Enhancing your efficacy with clients through the power of process.
Saturday February 9, 2019. 0900 for 0930 – 1630
Ely Beet Sports & Social Club,
83 Lynn Road, Ely CB6 1DE
£55 for Association members, £60 for non-members. Fee includes lunch and refreshments.
Six EMDR Association UK&I CPD Points
The EMDR UK Association’s busy East Anglia regional group is delighted to welcome Dr Jamie Marich back to the UK on a further training visit , picking up and taking forward Dr Mel Temple’s fabulous day with us in Ely in Spring 2018 on working with dissociation.
As EMDRIA-accredited Trainer and Consultant based in Ohio, USA, and author of several books on EMDR Therapy, Jamie is rapidly establishing a reputation as one of EMDR’s leading international trainers.
The EMDR Association’s Regional Group in East Anglia is thrilled to welcome the UK’s leading EMDR-and-the-Military trainer, Matt Wesson, for a day’s workshop with us in Cambridge on using EMDR with the uniformed services.
Sorry, but Matt’s event is now sold out with a long waiting list. New events coming soon… If you’re not already on our regional Google Group, click this link and we’ll keep you posted.
When: 1000-1630, Saturday November 17, 2018.
Where: Quy Mill Hotel (& Spa!) Church Rd, Stow cum Quy, Cambridge CB25 9AF
How much: £65 for EMDR Association UK Members, £70 for non-members.
Six EMDR Association UK CPD Points
What’s it about? Read on….
Matt’s workshop aims to provide practical ideas for understanding and working with military personnel, veterans and the uniformed services (Police, Prison Officers, Fire Service, Paramedics, Security personnel, etc).
The workshop will address the special characteristics and culture of this population and how to adapt EMDR accordingly, with an emphasis on assessment, formulation and forming a strong collaborative alliance.
Matthew has had extensive experience of working with this client group, and will use his engaging presentation style along with interactive tasks and video material to help attendees improve their skills and confidence in this area.
COURSE DETAILS
The day will be a lively mixture of teaching, interactive exercises and video material
It will cover relevant research.
Clinical obstacles and therapy techniques to help engage this sometimes-challenging population into treatment.
The day will discuss risk and protective factors of common cultural issues and how they impact on treatment, history taking and ideas of conceptualisations.
Preparation, engagement and use of specific resources will be highlighted, and blocks to and during processing will be viewed.
The course is suitable for all levels of experience and previous knowledge of veteran or uniformed clients is not necessary
Workshop Outline
Myths, Facts and the Research around Military / Uniformed Services Mental Health
Cultural issues
EMDR and combat related PTSD
Engaging the military/uniformed services client
Tailoring EMDR to this client group
Utilising resources
Previous feedback on this workshop:
‘Excellent’, ‘Lots of new ideas’, ‘Great presenter’, ‘Clear and credible’, ‘Very good indeed’, ‘Clear delivery and a good case examples’, ‘Very interesting’, ‘Lively and credible’, ‘Well delivered and organised’, ‘Lots of interesting ideas I can relate to veterans work, and working with Police, Prison Officers etc’…plus many more postive comments.
Biography for Matthew Wesson
Matt is an EMDR Europe Accredited Trainer and Consultant, and has been using EMDR within his clinical work for nearly 20 years. He is also a BABCP Accredited CBT therapist. He works as an independent practitioner, supervisor and trainer.
Previous to that he served in the Armed Forces for 21 years delivering mental health care to serving military personnel across the UK and also including tours of Iraq and Afghanistan.
He has had several articles published in peer-reviewed journals on both CBT and EMDR, and has presented at international conferences. He has a particular interest in combat related PTSD and military mental health. He lives in Cheshire with his young family.
Cancellations more than two weeks before the event will be refunded minus a £10 handling fee. Cancellations within two weeks of the event will be refunded (minus the handling fee) only if a substitute participant can be found.
About 80 regional members of the East Anglia EMDR Association met at Ely Beet Factory Social Club on Saturday 27th April 2018 to explore best EMDR practice in working with dissociation.
