Irene R. Siegel, LCSW, PLLC

Are you ready to transform your practice? This program is the first in a series of programs that teach an innovative approach of using double focus of attention from egoic to expanded awareness through intuitive mindful skills and resonance, introducing Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) as a Transpersonal Therapy. This transpersonal approach enhances the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model within which EMDR is based. The relationship to an accelerated process of higher brain integration and awareness will be linked to skills of silent intuitive processes within an interconnected field of energy and informational flow between therapist and client within each phase of EMDR.

In transpersonal therapy, consciousness is both the instrument and the object of change. The work aims not only at chaining behavior and the "contents" of consciousness, but also at developing awareness of consciousness itself as the "context" of experience. - Frances Vaughan

This program will be taught within a "retreat" environment. Literature about transpersonal psychology will be presented, along with transpersonal research studies that explored treatment outcomes of EMDR as a transpersonal therapy, as well as the impact of a transpersonal approach to psychotherapy. Energy based healing philosophy and technique as depicted in Eastern and native indigenous spiritual traditions will be taught along side of contemporary western transpersonal developmental theorists such as Wilber, and Rowan.

The cultural and spiritual aspects of ancient healing traditions will be presented as it applies to native Hawaiian tradition. The Lokahi Wheel, as developed by the native Hawaiians as a tool for assessment and healing within their social service agencies, will be introduced. An authentic Hawaiian high priestess, Ehulani Stephany, will take us through a meditation and ceremony at powerful sacred sites on the Island as we integrate personal growth with professional learning.

The role of EMDR therapy in awakening consciousness will be explored as we take the healing of trauma into the realms of a greater cosmic whole in the language of images, sensory experiences, and intuitive knowing. There will be a continuous and flowing process taking participants from the left brain didactic to the right brain experiential, creating an integrated and flowing experience from egoic to expanded awareness.

Case presentation and demonstration of the integration of a cross cultural transpersonal approach within the 8 stage EMDR protocol will be utilized. Applications to creating a safe state, resourcing, and emotional stabilization, within the AIP model, will be discussed.

Therapists will develop skills of mindful awareness as they learn to identify their own internal feedback mechanisms within which they can recognize resonance within a shared intersubjective field by utilizing alternative ways of intuitive knowing to determine resonance and intervention from an expanded and a grounded egoic perspective, participating in an interconnected flowing dance of information and energy exchange.

This program will take your skills to a greater level and open them to the non-ordinary realms of conscious awareness. If you have completed other programs in meditation, mindful awareness, or energy based psychology you will find this to be an essential adjunct to your current skill base, but is appropriate for any level of training in this area from beginner to experienced. Experiential exercise provides participants with initial internal tools to mindfully track the flow of energy and information, influencing consciousness, and accelerating the healing of trauma within an expanded range of awareness. Skills can easily be applied to hypnotherapy, energy psychology, and somatic processing therapies as well as EMDR therapy.

In EMDR practice sessions broken into small groups of three, only trained EMDR therapists will take the therapist role. The role of client, and of transpersonal observer who tracks energy and information within the shared field, can be held by any participant. Due to the length and depth of the program, this is an opportunity to go deep within the experience and within the personal work of transformation. The program includes participation in an evening gathering of drumming, meditation, and ceremony, as in accordance with the policy and permission of the hosting facility.

This is a stand alone program which will prepare you for a more advanced experience in meditation and healing if you chose to continue your work on this path. We are entering a new paradigm as consciousness awakens, and we can incorporate tools of consciousness into our clinical work as you will learn in this program. I hope you will join me!



**Prior to the beginning of the program, non-EMDR trained therapists are required to read: Shapiro, F. (2018). Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: EMDR, basic principles, protocols, and procedures. (3rd ed.) New York, NY: Guilford.

**The suggested textbook for the class is Siegel, I. R. (2017). The Sacred Path of the Therapist: Modern Healing, Ancient Wisdom, and Client Transformation. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. This is not included in the cost of the program. Please purchase prior to the beginning of class.

**This is Not an EMDR Basic Training.