Developed by Sue Johnson and Les Greenberg in 1985, Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) is a short-term systematic intervention designed to reduce distress in adult love relationships while creating more secure attachment bonds. EFT uses the power of emotion to evoke new and empathic responses between partners within their key interactions. These new emotional responses to a partner’s fears and needs help to create what Sue Johnson calls a new relationship “Dance” where rigidity is replaced by expansiveness and flexibility.
This workshop is designed with one purpose in mind: to help participants utilise this approach to transform couple relationships to greater emotional security and satisfaction. This training is designed to inform participants in methods and provide skills to create a safe and collaborative environment, focus on what is most effective, and assist clients to free themselves from the intense emotional stories that they continue to repeat and which contribute to ‘relationship deterioration’.
There will be a brief coverage of the theory based on the work of Carl Rogers and Attachment Theory that supports EFT but the essence of the workshop is developing practical skills through demonstrations, practice sessions and discussion.
The method of EFT is progressive, working through a series of steps leading to a change in the couple’s narrative and building strong, secure attachments. Participants will be taken through these steps and will on completion of the workshop be familiar with the key steps in EFT.
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Objectives
Learning objectives of this training:
"Couples seek out therapy because they are stuck in negative cycles that lead to resentment and distance. Often the therapist also gets stuck in how to help the couple return to positive interactions that create secure and loving relationships. This workshop will help build competence and skills to facilitate couples moving back into positive patterns of interaction.” r Ari Badaines
How will you benefit from attending this training?
Gottman Couples Therapy (GCT) is a research-based therapy developed over four decades of observational research to determine if it was possible to discover reliable patterns of interaction that discriminate between happy couples that are on a stable path, from couples that are unhappy and either eventually divorce or stay together but remain unhappy. The result of Dr. Gottman’s and his collaborators’ research is that we can now reliably predict with over 90% accuracy which relationships would succeed and which relationships would fail if untreated, six years later. Six predictors of relationship demise have been identified. One of these is the Failure of Repair Attempt.
From observation of relationships across the lifespan, we assume that conflict is inherent in all relationships due to the different personalities, histories and subjective norms of the two individuals. Conflict is defined as a clashing of two people’s expectations. Even happy and stable couples experience conflict. The crucial difference lies in the couple’s ability to repair their negativity, not in their ability to avoid it all together.
Repair is an all-or-nothing operation. It may re-establish the course of action and bring couples back on track. This is achieved by reciprocal attuning to each other, with increased compassion resulting in overcoming bad feelings. Successful repair sets aside the regrettable incident and leaves it in the past. On the other hand, repair may be unsuccessful, in which case it may amplify the problem and continue to be the source of negativity and resentment.
The tension that arises from clashing expectations leads to conflict which offers an opportunity to have meaningful discussion about:
Successful repair is considered profitable to the relationship because it allows couples to deepen their understanding of their partner, the relationship and the system they operate within. This webinar will focus on the principle of repair in couples therapy as an essential component of effective couples therapy.
Objectives
1. Differentiate between the two reasons why couples fight
2. Understand the benefit of processing arguments
3. Describe the five steps in the Aftermath of a Fight Intervention
Copyright : 14/07/2021