Attachment-Focused Ancestral Resourcing
Discover how to help clients access strength, wisdom, protection, and healing resources held within their ancestral lineage.
October 16, 2026
10:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific (1:00 pm - 4:15 pm ET)
*CE's Pending
Attachment-Focused Ancestral Resourcing
Discover how to help clients access strength, wisdom, protection, and healing resources held within their ancestral lineage.
Oct 16, 2026
110:00 am – 1:15 pm Pacific (1:00 pm - 4:15 pm ET)
*CE's Pending
Registration Closes on October 14, 2026
Bring the Ancestral Healing Work in Releasing What Isn't Yours Into Clinical Practice
There are gifts as well as burdens in every ancestry.
In her new book, Releasing What Isn’t Yours: Living From Your True Self Through Multidimensional Integrative Healing, Dr. Laurel Parnell examines how some of the pain, beliefs, and patterns people carry may be connected not only to their own experiences, but also to family history, inherited burdens, relational entanglements, and ancestral trauma.
The book introduces Multidimensional Integrative Healing (MDIH), Dr. Parnell’s approach to working across the psychological, relational, ancestral, spiritual, and energetic dimensions of healing.
In this live virtual workshop, Dr. Parnell will bring the ancestral dimension of MDIH into a practical clinical learning experience for therapists.
Attachment-Focused Ancestral Resourcing integrates the broader MDIH framework with principles from Attachment-Focused EMDR, including safety, attunement, client-centered pacing, cultural humility, guided imagery, and bilateral stimulation.
You’ll learn how to help clients recognize not only what may have been passed forward through trauma, but also the wisdom, protection, resilience, nourishment, and belonging that may be available within their lineage.
What Is Attachment-Focused Ancestral Resourcing?
Attachment-Focused Ancestral Resourcing uses guided imagery and bilateral stimulation to help clients connect with supportive resources from their ancestral line.
This work brings the ancestral dimension of Multidimensional Integrative Healing into a careful, collaborative clinical approach grounded in safety, attunement, cultural humility, and respect for the client’s own experience.
These resources may include:
known or unknown ancestors
wise ancestors
ancestral helping spirits
cultural or spiritual traditions
ancestral land
healthy and resilient aspects of the lineage
the ancestral well or spring
You may use these resources alongside foundational AF-EMDR resources such as Nurturing Figures, Protector Figures, and Wise Figures.
What You'll Learn
During this three-hour workshop, Dr. Parnell will show you how to:
Recognize when ancestral resourcing may be clinically appropriate
Identify and develop ancestral resources
Use guided imagery and bilateral stimulation to strengthen those resources
Support stabilization, affect regulation, resilience, and belonging
Work with inherited beliefs and repeating lineage patterns
Bring reparative resources to parts of the lineage affected by trauma, deprivation, or unmet developmental needs
Distinguish between the client's own developmental wounds and ancestral developmental repair
Keep the work trauma-informed, respectful, and culturally responsive
You'll also explore questions such as:
What did this family member or ancestor need?
What might have helped them?
Who or what could offer safety, nourishment, protection, comfort, or love?
What strengths are already present within the lineage?
How This Might Look in Practice
As Dr. Parnell describes in Releasing What Isn’t Yours, healing may involve recognizing what belongs to the client’s own story, what may be connected to relationships or earlier generations, and what resources may support greater freedom and wholeness.
A client may carry a persistent belief that “there is never enough,” even when their current circumstances are stable. Through ancestral resourcing, you might explore whether the client connects that belief with a family history of scarcity, famine, displacement, or deprivation, then help them imagine bringing nourishment, safety, or abundance to the lineage.
Another client may carry the belief that they must remain tough or emotionally guarded to be valued. You’ll explore how a survival strategy that may once have protected earlier generations can become limiting when carried forward.
Attachment-Focused Ancestral Resourcing offers a way to work with these patterns without imposing an interpretation, assuming every struggle began in the ancestral line, or treating symbolic material as literal fact.
What to Expect
This workshop combines clinical teaching with practical application.
Dr. Parnell will use:
case examples
guided reflection
experiential exercises
demonstrations
clinical discussion
examples of bilateral stimulation and ancestral resource development
You’ll leave with a clearer understanding of how to introduce ancestral resourcing, when it may be helpful, and how to integrate it into your work without imposing meaning or treating symbolic material as literal fact.
You’ll also gain a clearer understanding of how ancestral resourcing fits within Multidimensional Integrative Healing and the broader body of work presented in Releasing What Isn’t Yours.
Who This Workshop Is For
This workshop is designed for mental health professionals who want practical, trauma-informed ways to work with intergenerational trauma, inherited beliefs, cultural disconnection, and lineage-based resources.
It may be especially meaningful for clinicians interested in the intersection of psychological, relational, ancestral, spiritual, and energetic dimensions of healing within the MDIH framework.
About Dr. Laurel Parnell
Laurel Parnell, PhD
Dr. Laurel Parnell is a clinical psychologist, EMDR pioneer, author of Releasing What Isn’t Yours: Living From Your True Self Through Multidimensional Integrative Healing, and founder of the Parnell Institute.
She is the developer of Attachment-Focused EMDR, Resource Tapping, and Multidimensional Integrative Healing. For more than three decades, she has trained therapists around the world
Help Clients Access the Healing Resources Held Within Their Lineage
Pain is not the only thing that travels through generations.
So do wisdom, resilience, protection, creativity, devotion, and love.
Attachment-Focused Ancestral Resourcing brings one dimension of the healing work in Releasing What Isn’t Yours and Multidimensional Integrative Healing into a practical workshop for clinicians.
Join Dr. Laurel Parnell for this live virtual workshop and learn how to help clients draw from those resources while approaching intergenerational patterns with safety, humility, and clinical care.
CE Credits
Praxis Continuing Education and Training by New Harbinger maintains responsibility for this CE program. CE credits are pending. To earn CE credit, attendees must complete all live sessions of the activity in full. Participants must sign in and out daily if it is an in-person activity. No partial credit will be awarded if sessions are missed. Upon completion of all sessions and submission of the evaluation, you can print or download your CE certificate at the conclusion of the course. We will provide you with a link to access your evaluation and certificate at the conclusion of the activity.
ADA Accommodations:
Request accommodations must be 60 days before the start of the program, contact [email protected]
Technical Requirements:
Our AF-EMDR virtual trainings are conducted via Zoom meetings. Our virtual trainings will provide the same curriculum and rich learning experience we are known for. Those registering need to be prepared to meet via Zoom with reliable and secure access to a computer or tablet device.
✓ A computer with a monitor, keyboard, and a mouse or a mobile device/tablet
✓ Speakers/headphones: either built‐in to your computer/device or external (plugged into your computer)
✓ A strong internet connection, either wired or wireless.
✓ The course is supported on most up-to-date internet browsers (Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Brave, etc.)
✓ You will need privacy
✓ You are expected to attend the training in its entirety
✓ Please either use your normal speaker set up with your computer or a wired headphone set to be more stable.
Refund Policy
Your registration fee for this program minus a processing fee is refundable up to 60 days before the program begins. If you must cancel after that, no refunds are available, but you may send a qualified colleague in your place.