Description
LIVE Virtual Course will take place December 4-6 from 12:00 – 4:15 PM EASTERN Time
Meeting on Zoom
Instructor: Deborah Kennard, Founder of PTI
Course includes lecture and opportunity to practice EMDR skills in a live group setting
Deb Kennard offers a simplified yet powerful approach to help the EMDR process go more smoothly. While staying true to the AIP, Adaptive Information Processing Model, this course offers an expansion including the way we adapt to maximize safety and connection. These adaptations will be reflected in the client’s presenting issue, blocks to processing as well as the client’s current resources.
This course will go into foundational trauma-informed principles that help to create the conditions for healing to occur:
Nonviolence
Mindful Awareness
Compassionate Assumption
Healthy Boundaries
These principles help the clinician navigate the path to healing with all clients and it is especially important as you are working with clients experiencing the aftermath of complex trauma.
The concept of the “Answer” will be taught through lectures and demonstrations. This unique, yet deeply profound concept is born out of the foundational principles and is a way to put the principles into action. The “Answer” can easily be woven in all 8 phases of the EMDR process.
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to give an example of how a client’s presenting issue reflects an adaptive strength.
2. Participants will be able to describe the importance of nonviolence when working with client’s experiencing the aftermath of trauma.
3. Describe how mindful awareness can be helpful for creating safety.
4. Describe how the present moment can be a resource for the client.
5. How does a compassionate assumption help to find the touchstone memory?
6. Give an example of how boundaries can be affected by trauma experiences.
7. Describe how co-regulation is bi-directional.
6. Describe how finding patterns of connection can be helpful in EMDR treatment.
7. Describe how finding patterns of protection can be helpful in EMDR treatment.
8. Describe how the client’s current symptoms may also be a resource for them.
9. Describe the 5 C’s of working with the concept of the “Answer”.
10. Describe the importance of using an experiment when practicing resourcing.
11. Describe 2 ways to experiment with boundaries in a session.
12. Describe how the concept of the “Answer” can be helpful when the client becomes blocked in phases 3-7.
13. List 3 factors that set the conditions for a client’s “Answer” to develop.
14. Describe how the clinician’s “Answer” is a factor in the EMDR therapy process.
15. Describe how understanding the client’s “Answer” can be helpful in treatment planning.
16. Describe how understanding the client’s longing under the “Answer” can be useful.
17. Describe how understanding the client’s “missing experience” can be useful in the EMDR process.
18. List one research study that discussed how unprocessed memories can be left as raw, somatosensory fragments.
19. Describe 2 areas that are often affected by a history of complex trauma.
20. Describe how to use Nonviolence in resourcing.
21. Describe how the use of curiosity is helpful in EMDR therapy.
22. Describe how to use a block in processing as an opportunity for healing.
23. Describe how going beyond the client’s symptoms is important in getting to the true experiential root.
24. Describe how understanding the “Relational Longing” can help prevent blocks to healing.
1 year of Course access is included in purchase! Take at your own pace.
Audience: EMDR Basic Trained professionals (completed a 6-day EMDRIA approved training program)
Conflict of Interest: There are no known conflicts of interests for this workshop
Course Content Level: Intermediate
Target Audience (only applicable to CEs): Psychologists, Social Workers MFTs, graduate level counselors, Psychotherapists
12 APA , NBCC and EMDRIA credits provided upon completion of course, quiz and evaluation. Course must be attended in full, no partial credit provided. Must attend live to receive CE credit.
Please see participation agreement for cancellation policy
