Brainspotting Step-by-Step Workshop with David Grand: Integrating the Neuroexperiential Model for Rapid Trauma Healing

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All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

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Faculty

David Grand, PhD Related seminars and products

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David Grand, PhD, is the developer of Brainspotting, and the author of Brainspotting: The Revolutionary New Therapy for Rapid and Effective Change and the co-author of This is Your Brain on Sports. Dr. Grand is involved in humanitarian activities with survivors of 9/11, Katrina and Sandy Hook/Newtown. He is a member of the board of directors of Talk To Me Post Tour Processing (TTMPTP). He has accomplished breakthroughs in performance and creativity with Brainspotting Sports Work and Brainspotting Acting Coaching. Dr. Grand has been widely featured in the media including The NY Times, NBC National News, The Discovery Channel, CNN, MSNBC, Sports Illustrated, Esquire Magazine and Sirius Radio.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. David Grand maintains a private practice and is a developer for BioLateral Sound Recordings. He is the developer of the Brainspotting method and receives compensation as a national lecturer. Dr. Grand receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. David Grand has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.

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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

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