Dear colleague,
A therapist emailed me to say he was very interested in the upcoming intensives, but wanted to know what he’d learn if he attended. Certainly, a great question, so I put together this list of some of the things I’ll be teaching at this year’s intensives. They’re organized around the T E A M of TEAM-CBT.
T = Testing
- I’ll illustrate fast, accurate assessment tools that will show you how your patients really feel, and how they feel about you. You’ll also find out how effective you are at every session with every patient. This information may be shocking, but can transform your clinical work.
E = Advanced Empathy Training
- Five Secrets of Effective Communication
- Law of Opposites
- How to transform therapeutic failure into success
- The five most common empathy errors, and how to avoid them!
A = Assessment of Resistance: New, sophisticated tools that can quickly melt away therapeutic resistance and greatly boost patient motivation
- Outcome Resistance tools
- Straightforward Invitation
- Paradoxical Invitation
- Miracle Cure Question
- Specificity
- Magic Button
- Positive Reframing
- Pivot Question
- Process Resistance tools
- Dangling the Carrot
- Gentle Ultimatum
- Sitting with Open Hands
- Fallback Position
M = Methods
- Daily Mood Log
- Recovery Circle
- 50 Ways to Untwist Your thinking, including
- Identify the Distortions
- Examine the Evidence
- Be Specific / Shades of Grey
- The Experimental Technique
- The Pleasure-Predicting Sheet
- The Paradoxical Double Standard Technique
- Externalization of Voices
- The Acceptance Paradox
- Cognitive, Classical, and Interpersonal Exposure Techniques, including
- Gradual Exposure
- Cognitive Flooding
- Memory Rescripting
- Response Prevention
- Smile and Hello Practice
- Self-Disclosure
- Talk-Show Host
- Shame Attacking Exercises
- The Hidden Emotion Technique
- And more
Getting at root causes: How to pinpoint and modify Self-Defeating Beliefs
- The Individual Downward Arrow
- The Interpersonal Downward Arrow (psychoanalysis at warp speed!)
- The Semantic Method
- The Feared Fantasy
How to overcome habits and addictions, including
- The Habit / Addiction Log
- The Paradoxical Cost-Benefit Analysis
- The Triple Paradox
- The Anti-Procrastination Sheet
- The “I stubbornly refused” Technique
- The Devil’s Advocate Technique
Plus
- Relapse Prevention Training for lasting results
- Video of high-speed TEAM-CBT trauma treatment
The goals of TEAM-CBT include rapid, complete and lasting recovery from depression and anxiety. Teaching tools will include lecture, videos, live demonstrations, live therapy, and lots of small group practice with immediate feedback so you can refine your therapy skills.
You’ll also have the chance to do your own personal work if you want, so you can leave the workshop fueled with a renewed sense of excitement about your life and clinical work. I’ve always felt that effective personal work is tremendously important, since the challenges and pressures on therapists can sometimes be intense. When you’ve experienced your own personal transformation, you’re no longer a technician–you’re now a healer!
Finally, all three intensive provide CE credits plus credit toward certification in TEAM-CBT. In fact, you’ll be eligible for Level 1 TEAM certification just for attending!
Thank you so much for your interest!
David Burns, MD
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This year, you have three great intensives to choose from!
High-Speed Treatment of
Depression and Anxiety Disorders
A Four-Day TEAM-CBT Advanced Intensive
with David Burns, MD
July 15 – 18, 2019, Calgary, Canada
Sponsored by Jack Hirose & Assoc.
The Calgary intensive will be similar to the SF and Atlanta intensives described below, but there will be no evening sessions. Instead, Dr. Burns will lead optional, informal evening hikes for those who are interested, followed by dinner. On the hikes, you can do personal work, ask questions, practice techniques, or just schmooze with colleagues and have fun!
This intensive is just around the corner, so act fast if you want to attend!
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High-Speed Treatment of
Depression and Anxiety Disorders
A Four-Day TEAM-CBT Advanced Intensive
with David Burns, MD
32 hrs of CE credit available
July 29 – August 1, 2019
South San Francisco four-day intensive
Sponsored by Praxis
and
November 4 – 7, 2019
Atlanta, Georgia four-day intensive
Sponsored by Praxis
This will be my first east coast intensive in more than 25 years/
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The evening sessions on days 1 and 3 will add another dimension to your workshop experience, and are nearly always the most highly rated workshop segments. You’ll be tired, but joyous, by the end of your intensive, and you’ll leave with a renewed session of joy and optimism!