Posttraumatic Growth: Brainspotting & Parts RoadMap to Liberation: Brainspotting Specialty Workshop

Seminar Overview

This 3-day Brainspotting Specialty Workshop provides Brainspotting professionals with an in-depth opportunity to explore the integration of Parts Work within the Neuroexperiential Model of Brainspotting. Through didactic discussions, live demonstrations, and experiential practicums, participants will cultivate a deeper understanding of how to work with internal parts while leveraging the transformative principles of Brainspotting.

The workshop emphasizes the following:

• Defining and integrating the Uncertainty Principle and The Neuroexperiential Model of Brainspotting into Parts Work, focusing on mindfully receiving, shaping, and holding the frame with clients.
• Utilizing the Dual Attunement Frame and following the Tail of the Comet to attune to what is arising and emerging in the client's process, supporting organic and sustainable healing.
• Introducing new resources or insights in alignment with the client’s system to facilitate the release of entrenched neurophysiological patterns.

Participants will explore how early life experiences leave lasting imprints on neurophysiology, shaping beliefs, behaviors, that may lead to the development of parts. They will learn to identify and map internal parts, fostering nurturing and repair processes.

Special emphasis will also be placed on:

• Developing awareness of Limbic Countertransference and its role in therapist self-care and client transformation.
• Strengthening positive neurophysiological imprints through resource-building and post-traumatic growth practices.
• Cultivating daily practices that train the parasympathetic nervous system, allowing clients and practitioners to embody sustainable joyful experiences.

This workshop welcomes all approaches to Parts Work and emphasizes the open, integrative, and free-form nature of Brainspotting to enhance therapeutic presence. Participants will leave with tools to confidently integrate Parts Work into their practice and facilitate profound client transformation.

Eligibility: Completion of Brainspotting Phase 1 is required; Phase 2 is strongly recommended.

Seminar Objectives

Through lecture, live demonstration and small group practice participants will learn to do the following:

• Examine the imprint of early life experiences on our neurophysiology, its impacts on beliefs, behaviors, and how this may lead to the development of parts.
• Define and integrate the uncertainty principle and The Neuroexperiential Model of Brainspotting into Parts Work, mindfully receiving, shaping, and holding the frame with the client through the Dual Attunement Frame and following in the Tail of the Comet, supporting the client's system in processing organically.
• Apply the ability to attune to what is arising and emerging in the client’s process, mindfully introducing new resources or insights in alignment with the client’s system to support the release of entrenched neurophysiological patterns.
• Identify, map and access internal parts for nurturing and repair processing.
• Examine therapist’s awareness of Limbic Countertransference and its relevance to therapists' self-care and client healing.
• Illustrate therapist’s Limbic-Countertransference awareness with Parts Work during sessions to deepen therapeutic engagement and facilitate profound client transformation.
• Apply embodying a positive imprinting practices to the central nervous system for strengthening positive neurophysiology to foster flourishing and post-traumatic growth.
• Discover daily practices to train the parasympathetic nervous system to cultivate sustainable joyful experiences.

Schedule

Registration begins at 8:30 am on the first day.
Workshop runs from 9 am - 5:30 CENTRAL STANDARD TIME each day.