Using Experiential Chair-Work to Transform Maladaptive Internal Processes in Individual Psychotherapy
Throughout our lives, when external stressors overwhelm our internal capacities, the human organism seeks out ways – consciously and unconsciously – to get relief, including via thought and behavior patterns like self-criticism, self-interruptions, secondary anger and primitive processes of self-blame. It can also become difficult to connect with healthy assertion and forgiveness, states essential for mental health.
In this training, participants will learn four different types of chair-work inspired by Emotion-Focused Therapy and Emotion-Focused Family Therapy for use with individuals in psychotherapy. Scripts will be provided to follow along with video demonstrations. Emotion theory will be highlighted throughout, as relevant. Maladaptive internal processed targeted will include: self-criticism, emotional self-interrupters, stuck resentment and primitive processes of self-blame
Throughout our lives, when external stressors overwhelm our internal capacities, the human organism seeks out ways – consciously and unconsciously – to get relief, including via thought and behavior patterns like self-criticism, self-interruptions, secondary anger and primitive processes of self-blame. It can also become difficult to connect with healthy assertion and forgiveness, states essential for mental health.
In this training, participants will learn four different types of chair-work inspired by Emotion-Focused Therapy and Emotion-Focused Family Therapy for use with individuals in psychotherapy. Scripts will be provided to follow along with video demonstrations. Emotion theory will be highlighted throughout, as relevant. Maladaptive internal processed targeted will include: self-criticism, emotional self-interrupters, stuck resentment and primitive processes of self-blame
Throughout our lives, when external stressors overwhelm our internal capacities, the human organism seeks out ways – consciously and unconsciously – to get relief, including via thought and behavior patterns like self-criticism, self-interruptions, secondary anger and primitive processes of self-blame. It can also become difficult to connect with healthy assertion and forgiveness, states essential for mental health.
In this training, participants will learn four different types of chair-work inspired by Emotion-Focused Therapy and Emotion-Focused Family Therapy for use with individuals in psychotherapy. Scripts will be provided to follow along with video demonstrations. Emotion theory will be highlighted throughout, as relevant. Maladaptive internal processed targeted will include: self-criticism, emotional self-interrupters, stuck resentment and primitive processes of self-blame
November 3, 2023 • 10am - 5 pm CDT
Group discount 20% off for groups of 5 or more. Use code CHAIRGROUP and please email us to let us know who is a part of your group
Facilitated by Dr. Adele Lafrance
One of the psychological markers of anxiety, depressed mood and other emotion-based difficulties relates to difficulties with emotion processing, referring to the capacity to attend to, label, regulate and move through emotions. When external stressors overwhelm our internal capacities, the human organism seeks out ways – consciously and unconsciously – to get relief, including via thought and behavior patterns like self-criticism, self-interruptions and avoidance patterns. It can also become difficult to connect with healthy assertion and forgiveness, states essential for mental health.
This workshop will introduce powerful and efficient emotion-focused interventions for the transformation of self-criticism and emotional self-interruptions in therapy, as well as the cultivation of assertive anger and forgiveness. Using chair-work and informed by theory and techniques from EFT and EFFT, participants will be provided with scripts and opportunities to observe the interventions in action via video or demonstration. Opportunities for practice may also be available.