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What is GTEP, Group EMDR?

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing. EMDR is one of many therapeutic approaches. EMDR is a way of allowing us to move through and heal from a distressing past event. Essentially it allows our brain to move the information linked to the event from the "RED ALARM! filing cabinet" of memories into the "grey" one. It will always remain an unpleasant event but it will loose its 'fire'. It also allows us to update our script around it for example from: I am ou

What a joy to have delved into the research about joy in the workplace! A recent study stated that “an emotional culture of joy may foster change in team resilience” (Hartmann et al., 2019). Joy is characterised in the study as being able share positive emotions alongside 'negative emotions' such as anger or frustration. It showed that teams that can express all spectrum of emotions, importantly including the positive ones, can help create psychological safety. Teams where jo

EMDR reducing trauma in the police force

The findings of this systematic review (Billings et al., 2023) about psychosocial interventions after a traumatic incident in the workplace are fascinating: The systematic review found that across 80 research studies and 11 clinical practice guidelines: Generic de-briefing can result in a negative impact for staff There were positive benefits to group interventions - it helped normalise experiences and reactions to high stress situations. More targeted individual interventions