EMDR Playground Immersion
January 16 - 18, 2026
JOIN US FOR THE FIRST-EVER EMDR PLAYGROUND IMMERSION EXPERIENCE
Picture us on the beach…
Together, our nervous systems syncing with the natural rhythm of the waves, fully immersed in a healing experience that transcends words.
This is the heart of the EMDR Playground Immersion.
For years, I’ve integrated play, movement, and creativity into EMDR therapy, and now, I’m inviting you to experience it firsthand, learning how to bring it—or deepen it—in your own practice.
Why Attend?
✔ Integrate movement, play, and creativity into your EMDR practice, deepening your therapeutic impact.
✔ Experience hands-on, experiential learning. Move beyond passive slides to active, embodied approaches.
✔ Discover new ways to help clients regulate, express, and process trauma while maintaining EMDR fidelity.
This isn’t just a collection of great workshops. It’s a space for true transformation.
Here, you’ll discover the skills, insight, and confidence to create lasting change in your practice and in the lives of those you serve.
What to Expect:
Date: January 16-18, 2026
Location: Cocoa Beach, Florida
Learn from Experts: Gain insights from top experts in EMDR, Play Therapy, and Sandtray Therapy.
Experience Excellence: Learn creative approaches that honor EMDR’s fidelity while expanding its reach.
Transform: Step into a space where healing happens, and your practice evolves.
NOW IMAGINE YOURSELF HERE.
This beach is OUR EMDR PLAYGROUND
A place where transformation happens. A place where what once felt impossibly stuck in time shifts, softens, integrates, and heals. It’s powerful, beautiful, and life-changing.
Hi there, I’m Jackie, your host, fellow EMDRIA-trained EMDR therapist, consultant, and trainer.
I can’t wait to share this immersive experience with you for three amazing days—January 16-18, 2026!
Are you ready to step in?
I invite you to join us at the EMDR Playground Immersion in January 2026. Together, we will step into a space where EMDR therapy is embodied, healing is felt, and transformation unfolds. This is more than an event. It is a deeply immersive experience. You will learn how to bring this depth of healing into your work, your practice, and the lives of those you serve, creating lasting change that echoes through generations.
I’d love for you to be part of this. If this calls to you, I hope you’ll join us.
Wildcards in Play: Meet Our Presenters
Like Drawing a Wildcard in UNO, Our Presenters Bring Game-Changing Integrations to Enrich Your EMDR Practice
Waldo Winborn
Our Keynote Presenter (Coming from New Mexico)
Waldo is someone you simply can’t miss. His depth of presence and understanding of trauma are truly unmatched. When he speaks, you feel it. There’s a unique power in how he integrates EMDR, Sandtray, and neuroscience, helping us see trauma through a deeply human and scientific lens. Waldo’s generosity and his heart for healing shine through in every interaction. With years of experience, he’s made a lasting impact on countless clinicians. Together with his wife Renee, he leads a group practice in New Mexico with 28 clinicians doing incredible work in the field. His knowledge of Sandtray is fascinating, and learning from him is a rare and valuable opportunity. Waldo has an incredible ability to shift your perspective with just a few words, and I know you’ll walk away from his sessions feeling not only inspired but also deeply connected to your work in a whole new way.
Liliana Baylon
(Coming from Colorado)
Liliana is a force. She’s an EMDRIA-approved consultant with so much soul, bringing her expertise in Synergetic Play Therapy (SPT)—one of our most beloved play therapy trainings, rooted in the incredible work of Lisa Dion, whose approach we deeply admire—and it can truly be felt. I love the way she teaches and the way she lives her life with such authenticity. She brings her whole self into her work, and her passion for EMDR therapy is undeniable.She has a deep love for music and embodies its rhythm, reflecting the heartbeat of humanity in everything she does. Liliana has a unique gift for approaching trauma through a lens that honors cultural context and diversity, offering both clarity and compassion. She gives us insight into worlds we otherwise wouldn’t know, rocking our understanding with painful truths that are shifting how we approach healing and, ultimately, changing the world. Her ability to navigate trauma with such profound insight is nothing short of transformative. There’s a beauty in the way she teaches that often brings me to tears. Liliana doesn’t just provide new information; she awakens something deep within us, helping us reframe our work with a richer, more compassionate understanding of the cultural dimensions of healing. Her presence challenges us in ways that are deeply uncomfortable, yet profoundly necessary. I’m beyond excited to have her here guiding us, and I know her impact will stay with us—in our work and in our hearts—long after the event ends.
