Workshops
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Pre-Conference – Thursday, July 12, 2012
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
TAM1 – Technology 101 for Therapists
Rebecca Jorgensen, Rick Savage
A user-friendly approach to integrating HD video recording and editing into the therapist’s daily work. Topics to be covered include; Why Digital Video?, Recommended Equipment, Setting up Your System, Lighting Considerations, Shooting Video, Organizing/Finding Your Files, File Transfer, File Storage, Security Issues, Skype for Supervision.
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
TAD1 (AAMFT members)/TAD2 (non-members) - AAMFT Supervisor Refresher Course
Lisa Palmer-Olsen, Mark Kaupp
This supervisor refresher course is designed to meet the requirements and standards put forth by AAMFT and addresses the current thinking about supervision models and cultural competencies. Although this course will be inclusive of most therapeutic and supervisory models, an emphasis will be place on the Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT) and attachment focused models of supervision and training. This course is offered for supervisors and supervisors in training. CEU credits will be available.
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
TAD3 – EFT Experiential Group Supervision of Supervision
Debi Scimeca-Diaz
This course will provide supervision of supervision to candidates who are working toward becoming EFT supervisors or EFT supervisors who would like more guidance and/or would like to improve supervision skills. A limited number of participants will bring video tape supervision sessions and will present his/her work to the group. Feedback will be provided by an EFT trainer. Limited to 10 participants.
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
TPM1 – Growing Receptive Affective Capacity to Repair and Transform Attachment Trauma: AEDP at Work
Diana Fosha, PhD
Attachment is transformative, not only as a foundational process but also an experience to be harnessed in treatment. Receptive affective experiences, i.e., experiences of feeling seen, loved, or understood, are key constituents of what it means to be attached, and they must be received, as well as offered, in order to be effective. With extensive use of clinical videotapes, this workshop will demonstrate how to experientially work with the client’s (a) sense of attachment in the here-and-now relationship with the therapist and (b) receptive experiences of feeling seen, loved, understood, or transformed. AEDP’s dictum “make the implicit explicit, and the explicit experiential” will be shown in action and applied to moment-to-moment relational work. This workshop will deepen your understanding of how to build attachment security and facilitate transformational change to heal attachment trauma and foster the emergence of a vital and vibrant self.
TPM2 – The Coherent, Emotional Dialogue of Attachment-Focused Family Therapy
Dan Hughes, PhD
When our therapeutic goal is to enhance attachment security for all members of a family we must often attend to family secrets, dogmas, and distortions that have emerged to create safety in the face of overwhelming emotional experiences. Unfortunately these strategies often result in distance or never-ending conflicts. In this workshop therapists will learn to attend to these strategies with an open and engaged state of mind that generates safety and exploration for all family members. This work combines affective expressions that are being co-regulated by the therapist as well as comprehensive and coherent stories whose meanings are co-created in the treatment process. Focusing on attachment, this model invites the family into a dialogue that values and makes sense of the experiences of all family members.
5:30 – 7:00 pm
Welcoming Keynote Address
Singing in the Marrow Bone: Using the Power of Emotion and Attachment in Couple Sessions
Susan Johnson, EdD
This plenary will consider what the new science of emotion and adult bonding tells us about how to create change in key relationships and in the individual partners in these relationships. This new science offers us an integrative guide that ranges from the broad to the concrete and specific – answering general questions, such as whether monogamy is natural and possible, and providing specific insights on how to work with particular misattunements and blocks that occur in a couple session.
Official 2012 EFT Summit – Friday, July 13, 2012
9:30 – 11 am – Keynote
Attachment and Caregiving: Conscious and Unconscious Aspects
Phillip R. Shaver, PhD
11:15 – 12:45 pm – Workshops
FAM1 - Emotionally Focused Family Therapy
Gail Palmer, George Faller, Angela DeCandia, James Furrow
Emotionally Focused Family Therapy guides families to strengthen their attachment bond through finding deeper emotional engagement, sharing attachment needs, and working through relational injuries. EFFT harnesses the incredible power of the family to engage a new level of vulnerability that promotes healing and fosters new resources in the family. This workshop will demonstrate the power of attachment bonds in family relationships and the different ways to promote emotional connections.
FAM2 – Hooked on a Feeling: Working with Attachment and Emotion in AEDP and EFT
Elana Katz, Natasha Prenn
AEDP and EFT, two attachment theories that honor and use emotion in such pivotal ways, have much to say to each other. In this workshop, we will look at both their similarities and distinctions as we track each approach through its respective states (AEDP) and stages (EFT). Two seasoned supervisors who both delight in specificity will provide hands-on experiential exercises and practical materials including the language of actual state/stage specific interventions. Videotape of actual therapy sessions will serve as the springboard for presentation and discussion.
FAM3 - Within and Between: Integrating Individual and Couples Therapy With EFT
Michael Bridges
Most psychotherapists want a model that integrates individual and couples therapy. This workshop will focus on the similarities and differences between resolving attachment injuries in individuals and as well as how to discern emotions that are painful but transformative and those that are toxic to self and others. Participants will leave with a model that will enable them to move between individual and couples sessions with more confidence and grace.
