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Brainspotting

Brainspotting Trainings

for

Health & Mental Health Clinicians

~ including Music Therapists ~

For more information or to schedule a training, contact:

BrainspottingHappens@gmail.com

Brainspotting Phase I

Training Overview

Brainspotting is a powerful, focused treatment method that works by identifying, processing and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, dissociation and a variety of challenging symptoms. Brainspotting is a simultaneous form of diagnosis and treatment, enhanced with BioLateral sound, which is deep, direct, powerful yet focused and containing.

Brainspotting identifies activated eye positions designated as Brainspots. Located through either one or both eyes, Brainspots are observed from either the “Inside Window” of the clients felt sense and/or the “Outside Window” of the clients’ reflexive responses (i.e., blink, eye twitches or wobbles, pupil dilation, quick breaths and subtle body shifts), and Gazespotting (a naturally occuring fixedand relevant eye position). Students will first learn the phenomenological approach that underpins strategies for Brainspotting, followed by strategies for identifying and processing Brainspots. Attention will be given to the utilization and integration of Brainspotting into ongoing treatment, including highly dissociative clients. Brainspotting is adaptable to almost all areas of specialization.

Brainspotting provides therapists with powerful tools which enable their patients to quickly and effectively focus and process through the deep brain sources of many emotional, somatic and performance problems.

Core Objectives

Through lecture, live demonstration, extensive discussion and Q/A, as well as practice in dyads, participants will learn to do the following:

Describe the core principles & demonstrate the components of Brainspotting practice
Utilize “Outside window,” "Inside Window," and "Gazespotting" within their scope of practice
Describe and demonstrate the Resource Model of Brainspotting, with clarity of how/when it may/ought to be used in practice
Have an introductory ability to use Brainspotting to support clients healing from trauma and dissociation
Demonstrate an introductory application of the Neuroexperiential Model of Brainspotting in their practice, including the Uncertainty Principle and the Dual Attunement Frame of neurobiology & relationship

Brainspotting Phase II

Training Overview

Brainspotting Phase 2 training begins with an extensive review of Outside/Inside Window and Gazespotting, with an emphasis on how to interact clinically with clients during Brainspotting. Participants then learn refinements of the Brainspotting process including how and when to titrate activation up or down through contraction and/or expansion of the Brainspotting Frame.

Trainees are introduced to One-Eye Brainspotting and several important 3-dimensional Brainspotting concepts and practice strategies using the “Z-Axis” of Brainspotting, including "close and far," and Vergence work, expanding the "Z-Axis" with theory based in the relation of the vagus nerve with the ocularcardiac reflex.

Additional Brainspot-locating processes are presented including

“Rolling Brainspotting,” with slow eye tracking stopping briefly on each Brainspot, Advanced Outside Window strategies, and the Advanced Resource Model of Brainspotting.

Applications of Brainspotting with special populations are further developed in light of the ways of working with Brainspotting taught and developed in Phase 2. Participants also deepen their understanding of the Neuroexperiential Model of Brainspotting and how it applies in practice.

Core Objectives

Through lecture, extensive discussion and Q/A, live demonstration, and practice in dyads, participants will learn to do the following:

Review components taught in Brainspotting (Outside and Inside Window, Gazespotting, & The Resource Model of Brainspotting)
Define Frame and Focus Brainspotting Diagnosis and Treatment
Demonstrate 3 Dimensional Z-Axis and Vergence work
Define and demonstrate One-Eye and Rolling Brainspotting
Demonstrate ability to work with Advanced Outside Window Brainspotting applications, and describe when to do so
Define and demonstrate the Advanced Resource Model of Brainspotting, with clarity of how/when it may/ought to be used in practice

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