***This training is approved by Brainspotting Trainings, LLC and meets the Brainspotting Phase 1 requirement for Brainspotting certification. Both Phase 1 and 2 are required for certification and provide the full range of skills needed to work with most clients, including C-PTSD. Learn more about the certification process here.
Registration Options
For post graduate level therapists, social workers, and counselors; MDs; psychiatrists; Master’s level or higher psychiatric nurses, located or working in India or Pakistan. Training is hosted over two weekends.
For psychology, social work, therapy/counseling, psychiatry post-graduates who have received their post-graduate degree on or after 2022. Those who are completing their post graduation in 2024 are also eligible. Must be located or working in India or Pakistan. Training is hosted over two weekends.
REGISTRATION/PRICING:
This is the third Brainspotting training for mental health professionals practicing in India. We are extending this training to practitioners living in Pakistan as well!
*Verification of degree, location, student status, and place of employment will be required during online registration.
Early Bird Pricing: 18,000 INR=$214.59 USD, last day to register for early bird is November 28, 2024.
Standard Pricing: 20,000 INR=$238.43 USD, begins November 29, 2024
Recent Graduate (2023 or after)/Student Pricing: 10,030 INR=$119.57 USD
**Please note that there may be slight variations to pricing due to the currency exchange rate changing.
Last Day to Register: January 3rd, 2025
DATES:
Training will be held over two weekends (Saturdays and Sundays) in the Indian Standard Time Zone.
January 11th and 12th (Saturday and Sunday, from 8:30am-2 pm)
January 18th and 19th (Saturday and Sunday, from 8:30am-2 pm)
The training is available to psychologists, counselors, and social workers with completed graduate degrees located or working in India or Pakistan.
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 4 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 us know if you have any issues.
YOUR TRAINER:
Mariya Javed-Payne, MSW, LICSW, LADC
Mariya Javed-Payne is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor and International Brainspotting Trainer and Consultant. She is a somatic psychotherapist and the owner of Awaken Consulting Services, a private practice and consultancy where she utilizes Brainspotting therapy and offers training and consultation on the treatment of trauma, somatic psychotherapies, psychedelic assisted therapy, anti-racism, and other relevant mental health topics. She also offers therapy intensives for complex PTSD and addictions, where clients work with her for multiple hours a day for a number of days to get to the root of traumatic experiences. Always seeking out the most cutting edge advances in treatment, she utilizes psychedelic medicines such as ketamine with somatic therapy. Her 14 years of experience have focused on clients with addictions, medication assisted treatment therapies, complex and developmental trauma, racial and ancestral trauma, oppression, and chronic pain. Identifying as a deep-hearted visionary and servant leader, she has served various leadership roles in the mental health service industry, such as Chief Clinical Officer at Institute for Integrative Therapies, the first psychedelic assisted therapy clinic in Minnesota, as well as Director of Behavioral Health at a large federally qualified health center. Mariya has courageously supported and trained many teams of physicians, therapists, psychiatrists, and social workers to embody attunement and provide trauma-responsive, anti-oppressive counseling and addiction therapies to people and communities in need of healing.
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.
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 4-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:
Saturday, January 31st, 2025
10:00 am IST
Saturday, February 18th, 2025
10:00 am IST
AUDIENCE:
Psychologists, social workers, counselors, coaches, healing professionals with graduate degrees, working or located in India.
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.
CANCELLATION POLICY:
We will provide you with a full refund if you cancel up to 14 days before the event (less $40 USD 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.
For post graduate level therapists, social workers, and counselors; MDs; psychiatrists; Master’s level or higher psychiatric nurses, located or working in India or Pakistan. Training is hosted over two weekends.
For psychology, social work, therapy/counseling, psychiatry post-graduates who have received their post-graduate degree on or after 2022. Those who are completing their post graduation in 2024 are also eligible. Must be located or working in India or Pakistan. Training is hosted over two weekends.