2018 Events
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Second Year Seminar (Fridays 2017-2018)Open Seats 3 | 2017-9-8 10:00 am | - | 2018-6-11:15 pm | ||
Advanced Seminar (Fridays 2017-2018)Open Seats 3 | 2017-9-15 10:00 am | - | 2018-6-151:15 pm | ||
Advanced Seminar (Tuesdays 2017-2018)Open Seats 3 | 2017-9-19 10:00 am | - | 2018-6-121:15 pm | ||
Intro to the Integration of Structural Dissociation and Ego State Therapy (Amherst MA)Open Seats 31 | 2018-6-9 9:00 am | - | 2018-6-115:00 pm | ||
Intro to the Integration of Structural Dissociation and Ego State Therapy (Providence RI)Open Seats 48 | 2018-9-15 9:00 am | - | 2018-9-175:00 pm | ||
Intro to the Integration of Structural Dissociation and Ego State Therapy (South Bend IN)Open Seats 46 | 2018-11-3 9:00 am | - | 2018-11-55:00 pm |
Sep 8,2017 - Jun 1,2018 Time: 10:00 am - 1:15 pm

- Explain the elements of dissociative language likely to occur in each of the 8 Phases.
- Emphasize enhancing higher order mental functions that go well beyond Resource Development.
- Focus on healthy self-care patterns and how to assess them.
- Teach how to process Structural Dissociation phobias.
- Provide a protocol to process unspecific blockages.
- Illustrate nine therapeutic relationship problems and how to address them.
- Demonstrate their widely acclaimed Tip of the Finger Strategy to facilitate trauma processing.
- Detail their Meeting Place Procedure and why they have modified The Dissociative Table/Conference Room technique.

1164 S East Street
Amherst, 01002
Event Fees:
Second Year Seminar (Fri) - 2 Session Deposit $ 200.00
2nd Year Seminar (Fri) - 2 Session Deposit - Community Mental Health $ 160.00
Second Year Seminar (Fri) - 10 Sessions $ 1000.00
2nd Year Seminar (Fri) - 10 Sessions - CMHC $ 800.00
Sep 15,2017 - Jun 15,2018 Time: 10:00 am - 1:15 pm
- Describe dissociative processes in clients with severe trauma histories with greater depth and understanding.
- Utilize their own Conference Room experience, readings, and case consultation to use this very beneficial approach to working with their clients’ ego states and/or alters.
- Determine in using the Conference Room with dissociative clients whether the adult client is present or is asked to leave or go to a soundproof booth.
- Apply their own Healing Circle experience, readings, and case consultation to use this deeply resourcing technique with clients with complex trauma.
- Apply their own personal experiences in the Conference Room and the Healing Circle to better understand therapist as self.
- Discern when to use Ego State and EMDR therapies with healthier clients to develop the skills needed to use these modalities with their more challenged clients.
- Describe the ways in which Perpetrator Introjects are in fact protective parts.
- Utilize new approaches to develop successful alliances with clients’ Perpetrator Introjects/”honchos” that have blocked progress and caused self-harm.
- Assess and analyze the dissociative language of severely traumatized clients.
- Recognize nonverbal dissociative processes in clients.
- Identify and work with the Structural Dissociation phobias of attachment and of attachment loss in Phase 1 of trauma treatment.
- Identify and work with the phobias of trauma-derived mental actions and of traumatic memories with dissociative clients in all 3 phases of trauma treatment.
- Identify when a client with severe trauma may be able to start safely processing childhood trauma, and what behaviors would categorize them as “not ready” to start processing.
- Describe the Structural Dissociation concept of mental level, composed of mental energy and mental efficiency.
- Apply the concept of mental level to a particular client over time, noting how it has varied and it’s impact on the capacity of the client to process trauma.
- Apply the Tip of the Finger strategy to stabilize Emotional Parts of dissociative clients.
- Explain how to target the internal experiences of dissociative clients to improve their functioning long before they can safely target childhood trauma.
- Utilize Structural Dissociation approaches and bilateral stimulation to process current situations and address internal interference.
- Note the differences between Fraser’s Dissociative Table Technique (the Conference Room) and Gonzalez & Mosquera’s Meeting Place and adapt them to their preferences and their clients’ situations.
- Discuss the three learned approaches using assigned readings including transcripts of many Ego State/EMDR and Structural Dissociation/EMDR sessions shared with the consent of my clients.
- Describe how case consultation enriches their confidence in working with complex trauma and prepares them to integrate these approaches with EMDR Therapy.
- Describe in their final paper how the Seminar has transformed their clinical practice, utilizing a case example.