Marshall Lyles
(Coming from Texas)
The way Marshall teaches his EMDR advanced trainings goes straight to the soul, touching something deep within each of us. His presence is transformative, and his teachings speak directly to the heart. I’ve had the privilege of many EMDR conversations, consultations, and trainings with him, including traveling all the way to South Africa to learn from him. It was during that trip that we delved into both sandtray and EMDR, and I had the honor of witnessing Marshall demonstrate with Linda Homeyer, one of the greatest Sandtray Therapy teachers in the world. As we all sat on the edge of our seats, we witnessed something truly special: two masters, teaching and healing right before our eyes. It was a moment that will forever be etched in my heart.
Marshall’s gift goes beyond words. His mere presence teaches us. He shows us how to play with words, using them like poetry to evoke meaning and connection. His work spans so many mediums, but his deep understanding of what it means to be human guides us through the most essential aspects of trauma: attachment, dissociation, the body, and the brain. His teachings redefine the way we approach suffering and healing. He holds space with such boundless compassion, showing us how to sit with pain and guiding us to help our clients move toward healing with both strength and gentleness.
Marshall is one of those rare teachers who not only shares knowledge but transforms the room with his energy. Whether we are reading his work, listening to him speak, or simply being in his presence, we are all deeply enriched. I am a better EMDR therapist, a better human, because of him. His wisdom is a gift, and I am truly honored to have him here with us. You will walk away from his sessions not just feeling empowered, but deeply transformed: both as a therapist and as a person.
Ana Gómez
(Coming from Arizona)
Ana is a true pioneer in our field and one of the most caring, beautiful-hearted humans you’ll ever meet. Her work with EMDR and Sandtray has transformed the way we approach healing, offering a deep and compassionate understanding of trauma. Through her teachings, she has impacted countless clinicians worldwide, paving the way for new possibilities in trauma healing and reshaping how we support children. Her book was a lifeline for me after my basic training, giving me the confidence to apply EMDR with kids in a way that truly resonated. I am forever grateful for the wisdom and guidance she shared. Ana’s generosity shines in the stories she tells, like the shy blanket technique and Cocoa the Tiger, a well-loved stuffed animal that has provided comfort and safety to so many of child clients over the years. Ana’s influence will continue to guide us long after this EMDR Playground Immersion, shaping how we show up as healers in our practices and the lives we touch.
*In the event of unforeseen circumstances, including illness or emergencies, the speaker lineup may change
A Deeply Experiential, Highly Clinical EMDR Conference
This event is exclusively for EMDR-trained clinicians—those who have completed Basic Training and are ready to refine their practice through expert-led, immersive experiences that honor Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) while deepening your ability to engage clients in meaningful, developmentally appropriate ways.
As an EMDRIA-Approved Trainer, Consultant, and Certified EMDR Therapist myself, I am committed to upholding the fidelity of EMDR therapy while integrating approaches that enhance nervous system regulation and clinical effectiveness.
This event won’t just deepen your love for EMDR, it will strengthen your practice of it.
Everything we do here is designed to help you expand your skill set with confidence so that you leave with both new tools and a renewed sense of clarity, presence, and purpose in your EMDR practice.
What You Can Expect:
✔ Optional Sunrise Experiences on the Beach – Start each day with immersive, nature-based EMDR resourcing that grounds you, centers you, and enhances your ability to attune to clients.
✔ Workshops That Will Elevate Your Practice – Deeply experiential sessions where you will engage in the work,rather than just learning about it.
✔ Optional Evening Immersions – Transformative experiences designed to help you embody what you’ve learned, ensuring that you integrate these approaches with confidence and depth.
Meet Our EMDR Playground Immersion Guides
Meet the extraordinary team of EMDR-trained clinicians, artists, and leaders who are weaving together an unforgettable experience. Each brings a unique gift to this event, blending creativity, wisdom, and deep clinical expertise to make this immersion truly transformative.
✔ Jackie Flynn – Meditative Sunrise Mandalas & Moonlight Meditations
✔ Claudia Ocampo – Master of Ceremony, guiding the heart of our gathering
✔ Heidi Hanson – Seamless event coordination & flow, ensuring every moment is smooth and intentional
✔ Alisha & Catherine Denham – The heART & Soul of Miniatures, bringing depth to the smallest of creations
✔ Dora Henderson – Nature-Based EMDR Resourcing, harnessing the power of the earth for healing
✔ Jessica Crunkleton – Cultural Wisdom in the Sandtray, honoring diverse stories and traditions
✔ Haruna Nail – Rhythms of Regulation: Sound & Nervous System Healing, where music meets deep nervous system attunement
Together, this team is shaping an experience that will stay with you long after the event ends. Get ready for something truly special!
Your EMDR Playground Clinician’s Kit
This isn’t just a welcome bag—it’s an exclusive clinician kit, thoughtfully designed just for this event and packed with tools you won’t find anywhere else. Every item inside was carefully chosen to bring more depth, ease, and engagement to your EMDR work with kids. You’ll also get special access to demos Jackie recorded just for you, with a QR code that shows exactly how to put these tools into action. Whether you explore it now or take it back to your practice, this kit is more than a gift, it’s a lasting resource to support and inspire your work long after the event ends.
What’s Inside Your Kit:
✔ Miniature Sandtray Set
Expertly chosen miniatures to support powerful symbolic and somatic processing in EMDR—designed to deepen connection and transformation.
✔ Art Materials
A thoughtful collection to encourage expressive processing, helping clients access emotions and resourcing through creativity.
✔ Play Therapy Tools
Carefully crafted to support EMDR in developmentally attuned, creative ways—bringing playfulness and healing into every session.
✔ Cognition Cards
A set of beautifully designed cards to effortlessly integrate creative cognitive interweaves with confidence, enhancing your therapeutic practice.
✔ Love
Every kit is assembled with love, crafted for your you and your EMDR practice. Because your work deserves that extra care.
✔ And More
More than just tools—this kit ensures you feel equipped, inspired, and ready to apply everything you’ve learned, with surprises designed to empower your practice.
Please know that...
This kit isn’t just about tools. It’s about fueling your work with creative, holistic resources that are as passionate and dedicated as you are. Whether you're looking to deepen your EMDR practice, infuse creativity, or find new ways to connect with clients, this kit has everything you need to start transforming lives...yours and theirs.
Continuing Education Credits
✔ 15 EMDRIA Credits – Pending approval. EMDRIA Credit Provider: Jackie Flynn, EMDRIA EC Provider #19012.
Eligibility for EMDRIA credits is restricted to those who have completed an EMDRIA-Approved Basic EMDR Training.
✔ 15 Association for Play Therapy (APT) Live CE Hours – Approved by APT Approved Provider Jacqueline Flynn (#20-628).
✔ This conference is in progress for CE credits through CE Learning Systems, LLC, which is sponsoring the credits for the APA. We will notify attendees once approval is granted.
Spots Are Limited. Secure Yours Now.
This isn’t just another event.
It’s your chance to be part of something groundbreaking.
Spots are limited. Once they’re gone, they’re gone. No recordings. No replays. No second chances.
If you feel the pull, trust it. Join us.
Final Thoughts: You Are Ready for This.
I built this event because I know what’s possible.
I know the depth, the transformation, the breakthroughs that can happen when you bring together the right people, the right knowledge, and the right environment.
I cannot wait to see you here, on the beach, in the work, and in the experience.
See you soon.
Take care,
Jackie
