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INTENSIVE TWO-DAY WORKSHOP WITH DIANA FOSHA AND LE

Posted By: D Fosha
Date: Monday, 20 May 2002, at 11:50 a.m.

Dear Colleagues:

In February, 2001, at its yearly meeting, the Ontario Psychological

Association sponsored a one-day workshop in Toronto on "Working with Emotion

in Psychotherapy" where Les Greenberg and myself (Diana Fosha) presented our

respective experiential affect-focused ways of working psychotherapeutically.

We each showed tapes of our clinical work, had a lot of back and forth

dialogue with one another and with the workshop participants. We had such a

stimulating time, as did the audience, that we decided to try to take our

show on the road and have a repeat extended performance, so to speak.

Below you will find a blue print for our workshop. In essence, we want to run

it by you and have a sense of how many of you might be interested in

attending. We are in essence asking for a show of hands, so that we can know

if we have a quorum.

If you are interested in attending, will you e-contact either Les Greenberg

at lgrnberg@yorkU.CA or Diana Fosha at dfosha@aol.com and let us know. If

it's a go, we will let you know immediately. Soon thereafter, you will

receive more formal notification, a registration form, etc.

Best regards,

Diana Fosha

Leslie Greenberg

INTENSIVE TWO-DAY WORKSHOP WITH DIANA FOSHA AND LESLIE GREENBERG:

ACTIVELY WORKING WITH EMOTION and RELATEDNESS in PSYCHOTHERAPY:

THEORY and TECHNIQUE in TWO EXPERIENTIAL MODELS

When: Friday, October 5th and Saturday, October 6th, 2001 in New York City

Intended Audience

This advanced intensive workshop is designed for practicing

psychotherapists of varied orientations who wish to refine their skills in

working with emotion and relatedness in psychotherapy, deepen their

theoretical understanding of models on which affect-centered experiential

psychotherapeutic work is founded, and learn experiential techniques.

Videotaped case examples will be shown to illustrate a range of interventions

based on psychodynamic, experiential and relational principles and to

demonstrate the phenomenology of core emotion.

Description of the Workshop

Les Greenberg will present a three-phase model of Emotion Focused Therapy

(EFT), empathy -- evocation -- reconstruction and reflection. This approach

offers a Dialectical Constructivist view of human functioning based on

principles drawn from Experiential therapy, Emotion theory and Dynamic

Systems views of functioning. Participants will be introduced to the skills

of moment-by-moment attunement to affect to strengthen the self and the use

of psycho-dramatic methods of dialoguing with parts of self and imagined

significant others in an empty chair to evoke and process unresolved

emotional experience. The use of process diagnosis in an emotion focused

approach will be discussed. This is used to assess adaptive and maladaptive

and secondary or defensive emotions and serves as a basis for differential

intervention. The goal is to learn skills of validating, evoking and

restructuring emotion.

Diana Fosha's model of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy

(AEDP) brings experiential techniques to affect-focused,

attachment-theory-informed psychodynamic work. A healing-centered rather than

a pathology-based model, AEDP derives its inspiration from an understanding

of the fundamental nature of naturally occurring change processes. These four

affectively based models

of change are (1) the facilitation of core emotion and the release of

adaptive action tendencies; (2) the dyadic regulation of affect and the

achievement of coordination and affective resonance; (3) focusing on the body

and somatic experience; and (4) empathy and the emergence of ‘true self’

experience. AEDP’s framework and therapeutic interventions are centrally

informed by the psychodynamic notion of defense. Specific interventions

designed to bypass defenses, reduce and transform anxiety and shame, and

facilitate access to deep emotional experience will be demonstrated, as will

be an emotionally engaged therapeutic stance that emphasizes affirmation of

the patient and makes active clinical use of the therapist's emotional

experience.

Workshop Format

We are planning an intensive and rather ambitious workshop in which we

want to promote dialogue between the two presenters while having ample

opportunity for dialogue with the workshop participants. The workshop is

divided into four sections. In each section, each of the two workshop leaders

will present her/his respective model and show videotapes illustrating the

clinical work in action. As both models depend on moment-to-moment tracking

of emotional experience, the clinical vignettes will be similarly discussed.

The first day of the workshop (Friday, October 5th) will be devoted to

the emotion-focused theoretical/clinical framework for the clinical work. The

morning of the first day will be focused on work with relatedness within the

therapeutic relationship, while the afternoon will be focused on work with

emotion (its evocation, facilitation and processing).

The second day of the workshop (Saturday, October 6th) will be focused on

strategies of intervention, i.e., on techniques. Les Greenberg will

demonstrate two chair work for working with splits (morning) and empty chair

work for working with unfinished business (afternoon). Diana Fosha will

demonstrate the application of experiential techniques in psychodynamic work

with defenses and resistance (morning) and the use of the relationship to

facilitate the emergence of the healing affects, core state, and "true self"/

"true other" relating (afternoon).

Cost and Location

The cost of the workshop is $300 (US) for practicing clinicians and $150
(US) for students. It will be held at the Washington Square Institute in
downtown New York City (44A East 11th Street).