First conceived over 30 years ago, EMDR is now widely accepted as a psychotherapy for trauma.  Less well known is how long EMDR has also been understood as a profoundly transpersonal approach to emotional and spiritual healing.

This webinar will introduce an EMDR focus not just on attachment dysfunctions from earliest childhood, but also increasingly on narratives handed down and internalised explicitly and implicitly from previous generations, and from collective culture and experience.

The case will be made for integrating core transpersonal and intergenerational understandings that underpin best-practice EMDR into the work of other schools of psychotherapy, including the Jungian.

Mark Brayne is an EMDR Europe Accredited Consultant and was for 30 years international correspondent and senior editor for the Reuters news agency and the BBC World Service. With postings from 1974 to 1992 in Moscow, Berlin, Central Europe, China and London, Mark covered the final decades of communism, including the epochal demonstrations on Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989 and the violent fall of the Ceausescu regime in Romania that year.

Mark gained his Masters degree in Transpersonal Psychotherapy in 2000, and as Founding Director of the Dart Centre Europe for Journalism and Trauma was from 2004-2008 a Board member of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS). 

For the past 20 years, Mark has been training and speaking internationally on journalism, trauma and psychotherapy.  He has contributed workshops and keynote addresses to a number of conferences since 2000, including the ISTSS and ESTSS,the BACP, the EMDR Association UK and the Parnell Institute US.

Supported by his EMDR Consultant partner Jutta Brayne, Mark offers trainings in practical, advanced, transpersonal and integrative EMDR, working from an attachment-informed perspective with trainees from across the English-speaking world from the USA to Australia and New Zealand.  Mark and Jutta now exclusively work online from their home town of Sheringham on the North Sea coast.

‍

Brayne,M., Unleash Your EMDR: Release the Magic: A Guidebook for Attachment-Informed, Integrative, Transpersonal EMDR. London (2022)

MacLean,C.A., ’Transpersonal Dimensions in Healing Pre/Perinatal Trauma with EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)’, Journal of Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology & Health, 18 (2003): 39-70

Parnell,L. ‘Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and spiritual unfolding.’Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, Vol. 28, No. 2 (1996): 129-153

References will be drawn from Jung’s Collected Works, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, and Man and His Symbols.

‍