Our Step Two: A two-full-day didactic & experiential workshop offering a specific view of ego-states, in the context of EMDR therapy through an IFS lens, regarding their ubiquitous appearance, defenses, & relational phenomena. A conceptual bridge is formed between the two models, yielding additional language to enrich therapist-client communication about the client’s internal process, and much more.Understand the importance of Self-Presence and the co-presence or activation of a Target Part in relationship to the Self. Cultivate and maintain Functional Dual Attention in the Assessment & Desensitization Phases using measurement scales (beyond SUD & VOC) relating to Self-Energy, state-binding affect & protective intention. Alignment with Memory Reconsolidation research via Coherence Therapy for additional precision in targeting underlying implicit memories, to increase the accuracy of identifying and elaborating appropriate positive and negative cognitions in the Assessment Phase.These methods will be demonstrated via live synchronous webinar with participant volunteers, and significant supervised practice time is planned for participants to learn by doing. Course Pre-requisites: Registrants for IFS-Informed EMDR must have completed EMDR basic training and have familiarity with the IFS model either through workshop or retreat experience. This workshop is ideally suited for practitioners who have completed the 6 hour IFS-Informed EMDR course offered live or the online version available at emdrifs.com. It is not appropriate for practitioners without EMDR basic training and previous IFS experiential workshop experience.The workshop does not provide training in either model. It assumes participants have knowledge of both. Reading IFS doesn't quite do it sometimes. There is a process aspect to it, and experiential, video, or demo exposure gets that across in a way that reading does not. If you do not meet this requirement, use the time before the workshop to meet the IFS prerequisite.Our experience has shown that participants with minimal IFS experience struggle to integrate the material, especially in practice exercises. If you haven't already begun to use IFS principles in your practice, you will not optimally benefit from the workshop.Participants must attend the course in its entirety and complete a course evaluation to earn CE credit. No partial credits are offered. Learning objectives of the course:After completing this workshop, participants will be able to:Identify one advantageous aspect of the IFS concept of Self that is not explicitly included in EMDR’s Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) system.Explain the relationship between Functional Dual Attention and Self-Presence.Describe the concept of energy as it applies to Protective Parts and how this can be measured and processed within EMDR.Describe the concept of energy as it applies to qualities of Self and how these can be measured and installed as a resource within EMDR.Identify at least one way that IFS language can used in obtaining a NC, PC or VOC.Compile an IFS-Informed Assessment Phase target.Practice shifting targets from exile to protector, using IFS-Informed scales in Desensitization Phase.Describe & practice at least 3 IFS Interweaves in Desensitization Phase.Identify a third type of processing (beside resources and desensitization) with bilateral stimulation named after a stage of Coherence Therapy.Describe and practice obtaining precise negative cognitions in the Assessment Phase using Coherence Therapy concepts.Discuss your relationship with your parts-as-therapist based on the IFS model.Explain what is meant by ‘the biggest part in the room.’Explain the difference between a conventional EMDR Assessment Phase and the modified Assessment Phase used in Discovery.

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