Path of the Wounded Healer’s (PWH) EMDR Therapy Foundational Training
The Wounded Healers Institute offers foundational EMDR training (rebranded as “EMDR Healing” or “EMDR Therapy” within the PWH framework, emphasizing its roots in ancient meditative and spiritual healing practices.
Core EMDR Healing Focus:
• EMDR as Meditation: The training emphasizes that the basis of EMDR is meditation, which stands alone and cannot be owned by any organization.
• Dissociation-Informed Application: Participants learn to apply EMDR (which accesses MR) in conjunction with MASA to address developmental trauma, normative dissociation, and universal addictions.
• Psychedelic Integration: We suggest, recommend, and require participants bring their own CBD or cannabis products to the training if they wish to explore state-dependent learning and enhance their re-educational process. Cannabis products are recognized as spiritual medicines supporting the endocannabinoid system, which facilitates innate healing.
EMDR Healing Training Structure (PWH-1 and PWH-2 Condensed):
The foundational training covers the 8 Phases of the standard EMDR protocol but infuses PWH concepts throughout:
• Phase 1 (History) & 2 (Preparation): Covered entirely by the MASA script, establishing resources like Calm Place and Container, and obtaining Unconscious Informed Consent before reprocessing begins.
• Phases 3-7 (Reprocessing): MR is the core process, focusing on memory re-coding and integration.
• Advanced Techniques: Includes advanced MASA resources (Bulk Blink, Photo Album, Toxic Shame Shape and Color) and working with cannabis-based EMDR.
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Admission and Logistics for Interested Participants
The training is open to anyone seeking knowledge, a healing relationship, or recognition as a Healer, including licensed professionals, self-help sponsors, informed citizens, artists, and veterans.
Requirements and Application Process
1. Application Submission: Complete the online application through our admissions: HERE
2. Qualitative Essay: Applicants must write an essay, artwork, or video outlining their “Wounded Healer Journey”. This is intended to invite the applicant’s qualitative process into our process.
3. MASA Interview: A required 2-hour Meeting Area Screening and Assessment (MASA) interview with Dr. Adam is mandatory for the Path of the Wounded Healer.
Certification and Training Hours
• Consultation: 10 hours of group/individual consultation are required for full completion of the EMDR Healing Training.
PWH Trained: Successful completion of PWH 1 and PWH 2, plus a minimum of 3 individual consultations and 10 group consultation hours.
• PWH Certification: Requires completion of PWH 1–3, 6 individual consultations (20 group hours), 200 hours of documented session time, and completion of a capstone project.
Required Reading Prerequisite
Before engaging in training, participants must review prerequisite materials:
• The Addiction as Dissociation Model (ADM) Class/Dissertation.
• The PWH Manual (which includes Memory Reconsolidation and Psychedelic Therapy).
• Mindful Meditation Class + (MM+).
• For EMDR, the core text by Francine Shapiro (2018) is required reading.
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Participants will learn MASA and a variety of other helpful and relevant dissociation and addiction-informed skills and concepts, which were developed to support paraprofessionals and clinicians (and clients!) identify with their dissociative and addictive profile, obtain unconscious informed consent, check unconscious biases, and lower treatment resistance. We developed the MASA script and qualitative setup for assessing and screening for dissociation and addictions. The combination of ADM and MASA help provide a clear line between what is normal and what is pathology. PWH is a phase model of care that gives guidance on how and when trauma resolution methods should be done, with all populations because these conditions are transdiagnostic. Our research suggests that pathology is sustained dysregulation (dissociative/addictive) and that the absence of unconscious informed consent is what contributes to low treatment outcomes and care resistance. We teach participants how to find the line between normative and pathological presentations and allow your healer’s path to unfold. We feel that this is invaluable information to all healers and clients.
Aspects of Recovery, Psychedelic Integration, and Posttraumtic Growth are further explored in depth.
Participants will learn EMDR Healing in the Path of the Wounded Healer (PWH), Meeting Area Screening and Assessment (MASA), and Mindful Dissociation.
Path of the Wounded Healer is a phase model of care and offers a research-informed approach.
As a part of MASA, participants will learn Two Containers, Photo Album, and Resetting Emotions.
Participants will learn Bulk Blink, Shame Shape and Color, Intention Resourcing, Journeying Resourcing, utilizing breath and Integration Resourcing.