Name: Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (Level 1) – Nov, 2023
Start: 2023-11-03
End: 2023-11-04
Location: Live-Online

Learn EFFT: Emotionally Focused family Therapy

Why learn EFFT?

Why EFFT?

A practical approach to engaging families at an emotional level
EFFT is an attachment-based approach that combines both systemic and experiential interventions to mend broken bonds and heal fractured families. EFFT therapists focus on the emotional experience within a family and the problem patterns that block family members from accessing the resources they would otherwise share. A primary goal of EFFT is to reduce problematic behaviour by creating new patterns of emotional accessibility and responsiveness that offer a secure base for children to develop and families to thrive. EFFT provides a practical approach to engaging families at an emotional level. Accessing, processing, and connecting family members through the power of emotional experience promotes healing and fosters a family’s resilience to the everyday and unexpected challenges of life.

In EFFT you’ll learn a powerful transformative approach that is foundational in helping parents and children who are struggling with remaining securely attached.

EFFT follows the principles and practices of Emotionally Focused Therapy to restore connection and promote resilience in family relationships. The principle goal of EFFT is to re-establish more secure family patterns where attachment and caregiving responses are effective and emotional bonds are repaired. These resources inform a network of security that provides the flexibility and closeness necessary for families to promote individual growth and meaningful relationships across generations.

The EFFT Approach focuses on stabilizing a family’s negative interaction pattern, restructuring parent and child interactions, and consolidating the felt security gained through these new patterns of connection. Following principles of attachment science, the EFFT therapist guides the family to new patterns of parental availability, responsiveness and coherent attachment communications as they face developmental change and life challenges.

Course Features & Goals

These workshops demonstrates how the EFT model of working with couples is extended and modified to fit the family context. Attention is given to how EFT practice with families is different and what additional skills are needed. For example, how to process parental blocks to emotional accessibility and responsiveness while also keeping the child safe is a dynamic we’ll address.

Goals:
Accessing and expanding awareness of unacknowledged feelings associated with the family’s negative pattern.
Reframing family distress and child problems within relation blocks reinforcing this distress.
Promoting awareness and access to underlying caregiving intentions and disowned attachment related needs.
Facilitating the sharing of unmet attachment needs and effective caregiving responses.

Why EFFT Level 1?

Over two-days, you’ll learn EFT’s transformative approach to restore connection and strengthen resilience in families. Help clients to grow, deepen bonds, and improve relationships across generations with EFFT.

Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) is an attachment-based approach that combines both systemic and experiential interventions to mend broken bonds and heal fractured families. Building upon the empirically-based practices of Emotionally Focused Therapy, The EFT therapists focus on family member’s emotional experience and the problem patterns that block family members from accessing the resources they would otherwise share. A primary goal of EFFT is to reduce problematic behavior by creating new patterns of emotional accessibility and responsiveness that offer a secure base for children to develop and families to thrive. EFFT provides a practical approach to engaging families at an emotional level. Accessing, processing, and connecting family members through the power of emotional experience promotes healing and fosters a family’s resilience to the everyday and unexpected challenges of life.

This workshop provides a theoretical overview of the EFT approach applied to family therapy. This training demonstrates the practical steps the EFT therapist follows in working through relational distress in families using the EFT process of change. Specific interventions are demonstrated to promote a clinician’s ability to work through parent and child relational blocks using attachment-based and emotion focused techniques. Participants will learn a powerful transformative approach that is foundational in helping parents and children who are struggling with remaining securely attached.

This training provides three areas of advanced knowledge in family practice. The training will deepen participants conceptualization of emotional processing within family relationships. Sessions will highlight specific application of EFFT interventions necessary to transform reactive relationship patterns. Clinical demonstrations and discussions will illustrate key steps in the EFFT process of change.

Level 1 Course Objectives

Why EFFT Level 2?

