EMDR Therapy, Mindfulness, and Expressive Arts: Advanced Solutions for Healing Complex Trauma (Garner, NC)
This workshop, exclusively for EMDR therapists or those with partial training in EMDR therapy, offers strategies for using both mindfulness and expressive arts therapy within the 8-Phase EMDR protocol to optimize effectiveness with complex trauma cases. Expressive arts therapy is an approach to psychotherapy with roots in indigenous cultures and a rich history of evolution within modalities such as Jungian, person-centered, and Gestalt psychotherapies. Expressive arts therapy is characterized by its emphasis on the multi-modal process of healing (exploring many combinations for creativity r
In this workshop, participants are briefly oriented to the fundamentals of expressive arts therapy approach and the definitions of mindfulness. Participants are then instructed in how to facilitate an expressive arts process to teach mindfulness strategies. Mindfulness skills not only assist in the preparation phase, they can allow the client to widen their affect window of tolerance throughout the phases of EMDR therapy. Then, several case studies are presented from clinical practice on how expressive arts practices learned in the opening segment can be used to manage dissociation and abreaction, vital skills in working with complex trauma in the EMDR therapy framework. The literature on using creative/expressive measures with children and complex trauma cases is also reviewed in this section. The course wraps up with a final discussion on using both mindfulness and the expressive arts throughout the course of EMDR therapy to assist both client and clinician. The poem of instruction, a traditional expressive arts practice, is used to conclude the workshop, with connections made to how the practice can be used in Closure and for in between session affect regulation.
*Course is only offered in-person. This is an intermediate level course. Attendance at all sessions, and completion of course evaluation is required to receive CE Certificate. Evaluations are distributed by CE-Go via email, upon completion of which, participants are redirected to download their CE Certificate. Please contact us with any questions or concerns at support@instituteforcreativemindfulness.com.
Thursday, March 05, 2020
69 Shipwash Dr., Garner, NC, 27529