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Core Skills is advanced training in EFT focused exclusively on working with couples. 

This Core Skills we welcome Certified EFT Trainers Ryan Rana, PhD, LMFT, LPC from Arkansas for modules 1 and 2, and Silvina Irwin, LMFT from California for modules 3 and 4. We are planning for all training days to be in person in Spokane, Washington.

Learning methods may include some or all of the following:  watching pre-recorded videos on your time from the comfort of your own home; didactic instruction; live sessions conducted by a trainer; watching video recordings of the trainer’s own sessions with clients. Included in this Core Skills advanced training is the opportunity to show video tape of a recorded client session of yours to one of our EFT Supervisors, and received growth feedback to apply to your work.  Bringing your own video to view is necessary to meet the Advanced Externship requirements and to receive your certificate of completion from EWNIEFT.

Our trainers will be assisted by our EWNIEFT community of volunteers who are EFT trained therapists, certified EFT therapists and certified EFT supervisors. The amazing, dedicated team of volunteers walk alongside the participants in their EFT Core Skills learning journey.  We aim to model learning EFT together – and not alone – supported by our trainers and our clinical team.  Between modules, there may be opportunities for gathering online for informal group consultation with an EWNIEFT Supervisor or Supervisor-in-Training to support your learning.

This is an official 48 Hours Core Skills endorsed by the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT).  An ICEEFT-endorsed externship is a required prerequisite for Core Skills.  At the completion of the 48 hours and showing your own work to a Supervisor or Supervisor in Training, EWNIEFT will provide a certificate of completion.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday, June 26-27-28, 2025 with EFT Trainer Ryan Rana

For Module 1  Alliance and Assessment and Module 2 Cycle De-escalation

Venue:    TBD

Time:      9am-6pm pacific time, all 3 days

Lunch 1 hour, and a short 10-15 minute break both mid-morning and mid-afternoon

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will be able to define the elements of the EFT Assessment

• Participants will be able to create alliance with both partners of the couple

• Participants will be able to describe the key EFT macro and micro interventions

• Participants will be able to identify the core conflict between the couple and the negative interactional cycle

• Perform skills in helping each member of the couple access unacknowledged feelings that influence the reactive behavior – Step 3

• Perform reframing the negative cycle in terms of underlying feelings and attachment needs – Step 4

Friday and Saturday, September 12-13, 2025 with EFT Trainer Silvina Irwin

For Module 3  Withdrawer Re-engagement

Venue:    TBD

Time:  9am-4:30pm pacific time, both days

Lunch 1 hour, and a short 10-15 minute break both mid-morning and mid-afternoon

Learning Objectives:

• Define EFT Stage 2, Steps 5-7 working with Withdrawer Re-engagement

• Identify the implicit attachment needs, fears and view(s) of the Withdrawer – Step 5

• Initiate acceptance of the partner once the sharing has occurred – Step 6

• Initiate engagement of couple when the Withdrawer expresses their needs and wants – Step 7

Friday and Saturday, December 5-6, 2025 with EFT Trainer Silvina Irwin

for Module 4  Pursuer Softening

Venue:    TBD

Time:   9am-4:30pm pacific time, all days

Lunch 1 hour, and a short 10-15 minute break both mid-morning and mid-afternoon

Learning Objectives:

• Define EFT Stage 2, Steps 5-7 working with Pursuer softening

• Identify the Pursuer’s disowned attachment needs and fears and view of self and other – Step 5

• Assist the Pursuer expressing their attachment needs and fears – Step 5

• Initiate acceptance of the Pursuer’s experiences by the Withdrawer – Step 6

• Initiate Pursuer requesting emotional engagement and organizing bonding events that redefine the attachment between the partners – Step 7

Registration and Fees:       REGISTRATION OPEN SOON !

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We offer a discounted Diversity, Equity and Inclusion ticket. Please email [email protected].

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To attend/participate in Core Skills, you are not required to be a member of ICEEFT or EWNIEFT.

WHO IS THIS TRAINING FOR?

Core Skills training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is designed for mental health professionals who seek a deeper mastery of EFT for couples therapy. This includes psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, counselors, and specialists in abuse and addiction. Participants are required to be a member of a mental health professional organization and currently working, or in the process of training to work, with couples in their clinical practice. The program equips participants with advanced skills in applying EFT therapeutic techniques and interventions, essential for those on the path to becoming certified EFT therapists.

PREREQUISITES AND MORE

EFCT Externship must be completed prior to taking EFCT Core Skills.

Required reading: The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection, 3^rd  edition, by Susan M. Johnson, 2020. Routledge.

Recommended reading: Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook, 2^nd  edition, by James L. Furrow, Susan M. Johnson, Brent Bradley, Lorrie L. Brubacher, T. Leanne Campbell, Veronica Kallos-Lilly, Gail Palmer, Kathryn Rheem, Scott R. Woolley, 2022. Routledge.

CEUs

48 hours of continuing education units are available by completing all modules of this course. If you need CEUs, there is a separate $40 fee for one certificate.  TRI EFT is our CEU provider, and you will receive your certificate via email from them ([email protected]). Link is coming in the future. Please remember that a CE certificate is different than a certificate of completion.

We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with differing abilities, to engage fully.

To request an accommodation or for inquiries about accessibility, please contact [email protected]

CANCELLATION POLICY:

Please understand the following.  When you sign up and pay for this or any EWNIEFT event we count on those funds ahead to negotiate payment to our trainers and facility use fees. We are a non-profit organization and each event must pay entirely for itself. If we cannot meet our financial obligation to our trainers, they may not be willing to return. THEREFORE: Cancellations are allowed up to 30 days of the date of the start of the training, less a $50 non-refundable administration fee. If you must cancel with less than 30 days notice you may apply the missed registration or registration fees to future EWNIEFT Community sponsored events up to 2 years later. If you have paid and fail to attend a Core Skills training weekend for any reason without prior notification, no refund nor future compensation will be offered. No exceptions! Contact [email protected] for questions.

Questions?

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