Date: November 29, 2024
Time: 10:00am – 4:00pm EST (Eastern Standard Time)
Trainer: Dr. Serine Warwar
Live via Zoom
Unfinished Business refers to unresolved emotional pain – such as hurt, anger, shame, complicated grief, resignation, or hopelessness – related to unmet needs from past relationships, often with a parent, caregiver, or significant person. These longstanding emotional wounds stem from experiences like:
- Chronic neglect or emotional abandonment
- Absence of warmth and caring
- Criticism or not being accepted for who you are
- Conditional support or love
- Fear of an emotionally or physically abusive attachment figure
Unresolved feelings from these experiences can result in emotional issues such as depression, anxiety, shame, unresolved grief, or damage to one’s sense of healthy identity and self-esteem. Clients with complex unfinished business often feel stuck in a cycle of bad feelings that do not resolve, and these feelings are easily triggered in current situations and relationships.
This MasterClass will teach an empirically validated intervention from the Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) framework that has been demonstrated to resolve unfinished business and produce lasting changes in clients. It is designed for therapists and supervisors who want to learn advanced skills and techniques to work with clients who have particularly difficult-to-resolve issues in complex unfinished business. Video-recorded clips of real therapy sessions will be used to illustrate key principles and interventions.
Who this MasterClass is for: This MasterClass is intended for clinicians who have previously attended a presentation or training on working with unfinished business. It is designed to build upon foundational knowledge and focuses on more advanced interventions and skills.
If you do not have any experience with UFB. As a special offer, those who register for this masterclass will gain complimentary access, for a limited time, to an online recording of a foundational workshop on Unfinished Business led by Dr. Warwar. Please email us at training@cpeh.ca
OBJECTIVES
This workshop is didactic and uses video clips of therapy sessions throughout.
You will learn:
- How to work with stuck points in the process of resolution (examples: in the arousal and expression stage, difficulty shifting clients from secondary blame/complaint, lack of empathy or regret in the significant other, difficulty resolving UFB that is also ongoing, clients who have difficulty accessing emotional memories).
- How to use and integrate together the interventions of age regression, imaginal re-entry and transformation (to transform helplessness and powerlessness) and self-soothing (to access compassion when experiencing anguish related to unmet childhood needs) to help clients heal complex unfinished business.
- How to adapt unfinished business interventions to process fear related to trauma.
- How to facilitate several types of resolution in Unfinished Business: self-affirmation, self-assertion, setting boundaries, letting go of unmet needs, grieving, forgiveness.
- Advanced micro-interventions in relation to unique micro-markers:
- How to work with UFB that occurs in a different language than the current therapy
- Promoting softening when the significant other is defensive
- Using two chairs for the significant other
- How to use case formulation to help clients make meaning and process the impact of unfinished business.
- How to use writing exercises to help clients to process unfinished business and emotional injuries concurrently with therapy
- How to adapt unfinished business to resolve issues with non-significant others.
- Steps to resolve past unfinished business with a significant other when there are also current ongoing problematic issues with that same person.
CE CREDITS
Ontario Psychological Association (OPA) – 6 Credits
Medical Psychotherapy Association of Canada (MDPAC) – 5 hours of MDPAC Group-CE credits
Ontario Association of Mental Health Practitioners (OAMHP) – 5 Credits
Participation in this workshop allows OAMHP members to apply 5 hours (CECs) towards their required continuing education hours. OAMHP’s review of the general content of this workshop recognizes the learning objectives meet and support the criteria (1) for best known practice in continuing education and (2) for educational requirements for mental health professionals.
RATES
- Regular Admission: $245 (+ applicable taxes)
- Student Rate: $185 (+ applicable taxes)
For more information on registering for this workshop, please contact by emailing training@cpeh.ca
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Dr. Serine Warwar is a world-renowned expert in EFT and leading figure in the field. For over 30 years she has been providing EFT international trainings, workshops, skills training, and advanced classes on emotion regulation, individual and couple therapy, case formulation, experiential teaching, homework, resolving emotional injuries, and forgiveness. Dr. Warwar has published in the areas of: emotional processing; homework and experiential teaching; suicide and borderline personality disorder; and resolving emotional injuries and forgiveness in individuals and couples.
