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  EFT Institute, Level TWO
February 23-26, 2009
Palm Desert, California

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What are you doing in February? 

A Level TWO EFT Institute with Les Greenberg, PhD will be held in Southern California from February 23-26, 2009.   The workshop will be held at Palm Desert’s beautiful Shadow Mountain Resort and Club.   For a map of Palm Desert, click here.  For a Palm Desert photo gallery, click here.

The program provides participants advanced training 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.  The institute includes a daily buffet lunch. 

This is a small-group intensive, and enrollment is strictly limited to 16.    (Very) advance registration is required.  Pre-requisite: EFT Institute, Level I (or equivalent; please include details of your training with your application form).

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 Two EFT Institute  is approved for 24.0 Continuing Education Units.

 

PROGRAM OUTLINE

Monday, February 23, 2009 – Introduction

9:00am – 12:00pm

Advanced Empathy
• The moment by moment tracking of affect • Empathic exploration and conjecture • Empathic evocation

1:00pm – 4:30pm

Marker Identification
• Issues in identifying markers of splits and unfinished business • Additional markers: self-interruption, vulnerability, trauma, alliance ruptures

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 – Advanced Work with Two-Chair Dialogue

9:00am – 12:00pm

The Process
• Sensing the opposed forces • Following and leading • The role of the "other person" in two-chair dialogue • Dealing with collapsing and impasses

1:00pm – 4:30pm

Variants
• Self-interruptive dialogues • Self-soothing dialogues

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 – Advanced Work with Unfinished Business

9:00am – 12:00pm

The Process
• Evocation of emotion • The interruptive process • The "letting go" process

1:00pm – 4:30pm

Variants
• Forgiveness • Imaginal restructuring

Thursday, February 26, 2009 – Continue Practice and Supervision

9:00am – 12:00pm

Difficult Clients and Processes

1:00pm – 4:30pm

Applications to specific populations and types of problems

 Register now or download complete EFT Training Brochure (PDF)

Rave reviews for the summer 2007 Level Two
The August 7-10, 2007 Level Two participants were uniformly positive in their written feedback (average overall rating 9.7/10.0): 

... A wonderful experience... Bravo!... A fabulous workshop... A great teacher... Extremely nice facilities... A fabulous collection of clinical videos... Harbourfront surroundings were great... I'm hanged if I can think of any way to improve the institute... Excellent presenter... Will very much influence my clinical practice... Well worth the time, effort and cost [Irish participant]... Efficient and expedient pre-registration... Very powerful learning... Privileged to have had direct teaching input from one of the pioneers... Very stimulating... I love being surrounded by people who ruminate on the same things I do... Made me think about therapy in a different way... A wonderful and challenging experience...

Rave review for the Summer 2006 Level Two

... ... Kindness! Organization! Training effectiveness!!! ... It was a wonderful experience. I would highly recommend it to others... I got deeper understanding of the EFT approach in action ... Thank you for a wonderful experience ... Absolutely foundational to my clinical practice!... Practice soooo helpful ... Professionalism, warmth, & competence ... Concrete steps... Moment-by-moment tracking of emotions ... Dr. Greenberg was so available & approachable & warm ... Real human experience ... Humanity and transparency ... I love the coaching and demonstration... Amazing! hard to improve upon... Les is an amazing trainer! It is helpful to hear his internal process and sorting about what is taking place in a session ... Very real and normalizing ... Depth of understanding and tenderness ... Excellent Presenter... Dr. Greenberg is a model of a humanity and well-informed instructor...

 


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