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Working in Transference Dynamics: Becoming Real in Relationship
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Working in Transference Dynamics: Becoming Real in Relationship
Transference comes alive when the therapist inevitably disappoints, misunderstands, or simply turns out to be different from who the client expected them to be. Rather than viewing these moments as therapeutic obstacles, this workshop explores how empathic failures and relational ruptures can become powerful opportunities for transformation.
The workshop presents a relational approach to working with transference through three interconnected movements. The first, Invitation to Relate and Permission to Project, focuses on creating a relational space in which the client’s perceptions, expectations, and emotional experience of the therapist can emerge safely into awareness. The second, Integrating Experience and Perceptions into the Fabric of Relationship and Being, emphasizes recognizing and validating the client’s subjective reality so that it becomes part of the shared therapeutic field rather than something to defend against or explain away. Finally, Sharing the Therapist’s Subjectivity explores how the therapist can thoughtfully contribute aspects of their own authentic experience—not to correct the client’s perception, but to expand the relationship to include two genuine subjectivities.
Through clinical discussion, experiential exercises, and demonstrations, participants will learn how working directly with transference can transform moments of disappointment into opportunities for deeper authenticity, mutual recognition, and lasting therapeutic change.
Learning Objectives
- Recognize moments of transference activation, empathic failure, and relational disappointment as opportunities for therapeutic transformation rather than obstacles to treatment.
- Facilitate the emergence of the client’s subjective experience by inviting projections and relational expectations into conscious awareness without prematurely interpreting or correcting them.
- Validate and integrate the client’s internal experience into the shared therapeutic relationship, fostering greater coherence in the client’s sense of self, other, and being.
- Discern when and how to share aspects of the therapist’s subjectivity in ways that deepen mutual recognition and strengthen the therapeutic alliance.
- Apply a relational framework for working with transference through the three therapeutic movements of Invitation to Relate and Permission to Project, Integrating Experience and Perception into the Fabric of Relationship and Being, and Sharing the Therapist’s Subjectivity.
Instructor Bio
3 CE’s: (ACEP #5476): Hakomi Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP No. 5476.) Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Hakomi Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
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Transference comes alive when the therapist inevitably disappoints, misunderstands, or simply turns out to be different from who the client expected them to be. Rather than viewing these moments as therapeutic obstacles, this workshop explores how empathic failures and relational ruptures can become powerful opportunities for transformation.
The workshop presents a relational approach to working with transference through three interconnected movements. The first, Invitation to Relate and Permission to Project, focuses on creating a relational space in which the client’s perceptions, expectations, and emotional experience of the therapist can emerge safely into awareness. The second, Integrating Experience and Perceptions into the Fabric of Relationship and Being, emphasizes recognizing and validating the client’s subjective reality so that it becomes part of the shared therapeutic field rather than something to defend against or explain away. Finally, Sharing the Therapist’s Subjectivity explores how the therapist can thoughtfully contribute aspects of their own authentic experience—not to correct the client’s perception, but to expand the relationship to include two genuine subjectivities.
Through clinical discussion, experiential exercises, and demonstrations, participants will learn how working directly with transference can transform moments of disappointment into opportunities for deeper authenticity, mutual recognition, and lasting therapeutic change.
Learning Objectives
- Recognize moments of transference activation, empathic failure, and relational disappointment as opportunities for therapeutic transformation rather than obstacles to treatment.
- Facilitate the emergence of the client’s subjective experience by inviting projections and relational expectations into conscious awareness without prematurely interpreting or correcting them.
- Validate and integrate the client’s internal experience into the shared therapeutic relationship, fostering greater coherence in the client’s sense of self, other, and being.
- Discern when and how to share aspects of the therapist’s subjectivity in ways that deepen mutual recognition and strengthen the therapeutic alliance.
- Apply a relational framework for working with transference through the three therapeutic movements of Invitation to Relate and Permission to Project, Integrating Experience and Perception into the Fabric of Relationship and Being, and Sharing the Therapist’s Subjectivity.
Instructor Bio
3 CE’s: (ACEP #5476): Hakomi Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP No. 5476.) Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Hakomi Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
