Using Cognitive Interweaves in EMDR: How, when, how and why to use them
Presenter: Dr Alexandra Button, Consultant EMDR
Date: Monday 6th July
Location: Buckfast Abbey, Devon
Duration of Event: 3 hours (9am – 12pm)...
Aims: To enhance attendees’ understanding of the use of cognitive interweaves including process, relational and content interweaves such that they will more readily be able to keep clients within the ‘window of tolerance’ when processing and intervene effectively when processing is blocked or looping.
Learning Outcomes: By the end of the workshop attendees will have learned more about what cognitive interweaves are and where good cognitive interweaves come from, new techniques, ideas and specific types of interweaves to use to better facilitate processing with clients who under or over access trauma material when processing.
Teaching Methodology / Format: Combination of lecture, generating discussion, and learning from examples using videos and role play.
Target Audience: Any EMDR practitioners
It will give EMDR practitioners a better understanding of what cognitive interweaves are, how, when and why they are used in EMDR processing. Attendees will learn a broader repertoire of interweaves to choose from in order to facilitate blocked or looped processing. It will also enhance practitioners’ ability to work with more complex clients who under and over access trauma material.