Training in SPEAKS Therapy

Foundations in SPEAKS

Three day workshop

The 3 day programme aims to give an introduction to theoretical and practical grounding in SPEAKS. Training utilises a range of interactive formats, including taught components, videos, live demonstrations, experiential skills practice and small group exercises. 

Core Skills training covers:

  • Introduction to SPEAKS, emotion theory and emotion processing
  • Overview of the sequential model of emotion change
  • Learn the 5 phases of SPEAKS therapy, including each phase goals & mechanisms of change
  • Training in core tasks associated with each phase:
    • Limited reparenting and advanced empathy
    • Mode map ‘whole self’ formulation
    • Experiential methods for enhancing motivation to change
    • Chairwork with the ED and broader critic
    • Empty chairwork for emotion transformation
    • Float back (with rescripting) for emotion transformation and meeting unmet needs
    • Consolidating the ‘Healthy adult’
  • The SPEAKS evidence base to date


Who is training suitable for? 

Training is suitable for anybody working with eating disorders looking to add to their clinical practice, particularly if they are interested in finding new ways to work with emotion or people who get ‘stuck’. Training will also be relevant to people trained in Emotion Focused Therapy or Schema Therapy who are interested in finding out more about integrating these approaches in their clinical practice. 

It should be noted that this training focuses on facilitating the SPEAKS emotion change process in therapy and doesn’t cover the other aspects of risk management and initial eating disorder behaviour change work drawn from CBT for Eating Disorders.

Next available training

SPEAKS training dates for 2024 are yet to be announced. Please express interest to be the first to know. 

This workshop is also available to be hosted by a service or institute. Please express interest if you would like to host this workshop. 

“I’m Stuck”

One day workshop

“I’m stuck!” can be a common presentation to therapy. It may also emerge mid-therapy with a stall in momentum. This can feel simple to work with in the first instance, and as therapists we might jump to problem-solve or explore how to practically help move the client forward. The trouble being that people often remain feeling stuck, and struggle to make change, despite our best efforts.

This one day workshop explores what it means for our clients to ‘feel stuck’, how to recognise ‘stuckness‘, how it might develop and how to ‘unpack’ what is happening. Using tasks designed to compliment existing clinical practice, this workshop aims to arm practitioners with new tools for working with stuck presentations, encouraging them to ‘lean into’ the experience and support clients to move forward in therapy in productive ways 

Training utilises a range of interactive formats, including taught components, videos, experiential skills practice and small group exercises. 

 

Who is training suitable for? 

This training is suitable for any clinicians looking to add to their clinical practice with new experiential tasks to support people who feel stuck. 

Next available training

These workshops are usually hosted by EFT Institutes internationally. Express interest to be contacted with details of where and when the next workshop will be held or if you run an institute that would like to host this workshop.

Frequently Asked Questions

SPEAKS training is booked directly through me. Please follow the booking link and complete the application form or Contact Me.

Join our mailing list to be kept updated on all our upcoming training events. If there is a particular training you are keen to attend then email me and let me know! We sometimes have extra capacity to run additional events if we have enough interest.

No, you don’t need previous training or experience in Schema Therapy or Emotion Focused Therapy to attend SPEAKS training. In the SPEAKS Foundations Training we cover the hypothesised change process and teach key tasks to facilitate this, which come from a variety of models but predominantly Emotion Focused Therapy and Schema Therapy. These tasks are taught in sufficient detail, with facilitated skills practice, to give delegates what they need to start using them in practice.

SPEAKS training and bespoke SPEAKS workshops are usually delivered online. Some bespoke SPEAKS workshops can be delivered in person to some services if in the SouthEast of England. 

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Emotion Speaks is the professional website of Dr Anna Oldershaw, clinical psychologist, Director of Emotion Focused Therapy Institute of England and co-developer of SPEAKS.

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