The skills of ai-EMDR, taught and practised — five cities across Australia and New Zealand
- Perth Fri-Sat Jan 22-23, 2027 — Fremantle Sailing Club — A$695 incl. lunch
- Sydney Fri-Sat Jan 29-30, 2027 — Rydges Camperdown — A$695 incl. lunch
- Melbourne Fri-Sat Feb 5-6, 2027 — Abbotsford Convent — A$625 excl. lunch
- Auckland Fri-Sat Feb 12-13, 2027 — Parnell Conference Centre — NZ$595 excl. lunch
- Brisbane Thu-Fri Feb 18-19, 2027 — Twin Towns, Tweed Heads — A$695 incl. lunch
Fresh from their 2026 tour, Mark, Jutta and Katharine Brayne are back in Australia and New Zealand for five attachment-informed EMDR weekends in the first weeks of 2027.
The pitch this year is sharper. Where 2026 was largely about meeting the model, 2027 is about getting it into your hands.
Attachment-informed EMDR goes beyond trauma. It works the formative experiences of early life, the attachment organisation laid down before our clients had words for it, that shape how they are now.
After all, this is why clients come to therapy in the first place: not just because of what happened to them, but because of who they had to become to survive it. ai-EMDR is the work of getting back to that material, and changing how it is held.
Mark, Jutta and Katharine at the Parnell Centre in Auckland, 2026
Day one of this new workshop series focuses on the core skills of that work: case conceptualisation, target identification, the interweave repertoire, and session structure. We teach each one, demonstrate it in live work, then give colleagues protected time to practise specific elements in pairs with facilitator support. Not full sessions — focused parts of the work, where skill actually gets built.
Day two takes the same teach-demonstrate-practise rhythm into the deeper territory that makes ai-EMDR seriously distinctive: the intergenerational extended interweave, the transfer of perspective with parts of self, and dreams as gateways into the stories clients need to change.
The clearest feedback from 2026 was that colleagues wanted more time in breakout spaces to actually do the work. We have heard you, and we have rebuilt these workshops around that.
“This was by far the greatest training I have been to. After basic training I felt overwhelmed with integrating EMDR to the point that I almost threw EMDR into the bin. Adding ai-EMDR to my toolkit has absolutely sealed the deal for me. Thank you for this gift.”
These new workshops are pitched to work both for those already familiar with ai-EMDR (from online work with us, or when we met in-person in 2026), and for EMDR therapists new to this way of working. We’ll start with a full basic (re)grounding in the model, then move into practice, with facilitation.
Although not a precondition, if you are new to this you’ll get (much) more out of these workshops if you can join us first online October 12-14 for Unleash Your EMDR Part 1, which lays the ground that our 2027 in-person spaces will be building on.
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Who these workshops are for
EMDR therapists at Europe Level 3/4 or Australia/NZ/US Level 2 and above.
New to ai-EMDR, or already familiar from the 2026 weekends, an earlier UK or US workshop, or an online module — both are welcome. The work goes deeper than the basics, and the dyad practice assumes the standard eight phases are familiar territory.
Colleagues newer to EMDR itself are warmly directed first to the online Unleash Your EMDR Part 1 weekend at Australia/NZ-friendly times in October 2026.
Day one — the core skills of ai-EMDR, in practice
Day one is built around four core skills: case conceptualisation, target identification, the interweave repertoire, and session structure.
We teach each one, demonstrate it in live work, and then give colleagues protected time to practise specific elements in pairs and small groups, with facilitator support.
The practice is on parts of the work, not full sessions. A focused piece of bridging, a specific interweave move, the rewire-and-close of a session. This is how skill actually gets built, and it’s what the 2026 attendees told us they wanted more of.
Day two — the deeper interweaves
Day two moves into the territory that makes ai-EMDR seriously distinctive. The intergenerational extended interweave. The transfer of perspective with parts of self. Dreams as gateways into the stories clients need to change.
Same rhythm as day one: teach, demonstrate, then put colleagues into supervised practice on specific elements. By the end of the weekend, you have not just seen this work. You have done it.
The team
Mark Brayne is an EMDR Europe-accredited and EMDRIA-approved consultant, a UKCP-registered psychotherapist, and a former BBC foreign correspondent. He has taught attachment-informed EMDR across the UK, Europe, the US, Australia and New Zealand, and is the author of Unleash Your EMDR — Release the Magic.
Jutta Brayne is a transpersonally-trained psychotherapist and for many years an EMDR Europe Accredited Consultant. Co-director of EMDR Focus.
Katharine Brayne joins us across all five cities as our third facilitator. A psychotherapist working towards BACP accreditation, in 2026 she completed an MSc in Psychotherapy with distinction, her research exploring therapist experience of the Adaptive Information Processing model in delivering ai-EMDR. EMDRIA-trained, working towards Certified Therapist status.
In Perth we’re delighted again to be joined by Perth-based clinical psychologist and EMDR trainer Graham Taylor, and in Sydney by EMDR Europe Accredited Consultant Lorraine Wright. Their decades of clinical, supervisory and teaching experience are core to the weekends in those cities.
Further local facilitators may join us in particular cities, names to be confirmed.
Perth · Friday 22 and Saturday 23 January 2027
Fremantle Sailing Club, Marine Terrace, Fremantle WA. The same venue as 2026. Same friendly catering team. View of the harbour. 09.00 to 17.00 both days. Lunch included. A$695.
Sydney · Friday 29 and Saturday 30 January 2027
Rydges Camperdown, 9 Missenden Road, Camperdown NSW. Close to Sydney University, a short ride from the city centre. 09.00 to 17.00 both days. Lunch included. A$695.
Melbourne · Friday 5 and Saturday 6 February 2027
The Abbotsford Convent again, Melbourne’s heritage arts and community precinct on the banks of the Yarra. 09.00 to 17.00 both days. Breaks covered, but lunch from the excellent eateries on site is down to individuals. That’s why the Melbourne fee sits a little lower. A$625.
Auckland · Friday 12 and Saturday 13 February 2027
The Parnell Conference Centre, Endeavour Room, 10-20 Gladstone Road, Parnell, Auckland. The same friendly venue as 2026, a quiet, well-appointed space for two days of focused work. 09.00 to 17.00. Lunch individual. NZ$595.
Brisbane · Thursday 18 and Friday 19 February 2027
Twin Towns Conference Centre at Tweed Heads, on the QLD/NSW border, in easy reach from both Brisbane and the Gold Coast. A venue well-known to Australian EMDR colleagues, regularly used by Roger Solomon, Janette McMahon and Thomas Zimmerman among others. 09.00 to 17.00 both days. Lunch included. A$695.
Note that workshop times will be given in Queensland time. Colleagues travelling from NSW should allow for the one-hour time difference during Australian summer.
Pricing and CPD
Fees vary across the cities by what’s included. Perth, Sydney and Brisbane at A$695 include full venue catering with lunch. Melbourne at A$625 and Auckland at NZ$595 are room-hire-plus-breaks, with delegates sourcing their own lunch from nearby.
The same 12 EMDRIA CE points apply to each workshop as in 2026.
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