events
January 15, 2024
Brainspotting Emergency Responders, Military Personnel, and their Families: How & why YOU can join the mission to support their healing
Join Jennifer Alexander, US Consultant, to learn how cultural competence for emergency responders and military personnel/families greatly enhances our ability to work therapeutically with these clients.
Wednesday, January 29, 2024, 7 - 9 pm Eastern Time
Presentation will be via Zoom
Registration: https://brainspotting.secure-registration.com/en/7d45m7/event
Price: Brainspotting Canada Members $25 (Cdn) Non-members $50
Learn how emergency responder/military cultural competence, their lived experiences, can drastically improve the effectiveness of brainspotting. Gain a better understanding of how their survival wiring responds through the Window of Tolerance, case presentation, and discussion. NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED, just curiosity. We desperately need to grow the number of culturally competent providers around the world, please join us to see if you can help!
Jennifer Alexander is a certified brainspotting consultant and therapist who specializes in the treatment of trauma and addictions with an emphasis on difficult-to-engage populations such as first responders, military personnel, and their families. Jennifer has over 30 years of combined experience in the field as a former first responder and licensed marriage and family therapist. Married to a firefighter for 21 years, while raising children, Jennifer understands the complexities of these populations firsthand and the need for effective therapeutic support combined with the importance of cultural competency.
This presentation will NOT be recorded as it contains client information.
For information on extending your BSP knowledge or joining a consultation group please contact:
Mary Ann Carmichael
maryanntherapy@gmail.com
or
Dr. Ofelia Tatu
oft.psychology@gmail.com
Other BSP Therapists not listed here may also offer opportunities to further your BSP journey and get connected. Please check in our practioner/consultant directory for information in their personal profiles.
Past Events
2024:
January
Bridging Research and Clinical Work in Brainspotting with Dr. Jeanne Talbot
February
Bookends: What comes before and after Brainspotting? with Dr. Marjorie Robb
March
Two-eyed Seeing with Dr. Dell Ducharme and Ovide Caribou, Knowledge Keeper
April
Developmental Trauma and Performance Inhibition with Alessia Bruno & Ruth Chiles
June
Brainspotting Canada Association Continuing Education Series: CIT class of 2024 presentation
October
Brainspotting Canada Presents: Brainspotting with Gifted Creatives with Angie Dairou
Brainspotting Phase 2 - October 20 - 22, 2023
Brainspotting Therapy Phase 2 - Online training. October 20 - October 22, 2023
Please use link below for registration:
https://brainspotting.simplesignup.ca/en/events
Build on the foundational techniques learned in Phase 1. Learn multiple resourcing techniques including One-Eyed Brainspotting, Z-Axis work, Rolling Brainspotting, and Advanced Resource Model. Trainers Dr Marjorie Robb and Dr Jane Evans.
This course will be held via Zoom. Time will be Eastern Daylight Time. Zoom information will be sent out prior to the training.
Contact and support info: Drs. Marjorie Robb & Jane Evans - bsptrainingcanada@gmail.com
Who is eligible for this training? You must be a registered mental health professional who has completed Phase 1 training. Students who are near completion of training to become a registered mental health professional should contact us at: bsptrainingcanada@gmail.com to ensure eligibility and rate.
This Brainspotting Phase 2 training will begin with an extensive review of Attunement and Outside and Inside Window with an emphasis on how to clinically interact with clients during Brainspotting. Discussion time will be allotted to challenges of switching between virtual and in person methods of delivering Brainspotting Therapy if that is of importance to the group.
We will then learn refinements of the process including how and when to titrate activation up or down. We will discuss how to best meet the client "where they are" and increase the sense of safety and attunement. Trainees will be introduced to important 3 Dimensional Brainspotting concepts using the “Z-Axis” of Brainspotting, and Vergence which uses the Z-Axis to activate the vagus nerve through the oculocardiac reflex. Additional technical refinements will be presented including One- Eyed Brainspotting, “Rolling Brainspotting,” and Advanced Resourcing.
If you are a student in a mental health professional program, please contact us at bsptrainingcanada@gmail.com to see if you are eligible for the student rate. A student is defined as someone registered in a full time program and not working more than 3 days per week.
Brainspotting Canada presents: Lisa Larson - Healing Shame, Low Self-Worth and Imposter Syndrome with Expansion Brainspotting
Time will be Eastern Daylight Time
Please use link below for registration:
https://brainspotting.simplesignup.ca/en/events
Course Description: Profound shame and low self-worth are the destructive by-products of developmental trauma. As clinicians, our clients are not ready to graduate from therapy until they have an internal sense of worth and self-love. In this short presentation, Lisa Larson will share and demonstrate two Expansion Frames that she uses most frequently to slay the Shame demon. She will teach and demonstrate the “Truth and Lie” frame for pernicious negative cognitions, as well as the “Soul- Spotting” to help clients experience the innate goodness of their souls.
Trainer: Lisa Larson, LMFT is a certified Brainspotting Trainer and the founder of Pacific Brainspotting Trainings. She has been in the counseling field for 23 years. Her passion is healing the traumatized and mentoring other therapists to be outstanding trauma clinicians. Her specialties are trauma and PTSD in her work with individuals, couples, and families at her counseling center, Pacific Counseling & Trauma Center.
BrainspottinG Phase 1 - September 29 - October 1, 2023
Brainspotting Therapy Phase 1 - Online training. September 29 - October 1, 2023
Please use link below for registration:
Brainspotting with Kids w/ Dr. Marjorie Robb and Friends
Marjorie Robb and others will talk about the fun, creativity, and versatility that can happen when working with young people. We will include treatment vignettes, thoughts on getting ready to do brainspotting with kids, and discussion about the role of parents. There should be ample time for discussion.
Monday, January 23, 2023 from 7:00-9:00pm EST
via Zoom
Brainspotting Canada Presents: Wrapping Our Heads Around MAiD for Mental Illness
Dr. Jeff Kirby, ethicist at Dalhousie University, will be joining us to lead a discussion regarding the ethical dimensions of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) for mental illness. Upcoming changes to the MAiD program in Canada will mean that patients with a sole diagnosis of a mental disorder will be eligible to apply for MAiD in Canada as of March 2023. Dr. Kirby was a member of the parliamentary advisory committee on “MAID and Mental Illness”; he resigned from the panel because of his concerns about the recommendations that were put forth in the committee’s final report.
Following Dr. Kirby's presentation (the first hour of the evening), there will be a question-and-answer session, followed by discussion of key take-aways from the experiences of three mental health professionals (and Brainspotting practitioners) who have direct experience working with patients who have expressed interest in MAiD for Mental Illness.
Monday, November 28th, 2022 7:00-9:00 EST
via Zoom
Mark Grixti - How We Attend Affects How We Heal
Brainspotting Canada is delighted to welcome Dr Mark Grixti, trainer for Brainspotting Therapy in the UK, to meet with us for our October webinar. Mark is a psychologist who works with children, adolescents and adults. He has made significant contributions to the development of Brainspotting Therapy worldwide. These include: the "whiteboard vimeo" explaining Brainspotting (BSP UK website); Brainspotting with Young People - An Adventure into the Mind (2016); a chapter in The Power of Brainspotting (G Wolfrun ed, 2018). Currently Mark hosts the podcast Awe in Trauma - highly recommended.