Registration Options

If you are a current pre-licensed student or are retaking the course, please register using the option below. We will require verification of student status, or the date of the training/trainer name for Phase 1 if you are retaking the course.

Training will be held from 9am-6 pm all three days in the Central Daylight Time Zone. The training is available to all who can attend.

REGISTRATION/PRICING:
-Early Bird ($745)-ends May 15th
-Standard ($795)-May 16th-May 31st
-Late ($845)- June 1st-June 19th
*Late registrants may not receive all materials in time, but easy alternatives can be used for practicums

If you need a payment plan, please contact us to make arrangements.

HELPFUL INFORMATION TO MAXIMIZE YOUR EXPERIENCE:

- The training will be held in English with Zoom closed captioning enabled.
- Please log in using a desktop or laptop computer whenever possible. Tablets and phones do not provide the best Zoom training experience.
- Please ensure you are in a private space for the duration of the training, especially for experiential components.
- Plan to attend all 3 days of the training and avoid scheduling other activities during the training times.

We will be taking attendance and only those present for the ENTIRE training will receive a Phase 1 certificate of completion. Let the trainers know if you have any issues.

YOUR TRAINERS:

Mariya Javed-Payne is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor, Certified Brainspotting Trainer and Consultant, and a Minnesota Board Approved Supervisor. She currently serves as the Director of Behavioral Health at a federally qualified health center, leading a team of therapists, psychiatrists, and social workers to provide trauma-responsive, anti-oppressive counseling and addiction therapies in collaboration with primary care physicians. She also offers therapy intensives for complex PTSD and addictions, as well as consulting services on the topics of race, addictions, and trauma in her private practice, Awaken Consulting Services. Her 13 years of experience have focused on clients with addictions, medication assisted treatment therapies, complex and developmental trauma, racial trauma, oppression, and chronic pain.

Joy Myong is a Brainspotting Trainer, Consultant and Coach who is dedicated to helping individuals and groups connect to their core and optimize their potential. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Alcohol and Drug Counselor with 15 years of experience working with adults and teens struggling with physical and/or emotional pain. Joy is a first-generation immigrant who has learned the benefits of integrating the wisdom of ancient healing practices with innovative brain and body-based research from around the world. Joy is the founder of Ahana Wellness and co-host of the BSP Embodied Learning Circles where she comes alongside healing practitioners to help them develop personally and professionally.

ABOUT BRAINSPOTTING:
Brainspotting is a powerful, focused treatment method that works by identifying, processing and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, dissociation and a variety of challenging symptoms. Brainspotting is a simultaneous form of diagnosis and treatment, enhanced with BioLateral sound, which is deep, direct, powerful yet focused and containing. Trainings are 9 am to 6 pm CST each day and count for 21 CE’s.

Brainspotting identifies activated eye positions designated as Brainspots. Located through either one or both eyes, Brainspots are observed from either the “Inside Window” of the clients felt sense and/or the “Outside Window” of the clients’ reflexive responses (i.e., blink, eye twitches or wobbles, pupil dilation, quick breaths and subtle body shifts). Students will first learn the phenomenological approach that underpins strategies for Brainspotting, followed by strategies for identifying and processing Brainspots. Attention will be given to the utilization and integration of Brainspotting into ongoing treatment, including highly dissociative clients.

Brainspotting is adaptable to almost all areas of specialization. Brainspotting provides therapists with powerful tools to enable their patients to quickly and effectively process through the deep brain sources of many held traumas, emotional, somatic and performance problems.

PHASE 1:

In this 3-day introductory training, participants will learn four basic Brainspotting techniques, as well as receive an overview of the:

- standards of care and professional practice for Brainspotting practitioners

- research that supports the primary assumptions of Brainspotting

- challenges of research and evidence-based treatment for conditions such as Complex PTSD

This live Zoom training will be facilitated with didactic lecture, PowerPoint, handouts, role playing, dyad practice, and live demonstrations. Live attendance with camera access, sound, and a private space is required. Participants will learn to do the following:

Define the components of Brainspotting
Utilize the techniques of “Inside window”, “Outside window” and “Gazespotting” and “Body Resource” Brainspotting.
Define how Brainspotting can be applied to trauma, dissociation, sports performance problems and somatic conditions
Demonstrate the theories and practices of Brainspotting.

***This training is approved by Brainspotting Trainings, LLC and meets the Brainspotting Phase 1 requirement for Brainspotting certification.

POST TRAINING CONSULTATION GROUPS:
To support integration of the material, two optional consultation groups will be offered after the training on the following dates:

Friday, July 8th, 2022
10 am-11 am CDT

Monday, July 25th, 2022
2 pm- 3 pm CDT

AUDIENCE:
Psychologists, social workers, counselors, coaches, healing professionals with strong clinical backgrounds, current students, and interns

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Participants of this introductory-level course participants will be able to:

Summarize the standards of care and professional practice of the International Brainspotting Association.
Describe the hypothesized neurological underpinnings of how brainspotting works.
Summarize the research that supports the hypothesized way in which eye positions activate and accesses midbrain activity.
Explain the uncertainty principle as it relates to brainspotting.
Describe the concepts of simultaneous neurobiological and relational attunement.
Explain the importance of client-therapist attunement during brainspotting.
Explain how the treatment frame is set and held by the therapist.
Explain the role of focused mindfulness in brainspotting.
Discuss the similarities and differences between the activation and resource models of brainspotting.
Explain the concept of limbic countertransference.
Demonstrate a basic mastery of the use of the outside window brainspotting technique.
Demonstrate a basic mastery of the use of the inside window brainspotting technique.
Demonstrate a basic mastery of the use of the gaze spot brainspotting technique.
Demonstrate a basic mastery of the use of the resource model of brainspotting technique.
Assess the appropriate brainspotting techniques for the treatment of Post-traumatic stress disorder, including the Dissociative Subtype, and other trauma-related symptoms.
Describe two challenges to assessing and providing evidence-based treatment to individuals with Complex PTSD.

CONTINUING EDUCATION INFORMATION:

Licensing Boards change regulations often; at this time, some boards are not providing CEUs for somatic based therapies such as Brainspotting, Somatic Experiencing, etc. We encourage you to follow your state board’s guidelines, see what reporting requirements they have, and to ask them directly about this course meeting your specific board’s approval.

A certificate for 21 clock hours at the end of the training will be provided to document attendance and completion which can be submitted for CEUs, as your state guidelines allow.

CANCELLATION POLICY:
We will provide you with a full refund if you cancel up to 14 days before the event (less $75 administrative fee per ticket purchased.) We do not offer partial refunds if you are unable to attend the entire training. However, we know that life situations arise, so please contact us if you have a special circumstance.