Integrating Somatic Psychotherapy with EMDR Therapy

Tracking Resiliency, Pacing the Work, Deepening Processing

NP Part 1 Live Interactive Online Daily Schedule

Craig Penner, LMFT, EMDRIA Consultant

Day 1

8:00-9:30 Pacific Time

  • Introduction and Overview

  • Purpose of this training

  • What is EMDR?  

  • What is Somatic Psychotherapy?

  • Awareness and sustained awareness

  • Commitment

  • Thinking vs Noticing

  • Nature of Completion

  • Cycle of Experience

  • Resilience

  • Triune Brain

  • Nervous System

  • Polyvagal Theory

  • Window of Tolerance

9:30-9:45  Break

9:45-11:30

  • Uses of bilateral stimulation

  • Fattening the moment

  • Standard vs. Somatic EMDR

  • Setting up the session with a somatic focus

  • Orienting Responses

11:30-12:15  Lunch

12:15-1:30

  • Demonstration Session

1:30-1:45  Break

1:45-4:00

  • Practicum

Day 2

8:00-9:30 Pacific Time

  • “Pacing” Interventions

  • Process the practicum

  • Value and Power of Awareness

  • Common Clinical Errors

9:30-9:45  Break

9:45-11:30

  • Defensive Orienting Responses

  • Inherent Dilemma of Completion and Survival

11:30-12:15  Lunch

12:15-1:30

  • Demonstration Session

1:30-1:45  Break

1:45-4:00

  • Practicum

Day 3

8:00-9:30

  • Debrief practicum

  • Sustained Awareness

  • Somatic Awareness Interventions

9:30 -9:45  Break

9:45-11:30

  • “Not Knowing”

  • Safety

  • Self soothing

  • Tracking  Parts 1-3

11:30-12:15  Lunch

12:15-1:30

  • Demonstration/video and discussion

1:30-1:45 Break

1:45-4:00

  • Practicum

Day 4  

8:00-9:30

  • Tracking (cont.) . Parts 4-7

9:30-9:45  Break

9:45-11:30

  • Tracking (cont.) . Parts 8-10

11:30-12:15  Lunch

12:15-1:30

  • Demonstration Session

1:30-1:45 Break

1:45-4:00

  • Practicum session

Day 5  

8:00-9:30

  • Tracking (cont.) . Parts 11-13

9:30-9:45  Break

9:45-11:30

  • Tracking (cont.) Parts 14-17

11:30-12:15  Lunch

12:15-1:30

  • Demonstration session

1:30-1:45 Break

1:45-4:00

  • Practicum

Day 6  

9:00-10:30 Pacific Time

  • Dissociation

  • The Dissociative Spectrum

  • Etiology  of Dissociation

  • Subtle Forms of Dissociation: Signs and Symptoms

  • Working the Dissociative Moment

  • Finding the Seams: Signs and Symptoms of Dissociation

  • Interventions

10:30-10:45  Break

10:45-1:00

  • Helping the Client back into the Window of Tolerance

  • Therapists Qualities

  • Helping clients to recognize and trust their own process

  • Questions and Discussion and Wrap-up