The innovative experiential learning event brochure shares the six factors associated with brain change and the world class presenters who will bring these to life with engaging our audience with theory and diverse learning methods which will ensure everyone leaves with skills as well as knowledge, with confidence in themselves as well as being inspired by the talents of others. A few tickets remain for this years event or see the opportunities in 2018 at www.maximisingeffectiveness.com

1. Psychology | Psychotherapy
Psychoeducation
Connect | Learn | Play
maximisingeffectiveness.com
Improving Outcomes with Complex Clients
12-15 June
2017

2. An innovative experiential learning event, to
develop your clinical skills with world class trainers.
In her ground-breaking book, Maximising Effectiveness in Dynamic Psychotherapy, Patricia Coughlin (2016),
identifies the six factors that are associated with brain change in adults:
Improving Outcomes with Complex Clients
Models of psychotherapy emphasise these factors differently
and can prioritise the theoretical background of the model in
their teaching and supervision. This event is about prioritising
the factors that have been found to be associated with change;
so that, irrespective of the way that we are working with our
clients, we can get the best balance to ensure we play our part
in enabling great outcomes.
So in addition to focusing on these factors, we provide a
neuroscience informed, experiential learning process, so that
you leave with knowledge and skills. Naturally, our approach
brings the person of the therapist to the forefront, celebrating
our authenticity and capacity for emotional closeness. With an
emphasis on play as well as learning, and looking after your
body as well as your minds, we welcome your wholehearted
participation.
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focus and
repetition
facilitating
multiple levels
of emotional
activation
creating and
maintaining a
collaborative
alliance
creating
‘profound
moments of
meeting’
ensure moderate
levels of anxiety -
not too much,
not too little
developing a
coherent life
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Welcome
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3. Improving Outcomes with Complex Clients
Schedule Presenter Title Location
Monday 12th June
9.15am - 5.30pm
Patricia Coughlin
Six Factors for Maximising
Therapeutic Effectiveness
Brendan Carroll Lecture
Theatre, 2nd Floor
Monday 12th June
7 - 10pm
Angela Cooper,
Georgie Oldfield
All the Rage, Film - ticketed event
Brendan Carroll Lecture
Theatre, 2nd Floor
Tuesday 13th June
8 - 8.30am
Diane Byster Yoga - book your place Room 242, 2nd Floor
Tuesday 13th June
9.15am - 5.30pm
Kristin Osborn Beyond the Words
Brendan Carroll Lecture
Theatre, 2nd Floor
Wednesday 14th June
8-8.30am
Diane Byster Yoga - book your place Room 242, 2nd Floor
Wednesday 14th June
9.15am - 4.30pm
Patricia Coughlin
Who are you really? Why do you do
what you do?
Room 215, 2nd Floor
Beatriz and
Terry Sheldon
Expanding the Therapeutic
Attachment Relationship
Room 233, 2nd Floor
Angela Cooper
Medically Unexplained Symptoms:
Beginners
Room 217, 2nd Floor
Wednesday 14th June
4.45pm - 5.30pm
All together Q & A
Brendan Carroll Lecture
Theatre, 2nd Floor
Thursday 15th June
9.15am - 4.30pm
Kristin Osborn
Building Bridges Between Clients
and Clinicians
Room 215, 2nd Floor
Beatriz and
Terry Sheldon
Facilitating Multiple Levels of
Emotional Activation to Facilitate
Neuroplasticity
Room 233, 2nd Floor
Angela Cooper
Medically Unexplained Symptoms:
Advanced
Room 217, 2nd Floor
Jess Bolton
Deliberate Practice to Increase
Capacity and Outcomes
Room 234, 2nd Floor
Diane Byster
Building Awareness and Healing
Trauma
Room 242, 2nd Floor
Thursday 15th June
4.45 - 5.30pm
All together Q & A
Brendan Carroll Lecture
Theatre, 2nd Floor
Schedule
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4. Dr Patricia Coughlin has a keen interest in what specifically
maximises effectiveness, and in enabling others to fine
tune their clinical skills to improve outcomes for our
clients. She is a licensed Clinical Psychologist with over 30
years of clinical experience. In addition to seeing patients
in her private practice, Dr. Coughlin conducts training and
supervision groups for mental health professionals around
the world. She has held faculty positions at Northwestern
University Medical School and Albany Medical College,
and as Clinical Faculty at the University of New Mexico
School of Medicine.
