Dates for your Diary 2024
Treating Anger, Resentment and Revenge from a Trauma Perspective: A new EMDR Anger Protocol
Facilitator: Herman Veerbeek
Date: Saturday 30th November 2024 – Full day event
Venue: Healing for the Heart, The Europa Building, 450 Argyle St, Glasgow G2 4LH
Early Bird Cost = £100.00 (payment before 11/10/24) – Cost thereafter = £120.00
EMDR therapists practicing in health and forensic fields are frequently confronted with anger problems; some clients may suffer from suppressed, inaccessible anger, others may present with an intimidating, aggressive attitude, as seen in some veterans, clients in a high conflict divorce and some complex trauma clients. Invariably, the externalizing attitude of a client is seen as an annoying process-disturbing phenomenon that can severely block regular EMDR therapy, leaving everybody powerless and frustrated. This workshop explores a new EMDR-protocol that takes anger as starting point in therapy and sees it as an opportunity to heal, making use of (1) EMDR: the Adaptive Information Processing model of Francine Shapiro – which encompasses a trauma perspective on anger – and Bilateral Stimulation, (2) a sensorimotor approach (Pat Ogden) and (3) Imagery Rescripting (Young).
In the workshop extensive video footage, demos and role-playing, will be used and theoretical underpinnings of the protocol explored. Participants will become familiar with the essential parts of the protocol by role-playing in break-outrooms in couples, alternating being in the role of client and therapist. In the role of client participants are able to experience the effect of the protocol themselves.
Learning Objectives
Mastering when to use and how to apply the anger protocol, also as cognitive interweave;
Analyzing and understanding anger-driven urges and aggressive, externalizing behavior from a trauma perspective;
Increasing awareness and recognizing your own fear and blocking views in helping aggressive clients and finding ways to overcome that;
Learning how to address the clients’ aggression and externalization with EMDR therapy and use the expression of anger in healing from trauma;
Learn strategies to work with clients with suppressed or explosive anger;
Learn strategies to keep an optimal safety for therapist and client.
About the trainer: Herman Veerbeek is a Clinical Psychologist and EMDR Consultant, from the Netherlands. He has treated patients with long sentences, severe personality disorders and PTSD-symptoms in the Scheveningen prison for 13 years and currently treats patients at the outpatient Forensic Psychiatric Centre ‘De Waag’ in the Netherlands. He developed the EMDR Directed Anger Protocol, the Directed Anger Questionnaire and he specialises in trauma focused offender treatment. He presents workshops in the Netherlands, England, Germany, and webinars for Australia.
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