Level 1 Training
Learn the whole ASR framework by practicing it — not by watching someone explain it. Two modules, live and experiential, and the entry point to ASR certification.
- Module 1
- Oct 23 & 24
- Module 2
- Dec 4 & 5
- Daily
- 9:00am – 6:00pm
- Where
- Murfreesboro, TN
- CE
- 30 NBCC hours
Launch pricing ends September 25
Why one framework
Three clients. Three models in your head.
Three presentations, three frameworks, three sets of language and assumptions to hold at once — while the person in front of you is looking to you for help.
What you're signing up for
This training is experiential.
Level 1 walks you through each part of the model piece by piece, each building on what came before. You will not sit through a lecture and then go home to figure out the application. By the end you'll know what you're doing and why it works.
Attuned Systemic Repair draws attachment theory, interpersonal neurobiology, emotion theory, and core principles found separately across other modalities into a single working framework — one that adapts across individual, couple, and family work instead of asking you to switch models between them.
Module 1 · October 23 & 24
Attuning and Engaging
Over two days you'll learn how ASR defines the problem — and then you'll practice working it.
You'll learn what holds a client's distress and how to access it more directly and more securely. You'll learn to attune to what a client is feeling before they have words for it, and to tell where a client's Self ends and the feeling begins.
You'll build a conceptualization of the client in front of you and of the people in their life who will never walk through your door. You'll learn to identify and predict the patterns of behavior distress creates in individuals and in relationships, and you'll practice engaging the part of a client that carries their distress rather than working around it.
Included: 90-minute group coaching
Between the modules you'll join a 90-minute session led by a trained ASR coach, in groups of three to four. Bring a case, get live consultation on how your practice of ASR is going, and arrive at Module 2 with practice under your belt.
Sessions are scheduled in set blocks. No makeups.
Module 2 · December 4 & 5
Blocks and Bridges
Module 1 taught you to work with what's happening inside a client. Module 2 is what you do with everything outside your office — and what to do when you can't get to the distress at all.
We start where relationships actually change. You'll learn to construct empathy rather than wait for it — helping a client feel what another person carries, not just understand it. From there you'll design responses aimed at what that person's feeling actually needs, secure a client so they can hold their own distress while engaging relational distress, and pace disclosure to what both people can bear. When the relationship ruptures, and it will, you'll learn to sequence the repair and build a shared story that keeps it from becoming more evidence for the old one.
Then we turn to blocks. Blocks come in two forms: a feeling too intense to get close to, and a story that stands in the way. You'll learn to work at the edge of distress, to adapt blocking narratives without arguing with them, and why the goal is a truer truth rather than a correct one. You'll also learn how to work when only one partner is in the room, and what changes when both are.
The pathway
Level 1 is the entry point to ASR certification.
Both modules are required. Certification itself is competency-based rather than hour-based — full pathway details are provided during Module 1.
Fit
Is this your training?
Yes, if you're
- A licensed clinician or supervised associate in MFT, counseling, social work, or psychology.
- A second-year-or-later graduate student with an active caseload — student rates apply.
- Tired of switching frameworks between the individual, the couple, and the family.
- Willing to practice in front of colleagues rather than take notes.
Content level: introductory to intermediate. No prior ASR training required.
Probably not, if
- You can't attend both full days of a module — full attendance is required and partial CE credit isn't available.
- You're looking for a lecture to absorb passively. This is live experiential practice, in dyads.
- You want a recording to catch up with. Recording isn't permitted, and there are no makeup coaching sessions.
- You want one technique to add to an existing model rather than a whole framework.
Tuition
Launch pricing for the first cohort
| Registration | Dates | Launch price |
|---|---|---|
| Module 1 only | Oct 23 & 24 | $295 Regular $395 |
| Modules 1 & 2 bundle | Oct 23 & 24 · Dec 4 & 5 | $590 Regular $690 |
| Student — Module 1 | Oct 23 & 24 | $195 |
| Student — bundle | Oct 23 & 24 · Dec 4 & 5 | $390 |
Registration, payment, and CE are handled through inRelationship.