Her office is in Albany, New York State. She teaches and
has core training programmes internationally – currently
in New York, Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Over the past 20 years she has written professionally,
given presentations at professional conferences and
conducted workshops for mental health professionals
around the world. Her third book, “Maximizing Effectiveness
in Dynamic Psychotherapy”, was published in 2016, to
great critical acclaim.
Kristin Osborn is a licensed mental health counsellor and
was trained by - and then trained others on behalf of Dr.
Leigh McCullough, PhD, founder of Affect Phobia Therapy
(APT). She founded the Certified APT™-Training Program in
2009 and presents internationally, offering ongoing training
in Boston, London, Stockholm and Amsterdam. She is a
lecturer (part-time) in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
(HMS), is the Director of HMS Psychotherapy Research
Program and has recently launched a research study on
therapist affect phobia and its impact on patient outcome.
Her passion is teaching clinicians how to integrate research
in their clinical training and she developed the ATOS-
Therapist Scale, Accessibility Scale, Congruent/Incongruent
Scale and the Control Mastery Scale, which are featured in
her book, Paraverbal Communications in Psychotherapy:
Beyond the Words, Rowman & Littlefield (2016).
Dr Patricia Coughlin Kristin Osborn
The Presenters
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KEY NOTE: Beyond the words –
Listen with your Eyes.
Learning to listen is a skill we all learn, but how many
clinicians are taught to listen with their eyes? Non-
verbal interplay between patient and therapist deepens
the power of the spoken word. During this day, you’ll
watch video excerpts from live psychotherapy sessions
and receive research tools you can use in your own
practice. You’ll learn how to explore non-verbal interplay
to gain additional information and meaning to make
informed interventions with your clients.
WORKSHOP: Building Bridges Between Clients
and Clinicians: How increasing your emotional
aptitude influences the therapeutic alliance
Neuroscience, attachment and psychotherapy research
indicates that the therapeutic alliance is at the heart
of treatment. You’ll learn how and why cultivating
your own capacity for self-compassion, self-care and
emotional experiencing helps you resonate more fully
with your clients so they can experience change. You’ll
learn how non-verbal interplay can guide you when
facing a client who is experiencing intense emotions. By
the end of this workshop, you’ll feel more comfortable
being yourself ‘in session’.
The best therapists
are not only highly
educated and
skilled, but are
an authentic and
engaged presence.
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KEYNOTE: Six factors for
Maximising Therapeutic Effectiveness
Therapists of every stripe can develop and integrate the
clinical skills most associated with clinical change to
improve their interventions, enhance effectiveness, and,
ultimately, help more patients in a deeper and more-lasting
fashion. The first day of this event gives an overview of the
six factors and brings to the fore the development of the
person of the therapist. These will be illustrated with real
life examples of how these are applied in real patient case
studies, with videos, illustrations and discussions.
WORKSHOP: Who are you really?
Why do you do what you do?
The best therapists are not only highly educated and
skilled, but are an authentic and engaged presence.
This experiential workshop is designed to help you get
clear about who you really are, while discarding old, limiting
beliefs that hamper, rather than support you, in being your
best self.

5. Dr Jessica Bolton is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist,
Experiential Dynamic Therapist and Trainer. She is
founder and director of Thrive Psychology Psychotherapy
Psychoeducation Ltd and the Maximising Effectiveness
brand, with twenty years of experience in university, NHS
and independent mental health settings. She has been a
pioneer, bringing EDT to clinicians and clients in the UK in
the early 2000’s, and is an IEDTA accredited EDT teacher
and supervisor.
