When the Target Won't Move

The session you already know

Her SUD, same scene

Before dissociation

During dissociation

Preparation went well. She could build a container. She could rate her SUDs honestly. Then the session moved into target identification, and something happened that the protocol did not tell her therapist what to do with.

Her voice went flat and precise. She described a scene she had said she had never spoken aloud before, and she rated it a two. Her therapist's own body registered it as a nine. Between sessions her functioning got worse. She cancelled twice. She came back composed and apologetic, and said she thought she should probably just push through.

Three things in that room disagree: her two, the therapist's nine, and "I should just push through." Keep running the protocol feels wrong. Abandoning it feels wrong. Neither feels like clinical judgement.

If you have run EMDR with complex trauma, you have been in this room.

The target isn't the unit.

The three SIP spheres: Relationship, Memory and Body, overlapping

Standard protocol carries a quiet assumption: that a target memory belongs to one person, is held in one nervous system, and resolves inside one skull. Most of the time that assumption does no harm. In this room it is the whole problem.

Her two and the therapist's nine were not two readings of the same memory. They were one memory, distributed. The nine was hers, held by the only nervous system in the room that was allowed to feel it. And what she carries is not stored as what happened to me. It is stored as what happened to me, and what happens when I say it.

Three afternoons on what follows from taking that seriously.

Hold your spot, nothing charged today

What three afternoons cover

Four questions we spend the whole time on

Whose is the target?

What does standard protocol assume about autobiographical memory, and about the individual, that we have never examined?

Why do some targets get stuck?

When the protocol is right and the client is willing, what is the stuckness doing, and what was it for?

What do we actually mean by a target memory?

Everyone in the room assumes someone else has the answer. We take the question seriously.

Does memory really live in the body?

What current accounts of embodied memory can support, where they run out, and what that means in session.

Somatic Integration and Processing is the case conceptualisation layer beneath the modalities you already use. EMDR stays the vehicle. SIP is the ground. You don't need to have heard of SIP. You do need cases you're still thinking about.

When, in your time

	Wed 18 Nov	Thu 19 Nov	Fri 20 Nov
Melbourne · Sydney · Hobart	1:30–6:30pm	1:30–6:30pm	1:30–6:30pm
Adelaide	1:00–6:00pm	1:00–6:00pm	1:00–6:00pm
Brisbane	12:30–5:30pm	12:30–5:30pm	12:30–5:30pm
Perth	10:30am–3:30pm	10:30am–3:30pm	10:30am–3:30pm
Auckland	3:30–8:30pm	3:30–8:30pm	3:30–8:30pm

Wednesday 18, Thursday 19 and Friday 20 November, the same time each day. For years, listeners in Australia and New Zealand have written to ask us to bring this to you. Not a replay. Not 3am. This is that.

Format

Live on Zoom. Three afternoons of five hours, with a scheduled break each day.

Recording

90-day access to the didactic content. Experiential and demonstration segments are not recorded.

CPD

15 contact hours, ten days before the 30 November renewal date. Certificate with presenter credentials and full learning objectives, formatted for your portfolio.

Hold your spot now, pay in November

Bring the case that didn't move.

We keep our training priced at what it costs us to do well. This is the same per-hour rate we charge at home. We didn't add an international premium.

Hold your spot now, pay in November. We invoice in the first week of November at the rate you held. All prices in Australian dollars, GST inclusive. New Zealand registrants are invoiced in AUD. Student and provisional rate is means-tested.

Early birdHold your spot by 30 October

$695

Standard, from 31 October

$845

Student or provisional

$495

Groups of three or more, each

$695

Hold my spot

A name and an email, right here on this page. Your seat is confirmed when you submit, and a calendar invitation with the Zoom link follows by email. Nothing is charged today.

From the hosts of Notice That

Bridger Falkenstien

Co-founder, Beyond Healing Institute. Co-developer of Somatic Integration and Processing. Co-host of the Notice That podcast.

Jen Savage

Beyond Healing Institute. Co-author of The Relational Thread. Co-host of the Notice That podcast.

If you've been listening for a while, you already know how we think. This is the first time we've been able to teach it in your time.

Watch the case first

Here's a complex trauma case worked through with SIP.

It's the case on this page. Bridger runs the whole composite through the three spheres and builds an EMDR plan from periphery to centre, in 26 minutes, free. It is the fastest way to know whether this intensive is for you. A note on the case: it is a composite, and it includes childhood sexual abuse, dissociation, and a high-control religious upbringing. Take it at your own pace.

Watch the walkthrough Get the worksheet: follow the case, then bring your own

Free Info Session · one hour, before you decide

Wednesday 21 October, 1:30pm Sydney

1:00pm Adelaide · 12:30pm Brisbane · 10:30am Perth · 3:30pm Auckland · One hour

Jen and Bridger take the first question, whose is the target: 45 minutes of material, then 15 minutes for your questions. Same material, same time slot, same two of us. Everyone who registers gets the replay.

A name and an email, nothing else, right here on this page. The Zoom link and a calendar invite come straight back.

Save my seat

Free · Wednesday 21 October · 1:30pm Sydney · add to calendar

Questions clinicians ask before registering

Is this an EMDR training?

No. We don't train or accredit EMDR therapists in Australia or New Zealand. This region has excellent EMDR training and its own accreditation pathways through EMDRAA and EMDRNZ. This is three days on how you think about the case, underneath whatever protocol you were trained in, with whoever trained you.

Do I need to know SIP already?

No. This is for clinicians with real trauma-processing experience, in EMDR, somatic, parts-oriented, schema or memory reconsolidation work, who have been sensing something in the room that their training hasn't given them adequate language for.

Does it count towards my CPD?

You receive a certificate of attendance stating 15 contact hours, presenter credentials and the full learning objectives, issued within five business days and formatted for a CPD portfolio. The intensive ends ten days before the 30 November renewal date.

What if I can't make all three afternoons live?

Every registrant gets 90-day access to the recorded didactic content. Experiential and demonstration segments are not recorded, and certificates reflect live hours attended.

When do I pay?

Not today. You hold your spot with a name and an email, get the Zoom details and a calendar invite straight away, and we invoice in the first week of November. Holding your spot by 30 October locks the early-bird rate.

Is GST included, and what about New Zealand?

All prices are in Australian dollars and GST inclusive. New Zealand registrants are invoiced in AUD.