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Ron will be presenting a plenary and breakout at the annual NARME conference. 

• Ron's plenary: "Coregulation or Self-Regulation? Advancing Our Understanding of Marital Attachment and a Maturing Usness" 

Sponsor: NARME equips leaders and practitioners with research-based relationship education strategies, tools, and best practices to develop healthy relationships, stronger marriages, and safe and stable families to increase human flourishing.

Wednesday-Friday, July 23-25, 2025. Hotel: Hilton Mclean Tysons Corner, 7920 Jones Branch Dr, McLean, VA 22102 

Description of Ron's Plenary: What matures partners and their marital usness best, coregulation of emotion or self-regulation? The current field of marital education and therapy is biased toward coregulation. But how does this limit couple usness? How might coregulation and self-regulation work in concert to grow more stable relationships and how do we teach self-regulation? Restoration Therapy (popularized in the new book The Mindful Marriage: Create Your Best Relationship Through Understanding and Managing Yourself) combines the advantages of attachment theory, emotional regulation, and mindfulness in an efficient and organized fashion that moves couples out of painful coping, facilitates self-regulation, and advances our understanding of adult attachment. 

Participants will learn:

1. Advances in adult attachment theory will be discussed, and participants will identify the advantages of moving partners toward self-regulation. 
2. Participants will identify two ineffective, but common, strategies utilized by partners to coregulate their emotional pain. 
3. Participants will become familiar with the four main coping expressions of fight/flight reactivity in marriage—and see why coregulation is weak to manage them. 
4. Participants will be exposed to the “Four Steps” in organizing self-regulation bringing about partner and relationship maturation.

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