Multidimensional Integrative Healing Retreat With Laurel Parnell, PhD.
November 13-16, 2026 | Phoenicia, New York
$648
Attachment-Focused EMDR Basic Training: Parts I & II
Part 1 | Oct 2-4, 2026
8:30 am – 5:30 pm Pacific
Part 2 | Oct 23-25, 2026
8:30 am – 5:30 pm Pacific
Where Clinical Skill Meets Contemplative Depth
You share profound stories every day.
Stories of grief and loss, near-death experiences, and after-death communications, traumatic experiences, intergenerational pain, and experiences that echo across time.
Multidimensional Integrative Healing invites us to consider that healing may unfold across many dimensions of experience, including psychological, somatic, relational, ancestral, and spiritual.
During this retreat at Menla, Dr. Laurel Parnell will explore how Multidimensional Integrative Healing opens the door to dimensions of experience that extend beyond personal history and into broader fields of healing and transformation.
Releasing What Isn't Yours: A Multidimensional Approach to Healing
This retreat explores the practices and perspectives of Multidimensional Integrative Healing and how they can deepen and expand EMDR-based work.
Open to clinicians trained in Attachment-Focused EMDR, this retreat offers dedicated time to explore and integrate the principles of Multidimensional Integrative Healing within both personal and clinical practice.
The approach explored in this retreat is also the focus of Dr. Laurel Parnell’s forthcoming book, Releasing What Isn’t Yours: Living From Your True Self Through Multidimensional Integrative Healing (June, 2026).
In the book, Dr. Parnell explores how individuals often carry emotional, relational, and even ancestral burdens that are not truly their own. Multidimensional Integrative Healing offers practices for recognizing these influences and gently releasing what does not belong to us.
This retreat offers an opportunity to explore these ideas experientially while learning directly with Dr. Parnell in a contemplative retreat setting. Order Releasing What Isn’t Yours
Praise for Releasing What Isn't Yours
“Wise and visionary. Laurel is a pioneer in healing and includes the essential dimension of the sacred that has been missing for so many.”
— Jack Kornfield, author of A Path With Heart
“Releasing What Isn’t Yours invites us to explore the many layers of experience that often go unrecognized in everyday life—and psychotherapy—yet influence us in profound ways.”
— Daniel J. Siegel, MD, New York Times bestselling author
“For anyone who has experienced trauma, for clinicians seeking to expand their therapeutic repertoire, or for spiritual practitioners longing for a bridge between profound inner experience and psychological integration, this book is a gift.”
— Diane Poole Heller, PhD, author of The Power of Attachment
“A cutting-edge book that helps us discover where awakening and therapeutic healing converge.”
— Loch Kelly, M.Div, LCSW
Releasing What Isn’t Yours will be published in June 2026 by St. Martin’s Essentials / Sounds True.
Exploring the Practices of Multidimensional Integrative Healing
Drawing from the teachings in Releasing What Isn’t Yours, Dr. Parnell will introduce key elements of Multidimensional Integrative Healing and how they can deepen clinical and personal healing work.
During the retreat, participants will explore practices such as:
- developing energetic sovereignty and maintaining energetic clarity
- working with energetic cords and relational patterns
- accessing nature and spiritual resources
- exploring ancestral resources and lineage healing
- dreamwork and intuitive insight
- after-death communication and spiritual experiences
- recognizing, assessing, and releasing spirit attachments
Through experiential exercises, meditation, case sharing, and group discussion, participants will explore how these practices can support healing that extends beyond personal history into broader dimensions of experience.
Who Is This Retreat For?
This retreat is designed for those who:
- have completed Attachment-Focused EMDR training or received special permission
- feel called to bring spiritual or multidimensional perspectives into healing work
- maintain a contemplative or reflective practice
- are comfortable exploring non-ordinary experiences within a grounded clinical context
- desire connection with other clinicians exploring transpersonal work
An Invitation to Deeper Work
This retreat is an invitation to broaden your understanding of healing, not only for your clients but also for yourself.
