Undoing emotion blocks:
Two chair enactments
Masterclass: Undoing emotion blocks: Two chair enactments
with Leslie Greenberg
April 9 & 10, 2025
16:00 - 20:00, Online through zoom
To heal troubled souls and minds, clients need to experience the emotions that go with their stories. Understandably clients protect themselves from feeling their dreaded, emotions. They fear that if they allow these emotions, they will fall apart, disintegrate, and be unable to cope, so they do all in their power to not feel. However, what they resist, persists, so blocking is not an effective solution. In this workshop we will look at ways to help clients undo their emotional blocks.
This workshop will present an emotion-focused approach to unblocking blocked emotions. It will give clinicians practical and specific interventions to help clients experience themselves as agents in the blocking process. Two chair dialogues will be discussed and demonstrated in which one part, the interrupter, is guided to enact the blocking process to help clients become aware of how they blocks their emotions
This workshop is designed to help you:
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Identify markers of self interruption
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Understand clients’ experience of blocking
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Discriminate between the concepts of self protection and avoidance
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Discriminate different steps of unblocking of emotions
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Learn to promote unblocking using two chair enactment at markers of self interruption
Schedule
Day 1 - Emotional blocking
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Introduction to Emotion focused therapy
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The experience of Blocking
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No words for emotion
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Act of Self Protection and Self Control
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Video tape examples
Day 2 - Unblocking interrupted emotion
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Model of the resolution process
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Two chair enactment
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Steps of the intervention process
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Video tape example
Who can participate
The workshop is suitable for all mental health professionals who want to learn how to work with shame and anger in psychotherapy. No prior training in Emotion Focused Therapy is required.
Certification
This workshop is not required for accreditation and it is not part of the certification process.
Dates
April 9 & 10, 2025
Hours
16:00 - 20:00 EEST
Mode of delivery
Online via zoom
Language
English
Cost
Please communicate with us at: info@hieft.gr
Registration
To register please communicate with us at: info@hieft.gr
Cancellation policy
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If you cancel participation 30 days or more prior to the seminar date you will be refunded the participation fee minus 25 euros for administration costs.
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If you cancel less than 30 days prior to the seminar date you will receive a credit, which you can use for a future seminar.
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If you do not notify us in advance of the seminar date you will not receive a refund or credit.
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You may transfer your registration to another individual at no extra cost. In this case, you need to notify us of the name of the person.
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The organizers reserve the right to cancel the seminar due to instructor illness, extreme weather, under - enrollment or other unforeseen circumstances. If a seminar is cancelled, the participation fee will be refunded in full.
For more information and registration please contact us here, at info@hieft.gr, or at 6944964300
Trainer
Dr. Leslie Greenberg
Leslie Greenberg is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Psychology at York University in Toronto. Born in South Africa and originally an engineer, where he came to believe in tacit knowledge, that we know more than we can say, he switched to psychology in 1970 and trained in both Person-centred and Gestalt therapy. He has been engaged in psychotherapy research for over 40 years. He has authored major texts on Emotion-Focused Therapy, starting with the first books on Emotion in psychotherapy (1986) and Emotionally focused therapy for couples (1988) and Facilitating emotional change, with Laura Rice and Robert Elliott (1993). More recent books are Emotion-focused therapy of forgiveness and letting go (2019) with Catalina Woldarsky, Changing emotion with emotion (2021) and Shame and anger in psychotherapy. He has received both the Early Career and the Distinguished Research Career awards of the International Society for Psychotherapy Research as well as the Carl Rogers and the Distinguished Professional Contribution to Applied Research awards of the American Psychological Association. He has also received the Canadian Psychological Association Professional Award for distinguished contributions to Psychology as a profession. He is a past President of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. He now spends most of his time training people nationally and internationally in Emotion-Focused Therapy.
The Institute is recognized by the International Society for Emotion Focused Therapy
(ISEFT)
