08/12/2026 Didactic

Time: 11:00 am-1:00 pm CT
Outside Study: 2 hours
Didactic Presentation: 1 hour 45 mins
Educator: Melissa Abello

Description: This didactic will address different needs for each group of therapists.

Resident therapists – Imagery Markers

Certified Therapists —Will Focus on Stage 1 of EFT + Stage 1 of Penner Protocol

Leadership Cohort

Pre-Didactic Materials:

Resident Therapists:

PLEASE READ + WATCH:

• https://train.mycounselor.online/courses/mco-residency-in-neuroscience-informed-christian-counseling/lessons/theories-models-neuroscience-informed-christian-counseling-part-4/topic/active-ingredient-8-imagery/ – Just introduction video (53 Minutes)
• Evocative Imagery Example – 8.1
  • https://app.raenotes.com/meeting/6cb1c508f3694a7588cf3fd271de0341 (Minute: 7:26-9:51)
• Imagery Naming – 8.2
  • https://app.raenotes.com/meeting/7ccc18b622ee4a38b5e89a58841113a3 – (Minute: 17:06-20:01)
• Resource Development – 8.3
  • https://app.raenotes.com/meeting/7da6932bb9b84fb8ac1bc9666c3c1914 (Minute: 40:31 – 43:00)

• First Role play:
  • Role of the Therapist:
    • Perform a first third session using following markers (30 Minutes)
      • 15.4 -Getting Started
      • 15.5 – Task #2 Established Safety + Brain Sync
      • 2.1 –Leadership + Structure
      • 3.1 – 3.5 Markers (Embodied Spirituality)
      • 7.1-7.3 — Welcome Parts, Validate Parts, Reframe Parts
      • 9.1 Notice Feelings
        • Use 9.2 (Heighten Feeling) or 9.3 Deepen feeling
      • 8.1. Evocative Imagery Naming or 8.2 Imagery Naming or 8.3 Resource Development

• Individual Client Presentation 1#: 35 year old female or male who came in for anxiety. The client has an avoidant attachment style.

Second Role Play:

• Role of the Therapist:
  • Same as a listed about

• Individual Client Presentation #2: 45 year old male, who came in because he is feeling really depressed. The client has an anxious attachment style

---

Certified Therapists

Please read and watch:

Please choose one of the two EFT STAGE 1 + Penner Stage 1 Protocol Meetings to watch (just meeting portion):

10/29/2025 Didactic

1/14/2026 Didactic

Examples of Stage 1 Work in Penner: (NOT REQUIRED BUT WELCOMED FOR APPLICATION)

• Step 2 of EFT + Penner Stage 1: (Minute 5-27)
  • https://app.raenotes.com/meeting/4f46b85ece18431788b0c765d15e2af4
• Step 3 of EFT + Penner Stage 1: (Minute 18-47)
  • https://app.raenotes.com/meeting/4f46b85ece18431788b0c765d15e2af4
• Step 4 of EFT + Penner Stage 1: (Minute 21-35)
  • https://app.raenotes.com/meeting/c504e39c2a854877846e3a43324d1f19

First Role Play:

Role Play #1:

• Therapist Task: Session 4 (30 Minutes)
  • Step 2: Map the cycle in the context of their sexual relationship

• Client Presentation:
  • Cannot seem to get things resolved between them ever. Never talk through anything. Came in for sex therapy. Wife has low desire and husband higher drive.
    • Husband complains wife never wants to have sex
    • Wife: complains she feels constantly attacked by husband always wanting sex and feeling like an object
  • Husband: Pursuer + Anxiously attached
  • Wife: Withdrawer + Avoidant attachement

Role play #2:

• Therapist Task: Session 5 (30 Minutes)
  • Same As Above except add step 3
  • Step 3: Dive more deeply into and feel and share the emotions underlying and fueling each partners position in the cycle. 

• Client Presentation:
  • SAME CLIENT PRESENTATION AS LISTED ABOVE