After several years of teaching ai-EMDR online, Mark and Jutta Brayne return to an in-person London weekend at the UCL Institute of Education in Bedford Way.
The two days are designed to sit together, though colleagues are welcome to join us for just one of them.
Day one first refreshes the foundations of the attachment-informed approach, with significant updates to Mark’s model — not just resource team and modified protocol, but tight bridging bridging and a new focus on language and relational tone.
We’ll then prioritise the intergenerational extended interweave, working with parts, and dreams as gateways with protected time for paired practice in the room, with live feedback – noting how much confidence goes missing post-training without that experience of doing the work under observation.
As ever, Mark will demonstrate with volunteers how these ideas work for real and on the therapeutic front line.
The shape of these two days
The weekend runs Saturday and Sunday, 14 and 15 November 2026, with coffee and tea at mid-morning and mid-afternoon.
Day one is a full walk through the attachment-informed core framework, pitched so that colleagues both familiar with and new to the approach can follow and sharpen their skills.
Day two assumes day one (or earlier attendance of Unleash your EMDR webinars online) and goes deep into intergenerational material, parts of self, and dreamwork, with longer protected time for paired practice. The aim is coherence: everything we cover on Sunday rests on what we laid down on Saturday.
Who this workshop is for
The weekend is open to EMDR-trained therapists, psychologists, counsellors and psychotherapists working with trauma and attachment. Day one is suitable for colleagues new to the attachment-informed approach as well as for those who have trained with Mark before and want a clean refresher. Day two is pitched for those who attended day one or who already know the basics, and who want to work with intergenerational material, parts and dreams in a more structured way.
Day one — the fundamentals
Day one covers the core of the attachment-informed approach. We work through the resource team — nurturing, protective and wise figures, and the special place — and the reasons for treating it as scaffolding rather than the primary agent of change. We revisit the modified protocol and the places where it complements the standard eight phases.
We spend careful time on bridging as the central methodology for moving from present activation to childhood memory: distress, image, emotion, body location, negative belief, and the drop back in time to the first place the client lands.
We walk through Phase 4 as Reveal, Repair, Rewire, and through the judgement call that carries more weight than any other in the work — the tipping point between letting the story show itself and moving proactively to repair.
Day two — going deeper
Day two moves beyond the basics into the territory that makes ai-EMDR really distinctive.
Having touched on the intergenerational extended interweave on day one, we go deeper — the imaginal session-within-a-session on the parent’s childhood, conducted through the client as interpreter, illuminating the parallel architecture of the story rather than fully resolving it.
We spend time on parts of self and on the difference between rescuing a younger part and recalibrating the adult’s relationship with it: the drama triangle avoided, vulnerability, power and responsibility in its place.
We work with dreams as gateways rather than puzzles, capturing them in the present tense word for word, treating all parts of the dream as parts of self, and using transfer of perspective to let the dream show what it is pointing at.
How we’ll work — pacing, dyads, interweaves
Most of what goes missing in an EMDR-trained practitioner’s confidence is the simple experience of doing the work under observation.
We have protected time for paired practice throughout both days, with feedback and with the option to pause a process and ask a question.
Pacing is part of the teaching. Set length and speed, the Goldilocks principle, the question of when to return to target — these are not rules but judgements, and judgements are learned by doing and reviewing.
Interweaves are the other focus: curiosity, relational, truth, non-dual, educational, the WTF, the video, the iPad, split-screen, rescue, and the direct proactive repair. We demonstrate, we practise, and we discuss.
Attachment as the organising lens
The approach rests on a single clinical instinct: much of what presents as trauma is in fact attachment organisation. The trauma track and the attachment-and-meaning track run in parallel, like the two ruts under a Roman cart, and both need attention.
Maternal attachment is often the reference point the younger ego state uses to make sense of what happened. This changes how we target, how we interweave, and how we judge the tipping point. The weekend is built around this lens and everything we teach is returned to it.
Venue, logistics and pricing
The weekend runs at UCL Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL — a short walk from Russell Square, Euston and Kings Cross. Both days run 09.00 to 17.00, with coffee and tea at mid-morning and mid-afternoon.
Lunch is not included; there are good options in Russell Square and along Southampton Row.
We’re keeping the costs for this down as far as we can, at £85+ VAT for each day, and we’ll be applying for 6 EMDR UK CPD points for each day.
About Mark and Jutta
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.
Jutta Brayne is a transpersonally-trained psychotherapist and former EMDR consultant and between them, Mark and Jutta bring decades of clinical, supervisory and teaching experience to the room.
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