Our expert trainer for the day was Dr Mel Temple, consultant psychiatrist and psychotherapist, EMDR consultant and current clinical director and lead specialist in The Kemp Unit at The Retreat in York.
She has worked across secondary and tertiary NHS settings, with time spent also in military mental health services.The Kemp Unit at The Retreat in York is a residential setting for the stabilisation and treatment of patients with personality disorder, complex trauma and DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder).
Kesgrave Community Centre, Ipswich, Saturday Nov 11, 2017
Morning Presentation by Mark Brayne, EMDR Consultant, with clients MJ and GV.
Mark began his presentation – to a capacity audience of some 70 colleagues – by reiterating the basic tenets and structure of EMDR Therapy (the eight phases, BLS, Dual Attention and Past-Present-Future) and answering the question, “What is the Transpersonal?”
He described how a transpersonal approach goes deeper than the conditioned ego to a discovery of a more enduring and essential self, and this expands our understanding of the magic of EMDR by helping clients to “break the energetic spells” that have trapped them, like Sleeping Beauty, in the emotional dysfunctions of their past.
This, and other recent developments, such as Laurel Parnell’s Attachment-Focused EMDR, are contributing to the development and expansion of EMDR.
Transpersonal EMDR emphasises the development, with the client, of a “resource team” of archetypes and qualities which can play an important part in the processing itself, either spontaneously, or when called upon by the client, using active imagination.
Other techniques include target selection via bridging from present to past; the use of creative interweaves; the transfer of consciousness (e.g from Adult State to an apparently malevolent Ego State in order to discover its benevolent intention); dreamwork; an understanding of alchemy; and the impact and processing of trans-generational trauma.
Two of Mark’s clients attending as guests, MJ and GV, described their own experience of transpersonal EMDR, and their deep healing.
Their descriptions were interwoven with clarifications from Mark on how the work expanded and “petalled”, like a flower, but always within the container of the eight-phase process, so that he and the client return to all the targets that have emerged from the work, usually enabling an appropriate completion of each session, even when the target itself needs (sometimes much) further work in future sessions.
This presentation was enthusiastically received, and MJ and GV were applauded for their courage and openness.
Following questions, and lunch, the East Anglia Group held its AGM at which, with some 30 colleagues joining in, it was agreed that the Regional Steering Group would be reconstituted, with a Chair, a Chair Elect, and the Past Chair each holding that post for one year, serving therefore for three years in all in a specific role.
A new role is also envisaged, of Web Manager and Media Secretary, with responsibility both for the website and the Google group.
Specific roles will be voted on every two years – non-specific roles will be considered annually.
The Steering Committee will consist of no more than 10 members, and for the coming year is made up of the following colleagues:
Chair – Mark Brayne; Chair-Elect – James Thomas; Past Chair & Trauma Aid rep – Sonya Farrell; Secretary – Shirley Young; Treasurer – Joe Kearney; Richard Holborn; Morven Fyfe (new); Lauli Moschini (new – TA volunteer).
Janet Harvey and Balbindar Mann volunteered to be standby members for the committee.
Afternoon: Sonya Farrell gave a short talk about Trauma Aid, outlining its developing role in training EMDR therapists in troubled areas of Europe and the Middle East. Sonya encouraged us to join Trauma Aid (fee is only £15 a year).
She also referred to a sister organisation, the Trauma Response Network(TRN) recently set up to provide EMDR therapy following events in the UK such as the Manchester bombing and the Grenfell Tower disaster.
For more information about how to join Trauma Aid, or to volunteer for TRN, go to www.traumaaiduk.org (for TRN, click on “For Clinicians” then on “Volunteer for EMDR Trauma Response”.)
We then divided into six groups, to discuss issues such as mapping complex cases, working with disabilities, online therapy etc. A consultant or consultant-in-training, was present for each group.
This was followed by a very successful raffle for Trauma Aid, which raised £165, with prizes of a comprehensive library of EMDR books most generously donated by outgoing/retiring steering group member and co-founded of the regional group, Maeve Allison.
