Mark Tyrrell – Rewind Technique Course

Learn the Rewind Technique with Mark Tyrrell of Uncommon Knowledge

More than 25 years teaching this remarkable (often single session) trauma/PTSD treatment to thousands of health professionals makes Mark uniquely placed to help you integrate it into your work.

Every practitioner knows that trauma is a part of many problems. But very few know to what extent, and more importantly, how to treat trauma quickly.

And if you treat people with PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) or severe phobias, you’ll know these are among the worst things to live with.

But it’s not just PTSD. (As if that weren’t enough.)

Depression, anxiety conditions, obsessive thoughts, OCD, addictions and substance abuse – all these problems and more are often ‘powered’ by hidden trauma.

So when you’ve got a client whose depression you just can’t lift, an addiction that just won’t shift, or anxiety that keeps coming back no matter what you do, it’s worth considering that a trauma may be driving it.

And then, when you know trauma is present, what do you do about it?

Since the first World War, psychologists and psychiatrists have been trying to treat trauma in a myriad of frightening ways:

• having sufferers relive the trauma again and again, making the symptoms worse not better
• using critical incident stress debriefing as a standard practise for helping emergency services deal with traumatic experiences in the line of duty
• inducing diabetic comas via insulin injection
• using anti-anxiety or anti-depression drugs for years with no improvements.

And of course using cognitive therapy to treat trauma is nigh-on impossible – that’s like trying to tether a raging bull with sewing thread.

To understand this, we need to first see exactly what trauma is. So let’s get back to basics.

What exactly is happening when someone has a traumatic flashback? For example, a soldier who has been in a war zone is walking down the street and a car backfires. Instantly he feels as if he’s back in the front line and reacts as if a bomb has just gone off nearby.

But he knows he’s on a normal street, so what is going on? It’s as if he never took off his combats. His brain has ‘pattern matched’ the backfire to being similar to the sound of gunfire or explosions and triggered the ‘fight or flight’ response in him. He is flooded with adrenaline and his overwhelming instinct is to run.

In his brain there is what we call a ‘global pattern’ for loud bangs, created by the focusing effect of the terror he experienced in battle. This is very different to the pattern you and I have for it, which will make us jump but once our brain figures out what caused the bang, it steps down the alert procedure.

However, this global pattern in the ex-soldier’s brain has no context to it (in other words, it doesn’t matter where he is when the sound occurs, or what else is going on around him). His brain has decided that this sound is so closely linked to potential death that it warrants being a global pattern that goes off at the slightest provocation.

So our job as a practitioner is to turn this global pattern back into a contextualized one. Or in other words, to stop his brain setting off the alarm when he hears a bang.

We need the soldier to be able to hear a car backfire as just that.

But how can we do this when traumatic memories are so powerful?

Anyone who has ever treated a traumatized person knows that even talking about the traumatic incident can catapult them into a highly emotional state.

And once they’re highly emotional again, you can do nothing until they calm down.

So this tells us that we have to somehow approach the memory without them becoming emotional.

And this is where the Rewind Technique comes in.

Although it seems almost too simple, the Rewind is a precision instrument.

When you’re dealing with a traumatic memory, you need to approach it carefully and quietly, like tiptoeing up to a sleeping tiger.

The structure of the Rewind and the language used is precisely designed to hold the client in a specific relationship to the memory so that it can be re-processed by the technique and contextualized. This way, as we explained above, it can stop being a global pattern firing off alarms all over the place, so there are no roaring tigers in your therapy session.

And the beautiful thing about the Rewind Technique is that you don’t even need to know any detail about the traumatic memory – so it is highly respectful to the client.

The Rewind Technique Course

My company Uncommon Knowledge has been training practitioners in how to use the Rewind Technique for many years. We did this for 10 years as part of our professional level diploma course taught from a university in the UK. When we stopped running our diploma course, we created a new online format for the Rewind Technique course – a combination of video, audio, and other supporting materials in a user-friendly online space called Uncommon U, which we created specifically to make online learning easy and enjoyable. Our online course is recognized by the Red Poppy Company, an organization dedicated to enabling traumatized war veterans to get access to fast, effective treatment.

Join a community of like-minded people

Throughout the course you’ll be able to converse with your fellow students, discuss cases with them or myself, review and repeat any material as you feel necessary, and ask questions in the comments section in Uncommon U or save them up for the monthly live Q&A sessions.

We guarantee the course’s effectiveness

You’ve already heard just what a lifesaver the Rewind Technique is. Which is why I am so keen to get as many practitioners trained in it as possible. And I believe that once you’ve completed the course, you’ll feel exactly the same. When you get that first call from a client whose traumatic symptoms have lifted, you’ll know just what I mean. But I understand that this is a serious investment, and you need to know that it is going to be worth it, so the only thing I can really do to take the pressure off you is give you this guarantee.

I promise you will be astonished at the results you get treating your next 3 traumatized clients after completing the course. And that they will feel much better after a single session. You are the judge. If you don’t agree this is the case, simply ask and I’ll refund you. You see, I really want as many practitioners to know the Rewind Technique as possible. PTSD and phobias are terrible things to live with, and it is so unnecessary. We can join together to contribute to doing something about this terrible loss of potential. I hope this gives you the peace of mind you need to go ahead and book your place now.

What’s included in the Rewind Technique course?

• Instant access to Uncommon U – our user-friendly online learning platform available through your browser or our dedicated app. Read, listen to, or download course materials, watch videos and gain access to the private commenting areas where you can discuss the course, clients and ideas with Mark and other course delegates.
• Comprehensive course notes – 91 pages available online in PDF format.
• Client PTSD treatment videos – watch Mark treat a client with PTSD, along with the follow up session.
• Snake Phobia Cure – watch Mark treat a man with a snake phobia using the Rewind Technique.
• 3 client audio sessions – listen to Mark use the Rewind with a client suffering from trauma-driven depression.
• Client trauma treatment video – watch Mark treat a client who was emotionally and physically abused as a child.
• 2 bonus videos – 3 unusual applications of the Rewind Technique, plus treating OCD with the Rewind Technique.
• Monthly live question & answer session with Mark – join your fellow students from this and our other courses to ask Mark questions about the course and any therapy-related queries you have. You can ask your questions live on the call or submit them beforehand and if you can’t make the live calls, they’ll be available to download the following day (in mp3 format).
• Full word-by-word Rewind Technique script – providing the full Rewind Technique structure for a client session, which can be modified as your confidence and experience of the technique grows with each client.
• Checklist before practise – the essentials pared down for a quick memory boost.
• Your client questions answered – the collective Uncommon Knowledge brain will work on your single most pressing trauma client problem for you, either in Uncommon U or in private by email.
• Self test quizzes to embed your knowledge.
• Certificate of completion – On successful completion of the course, you will receive a personalized certificate and confirmation of 10 CPD hours/points earned.
• Access to the Uncommon Practitioners Private Facebook Group where you can chat with like-minded practitioners, get support, discuss cases or just share your latest beautiful photo.