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Brainspotting with David Grand: Integrating the Neuroexperiential Model for Rapid Trauma Healing

Discover Brainspotting: the life-changing approach that equips therapists to access and rapidly process trauma hidden deeply within the brain and body. Evolved out of EMDR and somatic therapy practices, Brainspotting works by locating points in your client’s field of vision as pathways to directly access the deep brain and body. And with that access, we can more quickly and effectively resolve everything from trauma, anxiety, depression, and attachment wounds to chronic fatigue, substance use, chronic pain, and performance issues. 

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Determine how eye positions have relevance in potentially accessing frozen trauma in the brain.  
  2. Identify the role of therapist in a Brainspotting session.  
  3. Determine how a client brings to session a frame of their experiences that the therapist recognizes, receives and holds with them.  
  4. Evaluate the evidence supporting Brainspotting therapy as a treatment intervention for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).  
  5. Determine how the mutually held frame produces focused mindfulness processing.  
  6. Summarize how developmental trauma yielding symptomatic manifestations is inaccurately labeled as disordered.  
  7. Identify the hypothesized neurological underpinnings of how Brainspotting works.  
  8. Define the uncertainty principle as it relates to Brainspotting.  
  9. Use the inside and outside window Brainspotting technique.  
  10. Utilize “Part Spotting” with dissociation to facilitate higher functioning of healthy parts and ask harmful parts to take a step back.  
  11. Develop “Part-Spotting” with high functioning clients as well as the most dissociative and fragile clients.  
  12. Evaluate how Part-Spotting can get stuck clients moving forward towards a higher functioning life. 

Outline

DAY 1 

  • What is Brainspotting and how does it relate to trauma recovery 

  • How eye position can help heal trauma 

  • The Brainspotting Model 

  • Core Principles and the clinical application of Brainspotting 

  • Integrating Brainspotting into your practice 

  • Risks and Limitations 

  • Demonstrations 

DAY 2 

  • Lecture on Dreamspotting and Q&A 

  • Dreamspotting Demo and debrief 

  • Lecture on Partspotting and Q&A 

  • Partspotting Demo and debrief 

  • Conclusion 

Target Audience

  • Counselors 
  • Social Workers 
  • Psychologists 
  • Marriage and Family Therapists 
  • Addiction Counselors 
  • Other Mental Health Professionals 

Copyright : 05/14/2025

Brainspotting Clinical Demonstrations: Clinical demonstrations of the Gazespotting, Outside Window, and Inside Window Techniques

Brainspotting is an emerging treatment method based on finding somatic cues through the use of eye gaze for the treatment of stress and trauma. This workshop from the developer presents Brainspotting as a psychotherapy that views the human condition and human suffering from a global, developmental and neurological point of view, which he calls a neuroexperiential model. You’ll explore:

  • How Brainspotting works and how it differs from other trauma processing therapies  
  • How to utilize and integrate Brainspotting into ongoing treatment, especially with complex developmental trauma including attachment and dissociation manifestations 
  • Live demonstrations of how Brainspotting works in clinical practice

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Understand how eye positions have relevance in potentially accessing and healing frozen trauma in the brain.
  2. Describe the role of therapist in a Brainspotting session, demonstrating an understanding of its significance to the “dual attunement” frame.
  3. Understand how the client brings to session a frame of their experiences that the therapist recognizes, receives and holds with them.
  4. Evaluate the empirical evidence supporting Brainspotting therapy as an effective treatment intervention for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
  5. Discuss how the mutually held frame produces focused mindfulness processing that supports the innate human capacity for self-healing.
  6. Summarize how developmental trauma yielding symptomatic manifestations is inaccurately labeled as disordered.
  7. Demonstrate a basic mastery of the use of the inside and outside window brainspotting technique.

Outline

  • What is Brainspotting and how does it relate to trauma recovery
  • How eye position can help heal trauma
  • The Brainspotting Model
  • Core Principles and the clinical application of Brainspotting
  • Integrating Brainspotting into your practice
  • Risks and Limitations
  • Demonstrations

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 10/29/2024