The day finished with our ever-popular consultants’ forum, which addressed details of consultants’ training; how EMDR could become more widely known; and Francine Shapiro’s latest book, due out in Feb 2018.
Dates and venues for Networking Days in 2018 were discussed, with Saturday April 28 earmarked for, it is hoped, a day with Derek Farrell on the Blind to Therapist Protocol, possibly in Ely (or Cambridge), with Saturday Nov 10 noted down for a meeting possibly in Chelmsford looking at EMDR and the military.
Dr Jamie Marich in Norwich – author of EMDR Made Simple, using EMDR with Every Client
Report by Shirley Young
This was a well-attended and inspiring networking day and, without the usual focus on Powerpoint presentations, a relationally engaging experience!
Jamie started the day experientially by bringing us into presence in the way she starts her client sessions, guiding us to pay attention to the sensory experiencing of the room we were in: the sights, sounds, smells, physical sensations of touch and physical connection to chair and floor, and then our breathing, and finally encouraging us to move and stretch so we were bodily connected before she began engaging with us.
Norwich Sports Park audience paying rapt attention to Jamie Marich
Jamie began by sketching out her personal journey of how she came to work with EMDR, both personally and professionally.
She highlighted the difference between having knowledge and understanding from participating in personal therapy and the 12-steps programme, and the effects of experiencing EMDR, allowing her to move into “becoming” as a result of a therapy that addressed bodily experiencing.
Quy Mill Hotel conference room, with gorgeous views.
Report by Shirley Young, Regional Group Secretary
Around 70 of us met for a fascinating day of networking and helpful presentations and the usual opportunities for asking questions. The Q&A section and networking groups were enhanced by having the expertise of several EMDR Association Board members available to us.
Regional Co-Chair Mark Brayne introduced the day and welcomed the EMDR Association President Derek Farrell, President-Elect Lorraine Knibbs, co-ordinator on the Board for the regions Paul Keenan, and our first speaker (and himself also past President of the Association) Robin Logie.
Robin Logie introducing the Flash Forward Procedure
Robin’s presentation introduced us to the FlashForward Procedure (FFP) or, as Cindy Browning named it in an EMDRIA newsletter, the float-forward technique.
Unlike the Future Template, which targets a predictable feared event, the FFP targets an imagined catastrophic event that is unlikely to occur but may preoccupy the client sufficiently to impair full re- engagement with their life.
Robin explained that while EMDR’s AIP model is about unprocessed traumatic events, our conditioned fear stimulus makes us susceptible to react to conditions that in some way remind us of the original trauma.
Our reaction to, or avoidance of, the trigger can be associated with our unrecognised belief about the imagined consequences of our most catastrophic outcome.
Targeting this imagined catastrophic event can uncover fundamental issues and even unresolved events that may have been missed in processing past and present events.
In describing the FFP Robin encouraged us to keep asking “what is the worst thing that could happen” and then “what would be the worst thing about that happening”. Dying isn’t enough!
It is important to illicit the full meaning of the catastrophic event following the scenario to its ultimate conclusion. Sometimes this uncovers surprising meanings for the client and may be helpful as an exercise even without processing.
The standard protocol is then used to process the catastrophic meaning of the event.
Robin shared the example of a lady frightened of being killed as a result of being knocked off her bike. Although the original trauma had been processed and she had attempted to re-engage with cycling, she was still too frightened to cycle.
Using the FFP her catastrophic outcome was not dying but that dying would mean she would lose her family, who would no longer be around her. When asked to choose what was worse – dying or losing her family – the client identified the latter. “Going with that” choice, she realised that dying actually wasn’t so bad!
Aside from Robin’s main presentation on the FlashForward, we explored also a number of other useful techniques. These included the narrative approach for helping process a child’s story, where the therapist writes down the story in appropriate language, drawing on all appropriate sources including the child and the parents, and reads it back to the child, with BLS as it unfolds.
