Posts tagged with 'emotion-focused'
Angus & Greenberg's book "Narrative in emotion-focused therapy" (3rd post): narrative modes & phases
26th March 2012
In the last post in this sequence "Angus & Greenberg's book ... (2nd post): narrative types & modes", I began exploring Angus & Greenberg's recent book "Working with narrative in emotion-focused therapy: changing stories, healing lives". I talked about their model of "three narrative types" (external, internal & reflexive) and …
Angus & Greenberg's book "Narrative in emotion-focused therapy" (2nd post): narrative types & modes
25th March 2012
I wrote yesterday on "Angus & Greenberg's book "Narrative in emotion-focused therapy" (1st post): context". In today's post I would like to start scanning through the contents of Angus & Greenberg's 2011 book "Working with narrative in emotion-focused therapy: changing stories, healing lives". It's a short book, less than 150 …
Angus & Greenberg's book "Narrative in emotion-focused therapy" (1st post): context
24th March 2012
I was due to go through to Glasgow today for the fifth workshop in this seven seminar emotion-focused therapy (EFT) series. Sadly my back has been playing up ... as it occasionally does ... and it really doesn't make good sense to travel. The soreness is getting better nicely, but …
Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (eighth post): internal critic dialogues - practice points
24th February 2012
In the last post on this Emotion-focused therapy workshop series that I wrote, I discussed key background research on using EFT methods to work with people's "internal critics". In today's post, I'd like to be a bit more practical. So initially I note some general advice on how to structure …
Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (seventh post): internal critic dialogues - background research
22nd February 2012
I wrote yesterday about the morning session of this EFT training day in the post "Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (sixth post): a method for understanding puzzling reactions". In the afternoon we explored "Working with self-criticism/depressive splits". As Greenberg & Angus write in their book "Working with narrative in emotion-focused therapy" …
Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (sixth post): a method for understanding puzzling reactions
21st February 2012
Last Saturday was the fourth day of this seven seminar "Emotion-focused psychotherapy: Level 2 workshop series" that I'm going to at Glasgow's Jordanhill campus. I took my bike on the train from Edinburgh and then cycled along the canal and in past Gartnavel Hospital. There was a woodpecker chipping away …
Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (fifth post): two chair conflict dialogues
16th January 2012
I wrote yesterday about the importance of processing "hot cognitions" and feelings. In today's post I aim to to drill down more into the emotional evocation and processing of chair work. "Two chair work for conflict splits" is often relevant, Robert Elliott suggested in this Emotion-focused therapy workshop, when clients …
Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (fourth post): the importance of processing "hot" cognitions & feelings
15th January 2012
I wrote yesterday about the morning session on "Narrative therapy and trauma processing" in the third day of an "Emotion-focused psychotherapy: Level 2 workshop series" that I'm attending at the University of Strathclyde. A couple of months ago, in my first post about this whole workshop series, I wrote "As …
Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (third post): narrative therapy and trauma processing
14th January 2012
"Those who do not have the power over the story that dominates their lives - the power to retell it, reexperience it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change - truly are powerless because they cannot think new thoughts" Salman Rushdie Yesterday was the third day …
Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (second post): client processes and therapist-client conflict
27th November 2011
So yesterday was a day seminar on Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) with Robert Elliott. I wrote yesterday about my excitement over starting this sequence of monthly workshops - there are another five due over January to May next year. Well how did the day go? There were twenty two participants (including …