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Free Course by Everything IFS Academy | Therapeutic Modalities Series Module 4 — The Eight-Phase Protocol and the Three-Pronged Approach If the AIP model is the why of EMDR, the eight-phase protocol is the how: the actual route the therapy travels from a first conversation to a settled memory. This lesson is the map of that route. It names what each phase is for and how the phases fit together. The skills that live inside the phases, the calming techniques, the way a memory i

A free IFS Academy course on using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) in everyday life: how the phases form one journey, which parts are genuinely portable, the AIP lens for understanding your own reactions and the calm place, container, and butterfly hug for everyday self-regulation, where the line falls between self-use and trained reprocessing, and how to choose EMDR well alongside other trauma therapies. Every lesson ends with an EMDR practice so you can

A free IFS Academy course on Francine Shapiro, the founder of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): her 1987 observation in a park that eye movements eased distressing thoughts, the growth from the original EMD technique into a comprehensive eight-phase therapy, her decision to test the discovery with controlled research rather than simply trust it, the EMDR Institute and the professional community that formed around her work, and the early skepticism that ran