L1 TOR 2009

EFT Institute, Level ONE
August 10-13, 2009
Toronto, CANADA

The 12th annual Toronto summer Emotions Institute, Level One with Les Greenberg, Ph.D. will be held in Toronto from August 10-13, 2009. The workshop will be held in Toronto’s beautiful Harbourfront area. Tuition includes a buffet lunch.

The program provides participants with a solid grounding in the skills required to work more directly with emotion in psychotherapy. Participants receive in-depth skills training through a combination of brief lectures, video demonstrations, live modeling, case discussions, and extensive supervised role-playing practice.

Advance registration for the Level One Institute is strongly recommended, as enrollment is strictly limited to 32 participants. To find out what past Level One participants have to say, click here.

The Applied Psychology Institute is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. API maintains responsibility for the program. The Level One Institute is approved for 24.0 Continuing Education Units.

PROGRAM OUTLINE

Monday, August 10, 2009

9:00am – 12:00pm	Empathy and Validation of Feeling • Creating an alliance • Empathic attunement • Validation • Emotional exploration • Evocation • Conjecture
1:00pm – 4:30pm	Developing a Collaborative Focus • Identifying generating conditions • Symbolizing internal experience • Intrapersonal & interpersonal determinants • Idiosyncratic determinants • Accurate process-oriented formulations

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

9:00am – 12:00pm	Evocation, Arousal and Exploration, Part I • Concentration methods • Evocation methods • Enactive methods • Models of change processes
1:00pm – 4:30pm	Evocation, Arousal and Exploration, Part II • Focusing • Evocative unfolding • Two chair dialogue • Empty chair dialogue

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

9:00am – 12:00pm	Accessing Primary Adaptive Emotions & Core Maladaptive Schemes • Accessing primary emotions • Accessing core dysfunctional emotion schemes • Allowing, accepting and owning
1:00pm – 4:30pm	Restructuring Core Schemes • Supporting the emergence of primary needs • Tapping positive emotional resources • Challenging core maladaptive beliefs with newly accessed needs and emotions • Letting go of unmet needs • Provision of new experiences

Thursday, August 13, 2009

9:00am – 12:00pm	Self-Soothing and Meaning Creation • Supporting a self-affirming stance • Promoting new narrative constructions • Specific tools for working with anger, sadness, fear and shame
1:00pm – 4:30pm	Personalized Applications • Depression • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Addictions • Couples • Contraindications dialogue

July 31-August 3, 2007 Toronto Level ONE Institute feedback:

- Impressed with his high energy… very helpful and informative videotapes
- Les was very responsive, clear, enthusiastic and stimulating
- Welcoming!
- I learned a lot!... Variety of teaching techniques. Trusting climate- comfortable to ask questions
- What a pleasure… Les’s style (human) with great knowledge, expertise and guidance. Excellent lunches with lots of time to connect with other attendees. Enthusiastic group
- Very convincing… very knowledgeable… a very pleasant personality… very supportive
- Lunch was fantastic
- THE FOOD!… an excellent training
- GREAT LUNCHES… CLEAR AND ENTERTAINING
- Quality of videotapes 10++… loved facilities by the lake
- The atmosphere was very open and I liked very much to be here
- The interactive nature of everything. The friendliness of stuff and fellow attendees. The scope of knowledge and empathy of Dr. Greenberg
- Exceeded my expectations
- I definitely acquired useful new knowledge and skills
- Amazing food; free parking… exceptional blend of role-play activities, lecture, videos… Les outlines with amazing specificity the vicious stages of an intervention and vicious processes… so many practical tidbits… honestly, I can’t think of anything to improve the institute. I’m fully satisfied

August 14-16, 2006 Toronto Level ONE Institute feedback:

- Supportive and welcoming
- It exceeded my expectations
- Dr. Greenberg is energetic, present and consistent
- Very well done! It was both a pleasant and enriching workshop
- Les was always available to us. Well organized – facilitators were very helpful
- Great course!
- I acquired useful new knowledge and skills
- I just so much appreciate and admire the effort (and considerable success!) of Dr. Greenburg to be scientific and technically specific about emotions and process
- Really fabulous teacher. Such clinical wisdom and yet available. Excellent!
- Very clear, instructive
- I felt supported
- Excellent presenter – Tops!!!
- Great role-plays/ experience
- Warm, welcoming atmosphere
- A very understandable & clear manner
- This workshop was terrific! I look forward to returning for additional training.
- A safe, informative, highly useful experience!
- Les is by far, the best workshop presenter I’ve ever had!!
- Les Greenberg’s PASSION is EFT

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