Jessica is President of the International Experiential
Dynamic Therapy Association, recently starting her 4 year
term in January 2017. She has written a chapter in Theory
and Practice of Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy and
teaches in university settings as well as offering
IEDTA accredited EDT core training. She specialises in
training psychologists and psychotherapists to develop
EDT skills whilst working with highly complex cases.
Beatriz & Terry Sheldon Dr Jessica Bolton
The Presenters
Improving Outcomes with Complex Clients
Beatriz and Terry Sheldon have together pioneered a new
paradigm utilizing extensive clinical research and incorporating
the latest knowledge from neuroscience. They have also
developed new experiential teaching approaches to enable
therapists to incorporate, and embody, the wisdom into their own
therapeutic work. This paradigm is called Complex Integration
of Multiple Brain Systems and a new book of that title is coming
out in 2019 from the Norton Series in Interpersonal Neurobiology,
with series editor Dan Siegel.
Albert (Terry) Sheldon M.D. is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
at the University of Washington, Seattle and has taught
psychotherapy for 20 years. He has trained in and practiced many
therapeutic modalities, including CBT, EMDR, hypnosis, group
therapy, psychodynamic, mindfulness, and extensively in Intensive
Short- Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. Dr. Sheldon received a Bush
Medical Fellowship in 1992 to pursue research in psychotherapy.
He embarked on a course of experimentation and research with
the therapeutic process that continues into the present.
Beatriz Sheldon MEd.Psych. has practiced psychotherapy in
Vancouver, BC for 25 years and trained and supervised clinical
counselors, psychologists and psychiatrists for the past 10 years.
She graduated with a Med Psych. from McGill University, Montreal
where she also completed a postgraduate specialization in
Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. She was one of the
clinical investigators in a recently published, multi-center, evidence
based research study of Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy.
(“Controlled Evaluation of Short Term Psychotherapy in patients
with personality disorders” 1999-2002).
We will teach
and demonstrate
how to use this
perspective to
enhance your
practice of
psychotherapy.
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WORKSHOP: Facilitating Multiple Levels of
Emotional Activation to Facilitate Neuroplasticity
This course will go into depth about the different levels
of emotional processing in the brain: non conscious
primary level emotions from subcortical parts of the brain,
nonconscious secondary level emotional processing from
the basal ganglia, and tertiary level emotional processing
from the neocortex
WORKSHOP: Expanding the Therapeutic Attachment
Relationship and Physiotherapy for the Brain
We will teach and demonstrate how to use this perspective
to enhance your practice of psychotherapy and maximize
your therapeutic effectiveness. Working within an active
and present therapeutic attachment relationship mobilizes
high levels of emotional activation and provides relational
connection and safeness.
WORKSHOP: Using Deliberate Practice
to Increase Capacity and Improve Outcomes
Practice! It’s how the good become great, and how
we all become good. We wouldn’t expect to learn
to play an instrument by going to concerts or by
only performing whole pieces to an audience. This
workshop will show you how to use Deliberate Practice
to enhance your development, your clinical practice
and your outcomes. The workshop will emphasize
experiential learning through role-plays, watching video
material, including of your own clinical work.

6. Dr Angela Cooper is an Assistant Professor at Dalhousie
University, Halifax, Canada and a Chartered Clinical Psychologist
specialising in ISTDP. She has completed intense and
comprehensive training in ISTDP and currently works at the
Centre for Emotions and Health, Dalhousie University in Canada
with Dr Allan Abbass. Her work is focused on using ISTDP to
psychodiagnose and treat medically unexplained symptoms
such as chronic pain, fibromyalgia, gastro intestinal issues,
headache, memory difficulties, muscle weakness and other
psychophysiological disorders that are often comorbid with
anxiety and depression.
Diane Byster is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist,
National Certified Counselor and Registered Yoga Teacher.
In addition to private clinical practice, Diane supervises,
teaches and runs an on-going monthly training group in
ISTDP.
