Coming Events
Offerings for Clinicians & The General Public
Workshops and trainings below are geared for clinicians, caregivers and the general public, as noted. Time zones also vary according to the host. Private and organizational trainings are available. Click on the Contact Us button (bottom-left) for a quote.
PUBLIC EVENTS ONLY
Emotion-Focused Family Therapy Core Clinician Training
June 24-25, 2022 - 9am - 4:30pm CT - 12 CE credit hours
2-Day Training with Dr. Adele Lafrance
The essence of EFFT is to afford caregivers a role in their child’s recovery, regardless of their age, level of motivation or involvement in formal treatment themselves. The clinician’s role is to support parents and caregivers to increase their involvement in three domains including behavior coaching, emotion coaching and in the use of therapeutic apologies, if relevant.
A fourth module involves supporting caregivers to identify, understand, and transform “emotion blocks” that can lead to therapy-interfering attitudes or behaviors in caregivers. The training will introduce clinicians to the theory and skills involved in the approach. The facilitator will engage participants using didactic and experiential learning, including skills and techniques that can be integrated into existing treatment models for those clients & families who do not respond to standard care. This training meets criteria towards certification through the International Institute for EFFT.
Click here to register - hosted by EFFT-Texas
$375 USD - group discount: 10% off for groups of 5 or more / use code GROUP and please email us to let us know who is a part of your group.
Emotion-Focused Family Therapy Core Clinician Training
August 6 & 13, 2022 • 8am - 3pm PST - 12 CE credit hours
Two-Day training with Dr. Adele Lafrance and Natasha Files, MSW, RSW
The essence of EFFT is to afford caregivers a role in their child’s recovery, regardless of their age, level of motivation or involvement in formal treatment themselves. The clinician’s role is to support parents and caregivers to increase their involvement in three domains including behavior coaching, emotion coaching and in the use of therapeutic apologies, if relevant. A fourth module involves supporting caregivers to identify, understand, and transform “emotion blocks” that can lead to therapy-interfering attitudes or behaviors in caregivers.
This training will introduce clinicians to the theory and skills involved in the approach. The facilitator will engage participants using didactic and experiential learning, including skills and techniques that can be integrated into existing treatment models for those clients & families who do not respond to standard care. This training meets criteria towards certification through the International Institute for EFFT.
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$450 CAD + GST - (student rates and group discounts available)
Emotion-Focused School Support
September 20, 2022 • 3:30pm - 7pm MST
3.5-Hour Workshop with Dr. Adele Lafrance
Difficulties with emotion regulation are more common in children and adolescents than ever before due to the stressors related to COVID. When a student’s brain is activated by emotion, regardless of the reason, they experience diminished cognitive flexibility and capacities for learning. They are also more prone to outbursts in the classroom and/or other emotionally charged situations. School staff dealing with these situations report (understandably) higher levels of stress and burnout. Informed by emotion and learning theory, EFSS was developed based on this feedback from educators and school support staff. It is a simple and efficient model for increasing the capacity of school staff to effectively respond to the emotion of students (and their parents) in order to facilitate a “return to learning”.
EFSS can be applied to all students from kindergarten through to grade 12, with adjustments made to implementation according to developmental age. It is designed to support students while still respecting the primary mandates of teachers, aides, school counsellors and support staff - and without adding to the already high demands of the school day. Given that a regulated physiology is critical for learning, the goals of EFSS include: Regulating emotion in the classroom to facilitate learning Preventing emotional escalations De-escalating emotionally charged situations and/or outbursts in progress Finally, EFSS involves opportunities for school staff to identify their strengths and challenges when faced with challenging interactions situations with students, their caregivers and even with colleagues. This interactive workshop will introduce participants to the fundamental principles and techniques of EFSS. Through discussions, case examples, demonstrations, and group exercises, participants will also have an opportunity for hands-on practice and skill-building if desired.
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$125 USD (student/discount rate available for those with financial insecurity using code: DISCOUNT)
Transforming Problematic Parenting Patterns with Caregiver Block Chair-Work
September 27, 2022 • 10am - 2:00pm MST
Four-hour training with Dr. Adele Lafrance
This online workshop for clinicians will provide a theoretical and skills-based overview of caregiver block chair-work, likely the most powerful and efficient psychotherapeutic intervention from EFFT to understand, work through and/or transform problematic patterns of parenting / caregiving. Participants will be supported in their learning via lecture, experiential activities and video demonstration (participation is at your comfort level). All participants will also be provided with the latest script for this intervention. No prior training or experience in EFFT is required to attend this training. Clinicians are welcome to bring video of their use of the technique for consultation/feedback, time permitting.
This training meets criteria towards certification through the International Institute for EFFT. Videos and live demos may be included and therefore this training will not be recorded.
