We are very pleased to be offering a series of masterclasses, in collaboration with the EFT Institute of England.
Masterclass: How to Enhance Your Empathic Presence in EFT
Facilitated by one of the EFT Originators, Professor Robert Elliott
Dates and Timing: 1st & 2nd June 2026, 5pm – 9pm UK time, Online, via Zoom
(This masterclass can be taken alongside EFT Level 2A model, Advanced Empathic Attunement. Further information here.)
Fee: £165.
Earlybird fee: £145 (if paid by 15 April)
Do you want to reach the next level in your empathy practice? Empathy is central to EFT practice but is difficult to teach. Standard approaches to empathy training can be criticised as either too general (based on global descriptions by Carl Rogers and others) or too technique-oriented (based on learning a set of micro-skills); both approaches are too therapist-centric and distract learners away from the client and their experience.
In the two half-day sessions of this masterclass, we take a different, more collaborative approach to empathy that centres on a particular kind of selfless therapist empathic presence. In the first session, we take a focusing-oriented approach to empathy that emphasizes it as a collaborative, embodied process. In the second session, we teach empathy as a flow-state of deep empathic immersion.
This training optimally builds on previous EFT empathy training and features two new training modules, developed in late 2025. If you did your EFT empathy training prior to Autumn 2025, we recommend that you do this masterclass as a top-up.
However, you can sign up at any point, even without any previous EFT training.
Day 1: Collaborative Embodied Empathy: Accessing your embodied empathic resonance
• Theory: phenomenology & focusing; collaborative nature of empathy; empathy as being rather than performance.
• Live demonstration.
• Two Skill practices: (a) client actively helps the therapist have the same bodily experience; (b) therapist practices bodily resonance without client actively helping
Day 2: Deep Empathic Immersion:
• Theory: Empathic flow states; letting go of self-focused attention; establishing presence/therapeutic humility/not-knowing attitude/curiosity.
• Live demonstration.
• Skill practices (a) therapist practices letting go of self-focused attention; (b) therapist practices therapeutic humility/curiosity
To register for the course, or for any enquiries, please email: eftinstitutescotland@gmail.com
Trainers offering Masterclasses
Robert Elliott, Ph.D. (preferred pronouns: they/them), is professor emeritus of counselling at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland). They received their PhD in clinical psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1978, and are also professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Toledo (Ohio). Their main interests are practice, supervision, training, and research on EFT and related therapies. They co-authored Facilitating emotional change (1993), Learning emotion-focused psychotherapy(2004/2025), Research methods in clinical psychology (1994/2002/2015), Essentials of Descriptive-Interpretive Qualitative Research (2021), and Emotion-Focused Counselling in Action (2021), as well as 200 journal articles and book chapters. Robert is past president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, and previously co-edited the journals Psychotherapy Research, and Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies. They are a fellow in the divisions of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association, and received the Distinguished Research Career Award of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, and the Carl Rogers Award from the Division of Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association. They now live in Northern California, in the ancestral lands of the indigenous Ohlone people, where they continue to enjoy developing, writing about and running EFT training, as well as walking, running, science fiction, poetry, and all kinds of music.
Lorna Dawson (Formerly Carrick) MSc, preferred pronouns she/her is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Strathclyde Where she teaches on the MSc’s in Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Counselling and on the Counselling Unit’s Advanced Professional Training Programme. She has a private practice that includes EFT Therapy, Supervision and Training.
She has developed several mental health projects and is a founder Member of the Clydesdale Counselling and Human Development Project which received NHS and third sector funding for over17 years. Her main interests are practice supervision, training and research, development of theory particularly in: Trauma and Crisis, Social Anxiety, PCE Counselling for Depression and Pre-therapy for clients with psychological contact difficulties.
Lorna has an MA Honors Degree in Psychology from The University of Glasgow and worked as a Clinical Psychologist for Tayside NHS prior to becoming Director of the Strathclyde Children in Care Scheme for the Strathclyde Social Work Department. She has a MSc in Counselling and Psychotherapy from The University of Strathclyde and has been a Mental health therapist for more than 35 years.