When offered virtually through Transforming Emotions, this course typically includes 24 hours of scheduled time (including lunch breaks). For in-person trainings, curriculum may be varied to meet regional needs.

This training is aimed at clinicians who are very comfortable providing individual experiential therapy and are seeking to be able to facilitate group therapy processes involving a combination of individual and group therapy segments. Our hope is that, by the end of the training, assuming that you already feel comfortable with EFT or another experiential modality as an individual therapist, you will feel confident to launch your own experiential therapy group!

Video recording: Please note that we record all didactic segments of this training. This will then be accessible, for a period of time, to participants who miss a segment, or wish to review.

Readings: One required article, and a reading list of optional materials will be provided following payment and registration.

A typically curriculum includes the following:

Day 1

Lecture:

• Why Group Therapy?
• Brief Overview of Emotion Theory
• Review of Group Process Literature

Experiential:

• Participant selection and group intake (video)
• Structuring the first group (experiential)

Day 2

Lecture:

• Review of EFT’s Critic Split Task and Unfinished Business Task, for group settings.

Experiential:

• Demonstration group including live chairwork, led by the trainers.

Day 3

Lecture:

• Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy Theory Overview
• EFT Group Process Interventions

Experiential:

• Demonstration group including live chairwork, led by the trainers.

Day 4

Lecture:

• Bringing it all together: Group model and trouble-shooting
• Review of EFT group outcome data

Experiential:

• Structuring your final group (experiential)
• Final small group break-outs and good-byes

Closing discussion and evaluation

Trainers: Dr. Sarah Thompson & Dr. Laura Girz