4-days Intensive Advanced Skills Training
| Trainer:Dr Christina Michael
Supported by ISEFT, Canada
This training is formally recognized by the International Society for EFT (www.iseft.org).
Certification will be provided at the end of the course, signed by Prof. Les Greenberg.
Michael J. Mahoney, Ph.D.
Immensely valuable [for] psychotherapists of all persuasions…
theoretically innovative and clinically practical.
The training: Emotion-Focused Therapy Level-1
This training will provide participants with an in-depth intensive EFT skills training with emphasis on helping therapists work with and transform the problematic emotional processes that bring clients to therapy. Participants will learn how maladaptive emotional processes function in dysfunction and learn hands on skills to help clients relieve suffering and tackle their problems.
Each day will include brief lectures, video demonstrations by Les Greenberg and co-founders of EFT with real clients, live modelling, case discussions, and skills practice supervised by Christina Michael. Different EFT interventions based on specific processes will be demonstrated. Videos of evidence-based methods for evoking and exploring emotion schemes, and for dealing with overwhelming emotions will be presented. Participants will be introduced to the moment-by-moment empathic attunement skills to help them track, access, deepen, and transform emotion. The major principles of emotional change will be discussed including awareness, expression, regulation, reflection, and restructuring. A major focus of the workshop will be on differential intervention of emotional states and the use of specific tasks designed to address different types of emotional processing problems including, puzzling emotional reactions, painful self-criticism, and emotional injuries from past relationships. Training will be delivered in English.
Course details:
This training is an intensive skills training led by Dr Christina Michael. The focus of the program will be experiential (through the use of skills practice in small groups), learning how to produce change in core emotional structures. The program will provide hands-on skills development on transforming maladaptive emotion and using adaptive emotion as a guide to living. You will learn and practice different EFT skills including chair-work, self-critical dialogues, unfinished business work with significant others, trauma processing, emotional deepening, emotional regulation.
You will learn the how to:
Emotion Focused Therapy:
A humanistic, evidence-based form of therapy that integrates person-centred and gestalt therapies, with particular relevance to working with depression, trauma, borderline processes and anxiety difficulties. It has gained international recognition through the work of Les Greenberg, Robert Elliott, Laura Rice, Jeanne Watson, Rhonda Goldman, Antonio Pascual – Leone and others.
About the trainer:
Dr Christina Michael
Dr Christina Michael is the founder and clinical director of the Cyprus Institute for Emotion Focused Therapy (CiEFT).
Christina is a counselling psychologist, registered in Cyprus and the UK and she currently works as a Senior Counselling Psychologist in Cyprus. Christina has received her Doctorate in Counselling Psychology at Glasgow Caledonian University. Before moving to Cyprus, she worked in Scotland for 7 years with a wide range of mental health difficulties and she was also an Associate Lecturer for the Doctorate in Counselling Psychology for 4 years. Christina specialises in Emotion Focused Therapy for which she is an internationally accredited supervisor. At CiEFT, she splits her time between seeing clients, supervising mental health professionals and students, and facilitating EFT trainings all over the world, alongside Prof Robert Elliott, Prof Les Greenberg, Prof. Jean Watson, Juliette Becking and others. Christina continues to work for Universities in Cyprus and the UK as a Visiting Lecturer. Her main research interests are post-traumatic growth, grief and effective therapeutic processes. Christina has offered formal feedback for the “Emotion Focused Counselling in Action” book.
See more on Dr Michael.
Morris Eagle, Ph.D.
Most psychotherapists and theories of psychotherapy recognize, in one way or another, the centrality of emotion in both psychopathology and therapeutic change. [Dr. Greenberg’s] ‘emotionally focused’ therapeutic approach [is one] that virtually all therapists will find useful.
Note that, later this year, Dr Michael will also be providing an online EFT Level 2 which is the next Level for international accreditation. The EFT Level 2 will run in collaboration with the English EFT Institute and is also supported by the International Society of EFT. The EFT level 1 is a prerequisite for participating the EFT Level-2 training and for the International Accreditation in Emotion Focused Therapy.
*A special (instalments) package price is available for those who wish to book both trainings together, with a €100 discount on the total price.
*We are also pleased to announce that a limited number of special scholarship rates are available for eligible CiEFT supervisees.
For more information, or to express your interest, please contact us at info@eft.cy.
