EFIT Essentials with Trainer Robin Williams Blake

We will be facilitating an in person Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) Essentials training from October 24-27, 2024 in Edmonton, Alberta. More details on the location to come!

About The Course

This course introduces EFIT, Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy, the individual therapy version of the well-established EFT couple model. This attachment based, experiential model allows the therapist to confidently restructure the client's habitual way of constructing moment-to-moment experience and regulating their most difficult emotions. EFIT focuses on helping clients shape a coherent, resilient, securesense of self, able to explore and resolve the deeper emotional pain underlying depression, anxiety, and the echoes of traumas. As in EFT forcouples, attachment science offers the EFIT therapist a map that clarifies the nature of client problems and symptoms, specifying the steps in the journey towards emotional balance and the corrective emotional epiphanies that are the essence of significant and lasting change in psychotherapy.

About The Trainer

Robin Williams Blake, RP, DCTP, Robin is a certified Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) trainer, supervisor and therapist, a faulty member in the graduate program for Sir Wilfrid Laurier University as well as a guest speaker in their continued education program. In the last few years, Robin has taught EFT at York University in their social work program and was invited by Mount Sinai Hospital to speak at their level two trauma clinic in 2016. He is a former adjunct faculty member at the Living Institute of Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy where he provided training in the EFT model. Robin trains EFT for local centres and communities in Fredericton, Cambridge, Toronto, and York Region. He is a founder of the Toronto Centre for Emotionally Focused Therapy and has been a director for the Centre since 2005. Robin is a registered psychotherapist and has been in private practice in Toronto for 20 years where he sees individuals, couples, and families and well as provides supervision for EFT therapists.

Cost

The registration fee is $1050 for the early bird rate which will run until June 30, 2024. Starting July 1, 2024 the rate will go up to $1200. Payments can be made through eTransfer or PayPal

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Questions

if you have any questions, please contact Melissa at admin@eftedmonton.com.

Are you ready to experience a virtual event like no other? Join us for Hold Me Tight where we'll dive deep into the world of emotional connections and relationships. Our expert speakers will guide you through interactive sessions and workshops designed to strengthen your bonds and enhance your communication skills. Don't miss out on this opportunity to connect with others and learn valuable insights that can transform your relationships. Save your spot now!

Throughout the weekend, participants will be guided through immersive exercises and insightful discussions, all rooted in the principles of Emotional Focused Therapy (EFT). Led by experienced therapists and facilitators, the retreat promises a safe and supportive environment for couples to explore and address their relational challenges.

The receipts may be eligible for reimbursements under some plans.

For More Information

More information about the event can be found here.

Cost

$800+tax per couple

To Register

You can register and pay for the workshop here.

Welcome

EFT Core Skills Training:

• Is the next level of training required in order to become a Certified EFT Therapist and follows the 4-day Externship.

• CS is 5 - 2 Day Trainings with each Training held once a month for 5 months in a row.

Dates

Dates for this CS Training are:

• CS 1 – September 22 & 23, 2023, Robin Williams Blake, Trainer.

• CS 2 – October 29 7 30, ,2023, Elana Katz, joining us via Zoom

• CS 3 – November 24 & 25, 2023, Robin Williams Blake.

• CS 4 – January 14 & 15, 2024, Elana Katz joining us via Zoom

• CS 5 – February 23 & 24, 2024, Murray Armstrong heads up a team of Senior Clinicians. 

CS 1 – 4 goes from 9 am – 4:30 pm MT.

CS 5 typically goes from 10 am – 3 pm each day.

Participants video clips are reviewed with the focus of deepening participants understanding of how to apply the theory to actual clinical practice.

Content

• CS 1-4 focus on the key skills learned at the Externship from each of the 3 Stages and 9 Steps of EFT. The 5 Basic Moves of EFT are called the EFT Tango and are integrated into the basic structure of the Stages and Steps of EFT. The Stages and Steps give the EFT a conceptual framework to understand where the Therapist is in leading clients through the Stages and Steps of the EFT Model. The Tango guides the therapist in the actual process of taking their client(s) through the Stages and Steps. More simply put, the Stages and Steps gives the therapist the conceptual framework of the EFT model and the Tango gives the Therapist the “how to” take the client(s) through the Stages and Steps.

