Trailblazing New EFT Ground:
Stress, Attachment and Cultural Humility
Presented by:
Paul T. Guillory, PhD
When: November 9th
Time: 10am to 1pm
Where: The Calvin Room at First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, 2407 Dana Street, Berkeley, CA 94704
SUBJECT:
Within the EFT model, the clinical focus is directed towards attachment significance and associated emotional experiences. As we know, both therapists & clients live and work in a larger social & cultural environment that can also engender significant stress. EFT as a clinical model has been constructed on the foundation of both attachment and emotional science.
A new era of integrating cultural matters has been emerging adjacent to, but outside of major models of therapy. This clinical focus has been towards interventions that break the negative legacies of race and promote cultural thriving. Stress emerging from the broader environment has been typically treated as content or contextual matters, but not a central focus of EFT therapists. EFT as a model has largely focused on the view of self & others with respect to love bonds. Cultural identity has focused more on the view of self as competent & mastery of environmental challenges. This workshop suggests that internalized stress and cultural alienation for some should be an essential focus of EFT work when it is experienced by individuals, couples, and families.
This training will advance everyone’s EFT training as stress & culture is integrated into the heart of the EFT process. In this regard, processing stress and multicultural clinical dynamics are a life-long process.
In Dr. Paul Guillory’s book Emotionally Focused Therapy with African American Couples; Love Heals, he suggests that therapists work most effectively with Couples of Color when they have a conceptual model for cultural matters, including stress, racial identity, race-based events, and racial trauma. Integrating these concepts into the clinical work promote both individual wellness and the love bond with persons of color. Case studies, vignettes, and video clips of clinical interventions illustrate the work, with breakout groups to practice specific clinical interventions.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1. Describe why failure to broach environmental stress in EFT therapy can be harmful.
2. Describe and compare different types of adverse culture-based events that impact culturally different people.
3. Describe three ways to help People of Color process adverse cultural-based events in EFT.
4. List Tango Moves where stress or culture might be included.
5. Discuss ways that therapists might reframe stress or multicultural harmful interactions to promote relationship bonds.
6. Critique the goals of EFT therapy that are likely relevant for multicultural couples beyond the enhancement of a safe-haven & secure-base (hint: stress & culture).
PRESENTER:
Dr. Paul Guillory is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the Clinical Science Program, Psychology Department. He has taught courses on Emotionally Focused Therapies at U.C. Berkeley. He is certified Trainer, Supervisor and Therapist of Emotionally Focused Therapy. Dr. Guillory is the author of “Emotionally Focused Therapy with African American Couples: Love Heals,” Routledge, August 2021. He is the former chairperson of the Northern California Community of Emotionally Focused Therapy. Dr. Guillory was the psychological consultant to the Oakland Raiders professional football team and the National Football League for 14 years. He has also been a consultant to the Sacramento Kings professional basketball team, and is a selected provider for the National Basketball Players Association. He served as Director of the Center for Family Counseling in Oakland California for ten years. He is a life-time member of the Association of Black Psychologist. And he is a life-time member of the USA Masters Track & Field Association. He has been in private practice in Oakland, California for over 30 years.
AGENDA:
10:00 - 10:30: Snacks and Socializing
10:30 - 10:50: Announcements
10:50 - 11:50: Program
11:50 - 12:00: Break (not included in CE's)
12:00-1:00: Program resumes
1:00: Program adjourns
TARGET AUDIENCE:
This training is appropriate for mental health practitioners who work with couples using Emotionally Focused Therapy. Level is introductory to intermediate.
COST:
This training is free to members, who will receive 2 Continuing Education (CE) credit at no charge. This training is available to non-members for $10, and CE credit is available for an additional $15. Prepayment is made online through the website at the time of registration.
CONTINUING EDUCATION:
This course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences;
Psychologists: NCCEFT is approved by the California Psychological Association to provide continuing professional education for psychologists. NCCEFT maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
NCCEFT is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. NCCEFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Provider # 93337
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Those who attend this workshop in full, and complete the course evaluation will receive a certificate of completion via email within one week following the workshop. Please note that credit will only be granted to those who attend the entire workshop. Those arriving more than 15 minutes after the start time or leaving before the workshop is completed will not receive CE credit.
ACCOMMODATIONS:
NCCEFT meets all applicable local, state and federal standards, including the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), 42, U.S.C. 12101-12213 (2008)). We hold events only at professional venues that comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), 42, U.S.C. 12101-12213 (2008)
ADA NEEDS: We will be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please contact us at NCCEFTinfo@gmail.com at least two weeks prior to the seminar date.
PARKING:
For those with limited mobility, the underground church parking garage has disabled person parking spaces and an elevator up to the main floor. The entrance to the underground church parking garage is located on the south side of Channing Way between Telegraph Ave and Dana St. The cost is $1 per 20 minutes with a $10 maximum. A second option is across the street from the church on the north side of Channing Way at the Telegraph-Channing Garage. The cost is free for the first hour and $2 per hour after that.
NCCEFT PROGRAM GRIEVANCE AND REFUND POLICY:
The Northern California Community for Emotionally Focused Therapy (NCCEFT) is fully committed to conducting all activities in strict conformance with the American Psychological Association's Ethical Principles of Psychologists. NCCEFT will comply with all legal and ethical responsibilities to be non-discriminatory in promotional activities, program content and in the treatment of program participants. The monitoring and assessment of compliance with these standards will be the responsibility of the CPA PAS CE Program Director in consultation with the Board of Directors (Steering Committee).
While NCCEFT works to assure fair treatment for all participants and attempts to anticipate problems, there will be occasional issues which will require intervention and/or action on the part of NCCEFT. This procedural description serves as a guideline for handling such complaints.
When a participant, either orally or in written format, files a grievance and expects action on the complaint, the following actions will be taken:
1. If the complaint concerns a speaker, the content presented by the speaker, or the style of presentation, the individual filing the complaint will be asked to put his/her comments in written format. The CE Program Director will then pass on the comments to the speaker, assuring the confidentiality of the aggrieved individual.
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a. attempt to rectify the situation, and/or
b. provide a credit for a subsequent presentation, in the event of a program having an attendance fee or
c. provide a partial or full refund of the registration fee, in the event of a program having an attendance fee.
Actions 2b and 2c will require a written note, documenting the grievance, for record keeping purposes. The note need not be signed by the aggrieved individual.
3. If the grievance concerns the business practices of the NCCEFT CE program in a specific regard, the CE Program Director or Administrator will attempt to arbitrate.
REFUND AND ATTENDANCE POLICY:
In the event that a program presentation has an attendance fee, CANCELLATIONS should be made 48 hours prior to the event.
