Richard Erskine’s, Ph.D. workshop in Belgrade: “The Healing Relationship – Psychotherapy of Shame, Confusion and Psychological Withdrawal, has been postponed for December 2020 because of coronavirus pandemic. However, due to lecturer`s inability to travel because of current situation, the workshop will be held online.
Details regarding the online workshop that will be held on December 4, 5 and 6, 2020 can be found here.
Richard Erskine’s, Ph.D. workshop in Belgrade at “Hotel M”, entitled: “The Healing Relationship – Psychotherapy of Shame, Confusion and Psychological Withdrawal, has been canceled by the workshop leader and by the organizer mutually, because of Covid-19 pandemic.
At the same time, we inform you that workshop leader, Hotel “M” and organizer did find a new workshop date. The new dates are December 4, 5. and 6. 2020.
We are hoping for your understanding, as we hope that the Covid-19 pandemic will be under such an degree of control until December 2020. and that workshop leader will be able to travel, as all the workshop participants, as well.
For all other questions, we kindly ask you to contact as in the end of June 2020, because until that time we hope that situation in Serbia will be under the control. Also, until that time, as many of you already know, we are engaged in organizing volunteer psychosocial first aid and crisis interventions during emergency with Covid-19, with Association of Psychotherapists of Serbia.
If the situation will be contained earlier, we are going to inform you immediately and we are going to be ready to answer to all of your questions about the workshop and all other questions.
Take care and stay healthy you and all members of your families.
Organizer Committee
One of the founders of integrative psychotherapy, a Gestalt therapist, a certified psychoanalyst and a certified transactional analyst, who founded the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy in New York in 1976 and who is considered by many to be the world’s leading psychotherapist, Richard Erskine, Ph.D. will deliver a three-day workshop in Belgrade at “Hotel M”, entitled: “The Healing Relationship – Psychotherapy of Shame, Confusion and Psychological Withdrawal” from 15th to 17th May 2020.
WE DO NOT HAVE ANY MORE PLACES LEFT FOR THE WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS! We kindly ask you if you want to apply for Waiting list you can do that, and we will inform you if someone cancels, so you can take his/her place.
We hereby invite psychotherapists, students and trainers of different psychotherapy modalities to apply to attend this workshop, and in particular transactional analysis, integrative psychotherapy, Gestalt therapy and psychoanalysis psychotherapists, psychotherapy students and trainers.
Take the opportunity to see a great master at work, to learn from a man who brilliantly, yet simply explains his concepts and masterfully leads client’s personal works. His workshops are widely attended everywhere in the world. This is a unique opportunity for anyone who wants to improve their psychotherapy skills and also to visit beautiful country of Serbia and to meet our vibrant psychotherapeutic community.
Richard Erskine is the only three-time Eric Bern Award winner (more details are available here) for his contributions to the development of transactional analysis, but he is also the founder of relationally focused – integrative psychotherapy, a set of methods that emphasize affective, cognitive, behavioural, and psychic integration, drawing on his original theory from a synthesis of different theoretical concepts.
He is one of those great lecturers who, during his lectures, explains complex theoretical concepts in a simple and clear manner, while experiential learning during live demonstrations becomes unforgettable and remains in us forever, both personally and professionally.
Professor Erskine is the author of many books and articles, a frequent lecturer and guest of universities and psychotherapy associations around the world, a legendary therapist who is a licensed psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist, group psychotherapist, transactional analyst and trainer, who was trained in psychotherapy by Laura and Fritz Perls, David Kupfer, Hedges Capers, Franklin Ernst, Jacqui Schiff, Morris Haimovich, William Holloway, Isadora Fromm, Robert Melniker and other great psychotherapy minds of the 20th century.
More details are available here.
Please note that this is a unique opportunity to see and hear this lecturer in Serbia, and that there will hardly be such an opportunity in future as he is in his late career and Serbia is economically challenged (yet very hospitable) country. For this reason, six psychotherapy associations: NATAS, TAC, TAUS, UTAS, SATA and SUIP have teamed up to organize such an important event in Serbia, supported by EATA.
Given the business commitments and engagements he still has as a lecturer, application forms should be submitted by 15th December, 2019, so we can definitely confirm his arrival.
If the sufficient number of attendees are not applied by the specified deadline, the workshop will be cancelled.
Namely, the number of attendees is large (in order to be financially sustainable), but limited upon request of the lecturer, and the whole organization of the event in such circumstances is demanding, so it is necessary that a non-refundable portion of the registration fee worth about 70% of the total registration fee should be paid to the NATAS account by 15th December 2019.
This portion of the registration fee shall be non-refundable if the workshop is held and the applicant does not attend the workshop. In case the workshop is not held, this portion of the registration fee shall be refunded less the bank transfer costs. The remaining portion of the registration fee must be paid by the start of the workshop.
The workshop is in the process of accreditation for Continual Medical Education and with the Social Workers Chamber of the Republic of Serbia. All attendees will receive a certificate of completion of three-day continuing psychotherapy education/course signed by Professor Erskine.
The registration fee does not include the costs of lunch (you can opt for lunch in the application form). As the prices listed below are much more favourable than the regular prices of Richard Erskine’s workshops in developed countries, since Serbia is economically challenged country, we expect a certain number of colleagues from around the World to apply, so three prices/registration fee categories are given – please see below.
Description of the workshop
The Healing Relationship – Psychotherapy of Shame, Confusion and Psychological Withdrawal”
Shame, confusion and psychological withdrawal are hallmarks of schizoid process, and this process can be present, yet unrecognised in many, even though very highly functioning clients
The term “schizoid” is often not well understood. It means to cut or split. Work of the schizoid process outgrew of consideration of issues related to both dissociation and shame.
Shame and self-righteousness can be viewed as protective dynamics that help avoid vulnerability to humiliation and the loss of contact-in-relationship with others. The compounded and continual reinforcement of the belief ‘something is wrong with me’ presents the therapist with complex challenges which are specific and unique to the psychotherapy of shame.
Unresolved archaic shame and introjected shame potentiate the pain of any current criticism, adding a toxicity to our clients’ reactions. Juxtaposition of the therapist’s inquiry and attunement, with the client’s memory of a lack of interpersonal contact in previous significant relationships, produces intense responses from the client and possible defensive reaction to the interpersonal contact offered by the therapist with fear, anger, increased worrying and shame.
Working with individuals who use dissociation as an ongoing coping mechanism and also with people for whom shame is a primary way of organizing their emotional experience, we need to emphasize inquiry into the client’s subjective experience in our methods of psychotherapy .Such clients require the psychotherapist’s consistent attunement to their affective state and the therapist’s attunement to their developmental (often pre-language) level of functioning.
Therapeutic focus is not on behavioral change, but on the client’s internal process, validating the client’s subjective experience, to fill the psychological void the schizoid individual experiences internally. What becomes evident in a phenomenologically focused psychotherapy is the sequestered, hidden, encapsulated affect of the client’s self. If therapist is there in a healing, supportive, and clarifying way, that allows integration within the individual’s experience.
At this workshop, we use lecture, case-discussions and live demonstrations to first look at the interpersonal and intrapersonal dynamics of shame, confusion and psychological withdrawal. We will examine the relational disruptions as they occur in hystorical situations in one’s today’s intimate relationships. Through demonstrations, we will examine how the healing can occur through respect, contact, authenticity and involvement.
WE DO NOT HAVE ANY MORE PLACES LEFT FOR THE WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS! We kindly ask you if you want to apply for Waiting list you can do that, and we will inform you if someone cancels, so you can take his/her place.