Level 2 consists of 4 three-hour input blocks between September 2024 and January 2025 and regular practice in tandems between the input blocks (at least 4 meetings between each input block).
The Swiss EFT Institute organizes the theoretical input blocks and helps to organize the tandems, the organization of the practice between the blocks is the responsibility of the participants. Interested participants who have completed their Level 1 of Inner Relationship Focusing at an institute other than the Swiss EFT institute are asked to contact Emma Smith (emma.schmied@ieft.ch) directly to arrange a tandem partner.
The theoretical inputs of the course are focused on being a nurturing facilitator of a focusing process, either another person's process or your own. We spend time being present, experiencing the qualities of presence as they emerge in a Focusing partnership, and learning how the partner can support the Focuser's presence. We also spend time with the "edge", with symbols and how the partner can help the focuser stay on the edge. Advanced listening techniques are taught, such as responding to the present feeling, responding to what is there (and not what is not there), and using the word "something" instead of an unknown. Facilitators will also receive a script for a "lead-in" and ask the focuser before the session begins if he/she would like to be led ("the fourth question").
This course is aimed at people with or without previous experience of EFT who are interested in experiencing the method of Focusing through self-awareness and self-care as a first step, and learning how to use it with clients as a second step.
Prerequisite: Attendance of IRF Level 1
Skills you will acquire:
Agathi Lakioti, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist/ psychotherapist and the founder and clinical director of the Hellenic Institute of Emotion-Focused Therapy (HiEFT) in Athens, Greece. She is a certified EFT therapist and supervisor, and a certified Focusing trainer and Focusing-Oriented Therapist by the International Focusing Institute. She studied psychology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and received her PhD in clinical psychology from Panteion University of Athens and her MSc in Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy from the University of Strathclyde. Agathi teaches Inner Relationship Focusing classes and counselling and psychotherapy, Positive Psychology, and research methodology courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She has also been a trainer and supervisor in the Person-Centred approach for over 15 years. Agathi has been trained and certified in Inner Relationship Focusing by Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin. She is especially interested in integrating Emotion-Focused Therapy and Inner Relationship Focusing and she is currently participating in several projects for that purpose. One of them is a qualitative study investigating the use of Focusing by experienced EFT therapists. Agathi is also working on the development of an advanced curriculum for the integration of IRF in therapy.
Emma Schmied-Smith studied psychology at the University of Bern and received her doctorate under Prof. Klaus Grawe. After a postdoctoral year at King's College London, she completed integrative cognitive-behavioral therapy training at the University of Bern and has completed several advanced trainings in Emotion-Focused Therapy and Inner Relationship Focusing since 2009. She works as a psychotherapist in private practice in Bern and is a lecturer and supervisor in postgraduate psychotherapy continuing education at the University of Bern and at the Swiss Institute for Emotion-Focused Therapy. She isEFT certified international EFT trainer. Emma Schmied-Smith is also on the board of IEFT Switzerland.
Inner Relationship Focusing Level 2 with Agathi Lakioti, Ph.D.
Online
Registration deadline: 25.08.2024