We heard too of the vertical hand technique for helping calm arousal, and for soothing headaches/migraine. (I know that one delegate experimented with this during one of the breaks and reduced her headache with good effect!)
Dr Derek Farrell in full flow…. President of the Association
Our second presenter of the day was Derek Farrell. Before fielding EMDR questions from the floor, he was able to give us a helpful overview of EMDR internationally, drawing on his experience as vice-president of EMDR Europe and his involvement with Trauma Aid UK and Trauma Aid Europe.
Despite our frequent frustration with psychological services in the UK and the gap between what we know could be possible with the right funding and what is actually available, Derek helped us realise that we are, in fact, quite privileged.
Countries which have experienced violence and even genocide such as Cambodia, Iraq, and Pakistan have poor mental health services, and lack understanding about trauma and its effects. Our understanding that there is a correlation between adverse childhood experiences and poor physical health outcomes is now being clearly observed in these countries.
Derek conveyed the difficulties of introducing training in countries where one is not building on previous psychotherapeutic knowledge. Instead training involves building trauma capacity. This involves providing education about what constitutes trauma, and then how to assess risk, manage psychological triage, provide trauma first aid and identify who requires treatment.
Derek also noted that progress is often hampered by established professionals who struggle to allow para-professionals to work in new ways that challenge the status quo.
After this introduction Derek fielded a variety of EMDR-related questions.
A key theme that Derek highlighted was the need for research that moved away from practice-based to research-based evidence. The possibility of moving EMDR training to university-based training could address this issue.
He also noted that it was important to identify what data was required beyond purely psychological data if funding was to be forthcoming and the effectiveness of EMDR as applied to different situations was to compete with the research base for CBT.
EMDR Europe is trying to address the research issue by encouraging small RCT trials in different countries, with the view to pooling outcomes.
Mid-afternoon we split, as usual, into network groups well supported by the wealth of expertise on hand. Groups included DID, OCD, Accreditation, Depression, Accumulated trauma and Psychosis.
Robin Logie, Walid Abdul-Hamid and Mark Brayne, Consultants exploring best practice in response to questions from the floor
Before the day concluded Derek, Lorraine & Paul joined Consultants from our own network to provide a panel to explore further questioning from the floor.
All in all, this was a most satisfying day in a splendid venue with good food and the occasional amusement supplied by Treasurer Joe Kearney taking photos from the back and Mark fielding the technical problems caused by computers packing up and power disturbance.
A raffle in aid of Trauma Aid UK (TAUK) had more meaning after hearing Derek’s earlier presentation, and Robin has let us know that we made a total of £363.50, including £189.50 in sales of books and support materials, and £174 on the raffle.
Regional Co-Chair Sonya Farrell also let us know that Walid Abdul-Hamid, Chelmsford regional rep and accredited Consultant, had only just arrived back from Gaziantep in Turkey where he had been training for TAUK, and yet managed despite jetlag and lack of sleep to participate in our Q&A. There’s dedication and commitment!
With upwards of 70 colleagues attending from across the South-East, we had a fabulous local EMDR East Anglian regional networking day on May 7, with the renowned US-based EMDR guru Jim Knipe presenting and answering questions on Skype for a good hour and a half, focusing especially on working with complex trauma.
Sonya accepting flowers of thanks…
Credit and thanks to Sonya Farrell and the regional steering group for getting the day together, at Chelmsford Cathedral’s Chapter House.
Roger Kingerlee, EMDR Consultant, addressing the Chelmsford networking day on qualitative research.
Click the various links in this note to access PDFs of the presentations, and a minuted summary of the day and its concluding AGM, at which Sonya and Mark Brayne were confirmed as regional group co-chairs for the coming period, with Joe Kearney taking over as Treasurer and Shirley Young our new Secretary.
Warm thanks to Kerry Hebdon for getting the group’s finances up and running in the two years since we were formed, and to Annabel Hare and Maeve Allison for their sturdy minute-taking over the months.
Christine Habermehl accepting (reluctantly!) flowers of gratitude for her support for the day.
