Description
Where this work sits
“Not ‘what’s wrong with me?’ but ‘what happened to me?’”
Have you ever noticed how a feeling can arrive in the body before the mind has had a chance to catch up? Why? Because the body remembers what the mind never filed away.
Bessel van der Kolk gave the world a language for this in The Body Keeps the Score; trauma isn’t only remembered as a story, it’s held in the nervous system, in the breath, in the way we brace. Bruce Lipton, in The Biology of Belief, showed us that it’s the cell membrane, not the nucleus, that reads the environment, and that perception can switch genes on and off. Two giants, two doorways into the same truth: what happened to us lives on in our biology.
Split-Second Unlearning™ takes the next step. In my research I propose that the imprint of an overwhelming moment, what I call an Emotional Memory Image (EMI), isn’t locked away inside the head at all. Building on Donald Forsdyke’s work on extracorporeal memory, and extending Lipton’s membrane outward into the field around the body, I suggest the EMI sits in the peripersonal space just in front of us (Hudson, 2021; Hudson, 2022). That’s why your clients can feel it before they can name it… and why they don’t need to tell the story for it to change.
Over five days you’ll learn to find that image, see where it is and what it looks like, and help the Unconscious Mind remember to forget. No digging. No re-living. Plain and simple.
The practical details
- Dates: 14–18 April 2027, 09:00–16:30 each day
- Venue: Hotel Kaktus Albir, Playa de Albir, Costa Blanca, Spain
- Places: strictly limited to 30, so there’s real time with me for everyone
- Early-bird price: £3,000 until 30 January 2027
- Full price: £3,400 from 31 January 2027
- Returning practitioners: 50% off. Many of you come back, and I love that; each time round the work goes deeper and you keep gaining from working with me directly. Email [email protected] for your returning-practitioner code.
Day 1 – Foundations of Split-Second Unlearning & Emotional Memory Images
Morning Session
- Welcome and introductions
- The landscape of trauma: diagnosed vs undiagnosed
- Introduction to Split-Second Unlearning (SSU)
- Origins of the model: clinical observation, eye tracking, and psychophysiology
- Emotional Memory Images (EMIs): what they are and how they form
- Demonstrations: identifying an EMI in real time
Afternoon Session
- The freeze response and trauma signatures
- Guided exercise: identifying the “split second”
- Practice: mapping the client’s moment of overwhelm
- Group discussion and Q&A
Day 2 – The Mind–Body Loop and EMI Activation
Morning Session
- Neuroception and the autonomic nervous system
- EMIs and the psychophysiology of chronic stress
- How EMIs bypass narrative memory
- SSU compared with traditional talk-based approaches
- Live demonstration: clearing an EMI
Afternoon Session
- Practitioner observation skills: posture, breath, eye movements
- Group practice: locating EMIs
- The SSU intervention: disrupting the loop in real time
- Guided practice in triads with feedback
Day 3 – Developing Practitioner Precision
Morning Session
- Working without disclosure: safety and ethical considerations
- Assessing readiness: when not to apply SSU
- Refining EMI identification
- Common pitfalls and practitioner blind spots
- Case study: from chronic pattern to resolution
Afternoon Session
- Roleplay: delivering the SSU protocol
- Peer feedback and structured debrief
- Troubleshooting: when a change appears absent
- Integrating SSU with existing modalities
- Reflective practice and journaling
Day 4 – Clinical Application and Confidence
Morning Session
- Supervised practice (live or peer-based)
- Debrief and refinement
- Practitioner Q&A: boundaries, challenges, growth
- Practitioner regulation and resilience
Afternoon Session
- Strengthening precision in real-time intervention
- Recognising subtle EMI activation cues
- Building confidence in applied settings
- Preparation for final practical assessment
Day 5 – Demonstration, Integration & Certification
Morning Session
- Final practical assessments
- Each participant delivers the SSU protocol
- Observation, feedback, and refinement
Afternoon Session
- Individual feedback and integration
- Next steps: ongoing development and supervision
- Resources: MindReset app, practitioner network, continued learning
- Closing reflections and future direction
- Certificate of attendance presented
