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WHI is affiliated with Institute for Creative Mindfulness (ICM), who are an EMDRIA approved training program, under the tutelage of Jamie Marich, PhD. WHI EMDRIA Approved Educational Credits Provider # is: 23046 

This training is EMDRIA Approved: SEE EMDRIA LISTING HERE #23046-01

In this program is broken into two 3-day weekends and has 10-consultation hours to successfully complete. Participants will learn Addiction as Dissociation Model (ADM), Path of the Wounded Healer (PWH), and Meeting Area Screening and Assessment (MASA) (which includes Two Containers and Photo Album, within the framework of the Adaptive Information Model (AIP). This offering is a condensed version of PWH-1 and PWH-2 and supportive consultations are required. This training is specifically for trauma providers who are fully trained in EMDR Therapy, as a variety of scripts are taught and the 8-Phase protocol of EMDR Therapy is utilized. PWH builds upon the Phase 1 (History, Screening, and Assessment) and Phase 2 of EMDR with resourcing, preparation, and psychedelic integration approaches to help you navigate trauma, dissociation, and addiction presentations to offer providers a research informed way of supporting your clients long-term healing and recovery. 

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. 

• Participants will learn 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.
• Aspects of Recovery, Psychedelic Integration, and Posttraumtic Growth are further explored in depth.

ADM was developed by Dr. Adam O’Brien and Dr. Jamie Marich and provides a theoretical basis for this training. ADM is a unifying theory of addiction that explores how the inner-play between trauma and dissociation produce pathological states of addiction. 

PWH highlights the universal spiritual path that we all must take to resolve our dissociative and addictive desires before we die. PWH offers ways for paraprofessionals, medical and psychological professionals, and the recovery community to learn about dissociated states of healing and to help solidify their right to be called healers. PWH-1 offers learning ADM, PWH, and MASA. PWH-2 offers learning Addressing Toxic with Shame Shape and Color and posttraumatic growth stages of care. In PWH-3 we further explore addressing addiction memory and how the use of psychedelics can support healing but to enhance your learning experience, exploring dissociative of healing will help you grow as a healer.

MASA is a hybrid of the Dissociative Table and common coping skills (Container and Calm Place) that are found in many different approaches and therapies. As a part of MASA, we teach our Two Containers, Photo Album, and Bulk Blink within AIP framework. These skills are performed in a particular order to help screen and assess for current dissociative and addictive dynamics. MASA is how we obtain unconscious informed consent before doing ANY treatments, providing any care, or taking any medicines (particularly psychedelics). We feel that MASA is the best humanistic and qualitative screening and assessment tool for dissociative and addictive presentations; it provides everyone involved with an opportunity to become more self-aware of where psychological material resides and how to navigate it.

Endorsement: “Ever since I took the addiction as dissociation training last year I have been using it with my clients. It has lessened the need for EMDR processing phase especially when using shape and color to let past events/emotions play out. It also helps strengthens resources when clients can envision/sense their future self as well as recognizing other parts of self that are supportive.”