NEW YORK CENTER FOR EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED THERAPY

2024 NYCEFT Externship in Emotionally Focused Therapy – Agenda

Day 1                            

 9 am – 10:30 am      Introduction to couple distress, attachment theory, and supporting research
                                  First Role Play – experiencing disrupted attachment and debrief

10:30 – 10:45 am      Break

10:45 – 12:30 pm     EFT as a distinct model in couples therapy; basics of EFT model, both
                                 experiential and systemic
                                 The impact of culture and marginalization on secure attachment

12:30 – 1:30 pm      Lunch

1:30 – 2:00 pm        Homerooms and small group processing

2:00 – 3:00 pm        Learning and practicing EFT interventions that heighten emotion

3:00 – 3:15 pm       Break

3:15 – 4:30 pm       Learning to Assemble Emotion: trigger, appraisal, meaning and action tendency
                               and role play

Day 2

9  – 10:30 am     Q and A and Integration of Day 1, Live Case Presentation and Interview with
                             feedback from the class to the couple

10:30- 10:45am    Break

10:45 –12:30 pm  Stage One Overview and Building Alliance in EFT; from reactivity to
                             de-escalation (identified as first major change event in EFT); using empathic
                             attunement, reflection, validation, acceptance, validation

12:30 – 1:30         Lunch

1:30  - 2:00 pm    Homerooms and small group processing

2:00 – 3:00 pm   Assessment, contraindications, taking an attachment history, interventions that
                            heighten emotions including RISSSSC and enactments 

3:00-3:15 pm       Break

3:15-4:30 pm       EFT Tango and Role Play

Day 3 

9  – 10:30 am.      Q and A and Integration of Day 2, 2^nd Live Case Presentation and Interview with
                             feedback from the class to the couple

10:30 -10:45am    Break

10:45 - 12:30pm  Stage 2 Overview, including withdrawer re-engagement and pursuer softening,
                              and related steps in the EFT map – Building a Secure Bond

12:30 – 1:30 pm   Lunch

1:30 – 2:00 pm    Homerooms: Small Group Processing

2:00 - 3:00 pm   Positions in the Pattern: Making sense of the withdrawer’s moves, helping the
                              withdrawer engage with vulnerability  

3:00 – 3:15 pm   Break

3:15 – 4:30 pm   Role Play: Withdrawer Reengagement and Group Process

Day 4

9 - 10:30 am         Positions in the Pattern: Making sense of the pursuer’s moves, helping the
                             pursuer engage with vulnerability – anticipating blocks in the progression of
                             treatment

10:30-10:45am     Break

10:45 -12:30 pm   Role Play: Pursuer Softening

12:30-1:30 pm     Lunch

1:30 – 2:00 pm    Homerooms and small group processing

2:00 – 3:00 pm    Learning and practicing EFT interventions that heighten emotion

3:00 – 3:15 pm     Break

3:15 – 4:30 pm     Special Topics: escalated couples and attachment injuries; the positive cycle and
                             Stage 3; Next Steps to becoming an EFT therapist Group wrap up