This two-part workshop series is designed by Dr. Leslie Greenberg and Dr. Serine Warwar, leaders in the field of psychology and world-renowned experts in emotion and emotion processing. It is aimed at mental health professionals from various training backgrounds who wish to acquire specialized skills in working with emotions in psychotherapy.
Through these workshops, you will learn evidence-based skills to help you assess specific emotional issues and apply targeted interventions to address them. These skills draw on decades of research on emotions from multiple perspectives, including evolutionary biology and neuroscience, and can be integrated into any psychotherapeutic approach. Video recordings of real therapy sessions will be used to illustrate client processes and interventions.
Each workshop stands alone and registration in both workshops is not required. Please note, a discount is offered to participants who register for both workshops. For those who are not able to attend the live broadcast, recordings of the workshops will be available for a period of time.
WORKSHOP 1: WORKING WITH EMOTIONS IN DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY
with Dr. Leslie Greenberg
Date: October 31 – November 1, 2024
Time: 11:00AM (EDT) – 2:15PM (EDT)
LIVE VIA ZOOM
Depression and anxiety are two of the most common mental health conditions affecting individuals worldwide. Participants will learn how to conceptualize and work with the emotional processes involved in the development and maintenance of: self-critical/shame-based depression; loneliness/abandonment-based depression; social anxiety; generalized anxiety disorder; and secondary symptomatic anxiety.
OUTLINE
Working with Depression
- Theory of emotional processes in depression
- Shame in self-critical depression
- Sadness and Fear in Loneliness/abandonment depression
- Working with a client’s core pain and maladaptive emotion schemes in each type of depression
- Accessing and transforming maladaptive emotion schemes in depression into adaptive emotional processes
Working with Anxiety
- Theory of emotional processes in anxiety
- Insecurity and abandonment in Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Shame in Social Anxiety
- Working with symptomatic anxiety (eg. health anxiety)
- Working with a client’s core pain and maladaptive emotion schemes in each type of anxiety
- Accessing and transforming maladaptive emotion schemes in anxiety into adaptive emotional processes
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Through this seminar, participants will:
- Gain an understanding of the emotional processes involved in the development and maintenance of self-critical/shame-based depression and loneliness/abandonment-based depression
- Gain an understanding of the emotional processes involved in the development and maintenance of different types of anxiety: social anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder, secondary symptomatic anxiety (eg. health anxiety)
- Learn to assess adaptive and maladaptive emotion schemes in depression and anxiety
- Learn to identify and work with core emotions in different types of depression and anxiety
- Learn how to access maladaptive emotion schemes in different types of depression and anxiety and transform them into adaptive emotional processes
Each workshop stands alone and registration in both workshops is not required. Please note, a discount is offered to participants who register for both workshops.
WORKSHOP 2: ASSESS, REGULATE, ACTIVATE, AND TRANSFORM EMOTIONS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
with Dr. Leslie Greenberg & Dr. Serine Warwar
Date: December 6-7, 2024
Time: 11:00AM (EST) – 2:15PM (EST)
LIVE VIA ZOOM
Emotions play a fundamental role in the development and maintenance of mental health issues. This workshop will help participants increase their skills in assessing emotions (primary/secondary, adaptive/maladaptive, productive/unproductive) and learn interventions to regulate, activate, and transform unproductive emotional states.
OUTLINE
- Emotion assessment: increasing therapist’s in-session awareness of different types of emotional states
- What is productive and unproductive emotional processing?
- How to regulate and bypass secondary emotions, activate maladaptive emotion schemes, and transform maladaptive emotions into adaptive emotional processes
- Principles of Emotional Change
- Two types of Emotion Regulation: Coping and Transformative
- Activate and deepen emotions
- Self-soothing: A powerful intervention to transform and regulate emotions
- Imaginal Re-entry: Transformation of emotional schematic memories and memory reconsolidation
LEARNING OBJECTIVESÂ
Through this seminar, participants will:
- Gain a deeper understanding of: primary and secondary emotions; productive and unproductive emotional processes; and principles of emotional change.
- Learn how to recognize and assess primary, secondary, productive, and unproductive emotional states during psychotherapeutic sessions.
- Learn how to transform unproductive emotional states to productive emotional processes.
- Learn to activate and deepen emotions
- Learn self-soothing and imaginal re-entry interventions
Each workshop stands alone and registration in both workshops is not required. Please note, a discount is offered to participants who register for both workshops.
CE CREDITS
Ontario Psychological Association (OPA) – Pending Approval
Medical Psychotherapy Association of Canada (MDPAC) – Pending Approval
Ontario Association of Mental Health Practitioners (OAMHP) – Pending Approval
