We have now reached the minimum number for the child EMDR training has been reached - there are a few more places available so we can now extend the closing date to the beginning of May

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.

Reminder - The closing date for the emdr level 1 child training is 6th April (this includes booking and payment). If by that date we have enough people to make it viable we will extend the deadline. Thank you

A note on invoices

As we are not an organisation as such and do not have our own bank account we cannot invoice (we have tried in the past and been rejected due to the requirements of the paying organisation).

Details of how to pay are on the booking form.  The booking form can be found by scrolling down to the relevant post.

Marcia has offered to send receipts in advance of payment so people can claim back if that is helpful.

Please bear in mind that we are doing our best to bring good quality and affordable courses and workshops to the area and any profit goes to charity.  We are not an organisations and therefore have none of the related systems or resources.

Please can you encourage your organisations to be flexible or alternatively you will need to pay and then claim back or make use of the offer of a receipt in advance.

Thank you

Rachel

EMDR south west have just donated £400 to Trauma aid. We have now donated £3,700 to local, national and international charities since we started just over 3 years ago.

Dear Marcia

 Please pass on our thanks to all in emdr south west region for their continued support of our work.

 Regional groups play a huge part in supporting our work and we are planning to include them more.

 If it is appropriate, we would welcome it if you could encourage any of your group who are not already  members of Trauma Aid UK to join.   We want to get our  message out to as many as possible in our EMDR community.

With sincere thanks for your donation.

Sian Morgan

President

Trauma Aid UK

Notice.  We are now aware that there is a level one child training running in Bristol in April.  The situation for the child training is that we need a minimum number of people to proceed.  We need about four more people for this to be the case. We are therefore bringing the closing date for bookings and payments forward to 6th April.  This will mean that if we do not get sufficient numbers to run the course people will still have the option to attend in Bristol.  We would be really grateful if you are considering attending if you can book and pay as soon as possible.  If we get over the minimum numbers any profit will be donated to Trauma Aid UK.  Please note that the price for the event includes lunch on both days.

Part 1 EMDR Europe Accredited Child Training

This training is designed for clinicians experienced in working with children and adolescents. This practical 2-day training is designed to ensure that the over-arching developmental stages of children are taken into account when utilising EMDR to ensure the correct developmental protocol is used to maximise therapeutic benefit to the child and their family  During the training, an overview of working systemically with children will be taught alongside the technical modifications of standard EMDR components by age groups (toddler, pre-school aged children, school aged children and teenagers), supported by videos of children with which the different developmental protocols are used.   In addition, practical skills such as the adaptations required in explaining EMDR to children, eliciting a safe place appropriate to the child’s age and developmental stage, stretching the window of tolerance to accommodate improved emotional regulation and examples of how children emotionally regulate differently to adults will be also taught. Finally, a brief introduction to what to do when processing becomes blocked including the use of interweaves with children and the 4-fields group protocol for children will also be shared.

This workshop will include practicums and skills-based learning to help consolidate learning and flexibility in the delivery of EMDR with children.

Children are in a constant state of chance and evolution: both physiologically, neurologically, cognitively, emotionally and socially.  Children and adolescents do not exist alone but in the context of their families, hence it is impossible to work with a child without taking the context of their system into account – whether or not the system is physically present.    The emotional and chronological age of the child needs to be taken into account in the language and the developmental protocol used in both understanding and treating the child’s difficulties from both the systemic stance as well as from the child’s own understanding of their difficulties.  In this way, working with children and their families can be seen as equally flexible and challenging.

Susan Darker-Smith - EMDR Europe Accredited Child & Adolescent Trainer

Susan is an accredited EMDR Consultant and an accredited Europe Child Trainer who works in a CAMHS team within the NHS alongside her private work.  She has been actively involved in the formation of a National Trauma Response Service in the UK offering group and early intervention EMDR for victims of National terrorist attacks and natural disasters (initially in response to children displaying trauma symptoms in the weeks following the Manchester terror attack).

Susan has a wealth of experience in working with complex and dissociative client groups and through this work, she developed an EMDR protocol for working with young people with attachment difficulties and emerging emotional unstable personality disorders.  She has lectured at a national and global level on her research and interventions in both EMDR and CBT.

Susan is currently working alongside clinicians both from a paediatric background who work with EMDR and pain and clinicians working with looked after children, to see if different protocol modifications are more effective in helping these specific client groups to recover.

Susan currently sits on the EMDR UK & Ireland child and adolescent section alongside being a Trustee of the National Trauma Response Service.   In addition to teaching the EMDR Child Trainings, Susan facilitates for the EMDR Academy and additionally teaches advanced-skills EMDR master-classes.

Eligibility to attend EMDR Europe Part 1 Child Training

In order to attend Part 1 of EMDR child training you must have attended a Part 1 and Part 2 of a basic EMDR accredited course, or the old Level 1 Accredited EMDR training. Certificate copies will be asked for as evidence of attendance. You must be working with children in your workplace and have experience of working with children,  you agreeing to this by applying for the course.

If you would like to attend please complete our online booking form

For further information about the use of EMDR with children please read the child & adolescent page from EMDR Europe

Cost £415 Price includes workshop, workshop material refreshments and lunch

13^th and 14^th June 2018 at Buckfast Abby Conference centre

Closing date for bookings and payments Friday 20th April. 

Places limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

Please refer to terms and conditions

Booking form and terms and condtions