GTEP/GREP Training, 7th November, 2023, online.

GTEP/GREP Training - Tuesday, 7th November, 2023, 9.30am - 5pm online.

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Shiraz Farrand, an EMDR Consultant and a Senior GTEP/GREP Trainer, and her team of facilitators, are running a GTEP and GREP training workshop.

It will take place via Zoom and joining details will be sent a few days before.

The workshop includes didactic teaching and demonstration, followed by 3 hours of supervised practice in small groups working on personal material. Attention will be given to the practicalities of setting up a group in your organisation or for crisis response. Small group work will consist of a maximum of 12 people per facilitator, so a total of 48 tickets are available.

The workshop will not be recorded or available for delayed viewing.

The cost for EMDR UK members is £95 and for Non- members is £135.

You can become a member of the EMDR UK Association after completing Part 1 of your EMDR training. There is free 1st year membership for NHS employees, regional group or SIG members, charitable sector or public sector workers and trainees undergoing their standard accredited training.

For more information about joining the EMDR Association go to https://emdrassociation.org.uk/become-an-accredited-therapist/membership/

If you do this, please let EMDR Sussex know that you have become a member of the EMDR Association.

6 CPD points awarded.

More about GTEP and GREP

The GTEP protocol was designed by Elan Shapiro and combines the power of EMDR therapy with the simplicity of a guided but self-administered worksheet to ringfence the recent or ongoing traumatic experience. This makes it ideal as a brief intervention with frontline workers, ongoing stressors such as illness, recent events including traumatic grief and in time limited settings with few specialist resources.

The benefits of the GTEP Worksheet include:-

• It is highly versatile and can be used with groups, families, individuals or for trained professional’s self-care.

• It is a brief intervention with rapid effects

• It can be used hours immediately after an incident

• It can be used on consecutive days

• It is a visual worksheet so can be used by clients with communication difficulties

• It ring-fences points of disturbance for use with simple or complex trauma

• It reduces the possibility of long term PTSD effects

• It is effective for staff and resourcing.

GREP was developed in 2022 by Maria Masciandaro and the GTEP Executive team to support Ukrainian colleagues’ by modifying the GTEP worksheet to enhance positive resources.

About Shiraz Farrand

As a trustee of Trauma Aid UK, Shiraz organised Elan Shapiro’s RTEP/GTEP training in response to the series of UK mass traumatic incidents in 2017. Since then she has introduced GTEP into the NHS as a brief intervention and has offered extensive international pro bono training most recently in Iraq, Ukraine and Serbia.

Shiraz serves on the International RTEP/GTEP executive committee and has edited the GTEP and the new GREP training manual. She is lead author of a chapter on Low Intensity task-sharing in the first book on Group EMDR published by Springer 2023. She is President of Trauma Aid UK which offers EMDR pro-bono training and supervision in underserved communities.

Responding to the COVID19 pandemic, Shiraz and the facilitation team have trained hundreds of therapists supporting NHS staff and other key workers and developed a self-help website with EMDR informed exercises for frontline staff and the general public. www.1stcontact.net