Weekend Webinar

March 21-23, 2025

EMDR, Polyvagal, & Ego State Therapy Weekend Webinar

What Past Attendees are Saying:

"The training was amazing! Thanks so much for all the clear, concise, invaluable information and your passion in spreading the teachings!! "

" I thought the training was incredibly valuable. It was the missing piece to EMDR basic training. I now have the tools and more confidence to work with clients who dissociate. I appreciated the concrete resources and scripts so that I can leave the training feeling prepared to implement them. The demonstrations and practicums really helped contribute to my learning. Thank you! "

"This was an amazing training. One of my biggest takeaways is a better understanding of the dire importance of knowing this information and these interventions when working with cPTSD. Im sharing it will all my team who use EMDR and will encourage them to take this training in the future. "

Mar 21

EMDR, Polyvagal, & Ego State Therapy Weekend Webinar

This three-day webinar will give participants who have completed EMDR basic training critical skills for working with their clients who have Complex Trauma. Participants will learn about and practice developing their own meeting place/conference room, which is widely used with ego states/parts of self to resolve internal conflicts. Successful completion will earn 16 EMDRIA CEs and 16 NBCC CE hours, good for most licenses

$325.00 - $475.00

This weekend webinar will give participants who have already completed the EMDR basic training critical skills needed for working with clients who have Complex Trauma and/or Dissociative Disorders. Participants will learn about and practice developing their own Meeting Place/Conference Room, the most widely used technique for working with ego states and parts of self to resolve internal conflicts. The Meeting Place adds an essential aspect of relational work to EMDR. Clients experienced their trauma in isolation. Supportive connection between the adult client and the child parts of themselves who experienced the neglect, abuse, or unresolved grief.

We have added two evening hours on Friday for a more spacious approach to this work. On Saturday and Sunday, there will be a morning didactic segment followed by a break for lunch, after which there will be a demonstration of the Meeting Place with a participant volunteer. Supervised practicums of the Meeting Place in triads will be conducted both afternoons. The afternoon ends with some time for consultation. These complex clients can be treated successfully using modifications of the EMDR Protocol but without deviation in Phases 3-6.

What past participants are saying about the Practicum during the Weekend Webinar:

" This was incredibly helpful to gain understanding of how the meeting place works- I can't imagine this training without the practicum and the opportunity to be the therapist, client, and observer. "

"Oh my. To have the embodied experience of being a therapist, client and observer was the clincher. I experienced the body sensations of my 12 year old self, felt her emotions and noticed internally what she needed and at what pace. The sensations subsided with her experience of being seen and heard. It was fascinating. This was really good information for me to be able to better understand what may be happening for my clients. "

"it helped to build comfort and confidence to use the skill right away with clients; made me more aware of my own personal life needs "

Participants will be strongly encouraged to complete advance readings, available upon registration, before the workshop. Those unfamiliar with this subject reported difficulty in grasping the workshop content without reading the material. Advanced readings include powerful transcripts of actual Ego State Therapy and Structural Dissociation sessions with clients, used with permission.

About Farnsworth Lobenstine, LICSW

FARNSWORTH LOBENSTINE, LICSW is on the national faculty of the EMDR Institute, serving since 2001 as a Facilitator. He has been an EMDRIA Approved Consultant since 2003. He consults nationally and internationally on Complex Trauma and Dissociative Disorders with EMDR trained therapists. From 2007-2019, Farnsworth taught an academic year-long Advanced Seminar on the Integration of Structural Dissociation and Ego State Therapy with EMDR Therapy in Western Massachusetts. He now co-teaches them on line. Since 2013, he has presented workshops around the country and now teaches them online.

He co-authored a lengthy article published in the Journal of EMDR Practice and Research in 2013 on his highly successful brief, intensive treatment, using EMDR and Ego State Therapy with a woman who had been hospitalized.

Farnsworth is passionate about the extraordinary privilege of working as a psychotherapist, walking for a time with others on their journey towards health and a vibrant life. He is equally passionate about teaching EMDR trained clinicians advanced skills so they can succeed with their most complex clients.

Early Registration Rate (ends Jan 21): $375

Regular Registration Rate (ends March 7th): $425

Late Registration Rate (starting March 7th): $475

DISCOUNTS NOTES:

To allow for ease of registration, you no longer need an access code for most discounts. Select the most applicable rate and use the box provided on the registration page to input the requested information. You may be asked for supplemental information, and failure to provide this information may result in additional fees. You can also view the available discount options on the registration page in the "Fee" and "Discount Notes" sections.

30+CMH/BIPOC - $50 discount to provide those who are working 30+ hours in community mental health and BIPOC clinicians with the workshop material and information so they can better serve our communities of need.

Group of 2+ - $25 discount for 2 or more registrants registering together. Please note the full names and email addresses for all members of your group in the "Discount Notes" section.

No code needed to apply discounted rates listed above.

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES:

1. Identify 2 key reasons for modifying EMDR standard protocol for clients with histories of complex trauma according to Adaptive Information Processing theory.

2. Identify the primary characteristics of each of the three states of the nervous system mediated by the vagus nerve, and discuss at least one intervention from polyvagal theory that can help clients with complex trauma to regulate their nervous system responses.

3. Describe 2 principles from Structural Dissociation Theory that explain the differences in memory networks and parts of the personality in clients with more complex trauma histories compared with less complex trauma histories.

4. Describe at least 2 characteristics of "self-states" or "parts of self" related to conceptualization and treatment using various parts work models.

5. Describe at least 2 ways that Fraser's Dissociative Table Technique (or "Meeting Place") facilitates work with aspects of self and makes EMDR more effective with clients with complex trauma histories.

6. Identify at least one successful strategy for honoring the protective intentions and gaining the alliance of ego states who resemble or identify with the client’s perpetrator (“hostile introjects” or “perpetrator imitating parts”).

7. Discuss at least 3 specific techniques or protocol modifications that are useful during EMDR work with ego states/aspects of self.

8. Describe how ego state therapy, polyvagal theory, and structural dissociation principles can be integrated throughout the 8 phases of EMDR treatment.

9. Demonstrate beginning confidence using the Meeting Place with clients through two supervised practicum experiences in the role of Therapist.