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Emotion-Focused Therapy Training Level 2 Description:

The Transforming Power of Affect

Day 1: EFT Case Formulation: The Five Dimensional Model


 What is EFT Case Formulation? (Principles, Models, Straight Talk)
 1. Main presenting issues/therapeutic focus
 2. Key task markers
 3. Key problematic emotions (emotion response types & schemes)
 4. Emotion processing modes (dysregulated, restricted, working)
 5. Self-other themes (self=>self; others=>self; self=>others)
 Video example
 Skill practice in small groups; feedback provided by trainers
 

Day 2: In-session Collaborative Case Formulation Work
 Case formulation as a meta-task
 How to do empathic case formulation responses
 Encouraging collaboration and client self-formulation
 Video example
 Skill practice in small groups with feedback
 Suggestions for developing case formulation skills
 

Day 3: EFT & Focusing
 What is Focusing?
 EFT adaptations of Focusing
 Focusing markers
 Clearing a space
 Focusing steps; Focusing as emotion scheme elaboration
 Video example
 Skill practice in small groups with feedback
 

Day 4: Unfolding and Reprocessing Work in EFT
 Reprocessing and narrative work
 Re-processing work markers
 Systematic Evocative Unfolding: Applications & task resolution steps
 Narrative Re-Telling: Applications & task resolution steps
 Video example
 Skill practice in small groups with feedback
 

Day 5: Two Chair Work & Depression
 EFT understandings of depression
 Varieties of conflict split marker
 EFT therapist response modes for chair work

 Conflict split resolution model & steps
 Video example
 Skill practice in small groups with feedback
 Practical suggestions: Introducing chair work; chair work on Zoom; talking to clients
about chair work; case formulation & chairwork
 Alternative ways of working with conflict splits
 Strategies for working with the collapsed experiencer in depression
 

Day 6: Self-interruption Splits & Enactments
 Getting started with in-session enactments: Exercise
 How to do enactments in EFT
 Micro-markers for EFT enactments; Self-interruption conflict split marker
 Video example
 Skill practice in small groups with feedback
 Self-interruption & empty chair work; when to ignore self-interruptions
 

Day 7: Empty Chair Work for Unresolved Interpersonal Relationship Issues
 Varieties of Unfinished business marker
 Change processes in Empty chair work
 Resolution steps in empty chair work
 Video example
 Skill practice in small groups with feedback
 Alternative ways of working with unfinished business
 

Day 8: Compassionate Self-Soothing Chair Work (CSSCW)
 Empathic Affirmation: Work with vulnerability
 Overview of CSSCW
 Variations and common forms of CSSCW
 Task Resolution process
 Video example
 Skill practice in small groups with feedback
 Where from here? Suggestions for further development of your EFT skills and practice
 Processing the training

About the Presenter

Robert Elliott, Ph.D., received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and taught clinical psychology at the University of Toledo (Ohio) for nearly 30 years; during that time, in collaboration with Leslie Greenberg and Laura Rice, he developed Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT).  He is Professor Emeritus of Counselling in the School of Psychological Sciences and Health at the University of Strathclyde and where he directed its research clinic and taught counselling research and EFT.  He currently lives in Northern California, where he is busy with various EFT-related writing projects as well as conducting EFT trainings internationally and supervising and guiding EFT supervisors. His central interest is the change process in humanistic-experiential psychotherapies.  He is co-author of Facilitating emotional change (1993), Learning process-experiential psychotherapy (2004), Research methods in clinical psychology (3rd ed., 2015), and Developing and Enhancing Research Capacity in Counselling and Psychotherapy (2010), Emotion Focused Counseling in Action (2021), as well as more than 150 journal articles and book chapters. He is past president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, and previously co-edited the journals Psychotherapy Research, and Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies.  He is a fellow in the divisions of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association.  In 2009 he received the Distinguished Research Career Award of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, and the Carl Rogers Award from the Division of Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association. He enjoys running, science fiction and all kinds of music. 

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