This four-day experiential workshop will focus on the centrality of the therapeutic relationship while emphasizing the in-depth methods of a psychotherapy that integrates the client’s affect, cognition, physiology and behavior. The themes of this residential workshop may include Life Scripts, unconscious pre-reflective patterns, non-verbal communication , introjection and physiological survival reactions. Various methods of working within an involved therapeutic relationship, supportive regression, and/or a caring body therpy will be taught and demonstrated. This experiential workshop is for mental health professionals who want to apply theory in clinical practice and to enhance their effectiveness through identifying aspects of their own contact interruption, life script, and countertransference. Dr. Erskine will demonstrate, teach and elaborate on the concepts in Beyond Empathy:A Therapy of Contact in Relationship by Richard Erskine, Janet Moursund, and Rebecca Tautmann, 1999, Brunner?Mazel.

This workshop will take place near Bilbao, Spain. 

The workshop will have professional Spanish/English translation