The EMDR Master Series with Ana Gomez Part 5 -The EMDR Interweave with Children: Blocked Processing and Integration

Course overview

Information processing with children with chronic and developmental trauma may get blocked more often as they navigate through memory systems that contain entrenched defenses, rooted distortions, and metaperceptions, and truncated defenses. EMDR clinicians need to be well equipped with developmentally appropriate as well as child friendly interweaves and interventions to address an information processing system that stalls. This workshop will present the Interweave Systems Model (ISM) that will provide guidelines and decision- making markers that will aid you in the process of selecting an interweave. Cognitive, emotional, and somatic levels of information processing will be addressed along with interventions that can fully accompany children as they navigate through them. Clinicians will be exposed to a wide range of child-friendly interweaves that work with the attachment system to repair, mirror, validate, meet unmet needs, nurture, and heal the little self and wounded parts. In addition, interweaves will be presented that work with the body and the sensorimotor system that support the child in completing truncated defenses, modulating arousal, recalibrate the nervous system, challenge procedural memory and execute empowering actions that could not be performed during the traumatic event. In addition, interweaves that challenge the window of tolerance as the child is invited to embrace exploration and risk while maintaining safety will be addressed. Presenter Bio: Ana M Gómez, MC, LPC is a psychotherapist, author, and international speaker on the treatment of complex trauma, and dissociation and the use of EMDR therapy with children and adolescents. Ana M. Gomez has worked extensively with families and program development to heal intergenerational trauma. She has led workshops and keynote in more than forty cities in the U.S. and thirty cities throughout sixteen countries. She has presented many of her online workshops to large audiences all over the world. Ana is the author of EMDR Therapy and Adjunct Approaches with Children: Complex Trauma, Attachment and Dissociation and several book chapters and articles on the use of EMDR therapy with children and adolescents. In addition, she is the author of multiple childrens books directed to increasing affect tolerance and emotional literacy as well as to prepare children for EMDR treatment. Ana has developed numerous intensive training programs and protocols that include the EMDR-Sandtray Protocol and The Systemic, EMDR- Attachment Informed Program to Heal Intergenerational Trauma & Repair the Parent-Child Attachment Bond. Timeline: November 20 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm PST Learning Objectives Participants will be able to: 15 min- Cite guidelines and decision-making markers from the Interweave Systems Model (ISM) 45 min- Utilize child friendly interweaves that work directly with the attachment system to repair, mirror, validate, meet unmet needs, nurture and heal the little self and wounded parts 45 min- Utilize interweaves that work with the body and the sensorimotor system and support the child in completing truncated defenses, modulate arousal, recalibrate the nervous system, challenge procedural memory, and execute empowering actions that could not be performed during the traumatic event 45 min- Utilize interweaves that challenge the window of tolerance as the child is invited to embrace exploration and risk while maintaining safety To register for this LIVE Webinar please visit: https://agateinstitute.org/