• CS 5 has each participant will present a video or under exceptional circumstances, an audio of their own work with either an EFT Supervisor, Supervisor-in-Training, Certified EFT Therapist, and/or Senior Clinician and a small group of other participants. If the presentation component is not fulfilled at that time, then arrangements can be made to present a video/audio work with an ICEEFT-certified trainer or supervisor in a group setting.

Missed Hours

CS Participants are required to attend all classes and participate in all experiential exercises and must get permission from the Senior Supervisor if exceptional circumstances necessitate someone being absent for any portion of the CS Training.

Eligibility

Participants are REQUIRED to have completed an EFT Externship and be willing to participate in exercises and role plays.

Learning Goals & Syllabus

See the full brochure for the learning goals and course syllabus.

Trainers and Recommended Reading

The presents will be Robin Williams Blake and Elana Katz, both ICEEFT trainers and supervisors. They will be assisted by Murray Armstrong, certified supervisor.

For more information on the trainers as well as a list of recommended readings, please see the full brochure.

Cost

The cost is $2,750 CAD payable all up front or in five monthly payments of $550. Please note that if you’re paying via monthly payments, payment for each session will be required at least two weeks ahead of the session. In order to meet our expenses we cannot offer an early bird or student rate.

Register

Registration is currently full. If you wish to be added to a waitlist, please e-mail admin@eftedmonton.com

Questions

if you have any questions, please contact Melissa at admin@eftedmonton.com.

NOTE: Times shown are in Mountain Time (GMT -7:00)

This Workshop is the 5th Workshop George has done for our EFT Edmonton Community (EFTEC).  This Workshop is on-line, via Zoom and is available to EFTEC as well as any members of ICEEFT.

Eligibility

This workshop is for three categories of participants:

1. EFTers who have attended at least one of the 4 workshops George has done here in Edmonton since Oct. 2020.

2. ICEEFT members who have taken at least one of George’s Workshops but not in Edmonton.

3. EFTers within EFTEC or ICEEFT who have not taken a Workshop with George but would be willing to take a one-day Primer Course.  This Primer uses didactic and experiential methods to go over the basic processes George has developed in dealing with the profound emotional blocks people experience in their lives.

Description

In the 4 Workshops so far, George has been highly respected for how he has taught EFTers to get more specifically focused on moment-by-moment decisions as we explore, educate, and be-friend the never-ending complexity of clients’ emotional attachment blocks.

Workshop # 5 continues to shine the light on how to continue to get clearer about working with and going deeper into emotional blocks and the profound and fascinating purposes of these blocks.  George really takes us to our learning edge in uncovering how unwittingly these emotional attachment blocks appear throughout the entire therapy process. George adds a wonderful depth and inspiring hope in using Sue’s EFT Model.

When

May 23 & 24, 2023

How

Using Zoom. A link for the Workshop will be sent closer to the workshop date.

Cost

$525 CAD.

Information

If you have additional questions, please contact: Murray Armstrong at dmarm@telus.net or at 780-263-8867.

Registration

IN PERSON TRAINING

January 18 – 21, 2023, Wednesday – Saturday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.

All times for the Externship and Core Skills Trainings are Mountain Time

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples is the fastest growing evidenced-based approach to treating couple distress in the world. Developed by Dr. Sue Johnson, the EFT Model is based on the Science of Emotions, Attachment Theory, Humanistic Psychology and Family Systems Theory. EFT helps couples move from distress in their relationship to a safer, more loving and fulfilling relationship. “In my 40 plus years of doing marital therapy, I have never been able to help highly conflicted couples move from disconnection to a deep, loving bond so effectively as when I learned EFT.” (Murray Armstrong)

Emotionally Focused Therapy offers

1. A Method Validated by Empirical Research: You can have confidence in a method that has over 30 years of scientific research attesting to its high success rate. Over 90% of couples improve their level of satisfaction in the relationship after completing EFT.  Between 70 to 73% of couples recover on standard measures of marital distress and the relapse rate is very low.