Course Outline
Day 1: Theory of Emotion & Theory of Practice
Morning (09:30-13:00)
- Introduction to the Approach
- Research on EFT
- Nature and Function of emotion
- Dialectical Constructivism
- Emotion Assessment
- Video examples of Types of Emotions
Afternoon (14:00-17:00)
- Principles of emotional change
- Awareness
- Expression
- Regulation
- Reflection
- Transformation
- Video examples
- Empathy, Validation and Focusing on Feeling
- Creating an alliance
- Empathic attunement
- Validation
- Evocation
- Emotional exploration
- Conjecture
- Empathic refocusing
Day 2: Phases and Two-Chair Work for Self-Criticism
Morning (09:30-13:00)
- Therapy Over Time
- The bonding phase
- The evoking and exploring phase
- The transformation phase
- Videos
- Two Chair Dialogue and Model of Split Resolution
- Identify harsh critic
- Access primary maladaptive feeling
- Access need
- Softening of the critic
- Videos
Afternoon (14:00-17:00)
- Small group practice 1 and large group debrief (self-criticism)
- Small group practice 2 and large group debrief (self-criticism)
Day 3: Unfinished Business, Empty Chairwork & Forgiveness
Morning (09:30-13:00)
- Empty Chair Dialogue and Model of Unfinished business resolution
- Accessing primary emotions
- Accessing core dysfunctional emotion schemes
- Letting go of unmet needs
- Changing emotion
- Videos
Afternoon (14:00-17:00)
Unfinished Business work and Chairwork skills practice
- Small group practice 3 and 4
- Large group debrief(UFB)
Day 4: Focusing & Self-Interruption, Two-Chair Work for interrupting pain
Morning (09:30-13:00)
- Theory on Focusing
- How do people interrupt painful emotions
- Self-interruption splits
- How do we work with clients shut down the emotion, numb or dissociate
- Exercises – skills practice
- Videos
Afternoon (14:00-17:00)
- Small group practice 5 (marker of choice) and large group debrief
- Small group practice 6 (marker of choice) and large group debrief
- Applications for EFT including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, addictions
- Contra indications for Emotion-Focused Therapy
- Conclusion
Although emotion has long been recognized as playing a
significant role in the development, maintenance and change of
most clinical problems, the guidelines for working with emotions
therapeutically have always left something to be desired. Not so
with [those of] Greenberg… [his are] lucid, jargon-free… a
landmark contribution.
Marvin R. Goldfried, Ph.D
Participation:
Due to the experiential nature of the course, only few seats will be available – places will be booked on a first come, first served basis.
Participants can be qualified therapists and students (Postgraduate Diploma/MSc Level or above) from Person-centred, Psychodynamic, CBT, ACT, and related backgrounds.
*Note: The didactic parts of the training as well as the Q & A’s sessions will be video-recorded.
Reservation of your place:
To show your interest for the EFT level 1 please email us at info@eft.cy or fill in the form at the end of this page and we will be in touch to let you know how to proceed with finalising your registration.
We appreciate that a high number of people wants to attend to the training so in order to be fair everyone, places will be confirmed on a first come first served basis based on payment order strictly. If you anticipate any issues with the above please do let me know.
We have received a high interest for this training already, so in order to book your place you are advised to proceed with payment ASAP after you get a response to your email, we cannot guarantee a place for you any other way.
Cost:
Due to the high demand of the course and so that we are fair with everyone, in order to reserve your place at an early bird rate you need to pay either the full amount or the first instalment before the 15th of June.
Fees table
| Payment Options | Professionals | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Early Bird Fee (*before the 15th of June) | Payment in full: €645 | Payment in full: €595 |
| Early Bird Fee (*before the 15th of June) | Payment Plan: 1st Instalment: €315 (to book your place); 2nd Instalment: €170 (before the 15th of June); 3rd Instalment: €170 (before the 30th of June) | Payment Plan: 1st Instalment: €295 (to book your place); 2nd Instalment: €160 (before the 15th of June); 3rd Instalment: €160 (before the 30th of June) |
| Standard Fee (*after the 15th of June) | Payment in full: €745 | Payment in full: €695 |
If you want to take part to the training and you wish to make a different payment plan please do not let this stop you from your learning! Get in touch with us via email or phone and we will do our best to help you.
If you have any questions, or you need clarification, do not hesitate to get in touch.
Cancellation Policy: Additionally to our Standard Cancellation Policy for this particular training, we cannot accept any cancellations after you register and pay your deposit and/or pay in full. Of course, if for any reason, the training is cancelled, your full payment or deposit will be returned to you.
Participation
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