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With Dr Elaine Grech (Ph.D.)Warranted Gestalt and Systemic Psychotherapist, Accredited Supervisor and Warranted Teacher
Date: Friday 14th March 2025
Time: 8.30 am to 1.45 pm (5 CPD hours)
Location: Pembroke Clinic (Limited Number)
Price: 100 € (includes tea breaks)
Early Bird: 90€ if you pay by the 14th December 2024
• How can we understand narcissism from the lenses of attachment, trauma, and systemic theory?
• Which childhood experiences and parenting practices can increase the risk of developing a narcissistic disposition?
• How can trauma-informed interventions such as inner-child work support our work with systems where there are narcissistic processes?
• How do we process and manage our counter-transference and embodied cues when working with systems (couples, families, teams, organisations) with narcissistic processes?
• Which embodied and poly-vagal informed interventions are helpful when working with couples, families and systems with narcissistic traits or personalities?
Aimed for: Multi-disciplinary practitioners who have an interest in developing further empowering, compassionate, reflexive, embodied strategies and interventions on how to support people with Narcissistic traits and their significant others, including within systems. Those of you who attended the first workshop on narcissism held in October 2024 will notice that we will explore other layers in the upcoming workshop. You can still join this workshop if you have not attended the first workshop.
Since the workshop is experiential, it also aims to support the personal and professional growth of the practitioners. The professionals include psychotherapists, family therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors, guidance teachers, teachers, social workers, child and youth care workers, support workers, managers, etc.
A Reflection
My first encounter with narcissism, being professionally explained, dates back 30 years to my undergraduate training in psychology. I remember sitting in the lecture theatre, listening to our lecturer describing the different types of narcissism. My body started shaking as if it was struck by lighting. It was as if naming this process had opened this portal, and during the following 30 years, I kept exploring deeper and deeper.
A quest had been ignited: trying to make sense of this complex and vulnerable process, which has challenged me as I navigate relationships in my personal and professional life. In one of my bookshop explorations, eighteen-year-old me also encountered a fascinating book entitled "Unholy Hungers: Encountering the Psychic Vampire in Ourselves and Others," written by Dr Barbara Hort, a Jungian counsellor. The vampire's metaphor started to inspire my understanding of narcissism.
As time went by, the therapeutic modalities I received post-graduate training in included gestalt, systemic, attachment and trauma-informed, polyvagal-informed, embodied and expressive therapeutic modalities. These conceptual frameworks came alive in the therapeutic settings I worked with over the years, including the field of addiction, residential care and later on, mentorship, consultation and training with multi-disciplinary professionals and organisations. These frameworks are now solid backbones sustaining the approach I developed over time when working with people with narcissistic traits or personalities and their significant others.
As you have probably experienced yourself, working with narcissism can be very challenging and tests us to our core. I am grateful to the mentors who, throughout my professional life, inspired me to develop and evolve my resources when working with narcissism. I will share these grounding resources in the form of therapeutic reflections and also embodied therapeutic interventions.
This workshop will invite you to practice and take-home embodied action-oriented therapeutic tools. You can then teach these skills to your clients or significant others.
Booking and Payment Procedure:
1. Booking through the website: https://www.drelainegrechpsychotherapist.com/upcoming-events
Click Register Now at the event of your choice. If the website allows you to book, it means there is availability. If the workshop is fully booked, a notification will appear with a waiting list option.
2. How to secure your payment:
• Payment must occur within 24 hours; otherwise, your registration will not be secured.
• Write your name and the workshop's title when processing the payment so that payment can be identified.
• Please email payment confirmation to [email protected] so I can confirm your booking: Name and Surname, Workshop Title and Date, Method of Payment chosen, and email address for correspondence regarding the workshop.
3. Participants will receive a receipt of payment via the email provided within the following week and after completing the workshop. Within a week, you will receive a certificate of attendance with the number of CPD hours completed. The certificate will reflect the completed hours, so please ensure you are present for the whole workshop.
4. Please note that it is on a first-come, first-served basis, and your booking can only be confirmed after payment and registration.
5. The payment is non-refundable except in the rare event that the facilitator cancels the workshop. The payment for the workshop is NOT transferable to someone else. If the person who has booked and paid cannot attend, they cannot transfer their booking to someone else.
6. Bookings must be made individually; prospective workshop participants are still requested to book and pay individually even if an organisation wants to sponsor employees' attendance. They will be given a receipt of payment in their name, and they can choose to present it to the organisation.
7. Around a week before the workshop, you will receive an email with the location and some ideas for training preparation.
Payment Options:
Full Fee 100€
Early bird fee: 90€ if you pay by the 14th December 2024
Payment Options:
Payment on Revolut or Mobile Banking: 00356 99447307
Paypal [email protected] (If using PayPal, please add 5 euros to the amount to cover the PayPal Fee).
Online Bank Transfer
SWIFT Code: VALLMTMT IBAN: MT60VALL22013000000040013125068
I wish you well, and thank you for your service to the community!
Looking forward to our shared space.
Many blessings
Dr Elaine Grech
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Pembroke (Malta), Saint Julian'S, Malta, Saint Julians
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