FAM4 - Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: “Rescuing Love”
Judith Kellner, Debi Scimeca-Diaz
This workshop will present a case of EFT with an older couple. The video segments will show how we identify the negative cycle, help both partners change the way they react to each other in creating new emotional experiences, and moving toward a secure attachment bond. The video segments will also demonstrate the beginning of withdrawer re-engagement and blamer softening change events. Discussion by Certified EFT Trainer.
FAM5 – Adult Attachment Interview, Reflective Functioning and EFT: Deciphering Abbreviations and Bridging Concepts
Zoya Simakhodskaya
According to literature, attachment security is closely related to higher Reflective Functioning (RF). In this workshop, Certified EFT supervisor trained in AAI administration and RF coding will review the origins and definitions of RF concept, its application to EFT model, and explore the role of therapist’s RF in treatment. AAI excerpts and video segments of EFT therapy will be used to demonstrate these concepts.
1:00 - 2:00 pm – Lunch Presentation
FLP1 -EFT in an Organizational Setting: A New Definition of Professionalism and Team Success
Kristina Jackson
Professional relationships have traditionally been established on a premise of logic, reason, and emotional distance to communicate effectively, build strong team bonds, and to solve problems. The idea of a “New Professionalism” has come out of current, ongoing research which studies the effectiveness of including principles of EFT to team building.
2:15 – 3:45 pm – Workshops
FPM1 – Understanding the Process of Withdrawer Re-engagement
Kathryn Rheem
This presentation will review recent process research on the withdrawer re-engagement change event in EFT. Based on initial task analyses, the withdrawer re-engagement change event including themes of successful re-engagements will be discussed using clinical case examples. Commonly used therapists’ interventions will also be discussed.
FPM2 – Body, Breath & Emotion
A. Susan Brenner, Stephen McDonnell, Lisa Ruderman
This course will teach participants to pay attention to clients’ experiences of their bodies (“body language”) and felt sense as a means to access and heighten emotion, as needed for change events in EFT. Particular strategies will be offered for trauma survivors who dissociate from their bodies. Discussion by Certified EFT Trainer.
FPM3 - EFT and Illness: Treating Chronic and Life Threatening Illness in Couples
Suzanne McCarthy
Theoretical and experiential overview of the impact of illness on the couple system, the use of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy to restore or create a secure attachment in the face of the severe stress caused by this life event. Presentation would use case example and videotaped sessions to illustrate how EFT can be applied to this specific population.
FPM4 - The Process of Cross-Cultural Connection in EFT: What Couples Won’t Tell You
Jay Seiff-Haron, Lisa Palmer-Olsen, Tami Sonnier
The EFT therapist’s curious and connecting stance is effective with all sorts of couples, but cultural differences within the couple (or between therapist and couple) complicate the process. We will clarify how EFT process interventions are uniquely suited to bridge cultural differences; delineate when therapist curiosity can provoke withdrawal instead of connection; and explain the use of cultural disquisitions and cultural conjectures in EFT.
FPM5 – EFT on Steroids: Emotionally Focused Group Therapy (EFGT) for Individuals
Mary Stacy, Parker Stacy
This course will demonstrate, through a didactic and actual session clips, how to harness the transforming power of emotions for individuals using an ongoing structured group setting. The workshop will describe this structure and the process by which the group becomes a secure base for its members. Session clips will show the facilitator assisting members in identifying and dealing with their triggers, helping them through secondary emotions and learning to trust the primary emotions that emerge. The results in improved relational functioning can be seen in pre-and-post tests and participant testimonies.
4:00 – 5:30 pm - Keynote
For Better AND For Worse: the Historic Revolution in Close Relationships
Stephanie Coontz, MA
6:30 – 8:00 pm
Sue & Friends: Love Lost and Found, New York Stories
Sue Johnson, EdD, Stephanie Coontz, MA, Diana Fosha, PhD, Dan Hughes, PhD, Phillip R. Shaver, PhD
Join Sue and Friends: Stephanie, Diana, Dan and Phil, in an entertaining and intimate conversation about the complexities of love. The evening opens with a dance performance by NYC professional tango dancers using the Argentine Tango as a metaphor for attunement in motion. The conversation flows into one of love, love rekindled, love lost and found. Questions from the audience will be presented by a moderator and will be discussed by Sue and Friends. You will be able to submit your questions at the summit registration table on Thursday evening or Friday morning. Enjoy refreshments and hors d’oevres as you enjoy this novel experience.
Official 2012 EFT Summit Continues – Saturday, July 14, 2012
9:30 – 11:00 am – Keynote
Communicating with Our Thinking Hearts for Creating Family Stories
Dan Hughes, PhD
11:15 – 12:45 pm – Workshops
SAM1 - Bridging the Gap Between EFT Research and EFT Practice: Implications for Front Line Clinicians
Jonathan Sandberg, Susan Johnson, Wayne Denton
The purpose of this workshop is to present cutting edge research from three different studies on the impact of EFT on depression, cardiovascular health, and neurological functioning with an overt discussion of what these findings mean for practitioners, including detailed descriptions of clinical implications.