From clinicians using it
“I am so grateful for a model that helps me across all presenting issues. It gets to the root of the issue rather than being stuck in endless symptom management.”Jordanne C., LMFT
“I found ASR has not just changed the way I do therapy, but it has changed me as a therapist.”James R., MCMHC
Your teacher
Aron Strong, LMFT
Aron is the creator of Attuned Systemic Repair, an integrative modality synthesizing attachment theory, interpersonal neurobiology, and emotion theory within a systemic frame — one framework that adapts across individual, couple, and family work rather than requiring clinicians to switch models between them.
An AAMFT Approved Supervisor, he founded Pathways Counseling in Middle Tennessee, where he has trained and supervised every clinician on staff, and co-founded inRelationship, an NBCC-approved continuing education provider. ASR's fidelity measure, the ASR Therapist Fidelity Scale, was developed in collaboration with Dr. Jennifer VanBoxel of The Family Institute at Northwestern University, where outcome research on the model is in development.
He co-hosts The Christian Therapist Podcast and spent sixteen years in pastoral ministry before entering clinical practice.
Continuing education & disclosures
Credit
15 NBCC contact hours per module, included at no additional cost for this launch cohort. Full attendance is required; partial credit is not available. Certificates are issued following completion of the program evaluation.
Provider
CEs are provided through inRelationship, which has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7745. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. inRelationship is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Disclosure
Aron Strong, LMFT, is the developer of Attuned Systemic Repair and has a financial interest in ASR trainings, coaching, and the ASR certification pathway. This program receives no commercial support.
Accommodations
Participants needing accommodation under the ADA should contact inRelationship no later than September 28 so arrangements can be made.
Cancellation, refunds, and grievances
See inRelationship's continuing education policies. inRelationship reserves the right to cancel this program if minimum enrollment is not met; registrants receive a full refund.
Recording and confidentiality
Participants engage in live experiential practice. By registering you agree not to record any portion of the training and to maintain the confidentiality of all case material and personal disclosures shared by other participants.
Total credit
30NBCC contact hours across both modules — 15 per module.
Learning objectives
What you'll be able to do
Module 1 · Attuning and Engaging
- Differentiate cognitive from affective attunement and demonstrate affective attunement in a live practice dyad.
- Identify the five aspects of a felt experience — somatic, emotional, narrative, need and longing, and behavioral — in a client presentation.
- Differentiate feelings, emotions, and constructed meanings in client language.
- Apply the Follow the Feeling principle to identify which distressed feeling to prioritize in a given moment.
- Formulate a conceptualization of a relational other who is not present, using client-reported data rather than client interpretation.
- Predict the interactional sequence likely to occur between two conceptualized individuals under specified conditions.
- Demonstrate a feeling engagement sequence differentiating a client's Self from a distressed feeling.
- Apply the developmental sequence of self-awareness, self-compassion, self-responsibility, and self-control to a client's felt distress.
Module 2 · Blocks and Bridges
- Formulate a conceptualization of a relational other who is not present in session, using client-reported data rather than client interpretation.
- Predict the interactional sequence two conceptualized individuals are likely to produce and identify what each behavior is attempting to solve.
- Demonstrate constructing empathy in a client for a relational other.
- Design a behavioral response aimed at the specific attachment need of another person in the client's system, sized to the client's current capacity.
- Navigate both parties' edge of tolerance for vulnerable disclosure and sequence interventions to the lesser capacity.
- Apply a repair sequence following relational rupture, including construction of a shared narrative of the event.
- Demonstrate a reverse enactment when a receiving partner is unable to connect empathically.
- Differentiate a blocking narrative from a feeling too intense to approach, and apply integrating exceptions, expanding knowledge, or empathetic contradictions accordingly.
Seating is limited.
Registration, payment, and CE are handled through inRelationship.
Register for Level 1Launch pricing ends September 25 · Module 1 begins October 23