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Unmitigated Agency – Managing Over-Control and Relational Dominance18/06/202612:30 PMThis 3-hour interactive training workshop supports compassionate mental health professionals to work more effectively with clients who appear highly driven, dominant, intensely solution-focused, or resistant to emotional depth. Rather than mislabelling over-control as confidence, arrogance, or narcissism, this workshop introduces a psychologically informed framework that understands unmitigated agency as a threat-based protection response. You’ll learn how perceived loss of control, autonomy threat, and subtle power dynamics shape engagement and defensiveness. The focus is practical, ethical, and clinically grounded - helping you recognise early signs of control-based withdrawal, prevent power struggles, and foster emotional flexibility without undermining autonomy. 18/06/20263:30 PMEXT Academy of Advanced Changework Category A - 3 Hourshttps://www.hypnotherapy.training/offers/ad7wLKz9/checkout        Active ~/images/events/external/aac_logo_965x500.pngEX26AAC2

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Unmitigated Agency – Managing Over-Control and Relational Dominance

This 3-hour interactive training workshop supports compassionate mental health professionals to work more effectively with clients who appear highly driven, dominant, intensely solution-focused, or resistant to emotional depth. Rather than mislabelling over-control as confidence, arrogance, or narcissism, this workshop introduces a psychologically informed framework that understands unmitigated agency as a threat-based protection response. You’ll learn how perceived loss of control, autonomy threat, and subtle power dynamics shape engagement and defensiveness. The focus is practical, ethical, and clinically grounded - helping you recognise early signs of control-based withdrawal, prevent power struggles, and foster emotional flexibility without undermining autonomy.

What will this training give you?
• A clearer understanding of why over-control and dominance emerge in therapy
• Practical ways to prevent competitive or power-based ruptures
• Greater confidence working with clients who interrupt, correct, or take control of sessions
• Skills to validate competence without reinforcing over-functioning
• Tools to gently expand emotional tolerance without triggering defensiveness
• A framework to differentiate healthy agency from control-based protection

Teaching Methods:

This training is delivered live online and uses a mix of brief expert instruction, facilitated discussion, live demonstration, and supported practice.

Participants engage in:
• Guided reflection on clinician countertransference
• Clinical vignette analysis
• Structured role-play scenarios
• Power-dynamic awareness exercises
• Micro-repair practice

Downloadable worksheets and participant reference materials are provided to support integration into clinical practice.

Assessment/Evidence of Learning: 
Learning is evidenced through active participation in guided reflection activities, clinical discussion, and practical exercises during this live workshop.
Participants demonstrate learning through:
• Identification of coping patterns in vignette material
• Appropriate formulation of control-based regulation
• Use of autonomy-protective language in role-play
• Demonstration of de-escalation skills

Participants receive a statement of attendance for 3 CPD hours.

Presenter:

Karen Bartle is a postgraduate in Health Psychology, Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist, clinical supervisor, co-founder of the Academy of Advanced Changework, and co-author of The Advanced Hypnotherapist.

For over 25 years, Karen has worked with individuals, caregivers, and health professionals navigating behavioural, lifestyle, and psychosocial challenges. She has seen first-hand how caring practitioners can feel stuck when empathy, education, coaching and even motivational interviewing can’t shift engagement - and how reframing control as protection can transform therapeutic outcomes.


 

Disclaimer:
The content of this endorsed CPD course is provided by the external course provider. Attendees are encouraged to approach the material with an open mind and consider diverse perspectives, particularly those from lived experiences related to the topics discussed. For feedback regarding the course, please contact the course provider directly.
When
18/06/2026 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM
AUS Eastern Standard Time
Where
Online