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$150 USD (student/discount rate available for those with financial insecurity using code: DISCOUNT)
Advanced EFFT Clinician Training
Oct 12-14, 2022 - 11:00am-6:00pm EST - 18 CE credit hours
3-Day Training with Dr. Adele Lafrance and Natasha Files
This advanced training is suited for those participants with a minimum of two days prior training in Emotion-Focused Family Therapy*. A review of the theory and basics will serve as a foundation for the training. Participants will have the opportunity to deepen their skills and learn new techniques in the domains of emotion coaching and relationship repair as well as in the processing of parent blocks. Participants will also learn a new technique to support the processing of child resistance to parental involvement. Learning will be supported using demonstrations, new videos as well as new and expanded experiential activities. This advanced training is an excellent learning opportunity for medical professionals, psychologists, social workers, nurses, educators and others who interact with individuals, parents and/or families in our community. Participants will learn techniques that can be integrated into existing treatment models for those clients & families who do not respond to standard care. *A minimum two days prior training is required. This training meets criteria towards certification through the International Institute for EFFT.
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$725 CAD (student rates and group discounts available)
Emotion-Focused Family Therapy Core Clinician Training
October 21-22, 2022 - 9am - 4:30pm CT - 12 CE credit hours
2-Day Training with Dr. Adele Lafrance
The essence of EFFT is to afford caregivers a role in their child’s recovery, regardless of their age, level of motivation or involvement in formal treatment themselves. The clinician’s role is to support parents and caregivers to increase their involvement in three domains including behavior coaching, emotion coaching and in the use of therapeutic apologies, if relevant.
A fourth module involves supporting caregivers to identify, understand, and transform “emotion blocks” that can lead to therapy-interfering attitudes or behaviors in caregivers. The training will introduce clinicians to the theory and skills involved in the approach. The facilitator will engage participants using didactic and experiential learning, including skills and techniques that can be integrated into existing treatment models for those clients & families who do not respond to standard care. This training meets criteria towards certification through the International Institute for EFFT.
Click here to register - hosted by EFFT-Texas
$375 USD - group discount: 10% off for groups of 5 or more / use code GROUP and please email us to let us know who is a part of your group.
Transforming Caregiver Self-Blame Using Didactic and Experiential Techniques
November 10, 2022 • 10am - 2pm MST
Four-hour training with Dr. Adele Lafrance
EFFT research has demonstrated that when parents carry self-blame, not only do they suffer, but their caregiving can be negatively affected as well. In fact, when self-blame is deep, reassurance to lift self-blame is likely to be ineffective. This workshop will provide participants with a series of cognitive and emotion-focused strategies to transform caregiver self-blame, including a specifically designed chair-work intervention.
Benefits of these interventions include:
· Reduced shame and self-blame
· Better quality of life
· Decreased defensiveness
· Increased sense of empowerment / engagement
· Increased access to caregiving instincts
Participating clinicians will receive step-by-step instruction and scripts where relevant to increase confidence to effectively implement the interventions with parents and caregivers post-workshop. A video demonstration will also be included in the workshop, time permitting. Participation can be active or passive.
This training meets criteria towards certification through the International Institute for EFFT. Videos and live demos may be included and therefore this training will not be recorded.
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$150 USD (student/discount rate available for those with financial insecurity using code: DISCOUNT)
Transforming Self-criticism and Emotional Avoidance & Cultivating Assertion and Forgiveness in Psychotherapy
November 16, 2022 • 9am - 4:00pm MST
One-day training with 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 (including but not limited to chair-work interventions) for 1. the transformation of self-criticism and emotional self-interruptions in therapy, and 2. the cultivation of assertive anger and forgiveness. Informed by theory and techniques from EFT and EFFT, participants will be provided with scripts and opportunities to engage with theory experientially as well as to observe the interventions in action via video demonstration. No prior training required.
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$199 USD (student/discount rate available for those with financial insecurity using code: DISCOUNT)
Therapeutic Apologies in Psychotherapy
December 1-2 2022 • 8am - 3pm PST - 12 CE credit hours
2-Day training with Dr. Adele Lafrance & Natasha Files, MSW, RSW
Therapeutic Apologies are one of the most powerful interventions used in Emotion-Focused Family Therapy. They can be integrated and delivered in the context of individual, couple and family-oriented therapies. This two-day training will take a deep dive into the practice of three different therapeutic apologies to heal relationship injuries (client delivers an apology to another), release self-blame (clients enacts an apology using empty chair-work to release self-blame) and transform resentment into forgiveness, even when the other party is unavailable or deceased (client expresses resentment to imagined other who engages in a specifically constructed apology to release the pain). Scripts for each of the interventions will be reviewed, followed by video demonstrations and opportunities for practice, as desired. This training meets criteria towards certification through the International Institute for EFFT. Videos and live demos may be included and therefore this training will not be recorded.
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$450 CAD + GST (Student discount and group rates available)
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