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 utilizes mindfulness to ensure that clients are sufficiently healed, and trauma memories are accurately changed. In this workshop, Joshua Isaac Smith will guide you through somatic mindfulness methods he uses in his Advanced EMDR system that accelerate results for clients. Somatic methods offer a slow and focused way to tap into body awareness. By doing so clients can consistently self-soothe and regulate their nervous systems on the path to improving resilience and fostering more positive daily experiences.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Participants will learn 4 Somatic EMDR techniques to quickly relax the nervous system.
- Participants will understand how to apply Positive Psychological Interventions (PPIs) to speed up trauma recovery for clients.
- Participants will understand the neuroscience of trauma memory and why somatic applications help accelerate results in EMDR.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- This Somatic EMDR workshop is for therapists, coaches, teachers, counsellors, mental health and medical professionals.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- This workshop will enable participants to be more confident in helping clients heal trauma. It will also teach methods that improve treatment outcomes through resourcing clients with positive somatic interventions that can lower the fear-factor in 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.
