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Penetrating Defenses and Surmounting Shame

The Art and Skill of Reaching Affect
 

Presenter


Frederickson & Warshow
Jon Frederickson, LICSW, is the Founder of the ISTDP Training Institute and the co-chair of the ISTDP training program at the Washington School of Psychiatry; chair of the ISTDP Core Training for the Norwegian Society for ISTDP; and on the faculty of the Laboratorium Psykoeducaji in Warsaw and the Italian EDT Society. He is the author of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Learning to Listen from Multiple Perspectives and the award-winning Co-Creating Change: Effective Dynamic Therapy Techniques.

Susan Warren Warshow, LCSW, LMFT, is the founder of the Dynamic Emotion Focused Therapy Institute (DEFT). She serves on the board of the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association and is a Certified IEDTA Teacher/Supervisor. She is on the faculty of the ISTDP Institute and presents at numerous national and international conferences and local teaching institutions. She has published articles in professional journals and has a private practice in Woodland Hills, CA, treating individuals and couples.
 

Event Location and Times

Olympic Collection Conference Center
11301 W. Olympic Blvd #204
Los Angeles, CA 90064

9am - 5pm (both days)

Pricing:

Online Registration $260 (Early Bird: $235) 

Standard Registration (by mail, phone, fax) $270 (Early Bird $245)

Full-time Students (if space available) $240 (Early Bird $175.00)   

Group Registration (3 or more, online) $250 (Early Bird $220)

If you are a group needing to register, please contact Karen at 866-992-9399 X105

 

Reaching Buried Affect with Compassion and Skill

  • Disarm Distancing Defenses and Shame States
  • Accurately Identify and Attend to Somatic Signals
  • Sustain an Internal Focus for Accelerated Results
  • Heal through an Authentic Attachment Relationship
  • Apply an Evidence-Based, Dynamic Treatment
 

Workshop Points

Gaining freedom from restrictive defenses:

  • Conveying compassion for the cost of defenses. 
  • Avoiding a misalliance when working with resistance.
  • Uncovering the roots of character armor.

Creating hope and choice despite powerful sabotaging forces.
Activating a true partnership on the journey towards personal goals. 
Sustaining an internal focus to accelerate therapeutic results.

Recognizing manifestations of shame.

  • Responding with sensitivity to vulnerable states
  • Undoing the paralyzing power of shame

Moving beyond the fears of feelings

  • Learning a graded approach
  • Recognizing degree of anxiety through bodily sensations

Tracking somatic signals and moment-to-moment phenomena.
Tailoring interventions according to client capacity.

Deeply exploring and integrating intense, complex emotions. 

  • Building tolerance for feeling through a graded approach.
  • Discovering the power of the therapeutic relationship.

Celebrating transformational shifts in relation to self and other.
Focusing with care on the experience of the therapist.

 

 

 

Learning Objectives

  • Apply specific tools to disarm defenses and reach core feeling.
  • Discuss elements of shame-sensitive, compassionate interventions.
  • Assess anxiety exceeding the window of tolerance.
  • Compare self-enhancing vs self-limiting parts of the self.
  • Describe elements of a focused, purposeful therapeutic partnership.
 

Agenda

Saturday, September 26
9:00 – 9:30 Registration
9:30 – 11:00 Warren Warshow: Shame sensitive interventions to disarm defenses; Video analysis
11:00 – 11:15 Break
11:15 – 12:30 Warren Warshow: Unseen and unloved: Inviting a new closeness; Video analysis
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch break
1:30 – 3:00 Frederickson: Working with self-destructiveness---barriers to emotional closeness; Video analysis.
3:00 – 3:15 Break
3:15 – 4:30 Frederickson: Guilt---the driver of self-punishment; Video analysis
4:30 – 5:00 The therapist’s internal experience: Discussion
 
Sunday, September 27
9:00 – 9:30 Registration
9:30 – 11:00 Warren Warshow: Building trust doesn't have to take time; Video analysis
11:00 – 11:15 Break
11:15 – 12:30 Warren Warshow: Metabolizing unconcious emotions: The calm after the storm; Video analysis
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch break
1:30 – 3:00 Frederickson: Addressing devaluation of the therapist; Video analysis
3:00 – 3:15 Break
3:15 – 4:30 Frederickson: Confronting lying in therapy; Video Analysis
4:30 – 5:00 The therapist’s internal experience: Discussion

* Speakers periodically update workshops. Please refer to this website for current agenda.
 

Continuing Education

This event is sponsored by R. Cassidy Seminars

Satisfactory Completion
Participants must have paid tuition fee, signed in, attended the entire seminar, completed an evaluation, and signed out in order to receive a certificate. Failure to sign in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available.

Psychologists
R. Cassidy Seminars is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to offer continuing education for psychologists. R. Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for this program and its content. (12) hours.

California Counselors, Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists (12) hours. California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts APA, ASWB and other National Accrediting Agencies’ approval as of 7/1/2015 for all Continuing Education approval requirements for its licensees.

Cancellation Policy Refund (minus $25 administrative fee) when canceling prior to 7 days before the workshop. No refund within 7 days of the seminar.

Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.

Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling.

 

 

What They’re Saying

Jon Frederickson is a world-class psychotherapy instructor, and a master at unlocking the therapeutic impasse. He presents highly complex and subtle subjects in a clear and accessible manner. … Jon’s teaching style is very supportive and considerate. … It’s important to have an instructor who teaches with respect and compassion for his students. I highly recommend Jon Frederickson to anyone who wants to take their psychotherapy skills to a higher level.
— Tony Rousmaniere, PsyD
 

I have...been most impressed with [Susan’s] deeply insightful, sensitive, and fearless approach, leading to outstanding therapeutic results.
— David Malan, M.D., Tavistock Clinic
 

...To be more effective and efficient in producing positive and lasting change in your patients, you couldn’t find a better teacher than Susan W Warshow. With grace, humor, and deep compassion for both patients and trainees, she will guide you in the development of skills and capacities that will enhance your work and your life immeasurably.
— Patricia Coughlin (Della Selva), PhD, Faculty ISTDP Institute, Author of Lives Transformed