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Dissociation Training

Trauma Related Dissociation and Advanced EMDR Training
Presented by Sigmund Burzynski

APS member $680

APS Student member $520

Non APS member $1360

Dates:         25 - 26 September, 2026

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Orange Ex-Services Club
213-243 Anson Street
Orange 2800 NSW
 

Venue is wheelchair accessible

Overview

This is an advanced training for those who have completed an EMDRAA approved EMDR basic training. It is recommended that those attending be experienced practitioners who have recognised the need for further training in the field of dissociation to manage their clients with complex presentations. It is expected the trainees will be quite familiar with the information provided at the Basic Training. Day 2 of the training is very much a day of practicum. It is a condition of attending the training that trainees be prepared to take on the roles of both client and clinician. As clinician they will be expected to put into practice information provided in the lectures and videos including Fraser’s Table. They will also be expected to set up and reprocess a memory with Emotional Parts. As client they must be willing to experience their Emotional Parts for their clinician to work with.

Training Format

Day 1

  • Registration:   8:30 – 9:00 am

  • Training:          9:00 am – 5:00 pm

  • Breaks:             10:30 am, 12:30 pm, 3:00 pm

 

Day 1 includes lectures, videos, and demonstrations, divided into four segments:

  1. Lecture: Recognising trauma-related dissociation and how to work with it

  2. Lecture with demonstration/video: Setting up a meeting place

  3. Lecture: Using EMDR treatment with complex trauma and dissociative clients

  4. Demonstration/video: Working with emotional parts

 

Day 2

  • Training:        9:00 am – 5:00 pm

  • Breaks:           10:30 am, 12:30 pm, 3:00 pm

 

Day 2 focuses on practicum, with participants engaging in both clinician and client roles. It includes four segments:

  1. Establishing the internal clinical landscape using Fraser’s “Meeting Place”

  2. Memory processing with ANP and EP

  3. Memory processing with ANP and EP

  4. Debrief and closure

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this event, participants should be able to:

  • Understand Dissociation as a Trauma response.

  • Define Primary, Secondary, Tertiary Dissociation.

  • Engage a systemic approach in the treatment of trauma based dissociation.

  • Examine a new skill base to treat dissociation.

  • The case conceptualisation and “clinical” road map of the treatment process.

Conditions of Attending

The practicum will provide the opportunity to experience emotional parts from both a client’s and clinician’s perspective. Steps will be taken to ensure a safe training environment where disclosures may be made. Confidentiality must be agreed upon. It is a condition of attending the training that participants be prepared to take on both roles. As clinician they will be expected to put into practice information provided in the lectures and videos including Fraser’s Table. They will also be expected to set up and reprocess a memory with Emotional Parts. As client they must be willing to experience their Emotional Parts for their clinician to work with.

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Training Content

  • Recognising Dissociation

  • Porges Polyvagal Theory

  • Action Systems: Daily Life and Survival (ANP and EP)

  • Development of “Self”

  • How you become traumatised

  • Trauma Defined

  • Dissociation: A Trauma Response.

  • What is a Dissociative Part?

  • Phobia of Realisation

  • Nonrealisation as the Core of Traumatisation.

  • Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders
    Implications for Client Assessment

  • Cortical Expressions of Dissociation

  • Treating Trauma Related Dissociation

  • Fraser’s table: A Systemic approach to work with the whole system

  • Primary, Secondary, Tertiary Dissociation

  • Adult Leadership through the ANP

  • Purpose of History Taking

  • Case Conceptualisation the road map of the treatment process ​

  • Complex Presentation and Comprehensive Clinical Landscape

  • Two Clinical Landscapes: Two Road Maps

  • Clinical landscape of the Internal World

  • Preparation and Stabilisation of the Self

  • Centrality of the Therapeutic relationship

  • ANP preparation prior to Memory Work

  • ANP Realising Parts

  • Adult Leadership through the ANP

  • Internal Meeting Place

  • ANP and EP Coconsciousness

  • EP Orientation to Time

  • Compassion from the ANP

  • Job Description Change

  • Working with the Internal System

  • Memory Work

  • Individual TICES for both ANP and EP

  • Working with Perpetrator Imitating Parts

  • Possible Framework for working with Parts

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