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Course Information
EFT Certification Bootcamp: Unpacking Your Blocks and Completing the Journey
10.5 CE Hours
Psychologists, Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, Counselors/Marriage and Family Therapists, Creative Arts Therapists, Educators, Nurses
"Whether your goal is certification, or a deepening of your own work, this program will help you tune into your emotional experience and further your own development."
This workshop will provide the therapist trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy both a top down and bottom up template for the certification process. The therapist will learn the necessary requirements for the task of certification and explore any blocks to certification. Specific exercises will be included for exploration of issues encountered in deepening your own work.
Presenters
Elana Katz, LCSW, EFT Trainer
Elana Katz, LCSW, LMFT, is a Certified EFT Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer. One of the first therapists in New York to practice EFT, she is a founding member of NYCEFT where she serves on the Executive Board. In addition to her private practice, she is a senior faculty member at the Ackerman Institute where she’s taught both in the core training program as well as a number of innovative courses in EFT. She has presented nationally and internationally, including annual meetings of the American Family Therapy Academy, the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, and the Psychotherapy Networker, and has published a number of articles and been quoted by the New York Times, the Associated Press, and other media outlets, including National Public Radio.
Ben Medley, LCSW, EFT Supervisor
Ben Medley LCSW, is a Certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist (EFT) and Supervisor and is also a Certified Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) therapist. He has a full-time private practice in NYC where he works with individuals and couples. He teaches and presents both EFT and AEDP in New York City and beyond, including twice presenting the successful NYC EFT seminar Certified: The steps, The Presentation and What it Looks Like in NYC. Want to know more? Go to www.TherapyWithBen.com!
Main Points of this Workshop
- Provide an environment to participants training in EFT to learn the components
of the certification process to become a Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist
- Discuss the specific process of certifying – steps, requirements, necessary documentation
- Discussion of the common barriers and common pitfalls of certification process
- Experiential component – individual self-exploration of personal barriers
and struggles, goals and objectives for individuals professional development
- Strategy for individual certification process
Course Objectives:
- Describe the specific skills and steps to the certification process, enabling them to approach the process successfully
- Identify his/her personal and professional strengths as well as blocks and barriers to the process
- Create a pathway specific to his/her individual goals
- Put a support system in place to assist the completion of the certification process
Early Bird Registration Dates
Agenda
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EFT Certification Bootcamp
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Day 1 Getting Started
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9:00 am
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Welcome, introductions,
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9:15 am
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Journal exercise #1: Personal goals
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9:40 am
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Report back to the larger group
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9:50 am
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Setting the Stage/The Nuts and Bolts of Certification
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10:10 am
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Details of the training with the diagram, details of the competencies
Reviewing the package requirements
Exercise: Dialogue Exercise, report back to the group
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10:45 am
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Break
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11:00 am
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Show Initial video: Elicit messages in family and culture
Journal these reflections (#2) and share |
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11:30 am
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ACES: Alliance, Conceptual, Experiential, Self of Therapist
Show video with strong emotional content
What would it be like to :
join; get the cycle; help them have a new experience; use of self
Journal exercise #3: Personal response to ACES – let them check in
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12:00 pm
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Review Conceptual Highlights and Interventions with Handout (skill building slides – work in dyads)
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12:30 pm
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Issues on switching models
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1:00 – 2:00
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Lunch
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2:00 pm
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Show “Before and After Videos” – one that is not quite ready and one that meets requirements
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2:15 pm
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Emotions of our Own
Reflections on our own successes and challenges with going deep
Core Concept: Special challenges for therapists in going deeper
Show Video
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3:00 pm
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Journal Exercise #4 and share: what were the messages about emotions in your family?
Accelerators and breaks
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3:30 pm
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Report back to the group
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Day 2
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Putting it together – their stuck places/ our stuck places
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9:00 am
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Channeling your client – helping each other in our stuck places. Practice and reverse
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10:00 am
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Show Supervision Tapes
Reflections on use of supervision
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10:45 am
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15 minute break
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11:00 am
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Creating a new narrative: our stuck places become our strength
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11:30 am
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Developing self compassion
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12:00 pm
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Lunch
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1:00 pm
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Time for Integration
Identifying next steps
Finding partners in development
Supervision plan
Journal commitment statement
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2:30 pm
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Closing reflections
Distribute final checklist
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