​​​​​FRAME: Topics in Brainspotting Consultation

FOCUS: The 2024 Revision of the Consultant's Report -- Keeping up with the Changes!​​

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There are some significant changes and additions to the topics to be covered and assessed for Certification that may or may not have been explicitly included in *your* CIT training -- because Brainspotting is constantly evolving even when the core Phase 1 and Phase 2 curriculum appears to stay the same.

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In this 2 hour class you'll receive a concise review of the new Certification standards for Brainspotting theory & application in practice, including a refresher on:

• the Neuroexperiential Model (NEM) as a therapist/healer model, contrasted with "evidence-based" and/or "diagnostic" models

• Brainspotting as a developmental model

• the Uncertainty Principle of Brainspotting as a paradigm shift

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You will also learn: 

• how to shift the flow of the process for "Consultation for Certification" within the minimum six (6) sessions

• how to transition your current consultees into the new criteria​

• ​the power of process​​​​​​

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**How is this workshop different from the new CIT training videos?

This workshop directed primarily toward already Approved Brainspotting Consultants and will be taught at a more advanced level than is present in the CIT training videos -- current CITs are, however, welcome & encouraged to attend! ​

You will have opportunity to:

• ask questions and engage in dialog about the NEM & all the other "new" theoretical & conceptual advances in Brainspotting, framed by a side-by-side comparison of the 2019 & 2024 Consultant's Reports (what's new? what's not?)

• develop your skills as an Approved Brainspotting Consultant

• plan for your own specific continuing Brainspotting training, in ways that will best serve you, your clients, and consultees

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**Why study with Martha?

I'm answering this one in the "first person" -- because -- whether you've trained with me before or not, I want to write to you from the heart, and I want you to know that you are welcome at this workshop!

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I've been a consultee/student of David Grand's since 2001, and learned Brainspotting from him, in a mini-demo, in his Bellmore NY office not long after he noticed the phenomenon is his session with the skater... when he didn't yet even have a name for it! My work contributed to the development of z-axis Brainspotting (you can see me teaching with David in the 2017 edition of the Phase 2 videos) and I've collaborated with David in providing humanitarian Brainspotting in NYC after 9/11, and by invitiation, in Sandy Hook CT after the 2012 school shooting tragedy there.

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From this longtime professional relationship, I've learned so much -- about practice, clinical Brainspotting, life, and myself -- and I am eager to share it with you! Being "of a certain age," I am committed to doing all I can to support the next generations of Brainspotting Consultants in developing high levels of expertise in *teaching* as well as practicing Brainspotting -- which is a different skill set.

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To teach effectively, we not only need to have embodied "knowledge" of Brainspotting theory and practice applications, we need to be able to communicate that to our consultees/students in ways that they can take in and make their own -- across all cultural, liguistic, ethnic, geographical, and neurophysiological landscapes. 

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I teach deeply -- with intentional subcortical and neocortical integration -- and I invite you to join me in the next steps of your wondrous Brainspotting journey!

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All the best,

Martha

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PS -- remember to register for the workshop date of your choice!