To me, the best part about being an Imago professional is that bringing relationship education to others truly comes from my own life experience. My partner Jen and I started Imago couples work in 1998, realizing that because each of us came from divorced families, it would be good for us to begin our relationship on a firm foundation! Twelve years later, we still have a “date breakfast” with dialogue every week, use the Imago skills we learned regarding behavior changes, and continue to move through power struggles towards healing, growth, and “vintage love.”Shelly Webb has a Masters of Divinity from Harvard University (1998), where she focused on Counseling & Education. She has a B.A. from Kenyon College in both English and History.
Her Imago training includes: completion of the 12-week Basic Clinical Track (2008), six months of follow-up supervision; attendance at the 2008 and 2009 Imago Relationships International Conferences; and continuing education classes through regional Imago groups.
She was contracted by IRI to prepare a curriculum for the current Community Educator Track training and worked with an eight person committee to create something new and relevant for new Educators. Shelly also serves on the Board of MAIT (Mid-Atlantic Imago Therapist) as the Secretary, as well as being a general member for the past three years. She consults regularly for the Imago Center of Washington, D.C. , working with the therapists there on teaching the Imago Relationship Seminars. Finally, Shelly takes every opportunity she can to assist and observe at the “Getting the Love you Want” weekends and wishes to thank Carl Siegel & Rebecca Sears, David & Donna Bowman, and Harville Hendrix & Helen Hunt for all she learned at their weekend.
I especially enjoy teaching the Imago Premarital Seminar - “Start Right, Stay Connected” - as I really believe in doing pre-emptive relationship work with your partner. We teach this course for couples, both same-sex and heterosexual, who are “officially” engaged to be married legally as well as making relationship transitions such as moving-in together or making a life commitment through a Holy Union, domestic partnership, or other type of ceremony.