2. An Attachment Framework: EFT is based on a comprehensive and well-researched theory of adult love that helps you to formulate the couple’s presenting issues through an attachment lens to get to the ‘heart’ of the matter and to work with a clear target in sight: - a secure emotional bond.

3. A Comprehensive Roadmap to Heal Distressed Relationships: EFT is a healing process that produces lasting results in nine steps, divided into three stages.  The stages are:

   • Stage 1: Cycle De-escalation focuses on helping couples unhook from negative patterns of conflict and distancing, ease tension, and diffuse power struggles. The frequency and intensity of conflict decline markedly, creating safety for the Second Stage of therapy.

   • Stage 2: Restructuring Interactional Positions and Patterns focuses on creating deeper emotional intimacy by structuring new interactions that shape attachment security.  During Stage 2 partners engage with their attachment emotions and needs in a manner that creates closeness and enhances responsiveness to each other.  The new ways of interacting are integrated in Stage 3.

   • Stage 3: Consolidation where partners resolve long-standing issues in their relationship, create a clear narrative of moving from distress to security and prepare to end therapy.

4. Grounded Therapeutic Methods that Work with even the Most Challenging Couples: The empirically validated interventions and change events of EFT enable you to overcome hurdles known to impede the effectiveness of other therapies. For instance, research finds EFT to be highly effective with couples who present with poor prognostic indicators such as couples ready to separate or partners lacking awareness of their feelings.

5. Effective Interventions for Breaking Through Relationship and Therapeutic Impasses: Intervention techniques are specifically designed to break through highly stuck relationship impasses (e.g. both partners have given up trying to be heard) or attachment injuries (e.g. affairs).

General Objectives - Participants will learn to

1. Identify the 3 stages and 9 steps of Emotionally Focused Therapy

2. Learn the 5 Basic Moves of EFT called the “EFT Tango” as a framework to follow during every session regardless of which Stage or Step you are in.

3. Be introduced to how EFT is used with individuals (EFIT) and families (EFFT)

4. See marital distress from an attachment perspective

5. Help couples recognize and de-escalate problematic patterns of interaction

6. Help couples access the underlying attachment fears and needs that drive these negative patterns

7. Help couples create new emotional responses to old patterns

8. Shape key, new interactions and bonding events that result in permanent changes

9. Help couples repair attachment injuries

10. Overcome therapeutic impasses.

Overview of Externship

Day 1

• The Field of Couple Therapy: The Place of EFT

• Theory of Relationships - Adult Attachment Theory – A Map for Change

• Basics of the EFT Model - Experiential & Systemic

• Learn the EFT Tango.

• Theory of Change - Working with Emotion

• Overview of the process of change - Stages and Steps

Day 2

• Stage 1: Assessment, Alliance, Identifying the Cycle, Steps 1 & 2

• Steps 3 & 4

• Discussion & Role- Plays

• Live or Video Session

 Day 3

• Overview of EFT Interventions

• Introduction to EFT with Families

• Change Events - Stage 2

• Live or Video Session

 Day 4

• Live or Video Session

• Therapeutic Impasses

• Attachment injuries and Forgiveness Process

• Becoming an EFT Therapist

Participants will learn through

1. Presentations of theory and clinical skills

2. Practice exercises

3. Video recordings of EFT with couples

4. Observation of live interviews

5. Presentation of case examples and clinical issues.

Who Can Attend This Externship?

EFT Externships and Advanced Core Skills trainings are designed for mental health professionals and trainees. Participants are required to note their professional affiliation on registration.  To be clear, you must have a Master’s or PhD in an accredited Counselling Program or be taking one of those Degrees.  If you are not clear if you qualify, please contact Murray Armstrong at dmarm@telus.net.  

What Training Follows the Externship?

The Externship is a prerequisite for Core Skills Training which is a 60 hour, intensive small group Training offered over 5, 2-Day workshops.  The Externship and Core Skills are prerequisites for EFT Therapist Certification. 

Preparation for the Externship

Before coming to the Externship, participants are strongly encouraged to read Attachment Theory in Practice (2019), Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love (2008), and/or Love Sense (2013) all by Dr. Sue Johnson.

