Compassion Fatigue Solutions

Widely published author and internationally respected researcher, Dr. Greenberg is one of the primary developers of emotion focused therapy (EFT) for individuals and couples. This workshop will teach clinicians practical and specific interventions to help clients resolve feelings of anger and hurt in their relationships with others.

Using a combination of lecture, videotape demonstration and focused Q&A periods, Dr Greenberg will present three major resolution processes with an emphasis on the importance of accessing and working through emotions related to the injury: Holding the other accountable, Letting Go, and Forgiving. Dr Greenberg will also explore the differences in the process of resolving injuries in individual and couples therapy.

Dr. Greenberg’s workshops are designed to provide participants with techniques they can readily integrate into their everyday practices. His workshops are highly praised and are renowned for their atmosphere of authenticity and warmth.

Topics covered will include: Steps of an empirically supported set of interventions for facilitating the process of resolution; The therapeutic tasks of exploring the impact of the injury; Processing the pain; Changing representations of self and other in adaptive ways; Accessing compassion and empathy for self and injurer.

About the Presenter:
Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at York University in Toronto, Ontario. He is the Director of the York University Psychotherapy Research Clinic and is the developer of an Emotion-Focused approach to therapy (EFT). He was awarded the 2004 Distinguished Research Career award of the International Society of Psychotherapy Research.

He has authored all the major texts on emotion-focused approaches to treatment. These include Emotion in Psychotherapy (1986), Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (1988), Facilitating Emotional Change (1993). Working with Emotions in Psychotherapy (1997), Emotion-focused therapy: Coaching clients to work through emotions (2002), and most recently, Emotion-focused Therapy of Depression. He was recently funded by the Campaign for Forgiveness Research to study the process of forgiveness in couples and individuals.

Dr. Greenberg is a founding member of the Society of the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI) and a past President of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR). He has been on the editorial board of many psychotherapy journals, including currently the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, Journal of Constructivist Psychology, the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy.

Dr. Greenberg’s workshops are renowned for their atmosphere of authenticity and warmth. His workshops have brought him critical acclaim throughout Canada and the United States, and in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, South Africa and Australia.

Feedback from reviewers of Dr Greenberg’s publications:

“There is no doubt that Les Greenberg is both a pioneer and the field's premier investigator in the important work of applying the basic research on emotions to the process of psychotherapy. The focus on primary emotions and their change is what distinguishes this book. It is a fabulous compendium of strategies for working with emotions and draws from both behavioral and experiential therapies.”

Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, University of Washington

"In a refreshing blend of clinical sensitivity and compelling research findings, the authors have done a masterful job of explaining why an emotion-focused intervention is central to therapeutic change, and describing how this may be implemented clinically. Their lucid, jargon-free exposition of conceptual and therapeutic issues proves an invaluable resource for practicing therapists of any orientation. This indeed is a landmark contribution to the field."

Marvin Goldfried, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, SUNY, Stony Brook

“... at the frontier of contemporary marital and family therapy”

Alan S. Gurman, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Medical School


Workshop Fees (lunch on your own):
$155 before December 1, 2007: $169 after December 1, 2007
Students: $120 if registered before December 1, 2007; $145 after December 1, 2007

To Register:
By phone: (613) 547-3247 (leave message for Françoise Mathieu)
By Fax: (613) 547-0655
By email: whp@cogeco.ca
By mail: 837 Princess St., Suite 300, Kingston, On., K7L 1G8
To Download registration form: www.compassionfatigue.ca

Method of payment - Please note: full registration fee is due prior to start of workshop.
Payment must be made by cheque only, payable to
Workshops for the Helping Professions.

**Cancellation Policy: An administrative fee of $30 will be charged for all cancellations 15 days or more prior to the workshop. After this cancellation deadline, no refunds will be available. If you cannot attend, you may send a substitute but must notify us ahead of time.

Workshop Outline:
Emotional injuries
• Emotion and self-organization
• Emotional change processes
Video Demonstrations
• Letting go & Forgiving
• Emotion-focused treatment of emotional injury
• Working with Injury as Unfinished business using empty chair dialogue
Resolving Emotional Injury
• Acknowledging the impact of the injury
• Working through painful emotions
• The emotional process
• Letting go of anger and hurt
• Accessing and restructuring emotional memories
Video Tape Demonstrations

Lunch: (on your own)

The Change process in working with injury in individuals
• Imagining the other
• Empathy
• The role of self-affirmation and self-forgiveness
• Change in view of the other
• Letting go and forgiveness
• Reconciliation
Video demonstration
The process of resolution of emotional injuries in couples
• Key steps
Video demonstrations
Comparing individual and couples work for resolving emotional injuries
• Common elements
• Differences
Discussion

This workshop is designed to help you:

1. Understand the phenomenon of emotional injury and forgiveness
2. Discriminate different emotions
3. Learn steps to promote forgiveness or letting go
4. Understand different emotional change processes