EMDR for Peak Performance
– Power Tool for Performance Coaching

• EMDR can diminish and remove performance blocks and anxieties the same way it desensitizes traumatic stress reactions, because all of these reactions occur in the same deep part of the brain — its “emergency center.” When this instinctive part of the brain senses danger, it goes into “fight or flight” and rational mental processing in the rest of the brain shuts down. Once a certain situation triggers a "fight/flight" reaction, it will have the same upsetting effect until it is desensitized. EMDR is one of the very few methods that can change that negative programming, and neutralize the negative reaction pattern.
• As clients move beyond their old “fight/flight” reactions, and they begin functioning well in previously blocked areas, opportunities for greater success open up. Clients often surprise themselves after overcoming these reactions, even volunteering for previously dreaded tasks without thinking twice about it.
• EMDR for Peak Performance can enhance and "install" positive programming for future tasks, challenges and performances. — it can increase creativity, enthusiasm, self-confidence, and quality of work performance. It can enable you to move beyond your current best to higher levels. And you will find that these techniques “pre-program” your brain, allowing you to focus exclusively on the task or performance itself.
• Creativity Enhancement — No matter what your field, EMDR for Peak Performance can increase your creative abilities. When you feel stuck, EMDR can help you access your creative power and get ideas to flow naturally again. Creativity enhancement techniques are used as often with business and professional clients as with creative and performing artists, because empowering the creative process gets exciting, high impact results.
• Role and Character Enhancement for Performers of all kinds — a unique type of Creativity Enhancement, in which the EMDR process helps you to get intensely connected to the role, history, and motivations of any character you wish to portray. This is done in the context of live rehearsal. In addition to actors, singers, dancers, and writers, people in sales, the law, and leadership positions can learn to "inhabit" certain styles that work best for the task at hand.

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