The Externship Leader

 Robin Williams Blake, Registered Psychotherapist

Robin is a certified Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) trainer, supervisor, and therapist.  Presently, Robin is a faulty member in the graduate program for Sir Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Ont.), as well as a guest speaker in their continued education program.  This past January he designed and taught the first EFT Core Skills equivalency course to be offered at a Canadian University with his colleague, ICEEFT supervisor Debbie Wang at WLU.  In the last few years, Robin has taught EFT at York University in their social work program and was invited by Mount Sinai Hospital to speak at their level two trauma clinic in 2016.  He is a former adjunct faculty member at the Living Institute of Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy, where he taught EFT for 5 years.  Robin trains EFT for local centers and communities in Fredericton, Cambridge, Toronto, York Region and Edmonton and he co-trained at the Toronto Externship with Sue Johnson in October 2020-2021.  For the past 3 years, he has been a regular consultant for Hold Me Tight retreats organized by Toronto Beyond the Blue a not-for-profit organization providing therapeutic services for the Toronto police force and their families. Robin is a co-founder of the Toronto Centre for Emotionally Focused Therapy and has been a director for the Centre since 2005.  Robin is a registered psychotherapist and has been in private practice in Toronto for 21 years where he sees individuals, couples and families and provides supervision for therapist working towards certification in EFT. 

Assisting the Leader

Murray Armstrong, MSW, RSW
ICEEFT Certified Therapist and Supervisor
EFT Edmonton Community (EFTEC) 

Murray and his wife, Donna began the Edmonton EFT Community in 2012.  Donna has since passed away, but the Community is growing stronger and larger with Murray’s efforts and the many EFTers within our Edmonton Community. Edmonton is now running its 8th Externship and Core Skills.  Murray has been a Certified EFT Supervisor since 2015 and is supervising at the International level as well as in Alberta.  In addition, Murray runs Group Supervision sessions and does training programs within the Edmonton EFT Community.

Certification

This Externship is the first step toward certification as an EFT Therapist.  Once you register, you will get a letter explaining the next step toward certification which is Core Skills Training.

Cost

Regular Rate is $1,100.  No Early Bird Rates or Student rate in order to meet our expenses.

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations received in writing 14 or more days prior to this training event a full refund minus a $50.00 administration fee will be issued. Cancellation within 14 days of the event will not be refunded unless a substitute participant is found.

Substitutions: A colleague may attend in your place, at no extra cost; however, notification to the event organizer/coordinator admin@eftedmonton.com must be provided prior to the event in order to correct our records and minimize confusion at registration.

In the event this training is cancelled due to low registration, a full refund will be issued.

Location

The Externship will be held at the following location:

Hilton Garden Inn, West Edmonton
17610 – Stony Plain Road
Edmonton, AB T5S 1A2
780 – 443 - 2233

For More Information

Contact: Erin at admin@eftedmonton.com

Registration

NOTE: Times shown are in Mountain Time (GMT -7:00)

This Workshop builds on the understanding achieved in George’s other 3 workshop of the finer nuances of Emotional Blocks and the power of unpacking the Micro Moves that create these nuances.

This workshop is for two categories of participants:

1. Any EFTers who have attended at least one of the 3 workshops George has done with us here in Edmonton since Oct. 2019.

2. Any EFTers who have not taken any course with George but would be willing to take a one-day Primer Course with Murray Armstrong before the May 24/25, 2022 Workshop #4.

In the 3 courses so far, George has essentially led us through his highly respected and innovative breakdown of the micro-moves in EFT both academically and experientially. He has taught us the many nuances to dealing with the blocks that EFTers can get stuck on by showing us his way of exploring the purpose of these blocks and how to uncover the real depth of the good reasons for these blocks. At this point, we are co-creating with George broader and deeper developments of his work. Workshop # 4 continues to deepen our understanding, experiencing of these blocks, and then the depth of George’s techniques in handling the profound and often unseen reasons for these blocks.

When

May 24 & 25, 2022

How

Using Zoom. A link for the Workshop will be sent closer to the workshop date.