SAM2 – Healing Attachment Injuries with Emotionally Focused Therapy
Rebecca Jorgensen, Scott Wooley
Attachment injuries are a specific type of betrayal in romantic relationships that traumatize and fundamentally change basic relationship assumptions for injured partners. This workshop will present the 7 processes to restore love after an attachment injury and demonstrate, using therapy video, healing attachment injuries and the related shame.
SAM3 – Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: Non-Monogamy, Secure Attachment and EFT
Sarah McConnell, Benjamin Seaman, Russell Saunders
An exploration of EFT work with alternative relationships. From a neutral position, we will define heteronormative assumptions about relationships and demonstrate how they can impede effective EFT treatments with individuals in non-monogamous relationships. Clinicians’ reactions to these relationships will be examined through experiential and discussion-based exercises. A model for implementing the practice of EFT with such couples will be demonstrated through video segments.
SAM4 – The Literal and Metaphorical Heart of the Matter: Integrating Emotion Focused and Somatic Approaches to Psychotherapy
Michael Bridges, William O’Donnell
This presentation uses didactic, experiential and therapy videotape of therapy sessions to explore practical interventions derived from somatic psychotherapies that can be immediately incorporated by EFT practitioners. Focus will be on non-invasive techniques that utilize breathing, voice, expressive work, gestures, and body awareness as avenues for bottom up processing of problematic and transformative emotions in clients with attachment styles prone to dysregulation as well as those prone to over control of emotion.
SAM5 – Seeing the Parent-Child Dance Through EFT Eyes: A Clinical Application of EFT to Parenting
Ian McKean
Behavioral interventions commonly offered ignore the child’s attachment hunger and innate need for proximity. This presentation will demonstrate that what EFT has done for couples therapy it can also do for parenting. Participants will discover there is a good fit between EFT and it’s clinical application to parenting.
1:00 – 2:00 pm – Lunch Presentation
SLP1 - Offering Emotionally Focused Therapy in an Intensive Format
Ronald Vogt, Rebecca Jorgensen, Kristy Koser, Irene Oudyk-Suk, Sharon May
Some couples in distress are attracted to an intensive format for EFT. Certified EFT therapists currently offering intensives will present or provide a description of and outcomes on their version of this therapy option. A panel discussion of their experience of offering intensives and questions from attendees will follow.
2:45 – 4:15 pm – Workshops
SPM1 - An Attachment-Based Typology of Affairs
Scott Wooley, Lisa Gold
This workshop will lay out a typology of 7 common types of affairs based on attachment theory that will help therapists understand the intra-psychic and interpersonal aspects of affairs. Treatment strategies and issues will be discussed for each type. Video example of EFT therapy will be used for illustration.
SPM2 - The Power of Emotional Presence: Engaging the Promise and Challenge of Emotional Attunement in EFT
Sondra Goldstein, Susan Thau, Robert Ogner, Karen Shore, Nancy Gardner, June Shigeno
The attuned EFT therapist physically and emotionally experiences a couples’ distress through limbic system arousal, right brain communication and mirror neurons. This workshop illustrates the attuned EFT therapist at work. Through dramatization EFT sessions are used to demonstrate the interplay between couple, therapist, and the therapist’s triggered internal responses. Practical examples demonstrate how to translate these nonverbal cues and internal reactions in session promising greater mindful attunement in EFT.
SPM3 - EFT with Individuals: Creating Security Within and Between
Yolanda von Hockauf, Veronica Kallos-Lilly, Lorrie Brubacher
As with couples, we can use the attachment lens to understand individual client presenting issues. Individuals get caught into negative cycles internally and interpersonally, creating emotional distress and reinforcing insecure attachment. Stage one addresses de-escalation of this cycle. Stage two utilizes the power of emotions to reprocess attachment themes and mobilize a new stance with positive cycles. Video clips will highlight attachment themes and restructuring cycles of emotional processing and responding.
SPM4 - Sex Therapy and EFT: Strange Bedfellows or Kissing Cousins?
Keith Edwards, Samantha Litzinger
The workshop will present two approaches to integrating sex therapy and EFT. Interventions will be explained and recommendations will be offered on how to incorporate EFT into traditional sex therapy. An approach to integrating a set of four, sequential, process-focused, physical intimacy assignments into EFT treatment will also be described. Includes video interviews of treatment couples.
SPM5 - Integrating EFT and MBT in In-patient Treatment
Karin Wagenaar
In an in-patient clinic in the Netherlands, we have integrated EFT and Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) in a multimodal therapy program. In EFT couple group sessions, client and partner work on relational issues. In MBT-based group sessions, clients further mentalize about their underlying emotions. These multiple modalities result in an integrated treatment program.
4:30 – 6:00 pm – Keynote
Deepening the Affects of Innate Healing: AEDP Redresses the Evolutionary Tilt
Diana Fosha, PhD
