08/26/2026 & 09/09/2026 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 8.4-8.6

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

AP Therapists — Will focus on Stage 1 of EFT + Stage 1 of Penner Protocol

Pre-Didactic Materials:

Resident Therapists:

PLEASE READ + WATCH:

Processing Feelings (8.4) – Counselor guides participant in imagery to process present feelings.
- https://app.raenotes.com/meeting/afaf3da2b39b449987e8b5e4e019d2e3 – Watch Minute 21-25

Processing Memory (8.5) – Counselor guides participant in imagery to process past traumatic experience.
- https://app.raenotes.com/meeting/837f949fad6a4c4198d033d9d767edd7 – Watch Minute 30-36

Priming Neural Pathways (8.6) – Counselor guides participant in imagery to process past traumatic experience.
- https://app.raenotes.com/meeting/cf1cd8062e2d4632a22f12a846bf4d32 – Watch Minute 25-29

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
  - 8.4 -8.6 – Process Feeling, Process Memory, Prime Neural Pathways

Individual Client Presentation 1#: Use client you have recently seen for this role play. Please have the client present as anxiously attached.

Second Role Play:

Individual Client Presentation #2: Use client you have recently seen for this role play. Please have the client present as anxiously attached.

Certified Therapists:

Please read and watch:

Please choose one of the two EFT STAGE 2 + Penner Stage 2 Protocol Meetings to watch (just meeting portion):

11/12/2025 Didactic – Rewatch Minute 10-1:14 – For 8/26 Meeting

1/21/26 Didactic – Re-watch Minute 10 – 1:20 – For 9/9/26 Meeting

Examples of Stage 2 Work in Penner: (NOT REQUIRED BUT WELCOMED FOR APPLICATION)

First Role Play:

Role Play #1:

Therapist Task: Session 4 (30 Minutes)
- Step 5: Delve into and identify disowned needs and aspects of self that have been hidden for each partner.

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 6: Promote acceptance of these tender and hidden parts, aspects of self and new ways of relating.

AP 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)

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.