EMDR Made Easy
THE 2-SQUARE PROTOCOL 6hr On-Line, Self-Paced Workshop 6 EMDRIA CREDTS
Integrating drawing and story-telling within the 8-Phase AIP model
EMDR FOR CHILDREN & ADOLESCENTS
Children don't always have the words...
This protocol doesn't require them.
The 2-Square Protocol gives EMDR clinicians a practical, creative way to help younger clients identify, process, and reorganize difficult experiences- within the eight-phase model you already know.
See what makes 2-Square different...
01-The Clinical Problem
02-The Course
03-Your Instructor
01 - THE CLINICAL PROBEM
Problem: Using the standard protocol, children may struggle, not be able, or may not be willing to share their painful experience in a clear verbal narrative.
Even trained EMDR clinicians can feel unsure about how to keep the child's engagement and move the work forward.
A protocol you can understand clearly...
and use thoughtfully
2-Square shows you how to make "the EMDR work" more accessible to your younger clients. This is not a course about replacing the standard model or collecting another clever technique. Everything that follows stays within the 8-phase AIP clinical framework.
THE WORK MADE VISIBLE
This is not art therapy...rather a clinical pathway
The drawings are not the treatment by themselves. They give the child a concrete way to show what is difficult to say. Processing, storytelling, imagery, and child-chosen resources enable the experience to change by helping the child imagine what comes next, supporting the work that follows.
Drawings help the child process what they cannot yet put into words
The child does not need to be an artist...
In "Square 1", the child represents their feeling in a picture, within their developmental stage, using their unique drawing ability. There is no correct image to draw. The image represents their negative feeling and experience.
In "Square 2", a story associated with the experience is the starting point for processing that follows. It acts as the catalyst to change their negative belief, inspiring a new positive picture.
Make it visible (Square1)
The child uses symbolic drawing to represent what happened and the "big bad feeling" connected to it.
Support processing
The clinician uses a developmentally accessible protocol, processing the story within the EMDR model.
What's next (Square2)
Imagery, storytelling, and child-chosen resources help the child imagine a new response as a new future template.
02 - THE 2-SQUARE COURSE
EMDR IS POWERFUL
Translating it for a
child can be the
difficult part.
2-Square course is a flexible way into the work. The course shows you how to use the protocol in practice, providing clinical reasoning behind each step, as you see the work unfold.
Drawing makes the child's imagination visible. Storytelling uses the child's own words, resources, and new beliefs, allowing for a new picture that supports integration.
Who is this course for?
For clinicians who...
The course structure
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6 Hours on-line, on-demand teaching
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20 Focused video lessons
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70 Pages downloadable, color-coded workbook
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1 Live demonstration with an adult class participant
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4 Recorded sessions with a child
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10 Clinical case studies
What will I learn?
- The distinct purpose of each stage within the EMDR model
- The clinical reasoning behind each phase, as you apply 2-Square to each child's unique developmental needs
- How to apply each protocol step with clear explanation and sample language
- How to use drawing to start processing, rather than as an activity on it's own
- Learn how story supports resourcing, emotional integration, & future templates
- Experience tangible application with the live demonstrations and ten cases
- How to bring it to your own practice and use it immediately
- How to continuously improve, reusing the workbook's forms, templates, sample language, and scripts as an ongoing clinical resource
More than a workshop...
- Sharon's inspirational and dynamic style keeps you engaged from beginning to end
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Pause, review, and learn at your own pace
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Follow the color coded workbook, tying the video modules, templates, forms, sample langauge, and scripts to each phase
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The case examples and live demo connect the ideas to the actual therapeutic work
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Download and use the test questions to guide your study through the course
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Complete the course, evaluation, and optional test to earn the six EMDRIA credits
03 - YOUR INSTRUCTOR: MEET SHARON
CREATED FROM MORE THAN FOUR DECADES OF CLINICAL PRACTICE
Developed by Sharon Schwartz, MSW, through careful observation, repeated use, and-most importantly-children's own feedback.
A protocol shaped with children
Not simply adapted for them
You know the model
Sharon makes it accessible to the child
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Sharon has spent more than four decades working with children, adolescents, adults, and families, training in EMDR in 1997
Sharon, with her unique ability to pay close attention to how children showed what they needed, she adapted drawing and story telling to work for younger clients who needed something more concrete than only a verbal approach.
In this recorded workshop, she brings that experience and methodology into the classroom, as she shares pictures, tells the stories behind the work, helping clinicians see not only how to begin, but how to follow through to get real results.
Psychotherapist, educator, international EMDR speaker, and creator of the 2-Square Protocol
About me
- Psychotherapist and educator
- Creator of the 2-Square protocol
- Former clinical director TP Counseling
- EMDR since 1997
- BS Cornell University - HDFS
- MSW Boston University
- EMDRIA approved provider
- 4 decades of clinical practice
- President of Turning Point Education
My promise
- Feels as if you are in the class - not sleep by powerpoint...live video clips
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6 Hours/6 CEUs - online, on-demand
- 20 Modules - focused video learning
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70 pp Workbook - color coded, download
- Clinical application - Ten case examples and a recorded demonstration of therapeutic work
- Earn certificate by passing 80% of test - delivered automatically
A clearer way into the work
Help children process what they cannot yet put into words
Learn the practical,
symbolic 2-Square Protocol,
within the eight-phase EMDR AIP model.
