The Resource Container: The Missing Link Between Experience and Window of Tolerance, and AIP From Theory to Practice - Part II
Tracks
Studio 2
| Sunday, June 7, 2026 |
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
| Studio 2 |
Overview
Tuly Flint & Daniel Kahn (Israel)
Speaker
Tuly Flint
The Resource Container: The Missing Link Between Experience and Window of Tolerance, and AIP From Theory to Practice - Part II
11:00 - 12:30Abstract
Authors
Tully Flint, PhD1,
Daniel Kahn, PsyD1
1The Omakim Center for EMDR Studies, General Piere Koenig 33, Jerusalem, Israel
Content
This workshop translates a newly articulated integrative framework that links Adaptive Information Processing (AIP), the Window of Tolerance, and Hobfoll’s Conservation of Resources theory into a clinically applicable model centered on the “Resource Container,” or Reservoir of Adaptive Resources. Building on the work by Flint and Kahn, participants will learn how resource sufficiency, accessibility, and relational containment determine whether experience is processed adaptively or stored maladaptively, and how this principle functions as a cross-modal mechanism of therapeutic change in EMDR and beyond.
This theoretical framework helps therapists decide on interventions for the full range of trauma symptoms.
Didactic methods
Lecture supported by diagrams, video vignettes of EMDR sessions, live demonstrations, work in pairs as well as small-group clinical mapping of resource reservoirs.
What does the workshop add to standard knowledge
Standard models describe regulation and resourcing but rarely specify the underlying mechanisms that predict the success or failure of processing, as well as why some memories are stored maladaptively while others are not. The Resource Container reframes regulation as a measurable, expandable system, clarifying why identical interventions succeed with one client and fail with another. Hence, two individuals may experience the same event while one is traumatized and the other is not. Furthermore, it offers a unifying explanatory principle across EMDR, exposure, somatic and relational therapies.
Learning objectives
The participant will:
1. Further their understanding of how resource sufficiency governs access to, and integration of, traumatic memory.
2. Further their understanding of the importance of the client-therapist dyad as a joint resource container.
3. Understand and assess breakdowns in processing as failures of resource container capacity rather than client resistance.
4. Apply concrete interventions to expand and mobilize the resource container.
5. Integrate the model into case formulation.
Key words
Adaptive Information Processing, Window of Tolerance, Conservation of Resources, Resourcing
Tully Flint, PhD1,
Daniel Kahn, PsyD1
1The Omakim Center for EMDR Studies, General Piere Koenig 33, Jerusalem, Israel
Content
This workshop translates a newly articulated integrative framework that links Adaptive Information Processing (AIP), the Window of Tolerance, and Hobfoll’s Conservation of Resources theory into a clinically applicable model centered on the “Resource Container,” or Reservoir of Adaptive Resources. Building on the work by Flint and Kahn, participants will learn how resource sufficiency, accessibility, and relational containment determine whether experience is processed adaptively or stored maladaptively, and how this principle functions as a cross-modal mechanism of therapeutic change in EMDR and beyond.
This theoretical framework helps therapists decide on interventions for the full range of trauma symptoms.
Didactic methods
Lecture supported by diagrams, video vignettes of EMDR sessions, live demonstrations, work in pairs as well as small-group clinical mapping of resource reservoirs.
What does the workshop add to standard knowledge
Standard models describe regulation and resourcing but rarely specify the underlying mechanisms that predict the success or failure of processing, as well as why some memories are stored maladaptively while others are not. The Resource Container reframes regulation as a measurable, expandable system, clarifying why identical interventions succeed with one client and fail with another. Hence, two individuals may experience the same event while one is traumatized and the other is not. Furthermore, it offers a unifying explanatory principle across EMDR, exposure, somatic and relational therapies.
Learning objectives
The participant will:
1. Further their understanding of how resource sufficiency governs access to, and integration of, traumatic memory.
2. Further their understanding of the importance of the client-therapist dyad as a joint resource container.
3. Understand and assess breakdowns in processing as failures of resource container capacity rather than client resistance.
4. Apply concrete interventions to expand and mobilize the resource container.
5. Integrate the model into case formulation.
Key words
Adaptive Information Processing, Window of Tolerance, Conservation of Resources, Resourcing