Cost

$455 CAD.

Information

If you have additional questions, please contact: Murray Armstrong at dmarm@telus.net or at 780-444-4399.

Registration

About

Core Skills training consists of five two-day trainings that focus on the skills needed for proficiency in the EFT model. The trainings provide an in-depth study for each of the three change events through instruction, live case consultations, experiential expertise and group supervision according to ICCEFT guidelines, in a safe, supportive and creative environment.

Dates

• December 3 & 4, 2021, with Gail.

• January 21 & 22, 2022, with Robin

• February 25 & 26, 2022, with Gail

• March 25 & 26, 2022, with Robin

• April 22 & 23, 2022, with Murray & Team

Times: 9 am – 4:30 pm Mountain Time for CS 1-4.

Times for CS 5 will vary depending on the number of people presenting videos.What to Expect

Participants will learn to

• Use an attachment framework

• Track and deepen emotion in the here and now

• Create bonding events

• Practice the interventions that create change in EFT

Prerequisites

Participants attending the core skills training will have attended the four day EFT Externship training and also belong to a Professional Counselling Association that sets standards of practice and has a disciplinary committee.

Cost

The cost is $2250 CAD payable all up front or in five monthly payments of $450.

Register

This round of training is full. If you want to be added to the wait list, please contact admin@eftedmonton.com.

Questions

if you have any questions, please contact Melissa at admin@eftedmonton.com.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples is the fastest growing evidenced-based approach to treating couple distress in the world. Developed by Dr. Sue Johnson, the EFT Model is based on the Science of Emotions, Attachment Theory, Humanistic Psychology and Family Systems Theory. EFT helps couples move from distress in their relationship to a safer, more loving and fulfilling relationship. “In my 40 plus years of doing marital therapy, I have never been able to help highly conflicted couples move from disconnection to a deep, loving bond so effectively as when I learned EFT.” (Murray Armstrong)

Dates - Online Only

• October 14-15, 2021

• October 28-29, 2021

General Objectives

Participants will learn to:

1. Identify the 3 stages and 9 steps of Emotionally Focused Therapy

2. See marital distress from an attachment perspective

3. Help couples recognize and de-escalate problematic patterns of interaction

4. Help couples access the underlying attachment fears and needs that drive these negative patterns

5. Help couples create new emotional responses to old patterns

6. Shape key, new interactions and bonding events that result in permanent changes

7. Help couples repair attachment injuries

8. Overcome therapeutic impasses.

Who Can Attend This Externship?

EFT Externships and Advanced Core Skills trainings are designed for mental health professionals and trainees. Participants are required to note their professional affiliation on registration. To be clear, you must have a Master’s or PhD in an accredited Counselling Program. If you are not clear if you qualify, please contact Murray Armstrong at dmarm@telus.net.

The Externship Leader

Veronica Kallos-Lilly, Ph.D., R. Psych.

Veronica Kallos-Lilly is a founding Director of the Vancouver Couple & Family Institute (VCFI). Known for her warm interpersonal style, workshop participants appreciate Veronica’s clinical expertise and authenticity as she shares the EFT model with you. Veronica’s main clinical interests lie in using EFT for individuals and couples. She also enjoys training and supervising clinicians with a focus on the person of the therapist.

In 2000, Veronica conducted the first EFT training course in Vancouver. Interest in EFT has flourished in BC and around the world since that time. Veronica co-founded VCFI and the Vancouver Centre for EFT Training in 2005, and is currently one of its Directors. VCFI has grown into an established training institute with an international reputation, allowing Veronica to expand her scope of training to the US and Australia.

As a Clinical Associate at Simon Fraser University and Certified EFT Trainer with 20 years of experience presenting, Veronica delights in sharing an exquisite model such as EFT and helping clinicians transform their work. As an enthusiastic participant from Veronica’s 2010 Australian teaching tour commented, “This is the best training I have received in 35 years of clinical practice and attending workshops.” 

Cost

The cost for this four day workshop is $710.
The Early Bird rate is $670 if you register before August 14, 2021.

Information

If you have additional questions, please contact Melissa Nichol.

