Working with Narcissism: A Reflexive Training Workshop for Multi-Disciplinary Practitioners
Fri, 18 Oct
|Pembroke
Time & Location
18 Oct 2024, 08:30 – 13:45
Pembroke, Pembroke, Malta
About the Event
- How can narcissistic traits manifest across continuums?
- How do we process and manage our counter-transference and embodied cues when working with people with narcissistic traits?
- Which embodied and poly-vagal informed interventions are useful when working with people with narcissistic traits or personalities?
- How do we process therapeutic challenges and dilemmas when working with people with narcissistic tendencies?
Training Workshop for Multi-Disciplinary Practitioners
With Dr Elaine Grech (Ph.D.)
Warranted Gestalt and Systemic Psychotherapist, Accredited Supervisor and Warranted Teacher
Date: 18th October 2024
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 18thAugust 2024
Aimed for: Multi-disciplinary practitioners who have an interest in developing empowering, compassionate, reflexive, embodied strategies and interventions on how to support people with Narcissistic traits and their significant others.
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 and many others.
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.
This workshop on narcissism will be followed by another one the following year for those who want to cover other aspects and tools when working in this field.
Booking and Payment Procedure:
1. Booking through the website: https://www.drelainegrechpsychotherapist.com/upcoming-events
and click Register Now on the event of your choice. If the website allows you to book, it means there are availabilities. If the workshop is full, there will be a notification which offers the option of a waiting list.
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 confirmation of payment to elainemarygrech@gmail.com so that 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, a certificate of attendance with the actual number of CPD hours completed. The certificate will reflect the hours completed, so please make sure 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 unless due to the rare eventuality of the workshop being cancelled by the facilitator. 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 need to be made individually; if an organisation wants to sponsor employees' attendance, prospective workshop participants are still requested to book and pay individually. 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 preparing for the training.
Payment Options:
Full Fee 100€
Early bird fee: 90€ if you pay by the 18th of August 2024
Payment Options:
Payment on Revolut
or Mobile Banking: 00356 99447307
Paypal elainemarygrech@gmail.com (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