Christine Habermehl from our Bedfordshire sub-group has also stepped back from the Steering Group, and will be replaced in due course with another local rep. James Thomas joins the committee as a member.
Read on for the feedback on the day, for the minuted summary, and note also for your diary that our next regional networking day will be in Cambridge, on Saturday November 26.
Details will be posted closer to the day, and click here to register.
Minutes and Summary
Mark Brayne welcomed everyone to the event and introduced the East Anglia Region Committee members. He encouraged participants to stay for the AGM at the end of the day and advised that the Chair, Secretary, Treasurer and some member positions were becoming vacant.
Sonya Farrell explained the format for the day and welcomed the first speaker, James Thomas, EMDR Therapist.
James has 25 years experience working with mental health issues in the NHS. He is a CBT and EMDR Therapist now working mainly with OCD and trauma in tier 4. James explained the different approaches that he utilises to promote engagement with EMDR, recovery and change.
These include 3rd wave CBT, ACT (acceptance commitment therapy) and mindfulness along with thorough EMDR resource installations. James provided examples by talking through two client cases and showed short videos on ‘Making a choice’ and ‘Values v Goals’.
Mark thanked James for his presentation and invited questions from the audience.
Sonya welcomed the next presenter, Ulf Jarisch, Managing Director of EMDR Equipment Europe. Ulf Jarisch introduced himself and provided the history behind the formation of his business. He explained how the EMDR light bars, audio and tactile sensors work and their adaptability to suit each individual client (different colours, brightness levels, speed, volume and add on toy characters for working with children etc…).
Ulf talked through the Pros and Cons of using EMDR equipment and noted that equipment was not essential for effective EMDR and in certain situations it may be better to use physical hand movements/taps. Ulf explained that he is in the process of developing a combined EMDR/ bio feedback machine that will give a print out reading and he talked about how this may be used in the future.
Ulf finished his talk by sharing details of his humanitarian aid work with refugees.
Mark thanked Ulf for his presentation and invited questions from the audience.
Participants were then invited to split into specialist groups for a networking and sharing session. These groups were Children & Adolescent, IAPT, PTSD, OCD, Military, Psychosis, Attachment and Pain.
Afternoon Session
Roger Kingerlee gave us a presentation on “EMDR Through the Qualitative Lens”. There is a respected tradition of qualitative research leading to quantitative investigation. Qualitative research is a method of “capturing the invisible” e.g. the known effects of meditation.
EMDR research, because it began soon after the discovery of EMDR, promoted its swift growth, and proved beyond doubt that EMDR qualitative research i.e. an exploration of what people actually experience during EMDR (rather than what the clinician is doing) has been overlooked. It could open doors to an expanded understanding of how EMDR works. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the therapeutic effects of EMDR are curious and probably unique to this form of treatment.
Roger plans to do this research over the next few years, using semi-structured interviews with about 10 people who have had EMDR. The aim is to create a model of what happens in EMDR.
Open Forum with Consultants Mark Brayne, Walid Abdul-Hamid and Roger Kingerlee
There was a lively and informative discussion between the consultants and the audience on a range of topics.
We were very fortunate to have a video link to Jim Knipe in the States, who gave a presentation on working with the client who says, “I don’t want to think about it”. The comprehensive handout gives details. Jim generously allowed extra time afterwards for questions.
The next Networking Day will be on Saturday 26th November 2016 in Cambridge (venue to be arranged).
AGM
The AGM was attended by 19 people. The 9 committee members present were introduced at the beginning of the meeting, and the Minutes of the last AGM (Ely) were approved. There were three officers resigning from their posts – Kerry Hebdon as Treasurer, and Annabel Hare and Maeve Allison as joint Secretaries. Sonya Farrell has been acting temporarily as Acting Chair.
Mark gave the Chair’s Report, and Kerry presented the Treasurer’s Report – both approved.
Elections for Officers:
Treasurer – Joe Kearney, Secretary – Shirley Young, Co-Chairs – Mark Brayne, Sonya Farrell
James Thomas joined the committee as a new member. It was agreed that the number of committee members would be limited to 10, with volunteers being co-opted when necessary.
