Beyond the Impasse: DBT Perspective: Working with Clients Who Are Difficult to Engage
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A one and a half day professional workshop with Dr Christine Dunkley. Learn to understand what may be happening when therapy becomes stuck, why engagement can become difficult, and what professionals can do when familiar approaches no longer seem to move the work forward.
Friday 27 and Saturday 28 November 2026 at Kunvent San Guzepp, Żebbuġ
€95 for Day One, €80 for Day Two or €160 for both days. Limited to 70 seats per day. Workshop bookings are non-refundable.
Limited to 70 seats per day
Description
About This Workshop
Therapy can sometimes reach a point where progress slows, sessions become repetitive, or engagement becomes difficult.
Beyond the Impasse: DBT Perspective: Working with Clients Who Are Difficult to Engage explores therapeutic impasse through a DBT lens, including therapy interfering behaviours, behavioural chain analysis and the patterns that may keep therapy stuck.
Led by Dr Christine Dunkley, the workshop places clear emphasis on the DBT modality and how DBT can help professionals understand and respond when engagement becomes difficult or therapy stops moving forward.
Event Details
- Friday 27 and Saturday 28 November 2026
- Training: Friday 09:00 to 16:00 and Saturday 09:00 to 13:00, with registration and networking breakfast from 08:30 on both days
- Kunvent San Guzepp, VCCV+77V, Żebbuġ, with parking near Ta’ Għaqba and a shuttle service to the venue
- €95 for Day One, €80 for Day Two or €160 for both days
- Limited to 70 seats per day
- 8 hours 45 minutes of CPD for the full workshop, plus a Certificate of Attendance
- Friday includes registration breakfast, morning coffee break and lunch. Saturday includes registration breakfast and morning coffee break.
- Organised by Willingness
Programme
Day One, Friday 27 November: Session 1 (Understanding Disengagement) from 09:00 to 11:00, Session 2 (Validation and Goal Setting) from 11:30 to 13:30 and Session 3 (Commitment Strategies) from 14:15 to 15:45, with a morning coffee break and lunch, then closing and certificate distribution until 16:00.
Day Two, Saturday 28 November: Session 4 (Chain Analysis of Therapy-Interfering Behaviour) and Session 5 (Working with Emotion) from 09:00 to 11:00, and Session 6 (Mindfulness for Engagement) from 11:30 to 12:45, with a morning coffee break, then workshop closing and certificate distribution until 13:00.
The full timetable is on the workshop page.
Who Should Attend
Professionals who work therapeutically with clients and who may encounter moments where engagement becomes difficult, progress slows, or the therapeutic process becomes stuck: counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, mental health professionals, family therapists, professionals working within therapeutic and behaviour change settings, and postgraduate trainees in relevant helping professions.
Facilitator
Dr Christine Dunkley is a consultant trainer, author and Fellow of the Society for DBT UK and Ireland (SfDBT), and recipient of the 2026 Outstanding Impact Award from the British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorders (BIGSPD). A member of the British Isles DBT Training Team since 2006, she has delivered more than 50 intensive DBT training programmes and hundreds of workshops to practitioners across health, social care and organisational settings. She is the author of numerous papers, articles and books, including Regulating Emotion the DBT Way.
How Booking Works
- Choose Day One, Day Two or Both Days and the number of seats, then enter each attendee’s full name and email address.
- Pay securely online. Your seat is confirmed once payment is complete, and you will receive a booking confirmation by email.
Please note: workshop bookings are non-refundable. Discounted bookings for selected professional associations and organisations are handled directly through Matthew.
Booking enquiries: call +356 7929 1817 or email [email protected].
