Friday 29th September at Buckfast Abbey Conference Centre 9-4pm

Planned Dream Interventions – An easy to teach stabilisation intervention that        can help clients stop nightmare distress and promote restful and healing sleep

by Justin Havens

Overview

Nightmares and sleep disturbance often resolve during EMDR trauma processing or can be directly targeted, but this intervention offers the opportunity to provide tools to the client to improve sleep in the first few EMDR sessions.

This workshop teaches both the intervention itself, which in EMDR terms can be described as ‘the client coming up with their own imaginal interweave for their dreams’, and also how to teach it during the early stages of therapy.  The purpose is to facilitate the healing of trauma through dream (REM sleep) processing, which is the minds natural way of dealing with trauma.  As well as benefits from improved sleep and reduced distress, successful use of this intervention reduces trauma symptoms (research data) and anecdotally makes further EMDR processing run more smoothly.

Aims

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

·         Understand the functions of sleep and dreaming, and how this relates to overcoming traumatic experiences

·         Understand the 3 steps to making a successful Planned Dream Intervention (PDI)

·         Understand the 8 principles of using the PDI approach, and how to troubleshoot problems

·         Be able to teach this approach to clients, using appropriate examples, and utilise it within a therapy session

The research trials and other applications of this approach such as an early trauma intervention will also be covered, as well as group exercises to consolidate learning.

This workshop has been awarded 3 CPD points. This is because the accreditation committee felt the workshop is clearly of interest to EMDR therapists but it is an intervention taught to non-EMDR trained therapists as well, and as such the EMDR content is not as significant as in other applications . The Accreditation Committee, therefore, has awarded the 'Planned Dream Interventions' workshop on 29/09/17 in Devon 3 CPD credits.

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