Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP): Deepening and Generalizing Your Clinical Skills of Awareness, Courage and Therapeutic Love
Workshop Leaders: 
Philosopher Mark Nepo stated, “When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.” Whether you are new to FAP or are advanced, this workshop aims to take participants to the next level of understanding the application of FAP’s five rules, of healing and awakening in areas of both darkness and light so that you can be your best selves in the therapy room and in your daily lives.
Using awareness, courage, and therapeutic love (behaviorally defined), FAP augments the impact of treatment by focusing on the therapeutic opportunities presented when clients' daily life problems occur in the therapy session, and by the therapist showing up as a whole person who is willing to be courageously vulnerable in the service of client growth. FAP both encourages and lends itself to integration with other treatment approaches.
The conceptual and experiential format of this workshop will help super-charge your next therapy session. Content will include videotaped therapy sessions, new experiential exercises, demonstrations and client handouts. By giving and receiving FAP-informed interactions, you will delve deeper into your abilities to increase the emotional depth and interpersonal focus of your treatment. Experientials will be book-ended with contextual behavioral rationales and why/how the exercises can be relevant to your clinical work.
The vision of this workshop is to not only enhance your competence in FAP, but to: 1) provide a refuge for the unseen, unmet, and unheld to return home to your heart; 2) delve into your own therapeutic behaviors so that you can impact your clients by changing how you respond to them, rather than by trying to “fix” them; 3) experience how you can bring more influence through our Live with Awareness, Courage & Love (ACL) model for the general public that is now being implemented in 5 continents. You will receive our Live with ACL manual with 10 session protocols that you can immediately start adapting to your clients, family and friends, and community.
About Mavis Tsai, Ph.D.:
Dr. Tsai, co-originator of FAP, is a clinical psychologist in independent practice, and also works at the University of Washington as a research scientist and as the director of the FAP Specialty Clinic within the Psychological Services and Training Center. She has co-authored five books and over 60 articles on FAP, is an ACBS Fellow, and received the Washington State Distinguished Psychologist Award in recognition of significant contributions to the field of Psychology. She is on the Fulbright Senior Specialists Roster, has presented “Master Clinician” sessions at the Association for Behavior and Cognitive Therapy, has led numerous workshops nationally and internationally, and trains clinicians all over the world in FAP via Skype.
About Robert J. Kohlenberg Ph.D.:
Dr. Kohlenberg received his doctorate at UCLA and is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington where he served as the Director of Clinical training. He is certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology, received the Washington State Psychological Association’s Distinguished Psychologist Award, and is a Fellow of ACBS, Society for Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, and American Academy of Clinical Psychology. He is the co-originator of Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP), has attained research grants for FAP treatment development, has co-published many papers and six books, including Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: A Guide for Creating Intense and Curative Therapeutic Relationships.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe awareness, courage and therapeutic love in behavioral terms and practice these behaviors in the workshop.
- Explore, receive, and express the deeper recesses of your true self so that you can increase intensity, depth and connection in your therapeutic relationships.
- Explain how to recognize and therapeutically respond most effectively to client in-session problematic behaviors and how to potentially reinforce in-session target behaviors in ways adapted to your clients’ needs.
- List, explain, and address how your clients can trigger your own problematic behaviors and avoidances and so that you can enhance your target behaviors as a therapist.
- Describe how you can more consistently operate in a field of lightness, joy, humor, compassion and generosity, especially when triggered by your clients.
- Describe when commonly used interventions can be inadvertently counter-therapeutic.
- Demonstrate using all five FAP rules in order to facilitate generalization of client in-session gains.
- Explain how to find the balance that works for you and others in terms of vulnerability versus safety.
- List your behaviors that distance others and those that invite closeness.
- Describe Live with Awareness, Courage & Love protocols and ways to adapt them to your clients, family and friends, and community.
Target Audience: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Clinical
Components: Conceptual analysis, Original data, Experiential exercises, Didactic presentation, Case presentation, Role play
Package Includes: A general certificate of attendance, lunch, and twice daily coffee/tea break on site.