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Two Day Workshops
Workshop Description
Attachment not only tells us what the key moves and moments are
in the dance of love, it offers a guide to the healing and enhancement
of our most important relationships. This workshop will present
an overview of love as an attachment bond. Attachment theory offers
us the first clear, evidence based model of adult love and loving.
We will explore the nine tenets of attachment and how they help
us understand couple’s emotions, interactions and change
processes.
This workshop also offers an introduction to EFT, an effective
brief approach to shaping loving relationships. EFT reflects the
most recent research on the nature of relationship distress, the
nature of adult love and the nature of emotion. EFT is at the
cutting edge of the new era of couple therapy. It offers clinicians
a systematic map, not just to conflict reduction but to the creation
of safe emotional connection. Dr. Johnson will offer an outline
of EFT and its vision of effective dependency. The three stages
of the change process will be articulated s well as the process
of fostering forgiveness and dealing with relationship injuries.
Specific interventions will be listed and demonstrated with video
clips and clinical examples. Theory, research and intervention
will be integrated to empower clinicians in their attempts to
shape loving, lasting bonds.
Objectives: To increase participants’
ability to:
Learn how to see the dance of love clearly, understand the music
of the dance and move couples into effective loving interdependence.
Learn to understand the defining moments in the drama of relationships
and how to systematically move couples from destructive hostile
interactions into safe, empowering emotional connection. Emotion
is the music of the dance between partners, learn to change the
music and change the dance.
Outline a clear theory of adult love and describe the tenets
of attachment theory. Link these tenets to key emotions and events
in interactions between partners.
Focus interventions on the key elements of the drama of distress,
de-escalate toxic interaction patterns.
Structure positive interactions that renew trust and intimacy,
create antidote dialogues to heal injuries and relationship traumas.
Use EFT interventions with depressed, anxious, and traumatized
couples.
Course Outline: Two Day Workshop
DAY 1
Morning
The Need for a Theory of Love
Couple therapy – the New Era
Introduction to EFT; Basic Content
The story of attachment theory:
The Basic Ideas of Attachment with Clinical Examples
Afternoon
The Steps and Stages of EFT
The 3 Stages and 9 Steps of EFT
Video Viewing and Exercises
Discussions
DAY 2
Morning
EFT Interventions - Overview
Change Events
Application to Different Populations
Video Viewing, Exercises and Discussions
Afternoon
EFT and Trauma
EFT and Forgiveness: Working with depressed and traumatized couples
and different Culture Couples
Video Viewing and Exercises
Final Discussion
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