I am happy to announce the 4 week online experiential training in Story Writing as an Evocative Tool in Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP)!
Goals:
- Adding inspiration in the therapeutic process
- Offering techniques to participants in order to be more playful as therapists
- Stimulating creativity in the sessions with clients
- Enhancing the five rules in FAP with the vehicle of writing stories for clients
- Observing Clinically Relevant Behaviors (CRBs) and therapists’ behaviours (Ts) through the writing context
- Practising writing stories for clients for therapeutic purposes
- Transforming the Awareness, Courage and Love Model into Awakening Stories for clients
Outline:
Week 1:
1. Meditation
*Ice breaking exercise:
Asking playful evocative questions as a way to get to know each other
*There will be specific questions and visual prompts for this exercise
2. Theory:
- The process of writing metaphorical stories for our clients
- Adding creativity in the five Rules in FAP
3. *Practice:
Reflecting on a memoir and writing it vividly (writing about an important moment in our life)
*Specific prompts will be given in order to write our moment while describing our Clinically Relevant Behaviors (CRBs) in it
4. HW
Exchanging the log “Traveling inside out with inspiring postcards”
Week 2:
1. Meditation
2. Theory:
- The multiple functions of writing stories in therapy
- Sources of gathering inspiration as therapists
3. Practice:
Writing again the memoir from a first-person perspective. In this reflective voice we shall add the ACL ingredients (awareness, courage and love), in order to move beyond the moment/life event and find our deeper truth
4. HW
Exchanging the log “Traveling inside out with inspiring postcards”
Week 3:
1. Meditation
2. Theory:
- Tacts and Mands in stories: Skinner’s verbal behavior in the writing context
- Presenting a case conceptualisation and the accompanying story
3. Practice:
Elaborating the life moment with somebody else’s perspective. If a loved one or another person was in my life moment scene what would he/she see me doing? How would his/her narration about the plot would shed more light on the experience?
4. HW
Creating a story for one client
Week 4:
1. Meditation
2. Theory:
- Our Ts as therapists while writing or reading our clients’ stories
- Saying good goodbyes
3. Practice:
Presenting the case cons and the stories for the clients
4. Wrap-up point:
- Exchanging appreciations with each other
- Generalisation of the workshop processes and practices to professional/personal life
Date:
October 2023
Day: Friday 6, 13, 20, 27
Time: 6.00 – 8.00 pm EEST, 11.00 am – 1.00 pm ET, 8.00 – 10.00 am PT
Fee:
190 €
Early booking:
150 € (till September the 20th)
For registration/more info please contact me: [email protected]
The training will be held in English. Basic knowledge in FAP is required
All participants will get as a gift the ebook “Unlocking our Awareness through Creativity”
