Regional event
Attachment-Informed EMDR & Inter-Generational EMDR – 04.10.2025
Date and time
9:00 am, 4 Oct 2025
Location
The Spire, High Street, Poole, Dorset BH15 1DF
Many EMDR therapists have heard of Attachment-Focused EMDR (Laurel Parnell etc) and may well already know a bit about where Mark Brayne has taken things with what he prefers to call attachment-informed EMDR.
Mark will travel from coastal North Norfolk to spend a day with us exploring the key interweaves and structuring that can enhance the efficacy of EMDR.
Complementing the Standard Protocol’s eight core phases (Harry Potter And Dumbledore In Big Cheesy Relationship), Mark’s mnemonic for ai-EMDR is “Charlie Chaplin Recognises That Attachments aRe Seriously Salient”. Want to know more?
The clue in that CC is for Case Conceptualisation, R for Rich and Imaginal Resourcing, T for Target ID (using bridging, and perhaps THE central tool of ai-EMDR). A for Appropriate Activation (usually the modified Image-Emotion-Body-Belief), R for Reveal/Repair/Rewire in Phase Four, and SS for Session Structure.
Mark won’t just be talking theory, but also showing how this can work, and the difference it can make, sometimes in astonishingly short timeframes. In the morning, Mark will go over the basics of his approach, and after lunch show us what can be done with intergenerational interweaves, parts and dreams. Quite an agenda. And he’ll need a couple of volunteers, working for real. You perhaps??
(Walking distance from Poole Train Station & Parking near the Dolphin Centre, Poole)
Note: Please bring your own lunch as we will only be providing refreshments during the breaks.
Suitable for all EMDR therapists
Bio
With a background in journalism (30 years with Reuters and the BBC, and Cold War postings in Moscow, Berlin, Vienna and Beijing) and in all-too-often bad news, Mark is co-Director of EMDR Focus, offering supervision and training in attachment-informed EMDR.
Specialising in trauma, from the journalistic of his earlier career to the everyday tragedy, disaster and often much more simple personal distress that can affect anyone, Mark was trained in an integrative and transpersonal model, drawing inspiration from many approaches, from Cognitive Behavioural and Person-Centred to Gestalt, Transactional Analysis, art and psychodynamic therapies.
Trained in basic EMDR in 2004, Mark has been an Accredited Consultant with the EMDR Association Europe since 2011. He has drawn particular inspiration from the work of Dr Laurel Parnell in the US and her Attachment-Focused approach.