Co-Creating the Conditions for Safety: 
A playshop for the EMDR curious therapist

I am a queer fat nonbinary femme who practices at the intersections of oppression, grief, trauma and liberation. My EMDR and trauma healing practice is deeply woven within liberatory practice culture and I come from a lineage of queers, witches and healers dedicated to justice and liberation for all people with a lived experience of oppression. I am an EMDR Certified Therapist and an EMDR/quEerMDR consultant.

One of my early teachers, the wise Bonnie Badenoch, first taught me that we are constantly searching for the conditions of safety and when we find them, healing simply happens. Years later another of Bonnie’s students, Jules Taylor Shore, taught me a different version of this birthright wisdom: when compassion is present, the brain can’t help but heal. This workshop will introduce how EMDR approaches the work of trauma metabolism, creating the relational conditions for trauma healing.  

Offered to folx who have been considering becoming trained in EMDR, this 90 minute playshop will give a brief introduction to the model of EMDR, reinforcing the magic of how healing happens and drawing from the rooted wisdom of relational neuroscience and polyvagal theory so you’ll recognize the pathways of healing. I’ll answer questions about the model, give a little behind the scenes tour of EMDR training, and teach a fun intervention from the EMDR world that you can immediately use with your clients to help in trauma recovery. 

About the presenter

horizon greene (they/she)

I am a queer fat nonbinary femme who practices at the intersections of oppression, grief, trauma and liberation. My EMDR and trauma healing practice is deeply woven within liberatory practice culture and I come from a lineage of witches and healers dedicated to justice for all people with a lived experience of oppression. 

I have spent more than 23 years in a deep study of how healing happens, learning to undo oppression while learning to co-create cultures of justice and belonging. My training has included intensive learnings in somatics, trauma healing, anti-oppressive practices, anti-racism, liberatory culture building and ritual. My therapy practice is a blending of liberatory healing practices rooted in the relational neurosciences, somatic wisdom, parts work, ancestral healing, magic and love. I accompany people in the deep work of making real what our souls know is possible. 

I am a lifetime student of how healing happens and am an EMDR Certified Therapist, an EMDR Consultant and a Level 2 Trained IFS Therapist. I completed a 9 month intensive in Somatic Abolitionism for Therapists with Resmaa Menakem and am a Certified Body Trust® Provider. I am regularly a teaching assistant for the beautiful QTIFS program. 

$29.00 on demand

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