Building on the foundations of EFFT Level 1, Level 2 focuses on increasing your competence in EFFT assessment and treatment practices that guide families through resolving relationship blocks and developing more secure familial bonds. Level 2 concentrates on specific practices for working through negative patterns, accessing and deepening emotional experience to promote corrective emotional experiences in family relationships. Video examples and practice exercises provide opportunities for you to observe EFFT in action and deepen your understanding and skill in this innovative approach to transforming family distress.

Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) is an attachment-based approach that combines both systemic and experiential interventions to restore family relationships and strengthen their resilience. A primary goal of EFFT is to reduce problematic behavior by creating new patterns of emotional accessibility and responsiveness that offer a secure base for children to develop and families to thrive. EFFT provides a practical approach to engaging families at an emotional level. Accessing, processing, and connecting family members through the power of emotional experience promotes healing and fosters a family’s resilience to the everyday and unexpected challenges of life.

This advanced training builds on previous EFFT training providing further training on the six core competencies of EFFT practice. Participants focus on key change events in EFFT and therapist practices used to promote parental openness and child vulnerability. The training provides direction in transforming parental intention into more effective engagement of caregiving and engaging attachment responses within the family system. Specific strategies are reviewed for working through relational blocks and re-engaging attachment related-needs across the family. This training follows an intensive focus on key elements in the EFT process applied to family relationships. Demonstration and practice exercises provide participants opportunities to deepen their EFT skills in intervening with family relationships broadening their understanding of emotion and attachment in family life and strengthening the bonds they share.

Level 2 Course Objectives

EFFT Course Objectives
These workshops combine didactic instruction, experiential exercises, and case examples to demonstrate the practice of EFFT.
Participants are encouraged to bring examples from their casework to explore the application of EFFT to their own practice.
When possible, live demonstration sessions are included.

EFFT Level 2 Objectives
Building on the foundations of EFFT Level 1, Level 2 focuses on increasing your competence in EFFT assessment and treatment practices that guide families through resolving relationship blocks and developing more secure familial bonds. Level 2 concentrates on specific practices for working through negative patterns, accessing and deepening emotional experience to promote corrective emotional experiences in family relationships. Video examples and practice exercises provide opportunities for you to observe EFFT in action and deepen your understanding and skill in this innovative approach to transforming family distress.

Participation in EFFT Level 2 will enable you to:
Conceptualize family distress and formulate a treatment plan guided by EFFT goals.
Explore alliance practices that promote family engagement in treatment.
Assess safety and contraindications for EFFT practice and conjoint practice.
Identify EFFT change events and related therapist interventions.
Practice interventions skills that promote parental buy-in to systemic intervention.
Order family patterns and reframe family patterns using an attachment frame.
Engage practices to process relational blocks to parental openness and child vulnerability.
Gain skill in accessing and assembling emotion associated with family distress.
Increase effectiveness in use of enactments to engage and process attachment related emotions and needs.
Facilitate impact of corrective experiences throughout family relationships.
Identify treatment practices guiding use of EFFT with divorced and remarried families.

CEs & Schedule

12 CE hours are available for Level 1, another 12 CE hours are available for Level 2

Each course is 14 hours long (including breaks), and is taught over 2 days. Each day includes: 6 training hours + 40min lunch + two 10min breaks

Sequence & Certification

1st. For participants new to EFT, we recommend “Fundamentals of EFT” precede any other course.
Next. EFFT Level 1 is a pre-requisite for EFFT Level 2.

A certificate of completion is available for all our courses.

Readings

Discount: Each publisher offers Courses attendees a discount of 20-25% off the following texts. Once you have registered for a course, you may access the relevant discount codes via the Courses Portal.

Required

“Emotionally Focused Family Therapy: Restoring Connection and Promoting Resilience” by James L. Furrow, Gail Palmer, Susan M. Johnson, George Faller, Lisa Palmer-Olsen, 2019.

Routledge offers this publication in paperback, hardcover or eBook.