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Emotion-Focused Therapy Training Level 2B Description:

Day 1: Motivational split; Working with ambivalence and self-damaging activities in EFT part 1:

  • An EFT perspective on motivational splits & Motivational Interviewing (MI)

  • The Habitual Self-Damaging Split marker

  • Small group work: Encountering self-damaging activities in our clients and ourselves

  • A brief overview of MI

  • MI therapist facilitating responses

  • Kinds of Change Talk: Preparatory and Mobilizing Talk

  • An EFT perspective on facilitating Change Talk

  • Video example

  • Skill practice in small groups; feedback provided by trainers

Day 2: Motivational split; Working with ambivalence and self-damaging activities in EFT part 2:

  • Identifying the parts of self in Motivational/Self Damaging splits:

  • Combining Unfolding and Two Chair Work for Motivational splits

  • Live demonstration with a volunteer participant

  • Hints for skill practice

  • Skill practice in small groups with feedback

  • Comparing MI and EFT

Day 3: Anxiety and anxiety splits 

  • Advanced Work with Two Chair Dialogue for anxiety

  • What is anxiety? What kinds of anxiety difficulties are there? Why EFT for anxiety?

  • The challenge of the research

  • Key concepts: Anxiety splits; anxiety emotion schemes; anxiety response types; the general change process

  • The Anxiety Split Marker and the Anxiety Split Triangle

  • Resolution steps

  • Video example

  • Skill practice in small groups with feedback

Day 4: Anxiety and anxiety splits

  • The EFT model for (Social) Anxiety

  • Resolution steps

  • Video example

  • Skill practice in small groups with feedback

Day 5: EFT Micro-process work: Learning to Read your Client

  • Standard EFT micro-markers: vocal quality, poignancy, client experiencing

  • A Conversation Analysis perspective on EFT talk: affiliation and alignment; pre-disagreement; managing content vs process guiding

  • Learning how to read your client’s response to your responses

  • Video example with Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR)

  • Skill practice in small groups with feedback

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Day 6: Meaning Re-Creation for Meaning Protests 

  • Video example

  • Skill practice in small groups with feedback

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                                                        (International Society for Emotion Focused Therapy)
             
                                                                                                                                                                               

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