1164 S East Street
Amherst, 01002
Event Fees:
Advanced Seminar (Fri) - 2 Session Deposit $ 200.00
Advanced Seminar (Fri) - 2 Session Deposit - Community Mental Health $ 160.00
Advanced Seminar (Fri) - 10 Sessions $ 1000.00
Advanced Seminar (Fri) - 10 Sessions - CMHC $ 800.00
Sep 19,2017 - Jun 12,2018 Time: 10:00 am - 1:15 pm
- Describe dissociative processes in clients with severe trauma histories with greater depth and understanding.
- Utilize their own Conference Room experience, readings, and case consultation to use this very beneficial approach to working with their clients’ ego states and/or alters.
- Determine in using the Conference Room with dissociative clients whether the adult client is present or is asked to leave or go to a soundproof booth.
- Apply their own Healing Circle experience, readings, and case consultation to use this deeply resourcing technique with clients with complex trauma.
- Apply their own personal experiences in the Conference Room and the Healing Circle to better understand therapist as self.
- Discern when to use Ego State and EMDR therapies with healthier clients to develop the skills needed to use these modalities with their more challenged clients.
- Describe the ways in which Perpetrator Introjects are in fact protective parts.
- Utilize new approaches to develop successful alliances with clients’ Perpetrator Introjects/”honchos” that have blocked progress and caused self-harm.
- Assess and analyze the dissociative language of severely traumatized clients.
- Recognize nonverbal dissociative processes in clients.
- Identify and work with the Structural Dissociation phobias of attachment and of attachment loss in Phase 1 of trauma treatment.
- Identify and work with the phobias of trauma-derived mental actions and of traumatic memories with dissociative clients in all 3 phases of trauma treatment.
- Identify when a client with severe trauma may be able to start safely processing childhood trauma, and what behaviors would categorize them as “not ready” to start processing.
- Describe the Structural Dissociation concept of mental level, composed of mental energy and mental efficiency.
- Apply the concept of mental level to a particular client over time, noting how it has varied and it’s impact on the capacity of the client to process trauma.
- Apply the Tip of the Finger strategy to stabilize Emotional Parts of dissociative clients.
- Explain how to target the internal experiences of dissociative clients to improve their functioning long before they can safely target childhood trauma.
- Utilize Structural Dissociation approaches and bilateral stimulation to process current situations and address internal interference.
- Note the differences between Fraser’s Dissociative Table Technique (the Conference Room) and Gonzalez & Mosquera’s Meeting Place and adapt them to their preferences and their clients’ situations.
- Discuss the three learned approaches using assigned readings including transcripts of many Ego State/EMDR and Structural Dissociation/EMDR sessions shared with the consent of my clients.
- Describe how case consultation enriches their confidence in working with complex trauma and prepares them to integrate these approaches with EMDR Therapy.
- Describe in their final paper how the Seminar has transformed their clinical practice, utilizing a case example.

1164 S East Street
Amherst, 01002
Event Fees:
Advanced Seminar (Tue) - 2 Session Deposit $ 200.00
Advanced Seminar (Tue) - 2 Session Deposit - Community Mental Health $ 160.00
Advanced Seminar (Tue) - 10 Sessions $ 1000.00
Advanced Seminar (Tue) - 10 Sessions - CMHC $ 800.00
Jun 9,2018 - Jun 11,2018 Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Describe core concepts of Ego State Therapy when using EMDR with complex trauma clients
- Discuss how Ego State Therapy and Structural Dissociation theory facilitate successful use of EMDR with dissociative clients
- Assess how Fraser's Dissociative Table Technique facilitates work with aspects of self
- Demonstrate confidence using Fraser's DTT, (Conference Room or Meeting Place), with clients through supervised practica
- Apply knowledge gained to specific client presentations
- Discuss when to use specific techniques in EMDR work with parts of the personality
- Utilize successful strategies for honoring hostile introjects and gaining their alliance
- Explain the usefulness of the Tip of the Finger Strategy in fractionating abreactions by Emotional Parts of the Personality to facilitate EMDR treatment
- Describe the complex internal structure of clients with Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Utilize skills to communicate more effectively with alters (Apparently Normal Parts/Emotional Parts), especially perpetrator introjects
- Planfully build communication and trust among parts of the personality
- Plan specific ways to use EMDR very early in treatment to stabilize clients with DID
- Explain why we avoid the reification of child alters/Emotional Parts
- Demonstrate when to work through the client and when to work directly with dissociated self-states

