• The transformation principle in Emotion Focused Therapy, refers to the fundamental ways in which emotions change through the therapeutic process.
• A key way in which emotion is transformed is through memory reconsolidation.
• Recent neuroscience has shown that every time a memory is retrieved, the underlying memory trace is labile and fragile once again and requires another consolidation. As memory reconsolidation only occurs when memory is activated, it follows that emotional memories have to be activated in therapy to be malleable.
• Thus, emotional memory is changed through activation of the "old" emotional memory and, within a window of minutes, the experience of new emotion. 
• Previously disclaimed emotions, when activated in therapy, can be used to reclaim unwanted self-experience. This gives the person information about needs met or not met and provides information about one's response to situations as well as action tendencies to cope with them.
• Activation of the disowned feelings in the session makes them amenable to development by incorporating new experience to the past situation, generated in the present.  This new experience helps transform peoples' persistent memory-based problematic emotional states by means of a process of memory reconsolidation.
• It is important to bear in mind that clients need to be able to access and stay with painful feelings so they can learn both that they are capable of bearing the pain and that they can distill important information from those painful feelings. 
• This information typically informs clients about what it is they miss most (i.e., what needs are unmet). The identification of unmet needs then allows for generation of adaptive emotional responses (particularly compassion and assertive anger), a process often followed by grieving for how these needs were not met in the past, as well as grieving in relation to past painful experiences. 

(Greenberg, Goldman, 2019)

EFT (Individuals)Training Level One

October 15-18 and 22-25, 2020

From 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM Pacific Standard Time

 By Dr. Robert Elliott

Co-Founder of EFT

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We Accept Participants On Wait List 

Participants will receive in-depth skill training through a combination of brief lectures, video demonstrations, live modelling, case discussions and

extensive supervised role-playing practice.

Chair work in Emotion Focused Therapy by Dr. Les Greenberg

EFT (Individuals)Training Level Two 

To be Announced

By Dr. Serine Warwar

Experienced EFT Trainer

Continuing Education Hours

SoCal Institute of EFT trainings are co-sponsored by the Insight Center. The Insight Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Insight Center maintains responsibility for this program and its content. The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts APA CEs.

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You have to arrive at your emotions

before you can leave them.

Les. Greenberg, PhD.