Bainbridge Institute for Integrative Psychology
Bainbridge Island, Washington
"When There Are No Words: EMDR for Early
Trauma and Neglect in Implicit Memory"
Scheduled Workshops
- Seattle March 13-14, 2010 UW Arboretum (14 CE - EMDRIA Approved)
About the Workshop
The challenges of using EMDR for early trauma and neglect are that a) EMDR readily targets explicit memories, but early trauma is held in implicit memory in the right hemisphere (Siegel, Schore) and is not typically subject to direct recall, and b) Accessing the felt sense of early experience can be overwhelming if it includes the paucity of internal resources of a neglected baby.
This workshop addresses both problems by careful preparation and systematic trauma reprocessing. The preparation includes 1) containment, 2) safe state, and 3) resetting innate emotional resources, which appears to directly act upon primary process affective circuits (Panksepp, 2009) to down-regulate the experience of emotional intensity. After the three preparation steps, the method systematically reprocesses early trauma, in the absence of explicit memory. The method targets consecutive time periods beginning before birth, and installs positive experience imaginally. As a result, the client builds a foundation of a felt sense of attachment and belonging, with emergent positive cognitions, enabling the client to meet the next developmental milestone in sequence.
This process meets the requirements laid out for a therapeutic reparation of early trauma by Fosha. The procedures were developed by Katie O’Shea as an outgrowth of Sandra Paulsen’s work treating ego states with EMDR. The two have collaborated on these methods since 2006.
About the Instructor
Sandra Paulsen, Ph.D. will be the workshop instructor. She has collaborated on the Early Trauma EMDR protocol with originator Katie O'Shea, M.S., since 2006, and they are currently working on a book on that subject. She published, “Looking Through the Eyes of Trauma and Dissociation: An Illustrated Guide for EMDR Therapists and Clients” in 2009. She also published EMDR chapters in: Corsini’s “Encyclopedia of Psychology” and “Handbook of Innovative Psychotherapy;” R. Shapiro’s “EMDR Solutions II;” Forgash & Copeley’s “Healing the Heart of Trauma;” and Luber’s “EMDR Scripted Protocols II.” Dr Paulsen was invited faculty at the First World Congress of Ego State Therapy in Germany, 2003 and Masters Series Lecturer at EMDRIA conference in Toronto, 2004. She has collaborated with John G. Watkins, originator of ego state therapy, and with Ulrich Lanius and Sharon Stanley on somatic therapies. She was Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii; and Acting Chief Psychologist at Queens Medical Center in Honolulu. She is presently co-authoring a book to be published by Springer Publishing, expected out in 2011:"The Embodied Self: Neurobiology and Treatment of Traumatic Dissociation" by Lanius, Paulsen, and Corrigan.
Workshop Objectives
Attendees will be able to:
1) Identify challenges to applying EMDR to early developmental trauma.
2) Prepare the client for early trauma processing with client-friendly education.
3) Efficiently re-install innate resources without accessing disturbing material.
4) Systematically target early disturbance held in implicit memory.
5) Use imaginal interweaves to stimulate blocked processing and ensure reprocessing is complete.
Schedule (14 Credit Hours - EMDRIA approved)
DAY ONE
9:00 
Opening
Opening9:15-10:30 Foundations from Neurobiology of Affect, Attachment, Early Trauma
10:45 - 12:00 EMDR Phase I & II (History & Preparation): Step 1: Container, 2: Safe State
Step 3: Clearing Circuits
1:00 - 2:30 Demo and Video "Baby, Now That I Found You"
2:30 - 4:00 First Practicum
4:00 - 5:30 Second Practicum
5:30 - 6:00 Q&A
DAY TWO
9:00 - 10:30 Step 4 - Clearing Early Trauma
10:45-12:15 Video, Q&A "From Neglect to Wakan Heja"
1:15 - 2:15 Step 4 - Continued
2:15 - 3:45 Third Practicum
4:00 - 5:30 Fourth Practicum
5:30 - 6:00 Q&A and Closing
Special Guest: Tim Iistowanohpataakiiwa, Native Grounding Songs
Cost: $320 after 3/2/2010, $295 before, reduced rates for non-profit and student/intern with documentation. Payment Options: Check, Money Order, Credit Card and PayPal.
More Workshop Information
This workshop presents a rare opportunity to learn solutions to some of our most challenging clients. Additionally, there will be a special guest.
Tim Iistowanohpataakiiwa, M.A., is a Native American spiritual guide in the Plains tradition. He is the principal of Canku Wakan or "Sacred Path" spiritual direction. He is a Sun Dancer for many years, and learned Native ways from his Grandmother Ida and his tiospia (native family/community). He is Siksika (Blackfoot) on both mother and father's side, though he was raised more with Lakota than Blackfoot language and songs. Tim opened the EMDRIA conference in Seattle in 2006 with healing songs for the practitioners in attendance. For more information, go to www.bainbridgepsychology.com and click on Canku Wakan and Tim Iistowanohpataakiiwa. Tim offers brief grounding songs as gifts to the weary healers in attendance, which is of special benefit at practicum time, or other times when attendees may be triggered by the nature of the discussion of early unmet needs.
It's a great opportunity to network with other EMDR practitioners. Be sure to bring your business cards to exchange with colleagues.
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