Enrollment is intentionally limited to preserve depth, safety, and meaningful connection among participants.
We encourage early registration to secure your place.
About Dr. 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
Included in Tuition
$648.00 USD retreat tuition includes:
Three days of immersive training with Dr. Laurel Parnell
Advanced MIH + EMDR Clinical Instruction
Live demonstrations by a pioneer in the field
Guided meditation and contemplative practices
Experiential learning and supervised practice
Small-group consultation and discussion
Time for personal reflection and integration
Connection with an intimate community of fellow clinicians
The retreat tuition does not include lodging at Menla. Upon registration, you will receive a link to book your lodging at Menla as you will work directly with them to find the best accommodations. Accommodations include all meals and range from $243 per night to $380 per night.
A Three-Part Basic Training Model
The Parnell Institute Attachment-Focused EMDR Training is divided into three parts. Participants will take Parts 1 & 2 over two three-day weekends scheduled close together in time.ble soon.
Upon completing Part 2, all participants are required to use AF-EMDR in their practices while receiving ten hours of small group consultation from our Parnell Institute faculty. The fee for the required 10-hour consultation is NOT included in the Basic Training cost. This is a separate fee for 10-hours of small group consultation of $650 is paid directly to the Parnell Consultant.
Part 3 (a separate fee) is taken approximately six months following part 2 and after completing the requisite 10 hours of small group consultation with a Parnell Institute faculty.
Participants must take all three parts to complete the Parnell Institute’s Attachment-Focused EMDR Basic Training to receive a certificate of completion. The Three-Part training sequence must be completed within two years.
Registration Requirements
A. All participants must be licensed to independently practice psychotherapy. You are fully licensed through your state or government credentialing board in one of the following fields and will provide the required documentation prior to acceptance into the training:
1) Licensed Psychologist,
2) Licensed Clinical Social Worker,
3) Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist,
4) Licensed Professional Counselor,
5) Licensed Psychiatrist,
6) Licensed Psychiatric Nursing,
7) Licensed Mental Health Practitioners, Licensed Psychoanalyst. Interns or Associates are not eligible to participate. After completing your registration on this page, you will be asked to submit licensure documentation.
B. By registering for a training, you acknowledge your understanding that you will be asked to serve as a client in the service of everyone’s learning. **You agree that you are psychologically and physically stable enough to take on a client role in this setting, and that you will do what is needed to take care of yourself if any discomfort arises as a result. You also acknowledge that you have the capacity to access and make use of positive resources.
Participant Consent
I acknowledge that I have been informed of and understand the following:
1. I have been informed and understand this is an Attachment- Focused EMDR Training and is not an EMDRIA affiliated training.
2. During this training, I will be asked to serve as a client, member, and observer in the service of everyone’s learning.
3. I agree that I am psychologically and physically stable enough to take on these roles in this setting.
4. I recognize that serving as a client may cause emotional distress, and that I will do what is needed to take care of myself if any discomfort arises as a result.
5. In order to receive an attendance certificate and/or CEs for this training, I must attend the full training, log in and out each day, and complete each day’s practicum and required evaluations.
6. If I arrive 15 minutes late or leave 15 minutes early or do not complete the training, I will not be eligible for a refund.
7. Parnell Institute, LLC reserves the right to determine whether I am eligible to continue the training at any stage.
8. Although it happens rarely, the Parnell Institute sometimes determines that a participant is not able to participate fully, has not mastered the material adequately, or is too disruptive to continue. If this were to occur, the Parnell Institute would provide an opportunity to remedy the issues and return at a later date. However, I understand that this would be done at my own expense.
9. This is why, as of January, 1, 2022, we have elected to no longer affiliate our trainings with EMDRIA.
You will be emailed this consent form for your signature to scan and submit along with your license verification.
The grievance policy for trainings provided by the Parnell Institute and Laurel Parnell is available here.
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 $100 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.