Have you ever felt that standard EMDR protocols fall flat with some clients—especially those from diverse cultural backgrounds or with complex trauma histories?
Do your clients struggle to connect with abstract concepts like the AIP model or feel overwhelmed by the clinical language of reprocessing?
This FREE 3-hour training is for you.
Led by trauma specialist and EMDRIA-approved consultant Jennifer Marchand, this engaging and experiential training will show you how to bring EMDR back to its roots—by integrating the natural world into every phase of the protocol.
Whether you’re a new or experienced EMDR clinician, you’ll discover how nature-based metaphors and materials can make EMDR more intuitive, culturally responsive, and deeply grounding.
Explore a powerful ecocentric framework that aligns each of EMDR’s eight phases with elements from nature—like the Internal River metaphor to explain the AIP system or the Mountain Metaphor for reprocessing. Learn how to use sound, rhythm, movement, and natural materials to support bilateral stimulation in a more embodied, grounded way.
What You’ll Walk Away With:
- A nature-informed framework for applying all 8 phases of EMDR in practice
- A profound understanding of how ecocentric approaches can make EMDR more culturally responsive and accessible
- Creative ways to use movement, sound, rhythm, and natural materials for bilateral stimulation
- The Five S’s—Stuck, Stir, Sets of Movement, Shift, Settle—as a nature-based guide to memory reconsolidation and healing
- Tools, scripts, and strategies to deepen your EMDR work
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Integrating Nature-Based Metaphors for Culturally Responsive Practice
A $169.99 Value!
Jennifer Marchand is a Canadian Certified Counselor and EMDRIA-approved consultant with over 10 years of clinical experience in a diverse range of cultural contexts, including with Indigenous populations in Northwest British Columbia, in Vietnam, Ghana, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, and Southeast Europe. Based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia since 2021, she is dedicated to the field of global mental health and working in underserved settings. In addition to her private practice, she supports projects working with survivors of conflict-related sexual violence, including in Ethiopia, and provides trauma sensitivity training to health professionals in conflict-affected settings with a human rights organization called Medica Mondiale.
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A $169.99 Value!
Why Integrate Ecotherapy with EMDR? A Theoretical Framework
- The Three E’s of Trauma
- Conceptualizing Trauma Through an Intersectional and Collective Lens
- Understanding Illness through an Ecotherapeutic Lens
- Healing the Cartesian Split through Embodied, Nature-Based Practices
- Limitations of the Research and Potential Risks
A Nature-Based Framework for EMDR
- The Internal River: A Nature-Based Metaphor for the AIP System
- The 5 S’s Framework for Memory Reconsolidation
- The Mountain Metaphor for Reprocessing
- The 8 Phases of EMDR through a Nature-Based Framework
- Metaphors for the 3-Pronged Protocol
Ecotherapy-Informed EMDR in Practice: Skills, Tools, and Strategies
- History Taking: Creating Visual Timelines
- Using stones and gems for additional grounding and stabilization
- Mapping memories and clusters of memories; mapping resources
- The Body and Movement in Preparation
- COMEBACK Tool
- Arts-based square breathing; Anchoring by Connecting with the Earth
- Psychoeducation of the Nervous System: Mapping Physiological States
- A Nature-Based Metaphor for the 3 Autonomic States
- Mapping States Using Water, Liquid, Gas
- Resourcing Present-orientation with BLS
- The CIPOS Protocol
- Relational BLS
- BLS with rhythm and resonance (movement and sound)
- Working with Cognitions
- The seed metaphor
- Helping positive cognitions take root and grow
- VOC
- Reprocessing: The Mountain Metaphor of Traumatic Memories
- Resourcing and memory-specific preparation
- 3P Resourcing
- Revisiting the Assessment Phase
- Traveling Through the Pathways of Reprocessing (journeying through the mountain)
- Finding the Peaceful Place (resolution)
- Enhancing the Body Scan with Embodied Practice