Advanced Empathic Attunement Phase 2: Broadening Your Skills

Facilitated by: Dr. Robert Elliott, Ph.D.

Join the Centre for MindBody Health (CMBH) and immerse yourself in the enriching opportunity to learn from Dr. Robert Elliott. They will guide us through an engaging training session on Advanced Empathic Attunement.

About the Workshop:

Empathy is a process common to all forms of therapy, but also the secret ingredient in EFT, the process that makes all the chair work and other tasks work. Therapist empathy is both under-rated and essential, simple and complex, seemingly obvious and at the same time elusive. Empathy is something that most folks think they naturally do already; however, we often find it to be challenging, subtle and elusive. At times our empathy seems almost miraculous and even life changing, both for our clients and for us. Nevertheless, at other times our attempts at being empathic are restricted, wooden and disappointing. What makes the difference?

In two half-days of this workshop, we continue the process of unpacking the empathic attunement process in psychotherapy, with special relevance to EFT practice: On Day 1 we briefly review the rich variety of empathic responses before taking a closer look at two workhorses of the therapeutic work: exploratory reflection and process reflection. On Day 2 we move on to two more advanced empathic response modes: empathic conjecture and empathic formulation before concluding the empathic refocusing. The training will be supported with brief lectures, video examples, and skill practice.

Learning Objectives:

• Develop your “empathic attitude” of curiosity & openness toward clients
• Enhance the level and quality of your empathic responding
• Broaden your repertoire of empathic responses
• Use empathic responses to help clients move toward the implicit edges of their awareness and put together useful self-understandings

Workshop Audience:  

This workshop is intended for all health care professionals seeking to develop skills to offer Emotion Focused Therapy interventions in a safe, effective way for their clients dealing with trauma.

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Accredited by the Ontario Psychological Association for 6.5 CE Credits.