Perhaps you know EMDR as the leading clinical treatment for PTSD. Perhaps you also know EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. What many don't know is EMDR accurately provides clients with the most clinically effective tapping, breathing and eye movement actions to help clients get their traumatized brains back "online" faster than most cognitive therapies. Adding other somatic movements from yoga, chi gong and mindfulness to EMDR creates a safe "container" for even the most difficult to treat traumas. In this workshop, Joshua Isaac Smith will guide you through Somatic EMDR methods he uses in his Advanced EMDR system that accelerate results for clients. The secret is understanding the neuroscience of trauma and why "actions speak louder than words" in helping someone heal their troubling memories from the past.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Learn 4 of the latest neuroscience discoveries and 4 more Somatic EMDR strategies (to add to your somatic toolbox) that can improve your treatment outcomes when working with trauma or anxiety.
- Understand why, in an acute trauma response, our cognitive abilities are disabled in the brain. Bessel van der Kolk calls this trauma experience going "offline".
- Learn the latest research that can help you support clients with PTSD, C-PTSD and dissociation.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- For therapists, coaches, teachers, counsellors, mental health and medical professionals.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- This workshop will help participants be more confident in helping clients heal trauma, improve treatment outcomes through resourcing clients with positive somatic methods and will lower the fear-factor of working with complex trauma cases.
Course Content
Presenter
Josh is founder of Advanced EMDR, Ltd. He is co-author of the Amazon business best-seller and Gold Award winning book Composure: The Art of Executive Presence. As an EMDR therapist with 2 decades of experience Josh has trained with the world’s leading experts in trauma, EMDR, somatic psychotherapy and leadership coaching.
In addition to being the former Assistant Director of the EMDR Centre London for 5 years, Josh honed his executive coaching skills at Harvard University to become a certified executive coach. He combined his approach using psychotherapy and Executive Coaching by deepening in the work of Psychological Safety and Authentic Leadership . Josh is also an accredited member of the National Council of Integrative Psychotherapists (NCIP).
He is best known for his creation of a bestselling DVD “Yogaboxing”, which combined his many techniques into a fitness workout. As a former technology entrepreneur Josh was once CEO of a telecommunications company based in southern California before selling and retiring at 32. He has been seen by an estimated 10 million people on CBS news, ITV, Channel 4, Living TV, and has appeared on radio on numerous occasions including BBC and LBC. His work has been featured or mentioned in top print media including the Sunday Times, South China Post, Health; Fitness, Shape, Marie Claire, Evening Standard, Daily Mail, and Metro.
Josh is based in London, UK and works with clients individually and online.
