Brain Integration with Self-Compassion & Brainspotting

For clinicians seeking to deepen their own process and those they work with, this 2-day training is an invitation to learn how self-compassion, focused awareness, and conscious practice of the primary Brainspotting Principles can dissipate patterns of subconscious living and limiting core beliefs. Participants will learn innovative approaches to be mindful and intentional with their attention and strengthen self-attunement to implement a paradigm shift when activation transpires. Through philosophical application of the Uncertainty Principle, WAIT, staying in the tail of the comet, dual attunement, and expansion of internal resources, we can create greater velocity and less friction. In parallel, the lens of self-compassion,  buffers the suffering involved in confronting, diffusing, comforting, and transforming emotions before they seep into action and deconstructive symptomology.

A new setup will be taught, demonstrated and practiced in dyads to support clinicians in strengthening the frame to neutralize protective, defense patterns, build stamina and extend the window of tolerance. Practicums seek to inspire a nurturing presence to hold dichotomous emotions and experiences simultaneously. Fervent experiential exercises are ingrained in this training to bridge clarity, curiosity, authenticity, and discernment in lieu of rigidity, judgment, or blame. This training serves to bring synchronicity to those with intense patterns of perfectionism, judgment, and inner criticism to ultimately gain traction in following inner rhythms over external conditioning and pressures.  

Join us in turning pain into power and bringing courage to deep questions and compassion to the collective.

This 2 day group experiential, intermediate training is an opportunity for Brainspotting professionals to learn, embody, and practice Brainspotting principles through mindfulness and intentional alignment. Participants will enhance their awareness of subconscious living patterns, stories, emotions, and the somatic interplay that’s animated in everyday life as well as in clinical practice. This intensified focused mindfulness will stimulate a deeper understanding of activation patterns and their connection to emotional experiences and limiting core beliefs. By inviting and inhabiting the Uncertainty Principle, participants will expand their window of tolerance and discover how to apply self-compassion as the antidote to subconscious living. The framework of WAIT will be conceptualized as a fundamental intervention to apply to one’s internal processing in and outside of a professional context. Teachings will focus on the practical application of staying in the tail of the comet when experiencing and processing emotions. The resource model will enhance relational attunement to self and others through organic integration of self-compassion, the embodiment of values, and nourishment of participants’ core authenticity and seat of consciousness.

A new setup will be taught, demonstrated, and practiced in dyads. This setup will support clinicians in creating a framework for working through defenses and protective patterns while bridging clarity, curiosity, authenticity, and discernment in lieu of rigidity, judgment, or blame. The experientials of this seminar aim to embrace a paradigm shift by applying Brainspotting principles and self-compassion interventions to live more intentionally and cohesively. Practicums seek to inspire a nurturing presence and expand tolerance to hold dichotomous emotions and experiences simultaneously. Minimum requirement for attendance is Brainspotting Phase 1.

• Expand knowledge and practical application of basic Brainspotting principles, and more specifically how the Uncertainty Principle can elicit a paradigm shift
• Define self-compassion and cultivate mindfulness to enhance relational attunement to self and others
• Identify patterns of subconscious living, limiting core beliefs, and embodied emotional states
• Review and differentiate between protective and subcortical emotions 
• Experientially synchronize the depths of activation and self-compassion utilizing focused mindfulness 
• Prioritize values to illuminate authenticity, intentions, and the insights of self-compassion 
• Learn and practice a new Brainspotting setup to support integration of embodied, emotional patterns and compassionate, authentic alignment 
• Conceptualize presenting clinical issues through the application of Brainspotting principles and the lens of self-compassion.   
• Identify subconscious living patterns with awareness to the accompanying embodied emotions and narratives that perpetuate dysregulation.
• Strengthen relational attunement and connection to self through mindful awareness and practices of self-compassion
• Articulate the headlines that follow emotional, embodied patterns to help clients understand limiting core beliefs 
• Specify the affect and language of primary and secondary emotions and make distinctions between the two for clients to better understand their process
• Practice dialogue and engagement in the clinical setting that elucidates limiting core beliefs and simultaneously invites the power of the authentic self
• Integrate fragments of subconscious living with intentional awareness for clients to create more congruence and alignment utilizing a new Brainspotting setup

Brittany Bagy 

Brittany Bagy, LPC owns a private practice in St. Louis, MO, specializing in empowering individuals to move through grief, anxiety, trauma, and major life transitions. She is a Certified Brainspotting Consultant and Certified Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral therapist with over 14 years of experience in counseling.

Patrice Flanagan-Morris 

Patrice is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of Wisconsin and a certified Brainspotting consultant through Brainspotting Inc. Patrice runs Empowerment Within LLC in Hartland, WI and specializes is working with those who struggle with perfectionism, people-pleasing, personal growth, self-connection, self-compassion and trauma.

Classes are open to all licensed professional counselors, licensed social workers, psychologists, psychoanalysts, MFTs, Substance Abuse Counselors, and students who are curious and seek to expand their knowledge.

• Registration begins at 8:30 am on the first day.
• Training runs from 9 am – 6:00pm central time each day.
• Evaluations and certificates are available by email and online following course completion at www.ceuregistration.com
• There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.

2-DAY AGENDA, FEBRUARY 23rd & 24th, 9AM-5:30PM

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Evaluations and certificates are available by email and online following course completion at www.ceuregistration.com

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BRAINSPOTTING TRAININGS CANCELLATION POLICY:

We understand that life happens – sometimes unexpectedly! If you need to cancel or reschedule, please click here to contact us.

We will provide you with a full refund if you cancel up to 14 days before event. (less $75 administrative fee per ticket purchased)

After that, we will provide you with a full credit toward a replacement course, good for 1 year.

* (Full refund in special circumstances, less $75 administrative fee per ticket purchased)