Esalen Institute is open! However, Highway 1 to the south is closed — please review the current travel advisory.
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Due to road closures along Highway 1 to our north and south, Esalen is closed through April 11.
Esalen Institute is open! However, Highway 1 to the south is closed — please review the current travel advisory.
past workshop

Multidimensional Integrative Healing and EMDR

May 20–23, 2022

with Laurel Parnell, PhD

Multidimensional Integrative Healing recognizes that there are multiple dimensions of reality and experience that exist and can be accessed for healing. EMDR is a powerful therapy for healing and integrating what blocks us from living fully. When we open to multiple dimensions in our work, we increase our capacity to heal on deeper levels that transcend time and space.

In this workshop, we will learn basic tools for creating boundaries and energetic sovereignty. We will meditate together and explore our dreams. We will discuss topics of interest, share our cases, watch live demonstrations and practice in small groups.

Topics of interest include:

  • Development and use of spiritual resources as support in healing work, including helping spirits, ancestral resources, power animals, and psychopomp beings
  • Using EMDR with near-death experiences
  • EMDR and after-death communications
  • Using EMDR to integrate spiritual experiences including those from the use of psychedelics
  • EMDR with past life trauma
  • Dreamwork and EMDR
  • Working with and releasing energetic attachments
  • Working with energetic chords
  • Ancestral and intergenerational healing using EMDR
  • Spirit loss and retrieval with EMDR

In this workshop participants will learn:

  • What is needed from the therapist for Multidimensional Integrative Healing and EMDR
  • Basic tools for creating boundaries and energetic sovereignty including grounding chord, energy call back, energy bubble, and True Self-recognition
  • How to include and use spiritual resources
  • How to use EMDR with near-death experiences, past life experiences, and spirit or soul loss
  • How to facilitate the integration of spiritual/transpersonal experiences with EMDR including after-death communications, pre-birth recognition, and reclaiming one’s spiritual purpose

Note: This is a partner program with the Parnell Institute intended for Advanced EMDR practitioners, Parnell Institute consultants in particular. Before reserving your accommodations at Esalen, you must register at drlaurelparnell.com.

Laurel Parnell

As a psychologist, teacher, and author with over forty years’ experience as a meditator and spiritual practitioner, Laurel Parnell, has been actively integrating psychological and spiritual work throughout her career. She is the executive director of the Parnell Institute for Attachment-Focused EMDR and the author of several books and videos on EMDR, including, Attachment-Focused EMDR: Healing Relational Trauma and A Therapist’s Guide to EMDR.

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