Training
CPIMT is committed to providing quality training.
Our team has years of experience teaching and training individuals and organizations. They are certified Brainspotting™ therapists, consultants, and trainers.
They have also developed a variety of trainings and are able to tailor training to fit group or organization needs. If you are interested in how they can develop a training seminar for your group, please contact us at info@cpimt.ca.
BRAINSPOTTING PHASE 1
This immersive 3-day training will teach participants the key concepts of Brainspotting. By the end of this training, you will be competent in identifying and processing Brainspots. You will also learn the phenomenological approach that underpins strategies for Brainspotting. This training will give participants powerful tools which will enable their clients to quickly and effectively focus and process through the deep brain sources of many emotional, somatic and performance problems. Once certified in Phase 1, the participant will be able to complete all other future trainings in Brainspotting.
By the end of this incredible 3 day training you will…
Understand the theory and the components of Brainspotting, be able to utilise the following techniques:
Outside window
This technique will help you observe and learn to track the micro-movements of your client, searching for reflective responses. When a Brainspot is activated, the deep brain appears to reflectively signal the therapist, beyond the awareness of the client’s neocortex. You will literally learn how the body indicates the trauma processing access points.
Inside window
This technique will allow you to work together with the client to use the client’s felt sense of somatic activation to locate Brainspots. An incredible and collaborative way for the client, the therapist and the issue to forge a powerful alliance together.
Gazespotting
This technique is the most natural form of Brainspotting, whereby the client’s fixed gaze can be harnessed to process activation. This approach is extremely helpful in utilising Brainspotting both in the room or when working online.
Resource model
Brainspotting is a resource model. The Brainspotting Resource model uses an adapted and contained frame for clients who become overwhelmed. You will embody the learning of the dual attunement frame, consisting of the relational attunement, accurately focused and framed by the neurobiological attunement and attuned presence which is the core of Brainspotting and the resource model.
You will get an opportunity to observe Brainspotting demonstrations from the trainer, as well as experience Brainspotting whilst working in pairs with colleagues.
In the training, we will focus on the utilisation and integration of Brainspotting theory and practice into your daily practice and ongoing treatment. The training includes working with both activation and with client’s presenting with dissociation states.
BRAINSPOTTING PHASE 2
This 3-day Brainspotting Phase 2 training will begin with an extensive review of Outside and Window Brainspotting and Gazespotting, with an emphasis on how to clinically interact with clients.
Trainees will be introduced to several important applications. This includes One-Eye Brainspotting including the use of One-Eye goggles. Also taught is 3 Dimensional Brainspotting using the “Z-Axis” of Brainspotting close and far, this includes Convergence Therapy which expands the Z-Axis to activate the vagus nerve through the ocular cardiac reflex.
Additional technical refinements will be presented including “Rolling Brainspotting,” with slow eye tracking stopping briefly on each Brainspot.
Advanced techniques will also include combined Inside-Outside Brainspotting where both reflexive responses and client sense of highest activation are used together to find Brainspots.
Day 3 will be devoted to the second level of the Advanced Resource Model. This will entail combining the resource aspects of One-Eye and Z Axis Brainspotting. This addresses working with clients with Very Complex PTSD and those outside of the Brainspotting Window of Tolerance.
Techniques taught with Power Point lecture, discussion with Q & A, demonstrations and practicums.
Seminar Objectives
Through lecture, live demonstration and small group practice participants will learn to do the following:
Review components taught in Brainspotting (Outside and Inside Window)
Define Frame and Focus Brainspotting Diagnosis and Treatment
Demonstrate 3 Dimensional Z-Axis and convergence Therapy
Define and demonstrate Rolling Brainspotting, Selfspotting and Body Gridwork
Current Training:
Phase 1 & 2 Brainspotting Training
Dr. Dell Ducharme & Allyson Coleman
Brainspotting™ Therapy is a novel treatment for emotional, physical, and performance-based challenges. it works by accessing whole-brain neurophysiological networks underlying such problems. Preliminary findings suggest that Brainspotting™ Therapy can be as effective as EMDR for the treatment of trauma. Brainspotting™ is also being researched for its effectiveness in many other domains (e.g. additions, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, etc.). Attendees will first learn the phenomenological approaches that underpin strategies for Brainspotting™ Therapy, and then strategies for identifying and processing brain spots. This approach is easily integrated into other evidence based therapies.
