Services: Core Skills Advanced Training
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COURSE CONTENT:
The weekends are structured as follows:
Weekend 1: Steps 1 and 2: Assessment:
Building an Alliance. Identifying the Cycle. Interventions: Empathic reflection, tracking, “catching the bullet.”
Weekend 2 : Steps 3 and 4:
Cycle De-escalation. Interventions: Evocative questions, heightening, empathic interpretation.
Weekend 3 : Steps 5, 6 and 7:
Working with Emotion. Interventions: RISSSC, enactments. Change Event: Withdrawer Re-engagement.
Weekend 4: Change Event: Blamer Softening:
The process of blamer softening (Steps 5 – 7). Consolidation (Steps 8 & 9). Impasses in Therapy.
Weekend 1 is designed to help you:
- describe Steps 1 and 2 of EFT
- to demonstrate building an alliance using empathic attunement
- to describe how to structure the beginning of therapy
- to assess the appropriateness of EFT for couples presenting for treatment
- to conduct a relationship and attachment history
- to demonstrate identifying, tracking and reflecting negative cycles
- to identify and repair ruptures in the alliance
- to demonstrate seeding positive attachment frames
- to describe the intervention “catching the bullet”
- to demonstrate interventions: reflecting and validation
Weekend 2 is designed to help you:
- describe Steps 3 and 4 of EFT
- demonstrate validating secondary emotional reactions and exploring underlying emotional experience
- describe the various cycles of negative interactions
- to demonstrate tracking and reflecting negative cycles
- demonstrate evocative reflections and questions, heightening, empathic conjecture
- demonstrate skills to help partners engage in emotional experience in the here and now
- demonstrate expanding emotional experience using “RISSSC”
- explain Stage 1 de-escalation and differentiate it from Stage II change events
- to describe how to monitor the alliance with the observing partner and to keep the partner engaged in the process
- create complex positive attachment frames that imply that the negative cycle is the enemy
Weekend 3 is designed to help you:
- identify markers for beginning stage 2 of EFT
- explain process of Steps 5, 6 and 7 of EFT
- explain how to help partners engage with unformulated or disowned attachment emotions, needs and fears
- explain how to help a partner express underlying needs and fears to other through enactments
- explain common withdrawer behaviors, experience, emotions, needs, fears
- demonstrate heightening using RISSSC
- demonstrate helping partner express needs and fears using enactments
- describe the process of withdrawer re-engagement
- demonstrate how to facilitate and promote acceptance in the “observing” pursuing partner
- demonstrate withdrawer re-engagement in role play
Weekend 4 is designed to help you:
- explain steps 5, 6 and 7 of EFT
- explain and demonstrate how to help partners engage with unformulated or disowned attachment emotions, needs, and fears
- demonstrate assisting the pursuing partner to express needs and fears to other
- describe common pursuer behaviors, experience, emotions, needs, fears
- demonstrate the use of RISSSC in pursuer softening
- demonstrate the use of enactments to choreograph pursuer softening
- demonstrating how to facilitate and promote acceptance in the “observing” withdrawing partner
- describe and explain the process flow of the pursuer softening change event
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS:
Participants are expected to have taken the 4-day Externship in EFT prior to taking the Core Skills Training in EFT. It is suggested that participants have read, The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection (Johnson, 2004). The publisher for this book is Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group, www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com
TRAINERS:
Dr. Leanne Campbell, Registered Psychologist, Certified Supervisor & Trainer
Dr. David Fairweather, Registered Psychologist, Certified Supervisor & Trainer
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