Delegate Participation (Supervised Live-Practice)

There is a requirement during Part 1 and Part 3 of the course for you, the delegate to work on some of your own (minor) disturbing memories from your past. It is mandatory and you must spend time as a therapist and as a client. You must complete all the practicals to complete the training and understand the model.

These are not "role-play" and are not optional, but an essential component of the training to experience being the therapist and a client. We ask for professionalism and medical confidence and respect at all times.

We strongly advise during the practicals that you DO NOT work with somebody you know very well (e.g your best friend or your line manager).

Please make sure your memories have nothing to do with a close family member as these are often too highly charged to work with within a training environment. A childbirth memory is an exception here (please check with the team first).

You must prepare a minimum of 2 memories of your own personal material - you CANNOT role play this.

These memories should be at a current subjective unit of distress (SUD) level of around 4-5 out of 10 (where 0 is neutral and 10 is the highest distress, 3 is too low, and 7 is too high). It should be an old distressing life event that still holds some emotional charge. We encourage you to write a few memories down as you may clear a memory quickly and move on to another.

Examples are RTAs, accidents, injuries, illnesses, school experiences including mild bullying, bad clinical experiences, memories of problems at work (managerial conflicts), death of pets, past relationship difficulties (as long as not too serious), negative comments from colleagues/ friends, social humiliation memories, childbirth difficulties etc. These are examples and not exhaustive.

This supervised live practice is one of the most important and rewarding parts of the training. Our facilitators will support you as best they can. It is a learning environment so we ask that respect is given to your partner and the team during the whole training.

Delegate Participation (Clinical Supervision)

In Part 1 we provide 2 hours of group supervision to help commence your EMDR clinical work as soon as possible following the training. This group supervision is about preparing potential clients, so please come with potential clients in mind.