Saturday 15th September

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Working with the Body in EMDR Therapy A One-day Workshop 

Introduction: Guided by the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) system, EMDR therapy draws on the innate adaptive drive towards healing, thus facilitating the effective processing of traumatic and other disturbing life experiences to an adaptive resolution. EMDR therapy recognises the vital role of the body in the encoding and the resolution of trauma. The focus of this workshop is on attending more explicitly to somatic dimension in case conceptualisation, treatment planning and memory processing within EMDR therapy. Learning Outcomes: Participants will learn: 1. To understand the nature and role of body memories and their implicit and embedded presence. 2. To facilitate clients to access and target body memories with EMDR Therapy 3. To facilitate clients to process and resolve body memories with EMDR Therapy 4. To facilitate clients to access self-capacities and resources and to anchor them in the body 5. To recognise, monitor and modify nervous system regulation and dysregulation in EMDR therapy. Workshop content: The workshop will include 1. Illustrated presentations of relevant material 2. Demonstrations 3. Experiential application 4. Discussion and questions

Presenter:

Gus Murray is an EMDR Europe Accredited Trainer and Consultant with 20 years’ experience in the use of EMDR therapy. He is a highly experienced Counselling and Psychotherapy trainer having been Programme Director and Lead Trainer at the Cork Institute of Technology for over 25 years. He is an Integrative Psychotherapist accredited with the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and has also completed basic and advanced level trainings in Somatic Experiencing (SE) and is an accredited SE practitioner. Additionally, he has completed basic and advanced level trainings in Internal Family Systems (Ego State) therapy and has extensive experience in the teaching and practice of Ego State therapy. Gus was the recipient of the Carl Berkeley memorial award (2017) from the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the development of the counselling and psychotherapy profession Gus is coordinating the development of EMDR Therapy in the Republic of Ireland and represents the Republic of Ireland on the boards of EMDR UK and Ireland and EMDR Europe. He has presented at EMDR conferences and events throughout Ireland and the United Kingdom.