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