarding this course, please contact the College of Professional Studies Office of Professional Acceleration and Microcredentials at microcredential@syr.edu or 315.443.2588

Chair Caning

Spend a few days learning how to cane your own chair during which you’ll learn to weave the traditional 7-step caning pattern. Bring along a chair in good condition in need of a new caned seat. Ideally, the chair seat will be square or rectangular in shape and have fewer than 85 holes drilled into the seat frame. Any repairs and refinishing should be completed before the class begins. Please bring a water bucket, scissors and your chair in sound condition, with the old cane removed, if possible.

Instructor

Chris Hubbard
I’ve always been interested and involved in creating by hand, so taking up chair caning came naturally to me.  As a teenager, I was given my grandmother’s small side chair, which had a seat that was tacked on, made of fabric-covered plywood.  For years that seat served me well, but I was intrigued by the holes in the frame underneath.  By chance, I discovered a kit I could purchase containing the materials and tools needed to re-cane a chair seat.  The kit arrived, a neat bundle of cane, some pegs, an awl, and a booklet with instructions.  With help from two elderly local chair caners, Tip Tyler and Dick Pekins, I found my way through the intricate pattern that creates the traditional design.  I was hooked!

After mastering the well-known pattern of octagons with much guidance from Tip and Dick, I discovered other caning patterns and took up the challenge of learning them, as well as the technique of blind and double blind, or French, caning.  And as I worked with local antique dealers, reweaving the seats on various pieces of furniture - first, on chairs needed caned seats, and then on other pieces as they brought them to me - my repertoire grew to include fibre and natural rush, splint, and Shaker Tape weaving techniques. 

I have demonstrated the craft of chair caning and seat weaving at various festivals and events, including the 18th Century Days in Schuylerville, the Washington County Fair in Easton, NY, the Parks Bentley Place in South Glens Falls; as well as Great Camp Sagamore in Raquette Lake.  In addition, I have given classes through the Salem Central School Adult Continuing Education program, the Adirondack Folk School in Lake Luzerne and Great Camp Sagamore, as well as private lessons. 

My work has been featured in the Folklife Center at Crandall Library, located in Glens Falls and at TAUNY in Canton.  In addition, my work can be found numerous private homes in the region, as well as at the Shushan Covered Bridge Museum, at Great Camp Sagamore, and the Salem Public Library.  Finally, I am a member of the Seatweavers’ Guild, an organization that promotes the teaching of seating

This is a workshop about making marks.  Marks from paint, found objects, garbage, printing, and whatever playful idea pops into your head.  There are only a few boundaries, and they apply to science, which may be ignored if so desired. 

Tools and supplies to bring:

• Comfortable walking shoes – bag for collecting – gloves for prickly found items

• Notebook & or Sketchbook

• Paints – oil, oil paint sticks, acrylic, watercolor

• Pencils

• Charcoal 

• Fabric (we will need to gesso for oil paints) or paper(heavier paper is encouraged -  mixed media, arches oil, or heavy rag) to work on

• Any items you have you might want to incorporate 

• Brushes

• Sponges 

• Tissue 

• Paper towels

• Cleaning supplies

• If working with wire:

  • Soft copper wire (28 to 20 gauge) pink color can be turned brown or greenish

  • Soft annealed wire (28 to 20 gauge) black color

  • Soft brass wire (28 to 20 gauge) yellow color can be turned brown or greenish

  • Needle nose pliers

  • Round needle nose pliers

  • Wire cutters

*Highly encourage to have a box to transport finished or almost finished work home.

Supplied for you (feel free to bring your own):

• Sewing tools 

• threads

• Some upcycled items

• scissors

• encaustics

• heat guns

What a day will look like:

• The start of a day will be with a gentle wander around Sagamore. Absorbing ideas, gathering anything you find that piques your interest and or finding a happy spot sitting sketching, noting or just looking.  

• We will then return to the Hen House and start exploring the joy of mark making.  I will have a few examples for exploration and show a few ways to get started.  

• Lunch break

• Optional wander and finding mission. 

• Back to the Hen House for more creating.

• 4pm– show and tell critique