Helping Anxious Clients and Their Partners Repair Ruptures and Deepen Connection

Thursday, June 16, 2016
The Crestview Country Club, Agawam, MA

AGENDA
 
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Registration and Coffee
   
8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Understanding Anxiety
  • Causes of Anxiety
  • Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Components of Anxiety
Treatment of Anxiety: The STOP solution
  • Video 
   
10:15 AM -10:30 AM Break & Refreshments
   
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM The Relational Dynamics of Anxiety
  • The Disconnect
  • Emotional Flooding and Attunement
  • Forms of Reaction-Based Communication: the appeal, the attack and the retreat
  • Over-dependent Bonds and the Continuum of Dependence

Treatment Protocol: The Five Keys
  • Key One: Psycho-education
    • Anxiety: The Basics
    • Affective Flooding
    • The Tripartite Brain
    • The Limbic System Gone Rogue
    • Demonstration: Love and Logic
   
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch ( included with your registration)
   
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
  • Key Two: Time Out
  • Key Three: Enhance Positive Affect
    • Age Regression
    • Age Progression
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM Break and Refreshments
   
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
  • Key Three (cont.): Enhance Positive Affect
    • Juxtaposition of Two Feelings
    • Empathy
  • Key Four: Differentiate
    • Validation
  • Key Five: Shift from Co-Dependence into Healthy Interdependence
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM Questions and Answers