OVERVIEW

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
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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.

With a purchase of the recording for Masterclass: Advanced Interventions to Resolve Complex Unfinished Business, you will receive complimentary access to the EFT to Resolve Unfinished Business: Foundational Skills Workshop for 60 days

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

CE credits were only available for Live Attendance But certificate of completion provided.

FEES AND REGISTRATION

Professional Rate - $199 (+applicable taxes)

Student Rate - $139 (+applicable taxes)

• Students are eligible for a student rate. Please sign up here to access student benefits.
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Recording will be available for 60 days from the date we issue the recording to you.

With a purchase of the recording for Masterclass: Advanced Interventions to Resolve Complex Unfinished Business, you will receive complimentary access to the EFT to Resolve Unfinished Business: Foundational Skills Workshop for 60 days.

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. She co-developed an EFT psychotherapy treatment and research program to help couples and individuals resolve emotional injuries. In addition, she has conducted process-outcome research that has improved our understanding of emotional processing in EFT. She was trained in EFT by Dr. Leslie Greenberg, a world-renowned clinician and researcher, who co-developed emotion-focused therapy for individuals and couples. 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.