Using EMDR with Children

Our 7th straight day of teaching was a Specialty Training, and 45 current and previously EMDR-trained therapists show up for "Using EMDR with Children," a program that Joset has created for them. We began with case presentations from three of our more advanced therapists and everyone was very impressed at the excellent work they are doing. Two of the three therapists have been working as volunteers in order to practice EMDR.

Because there are so many traumatized children in the NGO's that our therapists work for, Joset decided to teach the "Butterfly Hug Protocol." This approach allows groups of children who share similar traumas to be treated together. The therapists drew pictures of their "safe place" and their "traumas" so they could directly experience the process.

Food, networking and new connections again took place at lunch time. 

And at the end of the day, in addition to the finger puppets that Joset has brought for everyone, all of the therapists who have previously studied Sand Tray therapy with Joset were given armfuls of sand tray figures, fences, bridges, trees, and other small objects that would otherwise not have been available in Ethiopia. 

Thank you, Joset, for lugging over two large trunks of supplies!