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations received in writing 14 or more days prior to this training event a full refund minus a $50.00 administration fee will be issued. Cancellation within 14 days of the event will not be refunded unless a substitute participant is found.

Substitutions: A colleague may attend in your place, at no extra cost; however, notification to the event organizer/coordinator (admin@eftedmonton.com) must be provided prior to the event in order to correct our records and minimize confusion at registration.

In the event this training is cancelled due to low registration, a full refund will be issued.

Registration

The externship is currently full. We are not accepting new registrations at this time.

This workshop is the follow-up from George’s April 19 & 20, 2021 workshop and is only open to those EFTers who attended either the Oct 5 & 6, 2020 or the April 19 & 20, 2021 workshop.

We are incredibly fortunate to have George willing to do these workshops that focus on the practical application of his version of EFT.  As George said, he declines 9 out of 10 invites from all over the world to do workshops as he is so overwhelmed with requests. George’s willingness to come back I think is in part due to what he gets back from us. The last Workshop in April was especially energizing for George as it was a co-creation process between George and the group in generating more in-depth good reasons for people’s blocks. So bring your great ideas, questions, and enthusiasm.

When

September 20 & 21, 2021

How

Using Zoom. A link for the Workshop will be sent closer to the workshop date.

Cost

$455 CAD.

Session Cap

Please note the session will be capped at 30 participants.

Information

If you have additional questions, please contact: Murray Armstrong at dmarm@telus.net or at 780-444-4399.

Registration

NOTE: Times shown are in Mountain Time (GMT -7:00)

This is Workshop is a Follow-Up Workshop from the Oct 5 & 6, 2020 Workshop, “Sharpening Your Focus and Going Deeper in EFT.” Only those who have taken the October 5 & 6, 2020 Workshop or it’s comparable can attend this Follow-Up Workshop. 

This Follow-Up Workshop will focus on showing you how to apply George’s micro-moves as you work with your clients. He will bring alive the “how to’s” of applying intention and focus to handling escalated couples, stuck places, emotional blocks and incapacitating vulnerabilities through:

• Q & A

• Showing and analyzing his teaching videos

• Participants showing their videos

• Exercises focusing on developing specific skills such as:

  • Green, yellow, & red light

  • The Tourniquet

  • Tempo

  • Picking up Blocks

  • Any requests from participants

Participants are expected to be very familiar with George’s 156 slides that cover the theory. Any theory George presents in this Follow-Up Workshop only be in the context of responding to specific questions. There will be no formal lecturing. 

WORKSHOP LEADER: GEORGE FALLER, LMFT 

George Faller is a retired Lieutenant of the NYC Fire Department, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in New York and Connecticut and an Approved Supervisor for the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. He is the founder and President of the New York Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). As an EFT Trainer, George teaches several classes at the Ackerman Institute for the Family (the oldest family institute in the United States) in NYC, is a board member of the Porter Cason Institute for the Family at Tulane University in New Orleans and is the director of training at the Center for Hope and Renewal in Greenwich, Ct. Specializing in trauma, Family EFT, and self-of-the-therapist issues, George is committed to bringing EFT to underprivileged populations and pushing the leading edge of effective therapy. George hopes his books True Connection, Sacred Stress and the Emotionally Focused Family Therapy contributes to the EFT movement of making our world a more secure place. 

When

April 19 & 20, 2021, Monday/Tuesday, 9 am – 4:30 pm, MST, each day. 

How

Using Zoom. A link for the Workshop will be sent the week of April 12th. 

Cost

In order to recognize that therapists have been financially impacted by COVID19, the EFTEC (EFT Edmonton Community) Collegium has reduced the cost of this Workshop from $650 to $455CAD funds. There is no early bird, group, or student rate. 

Information

If you have additional questions, please contact: Murray Armstrong at dmarm@telus.net or at 780-444-4399.

Registration

Group Supervision for 2021 for those interested in using group feedback under the guidance of a certified EFT Supervisor, Murray Armstrong.

