Workshop Details

Location: Villa Maria Education and Spirituality Center

2067 Evergreen Rd, Pulaski, PA 16143

Room: Mother Madeline

9:00am-4:30pm

Lunch Included


Please note: This is the registration for the workshop only as a stand-alone event. If you are interesting in attending the retreat and adding this workshop on, please register HERE.

Morning Segment: The Four Blinks Approach to Flash

with Thomas Zimmerman

Description

Flash approaches allow clients to process trauma or help shift stuck information by working a tiny slice of the memory or issue at a time and maintain a positive effect throughout the session.  This workshop is designed to create an environment for clinicians to enhance their understanding of Flash-based memory reconsolidation research and techniques in assorted clinical contexts and settings.  Participants will learn a version of Flash specifically developed for complex trauma and for use in assorted contexts (individual sessions, group sessions, and as a critical incident intervention).  The facilitator will instruct participants in the core resources necessary to implement this version of Flash reliably, safely, and predictably.  Participants will practicum Flash in a group led by the facilitator.  Participants are encouraged to bring a tablet or a smart phone with headphones to help make the calm scene more accessible.

Objectives

After this workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Explain each of the six core steps in the Four Blinks Version of Flash.
  2. Articulate the proposed working model of this approach to Flash.
  3. Implement the basic principles of Flash in clinical settings after participating in group practicum of this approach to Flash.


Instructor

Morning Session

Thomas Zimmerman

Thomas Zimmerman, Ms.Ed., LPCC (he/him) was trained in EMDR Therapy by the Institute for Creative Mindfulness and provides consultation to EMDR therapists across the country. He has received advanced training and provides consultation in the following topics: dissociation, working with ego states, working with clients at the intersection of trauma and severe and persistent mental illness, working effectively with attachment wounding, and working with high-risk clients. Thomas maintains the popular EMDR therapy blog for therapists: GoWithThat.wordpress.com and administers the largest global group of EMDR therapists on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/EMDRResources. Thomas also produces a podcast for EMDR therapists that focuses on solutions to the difficulties of working with complex trauma using EMDR therapy: http://EmdrPodcast.com. Thomas is active in developing a version of the Flash Technique into a fully conceptualized psychotherapy to easily and reliably metabolize trauma for the most severely traumatized clients. Thomas’ Flash work is available at: https://FourBlinks.com. Thomas is the owner of the practice EMDR Cleveland LLC and lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio, with his 17-year-old nephew.

Afternoon Segment: Four Blinks Studio

with Lisa Glendinning

Description

The Four Blinks Studio (also known as the Flash Studio) emerged from a previous workshop at the Redefine Therapy Retreat. It was the first experience of combining Four Blinks and Dancing Mindfulness. The merging of the two seemed promising and so this year we are expanding on the merger to bring you the Four Blinks Studio. The studio version takes place within a Dancing Mindfulness group movement experience informed by the work of Dr. Jamie Marich with Dancing Mindfulness, Dr. Francine Shapiro with EMDR Therapy, and the various EMDR trainers developing Flash-related, EMDR-informed interventions. The Calm Scene in Four Blinks is the group experience, a gentle and highly modifiable experience aimed at being modifiable to each person’s comfort level. There is a playlist with carefully chosen music and simple movement invitations. Since music is playing the cue to “blink” is done with the ASL (American Sign Language) sign. The Calm Scene is an individual experience within a larger group experience which forms a “safe as possible” container. Following several sets of moving (seated or standing) to the music there is a chance to create some art or do some writing. This is followed by a debrief and closing of the circle with a word or gesture. It is hoped that the Flash Studio provides inspiration to bring the expressive arts into Four Blinks in your individual or group work. 

Objectives

  1. Set up a group space to make it as “safe as possible” for a diverse group of participants to feel comfortable to move together in the shared space.
  2. Develop the skills to modify a list of simple group “movement invitations” to suit every mobility level.  
  3. Demonstrate how group movement can provide an optimal experience for the Calm Scene in the Four Blinks version of the Flash Technique.


Instructor

Afternoon Session

Lisa Glendinning

Lisa Glendinning, MEd, CCC, SEP, worked for over a decade as a school psychologist before becoming a trauma therapist working with youth, adults and families. Her private practice “Art of EMDR Therapy” integrates Expressive Arts and Somatic Experiencing with EMDR Therapy. A life long dancer, she/they enjoy making movement and dance accessible to everyone and considers dance the “ original EMDR”.

Training Eligibility

 Anyone who works with the public in any way is eligible to take this training. However, we can only offer continuing education credits to those who have an eligible clinical degree. 

Continuing Education    

This is a live in-person workshop. This is a beginner-level course. Attendance at all sessions, and course evaluation is required to receive CE Certificate. Course evaluations are made available after all sessions have been completed within this course portal. Upon completing the evaluation, participants will automatically receive their certificate via the email used to create their Thinkific account. If the certificate is not received within 24 hours, please contact [email protected] 

Attendance at both segments of the workshop over the entire day is required to receive CEs. This course is approved for 6 CE credit hours by the following:

State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage and Family Therapist Board

The Institute for Creative Mindfulness is an approved provider of continuing education by the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for counselors, social workers, and marriage/family therapists. Approval: #RCS091306

National Board for Certified Counselors

The Institute for Creative Mindfulness has been approved by National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6998. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Institute for Creative Mindfulness is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. 

Association of Social Worker Boards

Institute for Creative Mindfulness, #1735, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Institute for Creative Mindfulness maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 3/16/24-3/16/27. Social workers completing this course receive 44 general continuing education credits.

This course is PENDING approval the EMDR International Association