Challenges in Resolving Unfinished Business:

Advanced Skills and Interventions

Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist

Challenges in Resolving Unfinished Business:

Advanced Skills and Interventions

Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist

Challenges in Resolving Unfinished Business:

Advanced Skills and Interventions

Dr. Serine Warwar, Ph.D., Psychologist

Working with unfinished business does not always follow a straightforward path toward resolution. Clients may remain stuck in secondary anger, blame, or complaint, have difficulty accessing underlying emotional pain or childhood memories, struggle to engage in the empty-chair intervention, or experience the significant other as defensive, avoidant, or unwilling to soften. Clients may also feel guilty expressing negative feelings toward a significant other or encounter other emotional blocks that interfere with the process of resolution. 

Unfinished business can become particularly challenging when emotional injuries involve abuse or trauma and are organized around fear and other maladaptive emotion schemes. In these situations, therapists may need to adapt the standard unfinished business intervention and integrate additional EFT interventions, including age regression, imaginal re-entry and transformation, and self-soothing, to access and transform painful emotional experience. 

This advanced 3-hour workshop is designed for therapists who are familiar with the EFT unfinished business intervention and want to develop more advanced skills for working with difficult or complex clinical processes. Participants will learn to recognize stuck points and subtle micro-markers, work with client blocks, promote softening when the significant other remains defensive, and use targeted interventions to facilitate movement toward resolution. The workshop will also explore the use of two chairs for the significant other, case formulation to help clients process the impact and meaning of emotional injuries, writing exercises to support unfinished business work alongside therapy, and adaptations for resolving emotional injuries involving non-significant others. 

Through detailed review of real psychotherapy sessions, participants will observe the therapist micro-skills, clinical decisions, and adaptations involved in working with unfinished business that is particularly challenging to resolve.

For therapists who are newer to EFT 

With the purchase of this workshop, participants will automatically receive 2-month access to a 3-hour recorded workshop with Dr. Serine Warwar introducing Emotion Focused Therapy to Resolve Unfinished Business. We recommend watching this recorded workshop before attending as it reviews foundational knowledge and skills to working with Unfinished Business. Learn more about the introductory workshop.

Learning Objectives

In this workshop, participants will learn how to: 

• Identify common stuck points, client blocks, and micro-markers that interfere with the resolution of unfinished business. 
• Apply targeted interventions for common challenges, including secondary blame and complaint, difficulty accessing emotional memories, and difficulty engaging in the intervention. 
• Adapt unfinished business work for fear, abuse, trauma, and other complex emotional processes. 
• Integrate age regression, imaginal re-entry and transformation, and self-soothing to facilitate the transformation of maladaptive emotion schemes. 
• Apply interventions to facilitate resolution when the significant other remains defensive or does not soften, including the use of two chairs for the significant other. 
• Use case formulation to help clients process the meaning and impact of unresolved emotional injuries. 
• Apply additional adaptations, including writing exercises and unfinished business work involving non-significant others.



Details

Date: TBD

Time: TBD

Format: Live Online Training

Continuing Education Credits (CECs)

Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA)

• Pending Approval

Ontario Association of Mental Health Professionals (OAMHP)

• Pending Approval

Canadian Psychological Association (CPA)

• Pending Approval

Ontario Psychological Association (OPA)

• Pending Approval

Please note that live attendance is required in order to receive CE credits



Working with unfinished business does not always follow a straightforward path toward resolution. Clients may remain stuck in secondary anger, blame, or complaint, have difficulty accessing underlying emotional pain or childhood memories, struggle to engage in the empty-chair intervention, or experience the significant other as defensive, avoidant, or unwilling to soften. Clients may also feel guilty expressing negative feelings toward a significant other or encounter other emotional blocks that interfere with the process of resolution. 

Unfinished business can become particularly challenging when emotional injuries involve abuse or trauma and are organized around fear and other maladaptive emotion schemes. In these situations, therapists may need to adapt the standard unfinished business intervention and integrate additional EFT interventions, including age regression, imaginal re-entry and transformation, and self-soothing, to access and transform painful emotional experience. 

This advanced 3-hour workshop is designed for therapists who are familiar with the EFT unfinished business intervention and want to develop more advanced skills for working with difficult or complex clinical processes. Participants will learn to recognize stuck points and subtle micro-markers, work with client blocks, promote softening when the significant other remains defensive, and use targeted interventions to facilitate movement toward resolution. The workshop will also explore the use of two chairs for the significant other, case formulation to help clients process the impact and meaning of emotional injuries, writing exercises to support unfinished business work alongside therapy, and adaptations for resolving emotional injuries involving non-significant others. 

Through detailed review of real psychotherapy sessions, participants will observe the therapist micro-skills, clinical decisions, and adaptations involved in working with unfinished business that is particularly challenging to resolve.

For therapists who are newer to EFT 

With the purchase of this workshop, participants will automatically receive 2-month access to a 3-hour recorded workshop with Dr. Serine Warwar introducing Emotion Focused Therapy to Resolve Unfinished Business. We recommend watching this recorded workshop before attending as it reviews foundational knowledge and skills to working with Unfinished Business. Learn more about the introductory workshop.

Learning Objectives

In this workshop, participants will learn how to: 

• Identify common stuck points, client blocks, and micro-markers that interfere with the resolution of unfinished business. 
• Apply targeted interventions for common challenges, including secondary blame and complaint, difficulty accessing emotional memories, and difficulty engaging in the intervention. 
• Adapt unfinished business work for fear, abuse, trauma, and other complex emotional processes. 
• Integrate age regression, imaginal re-entry and transformation, and self-soothing to facilitate the transformation of maladaptive emotion schemes. 
• Apply interventions to facilitate resolution when the significant other remains defensive or does not soften, including the use of two chairs for the significant other. 
• Use case formulation to help clients process the meaning and impact of unresolved emotional injuries. 
• Apply additional adaptations, including writing exercises and unfinished business work involving non-significant others.



Details

Date: TBD

Time: TBD

Format: Live Online Training

Continuing Education Credits (CECs)

Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA)

• Pending Approval

Ontario Association of Mental Health Professionals (OAMHP)

• Pending Approval

Canadian Psychological Association (CPA)

• Pending Approval

Ontario Psychological Association (OPA)

• Pending Approval

Please note that live attendance is required in order to receive CE credits