AOB Walid said that there is a need for supervision for English-speaking Turkish therapists, and suggested that our members who are training to be consultants might consider providing this.
The EMDR Association East Anglia is excited to invite EMDR therapists to our next regional regional conference, in Chelmsford on Saturday May 7 – a fabulous day lined up with four presentations including a live video link presentation with Dr Jim Knipe.
The day is open to EMDR therapists in the region whether members of the Association or not (though we encourage all our colleagues to join up) –click here to book a place, as they’ll go fast. Just £50, with CPD points applied for.
10.45am – 11.15am – Presentation: ‘EMDR with chronic and complex trauma ‘ : When clients present with complex trauma we often need to draw on diverse approaches to promote recovery and change – the presentation will outline some ways I have engaged trauma clients using a blend of approaches from CBT and EMDR – James Thomas, EMDR Therapist.
11.15am – 11.30am – Short break
11.30am – 12.00pm – Presentation: ‘The Pro’s & Con’s of using EMDR Equipment’ –
Ulf Jarish, Managing Director from EMDR Equipment Europe.
12.00pm – 12.45pm – Networking in small groups by speciality i.e. EMDR with Children & Adolescents, EMDR with OCD etc
12.45pm – 1.45pm – Lunch & Refreshments provided
1.45pm – 2.15pm – Presentation: ‘EMDR Through the Qualitative Lens’, Qualitative research has a venerable history, in which simple clinical description and observation play key parts. This presentation will show how a qualitative take on EMDR could be both scientifically illuminating and useful – Roger Kingerlee, EMDR Consultant.
3.20pm – 4.20pm – Live video link with Dr Jim Knipe – Targeting the ‘Avoidance Response’ working with defences with clients and how these need to be modified with dissociative clients.
Thanks to those of you who joined us for a day of regional EMDR networking, with multilaterally stimulating presentations on EMDR from two of our regional colleagues:
– Joe Kearney presented on using the Feeling State Addiction Protocol (FSAP) and;
– Mark Hambrook presented on integrating Mindfulness with EMDR.
PLUS:
Case discussions, Q&A with regionally-based EMDR Consultants,
This day has been awarded four CPD points by the EMDR Association UK & Ireland.
Mark Hambrook introduced the pioneering work of Dr Richard Davidson and Paul Ekman (depression and anxiety) and Catherine Kerr’s exploration of somatic mindfulness. He’ll also explore what are termed the motivational systems, and self compassion, with brief practice and an attention/experience exercise. A link to download Mark’s presentation is at the bottom of this page
Click here for a fuller explanation of the FSAP, which aims to break the link between the positive experience provided by an addictive activity and the activity itself.
Alongside Joe’s and Mark’s presentations, the Norwich day was an opportunity to renew personal connections with fellow EMDR enthusiasts throughout East Anglia and neighbouring counties.
Mindfulness is flavour of the decade – in business, in the NHS, in healthcare generally – bringing a 2500-year-old practice of emotional and spiritual well-being up-to-date with today’s revolution in brain science.
The EMDR Association East Anglia is delighted to confirm that we now we have five official CPD points for our first Bedfordshire regional networking event, organised by our colleague Christine Habermehl.
The programme will comprise clinical training followed by the opportunity to network and take part in group discussions.
Many who have recently trained in EMDR as well as other more experienced practitioners find that establishing the protocol with its search for negative and positive cognitions can feel rather clumsy and uncomfortable at times. The aim of this session is to bring two linked concepts together that will form a template enabling a more natural flow for setting up the protocol.
The cost of the day is £25 and you can download a Booking Form EMDR here if you are interested in attending.
Christine writes further that she intends to set up a local group list and would like to invite those interested to ‘opt in’ to further communications by emailing her the following details: Name, address, contact email, EMDR level and work location.
As EMDRIA-accredited Trainer and Consultant based in Ohio, USA, and author of several books on EMDR Therapy, Jamie is rapidly establishing a reputation as one of EMDR’s leading international trainers.
