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4 Weekends Beginning Spring 2010

    May 14 – 15
    June 11 – 12
    July 16 – 17
    Sept 17 – 18
 

     Externship in EFT
           (4 Days )
       Core Skills Training in EFT
        (4 Two-Day Weekends)
     Group Supervision in EFT
           (Monthly Sept - May)
     Individual Supervision in EFT
           (On Request) 

Program Description:

The core skills training consists of 4 weekends designed to focus on each segment of the EFT process as well as the therapeutic tasks and EFT Interventions associated with each phase of treatment. Live demonstration sessions will be scheduled each weekend.  The training takes place in a small group with a combination of didactic and experiential learning. Participants are encouraged to bring their own case material to the weekends for discussion and illustration purposes. Those participants who want credit toward EFT certification for an advanced externship must present their own work through video or audio plus transcript. The Weekends are structured as follows: 

Weekend 1: Steps 1 and 2: Assessment: Alliance Building and Identifying the cycle. Interventions: Empathic reflection, tracking questions, catching the bullet. 

Weekend 2 : Steps 3 and 4: Deescalating the Cycle - Interventions: Evocative Questions, Heightening, Empathic Interpretation. 

Weekend 3 : Steps 5, 6 and 7: Working with Emotion - Interventions: RISSSC, Enactments  - Change Event: Withdrawer Reengagement 

Weekend 4: Change Event: Blamer Softening:  the process of blamer softening, Steps 8 and 9- Consolidation, Impasses in Therapy

Times:
    Fridays 12:30 pm to 6:30 pm
    Saturday 9:30 am to 4:30 pm

Weekend 1 is designed to help you:
1. describe steps 1 and 2 of EFT
2. to demonstrate building an alliance using empathic attunement
3. to describe how to structure the beginning of therapy
4. to assess the appropriateness of EFT for couples presenting for treatment
5. to conduct a relationship and attachment history
6. to demonstrate identifying, tracking and reflecting negative cycles
7. to identify and repair ruptures in the alliance
8. to demonstrate seeding positive attachment frames
9. to describe the intervention “catching the bullet”
10. to demonstrate interventions: reflecting and validation

Weekend 2 is designed to help you:
1. describe Steps 3 and 4 of EFT
2. demonstrate validating secondary emotional
reactions and exploring underlying emotional experience.
3. describe the various cycles of negative interactions
4. to demonstrate tracking and reflecting negative cycles
5. demonstrate evocative reflections and questions,
heightening, empathic conjecture
6. demonstrate skills to help partners engage in emotional
experience in the here and now.
7. demonstrate expanding emotional experience using “RISSSC”
8. explain Stage 1 de-escalation and
differentiate it from Stage II Change Events.
9. to describe how monitor the alliance with the observing
partner and to keep the partner engaged in the process
10. create complex positive attachment frames that imply that the
negative cycle is the enemy

Weekend 3 is designed to help you:
1. identify markers for beginning stage 2 of EFT
2. explain process of Steps 5, 6 and 7 of EFT
3. explain how to help partners engage with
unformulated or disowned attachment emotions – needs
and fears
4. explain how to help a partner express
underlying needs and fears to other thru enactments
5. explain common withdrawer behaviors, experience, emotions, needs, fears
6. demonstrate heightening using RISSSC,
7. demonstrate helping partner express needs and fears using enactments
8. describe the process of withdrawer reengagement
9. demonstrate how to facilitate and promote acceptance
in the “observing” pursuing partner
10. demonstrate withdrawer re-engagement in role play

Weekend 4 is designed to help you:
1. explain steps 5, 6 and 7 of EFT
2. explain and demonstrate how to help partners engage with unformulated or disowned attachment emotions – needs
and fears
3. demonstrate assisting the pursuing partner to express needs and fears to other
4. describe common pursuer behaviors, experience, emotions, needs, fears
5. demonstrate the use of RISSSC in Pursuer Softening
6. demonstrate the use of enactments to choreograph pursuer softening
7. demonstrating how to facilitate and promote acceptance
in the “observing” withdrawing partner
8. describe and explain the process flow of the change events – Pursuer Softening

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) and Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist: The Workbook (Johnson et al., 2005). The publisher for these books is Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group, www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.  Participants in the program will receive handouts developed for this course. 

The following forms may help you prepare for the Advanced Externship:

     Sample Video Release Form (Word Document)
     EFT Case Review Form  (Word Document)
     Evaluating Your Own EFT Session  (Word Document)

Registration:  

Limited Enrollment:

The program will be limited.  Priority will be given to participants who commit to all four weekends.  You may request to attend a single or a group of weekends.  In that case, your name will be put on a waiting list and a decision will be made one month prior to the beginning of the first session.

Cost: 

$ per weekend  -  The fee for the first weekend is due upon registration and the fee for each additional weekend is due at (or before) the previous training weekend. 

CE Credits and EFT Certification:

This program includes 12 hours of training in EFT per weekend and 48 hours total. The Maryland Center for EFT is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Maryland Center for EFT maintains responsibility for this program and its content. The Maryland Center for EFT is authorized by the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners as a sponsor for Category I continuing education for social workers and associates licensed in Maryland. Application for continuing education approval is being made to the Maryland Board of Examiners of Psychologists and the Maryland State Board of Professional Counselors. 

The Core Skills Training can be applied to fulfilling requirements for becoming a Registered EFT Therapist through the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy.