To practice this task in workshop settings, try working with less intense but still difficult or painful life events, for example, times when you thought were in danger or suffered from a minor but frightening accident. Working with peers, you can take turns disclosing and helping each other work on "mild traumas." Even with these, however, it is important to pay close attention to safety issues, and to help the person in the client role to back away or stop if it gets to be too much. Many of the issues of safety and emotion regulation are similar to those in Systematic Evocative Unfolding.
Materials designed to
accompany the book Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy: The
Process-Experiential Approach to Change from APA Books.
©2003 Robert Elliott, Jeanne Watson, Rhonda Goldman, and Leslie Greenberg
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