Diane has published articles and served as a contributing
editor to Co-Creating Change, by Jon Frederickson, winner
of the 2014 International Award for best book in Mental
Health. She received certification as a yoga teacher in
spring of 2008 through the Avalon Art and Yoga Center
teacher training program in Palo Alto, CA. In addition to her
teaching, Diane incorporates principles and techniques from
yoga into her work as psychotherapist. Diane is passionate
about yoga and practices daily.
Dr Angela Cooper Diane Byster
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…you will be offered
a framework to
assess unconscious
processes and
how they link to
various MUS
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WORKSHOPS: Working with Medically Unexplained
Symptoms (MUS): Beginners and Advanced
BEGINNERS: This workshop will cover basic theory and
practice as applied to patients with low to moderate
MUS. We will develop an understanding of what MUS are
and how they develop, you will be offered a framework
to assess unconscious processes and how they link
to various MUS, as well as a framework to understand
your own emotions. You will also learn some basic
treatment skills that you can apply safely with appropriate
patients. This workshop is suitable for all professionals
including those who have EDT core training.
ADVANCED: This workshop with cover more advanced
theory regarding the development and maintenance of
MUS. We will look at more complex MUS presentations
where medical, psychological and social factors intertwine
and how we can use an assessment framework to
determine if emotional factors are present, how they
might be contributing to symptoms and how
we might target those areas in treatment.
We will look closely at the effective aspects
of treatment and what is required depending
on a patient’s response to intervention.
WORKSHOP: Building Awareness and Healing
Trauma: Integrating Yoga Principles and Practice Into
Psychotherapy
This workshop will demonstrate how basic principles
and practices from yoga can be incorporated into
experiential psychotherapy. You will learn essential
principles from yoga that apply to trauma as well
as understand when and how to use yoga breathing,
simple, gentle movement practice, and mindful self-
compassion techniques.

7. Upcoming Events
Improving Outcomes with Complex Clients
2018
conferences
Starting
Spring
2018
3 YEAR CORE
TRAINING IN EDT
With Dr. Jessica Bolton
Monthly on Thursday or Friday for 10 months
and attendance at Maximising Therapeutic
Effectiveness conference.
Including:
Training in Group and Solitary Deliberate Practice
Apply with cv and cover letter to
jessica.bolton@thrivepsychotherapy.co.uk
Price: £2200 per year
3 DAY INTRODUCTORY
COURSE IN EDT
Connect | Learn | Play training.thrivepsychotherapy.co.uk
With Dr. Jessica Bolton
and Dr. Ricky Barrows
This is an intensive learning experience, focusing on
a range of techniques involved in this highly effective
type of therapy. The course involves theoretical teaching,
video case material, and skill development exercises.
It also provides participants with therapeutic and
practical resources.
17th and 18th January 2018 with a follow up
day approx 6 weeks later
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Conference | 27-28th October 2018
27th October 2018
Transtheoretical skill building to maximise effectiveness - Jon Frederickson
Bringing non-conscious emotions to the forefront - Beatriz and Terry Sheldon,
Developing the person of the therapist with Deliberate Practice - Jessica Bolton
28th October 2018 - Half-day workshops available
Trans-theoretical skill-building workshop - Jon Frederickson
Using mindful (‘kindful’) attention to support powerful therapeutic relationships - Beatriz and Terry Sheldon
Using deliberate practice to develop competence into expertise - Jessica Bolton
Price: £300 | HCPC / BACP / UKCP members £275 | IEDTA members £250 | Students £200
Pre Conference Workshop | 25-26th October 2018
Introduction to Complex Integration of Multiple Brain Systems (CIMBS) - Beatriz and Terry Sheldon
Price: £250
Post Conference Workshops | 29th-30th October 2018
29th October 2018 | ISTDP Masterclass workshop with Jon Frederickson - 50 places only
30th October 2018 | ISTDP specialist video supervision group with Jon Frederickson - 10 places,
6 with opportunity to bring a video (first come first served)
Price: £125 each
Prices: £400 | Students £300 10 participants max.

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