BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Chicago X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VEVENT UID:245@chicagoeft.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250227T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250228T143000 DTSTAMP:20250107T164047Z URL:https://chicagoeft.com/events/pursuer-softening-experience-with-dr-giu lia-altera/ SUMMARY:Pursuer Softening Experience with Dr. Giulia Altera DESCRIPTION:Pieces of a Pursuer's Heart\nA Pursuer Softening Experience Thr ough\nthe Music of Janis Joplin\n\n\n\nPresenter: Dr. Giulia Altera\nDate: Thu-Fri February 27-28\, 2025\nTime: 8:00 am – 2:30 pm CDT\nLocation: O nline via Zoom\nRegistration Cost\nRegular: $320\nChicagoEFT members*: $29 0\n* login for member pricing\nSave $20! Use Coupon code PURSUER20 at chec kout before January 2\nUpdate: Coupon extended until January 17!\n\n\n\nAb out the Workshop\nIn an intimate relationship\, we want and need to give a nd receive love\, but often this exchange of love and caring is blocked an d somehow difficult. Although we have the need to be loved\, to be seen an d cared for by our loved ones\, this need can go unmet. This impasse is s o painful for human beings that there is no other option than to protect o urselves which leads to rigid\, negative interaction cycles that we know v ery well in EFT!\n\nEFT has a map to deescalate these cycles\, but to real ly change the music of a couple’s dance\, the therapist must have a way to support the Pursuer in the cycle to soften. In this workshop\, we will work on this key change event in EFT by feeling the story and the music o f Janis Joplin. This workshop invites you to listen\, literally\, to the u ltimate change event of Pursuer Softening in an EFT therapy. Not only will it provide you with a roadmap of how we can change the music between part ners\, it will also give you\, as a therapist\, a song and music to hold o n to as you guide this process. Joplin’s music will help us bring the p ieces together to guide you in your sessions.\n\nWe invite you to listen t o Joplin’s song “Piece of My Heart” before the workshop and hear thi s story of longing and unmet needs. As we begin to attune to this vulnerab le need in ourselves and our clients\, we will learn together to “reattu ne" and find the courage to soften!   \nLearning Objectives\nParticipant s will learn to:\n\n Identify the key assumptions of attachment theory as it applies to the cycle\n Discover strategies of pursuing\, attuned with them\, how to validate them and work with them in stage 1 and 2.\n Ident ify how protective defenses of one partner trigger more of their partner ’s defense forming a negative looping cycle.\n Deepen Anxious attachmen t style\n Get familiar with pursuer softening\n Get the Pursuer to go de eper into view of self\n Help the Withdrawer keep their focus on the Purs uer\n Get the Pursuer to ask for help\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat People Are Saying\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"Thanks to Giulia’s workshop\, I was able to feel th e pursuer and have compassion for him or her\, even when they scream – s cream loudly. Now\, I can find more meaning in the powerful energy of thos e of us who search for love in so many ways\, in many directions\, from th e most salvific to the most damaging."\n\n"Giulia reminded me that\, deep down\, when I listen to Janis Joplin’s Cry Baby and sing it at the top o f my lungs\, I’m giving permission to my inner child to say\, 'I’m her e\, I need you\, come and get me.' Meanwhile\, my therapist self can say\, 'I know that need\, that cry of the pursuer\, can finally find an answer\ , at long last\, an adequate one.'\n\nThis is a review\, but also a thank you for the courageous choice to bring Janis\, with her crazy\, magnificen t head\, covered in that funny headdress full of a thousand colorful feath ers.”\nM. - Participant in EFT Italia training\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"Since hea ring your presentation\, every time I listen to one of my pursuers\, I fee l a different kind of connection. I hear Janis in my heart and in their wo rds—I can feel their pain and anger more deeply. Even Janis herself\, I no longer hear her with the same heart."\nK. - PSEFT Conference Participan t\, Poland\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"I've never been so engaged\, so affected\, by a presentation from someone who wasn't in the room. For over an hour\, I wa s completely wrapped up in everything you were telling us. I can now feel what a ‘pursuer’ feels - the pain and the countless ways they try to c onnect to avoid the agony of loneliness."\nS. - Conference BEFT Participan t\, England\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\nAbout the Presenter\n[caption id="attachment_100002869" align="alignleft" width="300"] Dr. Giulia Altera [/caption]\n\nDr. Giulia Altera is a Psychotherapist and a Clinical and Fo rensic Psychologist.\n\nShe is a certified Trainer\, Supervisor and Therap ist in Emotionally Focused Therapy. As well as one of the founders of the EFT Italia Community and the Director of the EFT North Italy Center. She i s also leading the development of EFT in Brazil.\n\nGiulia brings warmth a nd passion to her work\, and she enjoys providing therapy and supervision in person and online. She is supportive and extremely attuned to the needs of her clients\, the groups that she trains\, and of the co-trainer. She is professional and effective in her teaching and therapy and actively see ks feedback to keep on growing and learning.\n\nBefore EFT she specialized with honors in Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy at the Miller Institute of Genova. Following by the completion of the II level Master’s Degree at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of Genoa in Criminology and Forensi c Psychiatric Sciences. She practiced as a freelancer in Criminal Psychiat ric Hospital\, in prisons of maximum security\, and worked for years in th e treatment of drug addiction and Alcohol Dependencies. During this time s he also completed the International Training on the treatment of trauma an d dissociative disorders with Dr. Kathy Steele (International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD).\n\nShe is also a certified S chema Therapist.  She speaks fluent Italian (mother tongue) Portuguese an d English\, and can provide therapy\, supervision and teaching in all thre e languages.  For this she has been involved in trainings outside her cou ntry and she is helping to bring EFT in Brasil\, Portugal\, Poland and Ira n.\n\nWith great warmth and passion\, she deals mainly with problems conce rning couples\, and in particular with couples of trauma survivors\, with personality disorders (individual and couple)\, and LGBTQI+ couples.\n\nFo r more information on Dr. Giulia Altera\, please visit: http://www.eft-nor ditalia.com/ or http://www.eftitaliacommunity.com\n\n \;\n\n\n\nMore D etails\n\n \n\n Registration will close Tuesday\, February 25th\, 6:00 p m CST.\n Use Coupon code PURSUER20 before January 2 January 17 for $20 of f your ticket price.\n Completion of EFT Externship is recommended for th is workshop.\n Zoom details will be sent out to all registrants after reg istration closes. Please add info@chicagoEFT.com to your contacts to avoid having this email sent to your spam folder.\n Participants attending the seminar will earn 10 CE credit for attending the entire program. Partial credits will not be offered.\n ChicagoEFT is approved by the Illinois Dep artment of Financial and Professional Regulation to sponsor continuing edu cation for LMFTs (#168.000220)\, Psychologists (#268.000137) and for LCSWs and LCPCs (#159.000961). ChicagoEFT maintains responsibility for this pro gram and its content.\n The training will be recorded and will be availab le for 3 weeks after the event. Participants must be present for the live event to earn CEs.\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://chicagoeft.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/0 4/Screenshot-2024-10-30-at-9.32.52 PM.png CATEGORIES:Training END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR