The 2026 EMDR Europe Workshop Conference is built around the theme “Unlocking the power of AIP.”
That is worth noticing.
AIP can easily become something clinicians learn early, name occasionally, and then leave in the background.
But in real clinical work, AIP is not background.
It is the map.
It helps clinicians ask what memory network is active, what is blocking adaptive resolution, and what the client may need before reprocessing can move.
This matters most when the case is not clean.
When a client dissociates, AIP matters.
When a target is unclear, AIP matters.
When the therapist is tempted to collect more techniques instead of slowing down to understand the case, AIP matters.
The field has many adaptations now. Some are useful. Some are necessary. But adaptation without a clear model can become drift.
That does not mean clinicians should be rigid.
It means the model has to stay alive in the therapist’s thinking.
For clinicians, the practical question is simple:
Am I using AIP to understand this case, or am I just trying to make the session work?
That difference matters.
