EMDR Institute Training
Trauma Related Dissociation and EMDR
Advanced Training
About This Training
This training has been created in response to requests from clinicians who have attended my EMDR Institute Basic trainings. I have been one of Dr Francine Shapiro’s EMDR Institute trainer’s since 1998 and was personally assessed by her to become a trainer in her EMDR Institute. Having said that the training is open to all experienced EMDR clinicians who have completed an EMDRAA certified basic training(50hrs).
I first presented a case study on dissociation at the inaugural EMDR Asia Conference held in Bali in 2010. I was also actively involved for many years in bringing Dr Roger Solomon to Australia to present what I believe to be a premier training in Structural Dissociation and Master Class in the treatment of those experiencing high levels of dissociation. The information there presented and format of presentation have formed the basis of the two day training which will be outlined on this page.
Training Purpose
Many clinicians who have been trained in EMDR have recognised that more than the standard protocol is required to treat those that are highly dissociative and have complex presentations. A new understanding of client presentation and advanced skill base is required. This training is designed to give you information on the aetiology of dissociation so that you may begin understanding and treating your client from a dissociation informed platform requiring a new information and skill base. The training also provides you with the opportunity to put into practice what you have been taught with a full day practicum
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.
Training Format
Day 1
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Registration: 8:30 – 9:00 am
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Training: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
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Breaks: 10:30 am, 12:30 pm, 3:00 pm
Day 1 includes lectures, videos, and demonstrations, divided into four segments:
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Lecture: Recognising trauma-related dissociation and how to work with it
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Lecture with demonstration/video: Setting up a meeting place
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Lecture: Using EMDR treatment with complex trauma and dissociative clients
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Demonstration/video: Working with emotional parts
Day 2
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Training: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
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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:
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Establishing the internal clinical landscape using Fraser’s “Meeting Place”
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Memory processing with ANP and EP
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Memory processing with ANP and EP
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Debrief and closure
Training Content
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Recognising Dissociation
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Porges Polyvagal Theory
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Action Systems: Daily Life and Survival (ANP and EP)
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Development of “Self”
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How you become traumatised
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Trauma Defined
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Dissociation: A Trauma Response.
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What is a Dissociative Part?
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Phobia of Realisation
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Nonrealisation as the Core of Traumatisation.
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Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders
Implications for Client Assessment -
Cortical Expressions of Dissociation
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Treating Trauma Related Dissociation
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Fraser’s table: A Systemic approach to work with the whole system
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Primary, Secondary, Tertiary Dissociation
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Adult Leadership through the ANP
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Purpose of History Taking
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Case Conceptualisation the road map of the treatment process ​
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Complex Presentation and Comprehensive Clinical Landscape
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Two Clinical Landscapes: Two Road Maps
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Clinical landscape of the Internal World
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Preparation and Stabilisation of the Self
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Centrality of the Therapeutic relationship
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ANP preparation prior to Memory Work
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ANP Realising Parts
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Adult Leadership through the ANP
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Internal Meeting Place
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ANP and EP Coconsciousness
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EP Orientation to Time
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Compassion from the ANP
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Job Description Change
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Working with the Internal System
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Memory Work
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Individual TICES for both ANP and EP
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Working with Perpetrator Imitating Parts
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Possible Framework for working with Parts