Enhancing
Couple & Family Connections
Expressive
Therapies as Awareness and Communication Catalysts
This three-day
training will empower you to use Expressive Therapies in counselling with
couples and families. You will learn ways to invite couples and families to
engage with creative arts, somatic focus, symbol work, and role-play as part of
their journey in counselling. The program builds on the long history of
activity-based interventions from the many schools of family and couple
therapy. Given the highly charged atmospheres encountered in family and
couples' sessions, it makes sense to include a range of interventions that
engage deeper self-reflection and emotional awareness, to bring clarity to
interpersonal dynamics. Experiential understanding motivates development of new
positive relating.
We will integrate
evidence-based methods from Emotion-Focused Therapy, Experiential Family
Therapy, as well as research insights from the Gottman's. While expressive,
creative counselling methods support clients of all ages, this training will
also include ways to effectively include children in family sessions. There
will be a focus for couples on ways family-of-origin experiences and attachment
patterns can influence current relating.
Trainer
Dr Mark Pearson
Cost: $895
Venue: ET Training & Consulting Rooms at Redcliffe
9am to 4.30pm each day.