• February 16, 2021, from 1 – 2:30 pm

• March 23, 2021, from 1 – 2:30 pm

• April 27, 2021, from 1 – 2:30 pm

• May 18, 2021, from 1 – 2:30 pm

• June 22, 2021, from 1 – 2:30 pm

• September 21, 2021, from 1 – 2:30 pm

• October 19, 2021, from 1 – 2:30 pm

• November 16, 2021, from 1 – 2:30 pm

• December 14, 2021, from 1 – 2:30 pm

The cost is $45/person for 1.5 hrs.

Format: Q & A, Role Plays, Participants’ Videos, Exercises will be used depending on the needs of the group.

To register, contact Murray at: dmarm@telus.net or phone 780-444-4399.

There is a lot to learn, digest, and implement in using George’s ideas around blocks and vulnerabilities with our clients. Many of you have expressed an interest in joining a Study Group and so I am proposing the following:

1. The Study Group meet every 2 months on the following dates and times:

   • November 24, 2020 – 2pm – 3:30 pm MDT

   • January 19, 2021 – 2 pm – 3:30 pm MDT

   • March 16, 2021 – 2pm – 3:30 pm, MDT

   • If participants want to meet more frequently, that can be discussed and arrangements made.

   • George’s Follow-Up Training from his October 5/6, 2020 will be held April 19/20, 2021.

2. The Study Group will be a Peer Consultation format.  Therefore, there is no charge for this group.  I am willing to be the organizer and moderator for each Study Group.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Murray Armstrong

email: dmarm@telus.net

This Group Supervision is for those therapists who attended the November, 2019 Externship with Jim Thomas.  This Group is on-going.  The schedule till the end of December, 2020 is: 

• November 10, Tuesday, from 1 – 2:30 pm

• December 8, Tuesday,   from 1 – 2:30 pm

• The 2021 schedule will be posted sometime in November or December.

Murray Armstrong is the supervisor.

The cost is $30/hr or $45/1.5 hrs.

To register, contact Murray at: dmarm@telus.net or phone 780-444-4399.

NOTE: Times shown are in Mountain Time (GMT -7:00)

EFT is beautiful in its simplicity and yet most of us quickly learn it’s harder to do than it looks. Our optimism leaving an Externship can slowly dissipate as we get stuck with difficult couples. Renew your confidence by getting more detailed help in the areas where you lose focus and get lost in reactivity and mis-attunement. Go deeper with George as he breaks down the moment-to-moment decisions that inform EFT so you can immediately incorporate his powerful, proven techniques into your own work.

This is a Post Externship Training in Emotionally Focused Therapy designed to:

1. Enhance, deepen and expand your work in the EFT model through developing a greater focus in all three Stages of EFT.

2. Move from the global steps of EFT into the micro-moves of each step to empower therapists to stay on target and remain grounded.

3. Welcome you to bring your hardest, most complex cases; your greatest stuck spots; your still unanswered questions about using EFT; your most perplexing confusions in using the EFT model.

4. Best of all, learn how to freshen up, better attune, refine your EFT skills and have some fun doing it.

This is accomplished by:

1. Going more deeply into stuck spots and complex cases

2. Expanding your knowledge base

3. Creating clarity around questions concerning advanced EFT core concepts

4. Offering help with blocks to the EFT process

5. Using video clips, experiential activities and vibrant dialogue

6. Having you come away inspired and more fully engaged in your own work with couples and families. 

Who is this Workshop for? 

This training is intended for those with at least an Externship in EFT. Basic questions about the application of EFT and attachment theory will not be addressed during this Workshop. Content assumes participants have knowledge of the Stages and Steps of EFT, major interventions and experience applying EFT with couples and/or families.

Workshop Leader: George Faller, LMFT

George Faller is a retired Lieutenant of the NYC Fire Department, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in New York and Connecticut and an Approved Supervisor for the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. He is the founder and President of the New York Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). As an EFT Trainer, George teaches several classes at the Ackerman Institute for the Family (the oldest family institute in the United States) in NYC, is a board member of the Porter Cason Institute for the Family at Tulane University in New Orleans and is the director of training at the Center for Hope and Renewal in Greenwich, Ct. Specializing in trauma, Family EFT, and self-of-the-therapist issues, George is committed to bringing EFT to underprivileged populations and pushing the leading edge of effective therapy. George hopes his books True Connection, Sacred Stress and the Emotionally Focused Family Therapy contributes to the EFT movement of making our world a more secure place. 

