Get clear answers and demonstrations from
Dr. Leslie Greenberg, developer of
emotion-focused therapy.

Dr. Greenberg will address emotion and emotional awareness in psychotherapy, focusing on identifying adaptive versus maladaptive emotions and primary versus secondary emotions. He will discuss six major topics of emotional change in psychotherapy: emotion, awareness, regulation, restructuring, and reflection. He will present session videos and conduct demonstrations of methods for evoking and working with emotions, demonstrating empathic attunement to client emotions and Gestalt interventions for working with the self and imagined others, including the empty chair.

You will learn to organize emotion-focused therapy around a three-phase model of treatment:

1. Bonding phase—empathic attunement to affect.
2. Evoking phase—evocation and arousal of emotion.
3. Restructuring phase—undoing emotion and developing a new narrative

Potential Overflow Seating

Room capacity for this conference is 296; guaranteed seating is given to the first 50 graduate students who register. Once room capacity has been reach, other registrants will be seated in a nearby video overflow area.

Certificate of Attendance

A certificate of attendance will be available to all conference participants.

FERPA Policy

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Registration Deadline

We cannot reserve workshop space without full payment. We encourage you to register early. The online registration deadline is March 5, 2012.

Substitutions and Cancellations

You may arrange for a substitute to come in your place at any time without penalty. A $25 fee will be assessed for each refund requested. After the conference begins on March 8, 2012, no refund can be given. You will receive a full registration refund if the program is canceled for any reason. The university will not be responsible for any cancellation or change charges assessed by airlines, travel agencies, or other institutions.