Brainspotting & Parts Work

Seminar Overview

This 3-day Brainspotting Advanced Seminar is an opportunity for Brainspotting professionals to deepen their knowledge and have personal experiences with understanding and applying how to integrate parts work with Brainspotting. This seminar will be taught through didactic discussions, demonstrations, and practicums. Process will include: Focusing on specific parts of the therapist that interfere with clinical skills, dialoging with parts of self, working on a Brainspot as therapist learns how to define, clarify, and integrate parts. Therapist will be gain skills to apply to practice.

This 3-day training will begin with an extensive review of Brainspotting Theory around working with parts and to defining implicit and explicit parts work. The teaching opportunities are designed to make available the open, integrative, free-form approach of Brainspotting to enhance therapist’s presence and support clinicians in applying Brainspotting to all diagnostic categories, including Dissociative and Attachment Disorders.

Seminar Objectives

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

• Demonstrate ability to identify, track, and attune to client’s parts.
• Identify and understand tracking of physiological reactions of the client.
• Distinguish when to use implicit vs. explicit parts work.
• Evaluate affect tolerance and Limbic countertransference through attunement with client and self.
• Apply, practice, and integrate interventions with Brainspotting when needed with parts work.

Schedule

Registration begins at 8:30 am on the first day.
Training runs from 9 am - 6pm CENTRAL STANDARD TIME each day.