Cost

In order to recognize that therapists have been financially impacted by COVID19, the EFTEC (EFT Edmonton Community) Collegium/Board has reduced the cost of this Workshop from $650CAD to $455CAD. There is no early bird, group, or student rate. This 30% fee reduction is only while Workshops need to be held on-line and not in-person.

Information

If you have addition questions, please contact info@eftedmonton.com

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Core Skills training consists of five two-day trainings that focus on the skills needed for proficiency in the EFT model. The trainings provide an in-depth study for each of the three change events through instruction, live case consultations, experiential expertise and group supervision according to ICCEFT guidelines, in a safe, supportive and creative environments. Core skills training is a small and specialized group learning experience where participants will benefit from very focused support and training.

Dates

• Jan 17 & 18, 2020 - Gail Palmer

• Feb 21 & 22, 2020 - Veronica Kallos-Lilly

• Mar 20 & 21, 2020 - Gail Palmer

• Apr 17 & 18, 2020 - Veronica Kallos-Lilly

• May 22 & 23, 2020 - Murray Armstrong

What to Expect

In this small group experience, participants will focus on developing a deeper clinical understanding of the EFT model and the related skills. Through observing and discussing the work of the facilitators and group members, and with the use of role plays, the three stages and nine steps are covered in detail. Participants will also have the opportunity to enrich their EFT conceptualizations and skills through the sharing of their work through their preferred video format within a supportive and safe learning environment.

Participants will learn to

• Use an attachment framework

• Track and deepen emotion in the here and now

• Create bonding events

• Practice the interventions that create change in EFT

Prerequisites

Participants attending the core skills training will have attended the four day EFT Externship training.

Important

Due to the nature of this training, a commitment to attend all weekends is required. No refunds will be issued unless a substitute is found. In the event that the training is cancelled due to low registration, a full refund will be provided.

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Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples is the fastest growing evidenced-based approach to treating couple distress in the world. Developed by Dr. Sue Johnson, the EFT Model is based on the Science of Emotions, Attachment Theory, Humanistic Psychology and Family Systems Theory. EFT helps couples move from distress in their relationship to a safer, more loving and fulfilling relationship. “In my 40 plus years of doing marital therapy, I have never been able to help highly conflicted couples move from disconnection to a deep, loving bond so effectively as when I learned EFT.” (Murray Armstrong)

General Objectives

Participants will learn to:

1. Identify the 3 stages and 9 steps of Emotionally Focused Therapy

2. See marital distress from an attachment perspective

3. Help couples recognize and de-escalate problematic patterns of interaction

4. Help couples access the underlying attachment fears and needs that drive these negative patterns

5. Help couples create new emotional responses to old patterns

6. Shape key, new interactions and bonding events that result in permanent changes

7. Help couples repair attachment injuries

8. Overcome therapeutic impasses.

Who Can Attend This Externship?

EFT Externships and Advanced Core Skills trainings are designed for mental health professionals and trainees. Participants are required to note their professional affiliation on registration. To be clear, you must have a Master’s or PhD in an accredited Counselling Program. If you are not clear if you qualify, please contact Murray Armstrong at dmarm@telus.net.

The Externship Leader

Cost & Registration

The cost for this four day workshop is $875.
The Early Bird rate is $825 if you register before September 20, 2019.

NOTE: You are not officially registered until you fee is received and processed.

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Cancellation Policy

Cancellations received in writing 14 or more days prior to this training event a full refund minus a $50.00 administration fee will be issued. Cancellation within 14 days of the event will not be refunded unless a substitute participant is found.

Substitutions: A colleague may attend in your place, at no extra cost; however, notification to the event organizer/coordinator (sherryantonucci@gmail.com) must be provided prior to the event in order to correct our records and minimize confusion at registration.

In the event this training is cancelled due to low registration, a full refund will be issued.

For More Information

See the full brochure or contact Sherry Antonucci.