May 9th Pre-Summit Workshop Trainings – May 9th, 2027

Choose from one of two full-day workshops, offering in-depth learning in emerging EFT applications and skill development with internationally respected EFT clinicians.

Managing Moments That Matter: Finding Confidence Through Compassion and Connection with EFT Across Modalities

Presenters:
Gail Palmer, Jim Furrow, Robin Williams Blake, Paul Greenman, Ali Barbosa

Format: Experiential learning, clinical reflection, discussion
Session: Full Day — May 9, 2027
Modality: EFT across modalities (EFIT, EFCT, EFFT)
Level: All levels

As experiential therapists, EFT clinicians regularly work in moments of uncertainty. These moments—when the process feels unclear, clients become stuck, or emotions intensify—are not signs of failure, but natural and essential parts of meaningful change. How we meet these moments shapes both the safety of the therapeutic relationship and our own confidence as clinicians.

This experiential and interactive workshop offers an honest, grounded approach to navigating the more challenging moments of EFT across modalities. Participants will explore how clinical confidence is rooted in attachment science, a clear process of change, and the ability to remain genuine and transparent when uncertainty arises. Together, we will examine how compassion—for ourselves and for our clients—supports agency, steadiness, and leadership in moments that matter most.

Whether you are new to EFT or deeply experienced in the model, this session invites reflection, skill-building, and shared learning around the stuck moments, difficult emotions, and relational challenges that are part of our clinical home.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Recognize moments of uncertainty as opportunities for growth within the EFT process
  • Use attachment theory to maintain confidence and direction in challenging clinical moments
  • Apply transparency and genuineness to support client agency and engagement
  • Navigate stuck moments with difficult emotions across EFT modalities
  • Reflect on personal and professional responses to uncertainty in clinical work

Leveraging the Attachment Caregiving System to Transform Trauma with EFT Across Modalities

Presenters:
Hanna Pinomaa, Jef Slootmaeckers, Leanne Campbell, George Faller

Format: Experiential learning, video examples, guided reflection
Session: Full Day — May 9, 2027
Modality: EFT across modalities (EFIT, EFCT, EFFT)
Level: Intermediate–Advanced

Trauma narrows perception, constricts connection, and often leaves clients feeling trapped in patterns of helplessness and isolation. In the therapy room, clinicians are asked to meet these realities with clarity, steadiness, and hope. Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) offers a clear, attachment-based pathway for transforming trauma’s impact into resilience, connection, and growth.

In this experiential workshop, participants will learn how to leverage the attachment caregiving system and the EFT Tango to support trauma transformation across individual, couple, and family modalities. Through rich clinical video examples and guided reflection, presenters will demonstrate how to harness emotion and attachment to create transformative limbic shifts—moving clients from survival-based strategies toward secure connection and care.

This session emphasizes moment-to-moment clinical decision-making and the use of the safe haven–secure base alliance to keep clients at their leading edge of growth. Participants will leave with increased confidence and practical strategies they can apply immediately in trauma-focused EFT work.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Conceptualize trauma impacts through an attachment lens and structure the EFT process accordingly
  • Use the safe haven–secure base alliance to support clients’ growth and regulation
  • Work with the body as a gateway to emotional processing
  • Adapt and apply the EFT Tango across stages and modalities based on ongoing assessment
  • Recognize and address blocks to caregiving and care-seeking
  • Track and support grief and integration following transformative limbic revision