EFT and Infidelity Training Event

Kathryn de Bruin is hosting this ARIZONA event in SAN DIEGO via live streaming:

Understanding and Treating Infidelity: An EFT Perspective

Presented by, Lisa L. Gold, Ph.D., L.P.C. 

MAY 13, 2011: 9 - 5  Mesa, Arizona

The model developed by Drs. Scott Woolley, Lisa Gold, and Sue Johnson ©2010

This model proposes that there are six distinct types of affairs:

1) Protest Affair 

4) Escape Affair

2) Attention Seeking Affair

5) Hedge Fund Affair

3) Burned-Out Affair

6) Power Player / Compulsive Affair

These types differ in terms of the partners’ specific attachment insecurities, action tendencies, and emotions that emerge in attempt to meet attachment needs. The model also explains the interactive patterns that couples develop as a result of these ineffective and destructive attachment seeking patterns. Specific strategies and interventions for healing couples’ bonds after infidelity are outlined. Challenges that are specific to each of the types of affairs, as well as treatment interventions for addressing those particular challenges, are also be presented.

 $100 via Skype $35 additional for CEUs

To Register: 602-550-9393 OR www.azcouples.com

 

Course Goals and Objectives

Participants will learn the following:

  1.  Distinguish between commonly held myths and realities about affairs  
  2.  Identify and understand the most common types of affairs seen currently. 
  3.  Understand the particular dynamics of each type of affair, including treatment challenges and effective interventions    
  1. Learn specific ways of utilizing EFT to address the attachment injury of the injured partner 
  2. Learn specific ways of utilizing EFT to assist offending partner in becoming an agent of healing for the injured partner
  3. Learn how EFT can be utilized to facilitate the development of a secure attachment bond between partners dealing with the aftermath of an affair

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

 

9:00-9:30     Myths and Realities About Infidelity 

 

9:30-10:30   An EFT and Attachment Perspective of Infidelity

 

10:30-10:45 BREAK

 

10:45-12:00 Understanding the Different Types of Affairs:  Particular Patterns of Attachment Issues and 

        Relationship Dynamics 

 

12:00-1:00   LUNCH

 

Treating the Different Types of Affairs:  Particular Challenges, Important Attachment Reframes and Effective Interventions 

1:00-2:30    -Unintentional Affair

       -Protest Affair

       -Attention Seeking Affair

       -Burned Out Affair

 

2:30-2:45     BREAK

 

2:45-4:00     -Escape Affair

        -Hedge Fund Affairs:  Fear of Being Alone/ Abandonment

        -Power Player /Compulsive Affairs

 

4:00 – 5:00    Case Consultation:  Applying the Model