Hybrid Phase 2 - February 28-March 2025
Fees:
Early Bird (before Jan. 20) $845 CDN (+GST)
Regular (until May 26) $895 CDN (+GST)
Late (After May 26) $945 CDN (+GST)
Hybrid Phase 1 - June 6-8, 2025
Fees:
Early Bird (before May 1) $845 CDN (+GST)
Regular (until May 26) $895 CDN (+GST)
Late (After May 26) $945 CDN (+GST)
2025 Brainspotting Training
PHASE 1
June 6-8, 2025
September 26-28, 2025
PHASE 2
February 28- March 2, 2025
For Phase 1 or Phase 2 Training out of Ottawa - please visit www.brainspottingcanada.com/training
For all other Brainspotting Trainings please visit
www.Brainspotting.com
Want an in-person Training?
If you or your organization would like to discuss the possibility of an in-person training
please contact us at info@cpimt.ca.
We would love to discuss this possibiity with you!
Refund Policy.
A full refund will be issued if cancelled more than 6 weeks from the start of training.
A 50% refund or full credit toward future CPIMT trainings (within the next 12 months) will be issued if cancelled 2-4 weeks from the start of training.
If cancelling within 2 weeks of training, no refund will be issued, but full credit may be put toward any future CPIMT trainings within the next 12 months.
A prerequisite for taking any BSP training is a current membership in a regulated mental health care profession. BSP Phase One and Phase Two training courses are specialised courses designed by Dr David Grand to teach Brainspotting techniques to mental health practitioners to use with clients within the practitioner’s current scope of training and practice. Brainspotting trainings do not provide basic training in trauma informed therapy or basic counselling skills. Brainspotting is a tool to add to your existing therapeutic skill set.The BSP Training team presumes participants have a mature level of interpersonal competency, good communication skills, a working knowledge of therapeutic/counselling frameworks, and sufficient self-regulation skills to manage their own needs during the course.Safety is a necessary requirement for learning. It is the responsibility of the BSP trainer and assistant/s as well as all participants to establish and maintain a feeling of the safety within the group so that learning can occur. If a participant in a training is unable to self- regulate adequately, or demonstrates rude, disrespectful or disruptive behaviour, they will be asked to leave.Scope of Practice Participants are reminded to use Brainspotting only within their existing scope of practice, both during trainings and in their practice..Experiential Practice Sessions: BSP training courses include experiential exercises. Your participation in these training exercises will help you appreciate the unique power and effectiveness of Brainspotting from both the client and therapist chairs. During demonstrations and practice sessions, as a “client” you will be using your real issues. You are responsible for managing your own safety. You may opt to “pass” at any point on any individual or group activity or demonstration that you are not comfortable with. This is not a venue for deep personal therapy, nor for detailed academic debate.Personal Therapy & Clinical Supervision: It is presumed that participants can access supervision and/or therapeutic support if they need it after the training for processing personal matters that may get brought up during course training exercises. Inevitably, when we are working with the subcortical brain, old issues may emerge. It is the participant’s responsibility to avail themselves of appropriate therapeutic support after the training finishes. Please speak to the trainer if any personal issues brought up during the class become a difficulty.BSP Training Format: In alignment with all International BSP Training, there is a combination of the following: Lecture with Powerpoint Slides; live demonstrations with volunteer trainees, practice of “Set Ups” and techniques in pairs, using real issues (not role play); debrief, comments and questions. Trainings are not a time for detailed academic debate about any topics covered in the course, nor are demos meant to be full therapy sessions.Confidentiality: It is expected that all participants maintain the confidentiality of all private material shared by all participants throughout the workshop. (The above Policy and Guidelines are in part with thanks to Dr Roby Abeles and the Brainspotting Australia Pacific team)