UMass Campus Center
1 Campus Center Way
Amherst, 01003
Event Fees:
3 Day Workshop - Registration $ 450.00
3 Day Workshop - Community Mental Health Clinician Registration $ 400.00
3 Day Workshop - Early Registration $ 400.00
3 Day Workshop - Community Mental Health Clinician Early Registration $ 350.00
2 Day Workshop - Early Registration $ 300.00
2 Day Workshop - Community Mental Health Clinician Early Registration $ 250.00
2 Day Workshop - Registration $ 350.00
2 Day Workshop - Community Mental Health Clinician Registration $ 300.00
1 Day DID Workshop (for past participants only) - Early Registration $ 150.00
1 Day DID Workshop (for past participants only) - CMHC Registration $ 150.00
1 Day DID Workshop (for past participants only) - Registration $ 175.00
1 Day DID Workshop (for past participants only) - CMHC Early Reg $ 125.00
Sep 15,2018 - Sep 17,2018 Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Describe core concepts of Ego State Therapy when using EMDR with complex trauma clients
- Discuss how Ego State Therapy and Structural Dissociation theory facilitate successful use of EMDR with dissociative clients
- Assess how Fraser's Dissociative Table Technique facilitates work with aspects of self
- Demonstrate confidence using Fraser's DTT, (Conference Room or Meeting Place), with clients through supervised practica
- Apply knowledge gained to specific client presentations
- Discuss when to use specific techniques in EMDR work with parts of the personality
- Utilize successful strategies for honoring hostile introjects and gaining their alliance
- Explain the usefulness of the Tip of the Finger Strategy in fractionating abreactions by Emotional Parts of the Personality to facilitate EMDR treatment
- Describe the complex internal structure of clients with Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Utilize skills to communicate more effectively with alters (Apparently Normal Parts/Emotional Parts), especially perpetrator introjects
- Planfully build communication and trust among parts of the personality
- Plan specific ways to use EMDR very early in treatment to stabilize clients with DID
- Explain why we avoid the reification of child alters/Emotional Parts
- Demonstrate when to work through the client and when to work directly with dissociated self-states


Warwick Center for the Arts
3259 Post Road
Warwick, 02886
Event Fees:
3 Day Workshop - Registration $ 450.00
3 Day Workshop - Community Mental Health Clinician Registration $ 400.00
3 Day Workshop - Early Registration $ 400.00
3 Day Workshop - Community Mental Health Clinician Early Registration $ 350.00
2 Day Workshop - Early Registration $ 300.00
2 Day Workshop - Community Mental Health Clinician Early Registration $ 250.00
2 Day Workshop - Registration $ 350.00
2 Day Workshop - Community Mental Health Clinician Registration $ 300.00
1 Day DID Workshop (for past participants only) - Early Registration $ 150.00
1 Day DID Workshop (for past participants only) - CMHC Registration $ 150.00
1 Day DID Workshop (for past participants only) - Registration $ 175.00
1 Day DID Workshop (for past participants only) - CMHC Early Reg $ 125.00
Nov 3,2018 - Nov 5,2018 Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Describe core concepts of Ego State Therapy when using EMDR with complex trauma clients
- Discuss how Ego State Therapy and Structural Dissociation theory facilitate successful use of EMDR with dissociative clients
- Assess how Fraser's Dissociative Table Technique facilitates work with aspects of self
- Demonstrate confidence using Fraser's DTT, (Conference Room or Meeting Place), with clients through supervised practica
- Apply knowledge gained to specific client presentations
- Discuss when to use specific techniques in EMDR work with parts of the personality
- Utilize successful strategies for honoring hostile introjects and gaining their alliance
- Explain the usefulness of the Tip of the Finger Strategy in fractionating abreactions by Emotional Parts of the Personality to facilitate EMDR treatment
- Describe the complex internal structure of clients with Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Utilize skills to communicate more effectively with alters (Apparently Normal Parts/Emotional Parts), especially perpetrator introjects
- Planfully build communication and trust among parts of the personality
- Plan specific ways to use EMDR very early in treatment to stabilize clients with DID
- Explain why we avoid the reification of child alters/Emotional Parts
- Demonstrate when to work through the client and when to work directly with dissociated self-states


Century Center South Bend
120 S Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
South Bend, 46601
Event Fees:
3 Day Workshop - Registration $ 450.00
3 Day Workshop - Community Mental Health Clinician Registration $ 400.00
3 Day Workshop - Early Registration $ 400.00
3 Day Workshop - Community Mental Health Clinician Early Registration $ 350.00
2 Day Workshop - Early Registration $ 300.00
2 Day Workshop - Community Mental Health Clinician Early Registration $ 250.00
2 Day Workshop - Registration $ 350.00
2 Day Workshop - Community Mental Health Clinician Registration $ 300.00
1 Day DID Workshop (for past participants only) - Early Registration $ 150.00
1 Day DID Workshop (for past participants only) - CMHC Early Reg $ 125.00
1 Day DID Workshop (for past participants only) - Registration $ 175.00
1 Day DID Workshop (for past participants only) - CMHC Registration $ 150.00
Not able to attend any of the above workshops? See below.
An Introduction to the Integration of Ego State Therapy,
Structural Dissociation and EMDR Therapy
Presented by Farnsworth Lobenstine, LICSW
Thank you for your interest in my workshop.
It has been such a success that I expect to offer it this year in a number of cities.
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Looking forward to meeting you at one of my workshops!
Farnsworth Lobenstine
Farnsworth E. Lobenstine, LICSW, has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6873. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Farnsworth E. Lobenstine, LICSW is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
I receive no commercial support for me as a presenter, for the topics I teach, or for any of the required books or handouts.
Grievance Policy: Persons with complaints about my workshop(s) can contact me directly at (413) 256-3637.
I will make every effort to accommodate your concerns.