Workshop with Robert Elliott (For up to 40 participants)

North Wales Border – Glyndwr University, Wrexham                            

2nd of April 2011

A day offering An Overview of Emotion-Focused/Process-Experiential Therapy:

Emotions most fundamentally tell us what is important to us in a situation, and thus act as a guide to what we need or want; this in turn helps us figure out what actions are appropriate.  Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT, also known as Process-Experiential psychotherapy) focuses on helping people become aware of their emotions, learn to regulate them, reflect on them to make sense of them and transform them by accessing other, more adaptive but subdominant emotions.  Learning about emotions is not enough; instead, what is needed is for clients to experience those emotions as they arise in the safety of the therapy session, where they can discover for themselves the value of greater awareness and more flexible management of emotions.

 EFT adopts a person-centred but process-guiding relational stance. The therapist integrates “being” and “doing” with the client and both follows and guides the client as a partner in their moment-by-moment processing.  The therapist follows the track of the client’s internal experience as it evolves from moment to moment because the therapist recognizes the client as an authentic source of experience and as an active agent trying to make meaning. At the same time, the therapist acts as guide, scout or coach who knows something about subjective terrain and emotional processes.  The therapist’s responses are seen as continually offering the client different opportunities to work with experience, while always leaving the client free to choose whether or not to take up those opportunities. EFT’s most characteristic style of responding is empathic exploration.

This day-long workshop provides an overview of Emotion-Focused Therapy, emotion theory, including mini-lectures, video demonstrations and small group practice of selected therapeutic tasks, including systematic evocative unfolding and two chair work.

Process-Experiential therapy has been described in several books, including Greenberg, Rice and Elliott’s Facilitating Emotional Change (1993) and Elliott, Watson, Goldman and Greenberg’s Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy (2004), among others.  For more information, see www.process-experiential.org.

Robert Elliott, Ph.D., is Professor of Counselling in the Counselling Unit at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, where he directs its research clinic and teaches counselling research and emotion-focused therapy.  A professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Toledo (Ohio), he is co-author of Facilitating emotional change (1993), Learning process-experiential psychotherapy (2004), Research methods in clinical psychology (2002), and Developing and Enhancing Research Capacity in Counselling and Psychotherapy (2010), as well as more than 120 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-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapies.  He is a Fellow in the Divisions of Psychotherapy and Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association.  In 2008 he received both 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.

Cost £85.00/ concessions including students and volunteers £70.00

Please bring your own lunch. Tea and coffee will be provided.

Ffynnon Personal and Professional Development,

PO Box 246, Oswestry, SY10 1ED.

Website: www.ffynnonppd.co.uk

Email: info@ffynnonppd.co.uk

Telephone: 0560 3318946.