What you'll learn in this training:

ASSYST HEART (Humanitarian Emergency ASSYST Response Training) is a pro bono, evidence-informed training designed to strengthen the trauma-response capacity of mental health professionals working in humanitarian, emergency, and high-need contexts. Grounded in the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model and informed by EMDR principles, the training focuses on early and rapid interventions that address core trauma symptoms, including intrusive memories, acute psychological distress, and physiological dysregulation, using scalable, low-intensity approaches suitable for in-person and online delivery. The training is accessible to EMDR trained practitioners, AND ALSO to qualified mental health professionals without requiring EMDR Basic Training.

Delivered by Vania Miteva, the only Certified ASSYST HEART Trainer for Australasia, this training ensures high-fidelity implementation aligned with international ASSYST HEART humanitarian standards. By equipping practitioners with practical, immediately applicable skills, ASSYST HEART supports timely trauma care, reduces the burden on high-intensity services, and contributes to sustainable, community-based mental health response.

The ASSYST HEART is an abbreviated training for humanitarian response purposes, and participants will not receive the training's PowerPoint presentations, only the protocols, as the purpose of the ASSYST HEART is to respond ASAP.

To support learning and integration of the material, participants are expected to participate in ASSYST interventions and attend the clinical consultation (Q&A) session in order to complete the training and receive a Certificate of Completion.

Registration cost: Free